I’m absolutely in love with Hypebeast‘s Modern Day Artisans series, a study into British handcrafted products. Great music, great mood, fantastic editing and beautiful people!

We highlight a range of individuals who have become experts in their field, effectively maintaining the authenticity, originality and art of their respective trade.

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

Freunde von Freunden is an absolutely brilliant international interview magazine that portraits people of diverse creative and cultural backgrounds in their homes or within their daily working environments. Don’t click through if you need to do something important today!

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.

Le Corbusier in his studio in Paris, 1960. Photographed by René Burri.
More excellent photos over at Phaidon.

Cool time lapse video by DKNG Studios showing the process for their Explosions in the Sky poster.

A totally fascinating blog post written by Gavin Rothery about the Swiss artist Hans Rudi Giger and the making of his star beast for the Alien series.

A short interview with talented illustrator Kyle Steed from Dallas, Texas.

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

Inspiring behind-the-scenes of Back to the Start, a film commissioned by Chipotle Mexican Grill. I love how enthusiastic and resourceful the world makers are. Well worth the watch.

Beautifully shot and edited video for Jack Daniel’s letterpress venture made by Arnold Worldwide. I especially like the custom woodcutting.

In 2011, we traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee to work with Yee-Haw Industries on a set of 10 letterpress posters.

The Print Sale is a collection of screen printed posters by The Click, created to raise money for good causes. Each print is designed in limited edition and are hand numbered. Hundred percent of The Print Sale profits are donated to a carefully selected roster of charities.

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

ProcessMade is another beautifully designed website focusing on photo interviews with talented creative minds.

We are curious about what goes into any creative mind before the final piece is realized. The tough decisions, the screw ups and the eureka moment, the process that makes a beautiful piece what it is. We aim to get deep into processes of talented designers, photographers, directors and all creative minds to find out the whys and hows.

Snoop-Around is a fantastic Icelandic photo/interview website that visits creative people at their home, work or studio in hope to bring to light a unique view of their lives. Great photography and good interviews.

Jake Nickell, co-founder of the amazing Threadless, shares with us why it’s so important to never stop making things in his recent talk at TEDxBoulder.

Beautifully shot and edited short film featuring talented sign painter Dusty. Pay close attention to the simple and confident brush strokes.

The industrious guys at Protein bring us the Profile section which features beautiful video interviews with various interesting visual artists and digital entrepreneurs.

Little Scraps of Paper is a series of wonderful short documentary films about how creative people develop ideas and thoughts for their projects and what they use to manage them. Created in 2010 by director Tomas Leach and assisted by graphic designers Nicolas Cambier and Daniel Diego Lincoln.

via @bergen

This must be the place is a series of short films that explore the idea of home. Produced by Ben and David of Lost & Found Films. The most recent film features the interesting and curious home, life and work of John Coffer, a traveling wetplate artist.

There’s no place like home. It’s where we live, work and dream. It’s our sanctuary and our refuge. We can love them or hate them. It can be just for the night or for the rest of our lives. But whoever we may be, we all have a place we call home.