Monsters University Animation Progression

Disney Pixar is one of my all-time favorite companies. They posted this process piece on Facebook today. Love it.

Story Development

Art Department

Modeling

Layout

Animation and Simulation

Lighting/Final Frame

Helvetica Coffee

Helvetica in the Morning http://design-milk.com/helvetica-in-the-morning/

Rube Goldberg

Gravity-Defying Rube Goldberg Video

Neil Dawson's Horizons

Inspiration - Neil Dawson | Home

Casa Del Agua (Packaging Inspiration)

Casa Del Agua

Package Design (Inspiration)

Knob Creek Rye

3-D Resume (Inspiration)

Cool 3-D Resume. 3d Paper Resume

Olympic Full Moon

Pretty cool shot.

3D Illusion Sketchbook Drawings by Nagai Hideyuki

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/06/3d-illusion-sketchbook-drawings-by-nagai-hideyuki/

5th Avenue Frogger

Frogger parodies could easily be justified as designs we've seen a lot, but this is a clever, imaginative take on the franchise. The arcade box uses real-time web-cam traffic feeds (and some clever coding) of New York's 5th Avenue to simulate the car obstacles in the Frogger universe.

Play with LEGOS

LEGOs (from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play-well") have so many different applications.

Fernando Ramirez Martinez built this pinhole camera out of
LEGO blocks, light-proofing it with duct tape.

Credit: Photos courtesy of Physical Fiction

Lego Letterpress
Lego Mastery

Interlocking Motifs

I like the rat-like creature...

Sam Brade

Erased de Kooning Drawing

From NPR
Another interesting concept... I like de Kooning's take on this project just as much as Rauschenberg's original idea.
Read the Article:
Two Ways To Think About Nothing 

Underwater Bodies

Love this concept... I've experimented with the idea of nature taking over art, so the art becomes the infusion of both; as I did with the final product in http://wdsiemer.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-cube.html.

These sculptures work with nature (coral reefs.)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/pictures/110105-underwater-sculpture-park-garden-cancun-mexico-caribbean-pictures-photos-science/

Inspiration

http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/

Motivational Posters

After a hiatus, I'm resurrecting Designs We've Seen (a lot) Series for what seems to be a popular trend on my Facebook these days--people posting spoof inspirational posters. They have always been lame, and that's the attraction. How much do they help you or your company?

wdsiemer ii

Flowing River

Flowing River

Rivers forming tree-like figures on the desert of Baja California, Mexico. Photograph courtesy Adriana Franco/National Geographic Your Shot.

Paul Rand

Paul Rand

Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper

Another artist who has stood out to me since my childhood is Edward Hopper. His oil paintings have always made me feel a great sense of isolation.

Gas Edward Hopper

Nighthawks Edward Hopper

Novecento by Maurizio Cattelan

Novecento by Maurizio Cattelan

Just another piece I enjoy.

Novecento Maurizio Cattelan