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Madrid based advertising agency Swing Swing created 120 Christmas presents for their clients and friends, illustrating their new year’s resolutions. Beautiful project.

WNYC, one of the oldest radio stations in the United States, has a lovely video feature in their culture section called Know your Neighbor about New Yorkers; characters, legends, and good folk.

Poet Samuel Menashe (above) is one of the many characters featured.

Arnold Wechsler, an 81 year-old New York based artist talks about his art.

Artist-run collective A’Shop from Montreal created this beautiful, five story, Mucha inspired mural on one of the city walls. Over 500 cans of spray paint and 16 days went into the graffiti masterpiece.

Check out more process photos and the finished piece at A’Shop’s website.

via My Modern Met

Above are photos from Friends With You‘s first solo show in The Hole gallery, New York. A perfect blend of happiness, minimalism, art and experience.

We hope to fill your summer with smiles!

Sam Vanallemeersch creates crazy but truly captivating drawings.

via @breidholt

Artist and dancer Tony Orrico creates beautiful spirograph performance pieces by meticulously drawing two lines at a time using frequent repositions.

Here’s an inspiring video of one of his perfomances.

Photographs by Peter Cox and Michael Hart.

René Redzepi is the owner of Noma, a special Nordic gourmet cuisine (and the best in the world, apparently!) restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark. In this video from Phaidon, René forages for ingredients in local woods and beaches, cooks up amazing looking dishes and explains his process and philosophy.

I stumbled upon this photograph the other day and it totally captivated me. To me it illustrates the act of creating and making in one photo. I love how the drawing occupies the whole wall and how the crop makes it seem endless. The fact that the artist in the picture and still drawing expresses the process, the craft, the skill and implies that there is no finish line. It’s always a process.

The artist in the photo is the talented illustrator Serge Seidlitz.

David A. Smith does high quality, hand crafted reverse glass signs and decorative silvered and gilded mirrors. This short documentary by film maker Danny Cooke reveals behind the scenes work, techniques and visions that Dave uses when carrying out his passion as a glass embosser.