Yesterday was exactly 20 years ago that the Tiananmen Square massacre (referred to in China as the June 4 Incident) occurred.
This is as relevant as ever since the People's Republic of China still silences its people, censures its history and hides the truth from everyone, even themselves. I am angry, but so is every Chinese and human rights supporter. China needs to come out and tell the truth and stop the denial and the silence. The world already knows!
Great work from Liu Bolin. There's lots more, go check out the gallery below. 
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Galerie Bertin
Wikipedia
Liu Bolin
Sweet Fashion
I think he found an open niche in the market... 
More great fashion photography below.
Source: Massimo Gammacurta
The Bible According To Google Earth
The Crucifixion. 
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. 
Noah's Ark. 
Moses parting the Red Sea.
It's the work of Sydney-based "creative collective" The Glue Society. The project was commissioned by Eric Romano of Pulse Art, New York for its Miami art fair. “We like to disorientate audiences a little with all our work. And with this piece we felt technology now allows events which may or may not have happened to be visualized and made to appear dramatically real," say The Glue Society's James Dive. "As a method of representation satellite photography is so trusted, it has been interesting to mess with that trust."
Source: Creative Review
Jasper Goodall: Poster Girl
Poster Girl is a series of works by influential graphic artist Jasper Goodall, that explore themes of fetish and fantasy. 
More at source: Jasper Goodall
Armani Jeans: Adriana Lima
You know that Farah Fawcett poster every boy in the seventies grew up with? This is the image I grew up with in my puberty when Adriana Lima wasn't a well-known Victoria's Secret supermodel that she's now. At that time she was just launched into model stardom probably at age of sixteen... She was supersexy then too, what's in that Brazilian food, heh? In time I kinda grew tired of her. Very odd, I like other hot supermodels now. :') 
It was part of a big AJ campaign. 
For more go to the source: LiVEJOURNAL
Drigzabrot
Chicks, robots and sick art. A fine combination of western and asian. These I like, the rest of the gallery not so much.
Grasping Air
Boombot 
Branded 
Source: devianART drigzabrot
American Icons
I find this similar to the Vanity Fair pin-up photo shoot, but it's still quite nice to look at and it features some of the same female celebrities. Not so sexist, but still sexy.
Alexis Bledel as Rosie the Riveter. She can do it!
Emma Roberts as Audrey Hepburn. 
Alicia Keys as First Lady Michelle Obama.
Source: glamour.com
Grafik Tasarim
The leading graphic design magazine in Turkey featured an arresting image... of type. Great point, great execution. 
Source: Type Theory
Save Your Darlings
This is not hot and fresh anymore, but it's still worth the watch. In advertising killing your darlings, which means throwing your favourite ideas/creations aside, is part of the deal and sometimes it really pays off. In this case commercials are forced to be cut into 30 seconds, but thank God for the longer cinematic versions and its award event for it! So let's save your darlings and kill the editor instead. 
Check out the winning and the other competing Belgian commercials: Save Your Darlings
Card Observer
Remember that great Google business card? Sometimes having the right card, by which I mean a personal one that's perfectly designed and suited to your profession, means everything. Here's how. 
Source: Card Observer
Henrik Purienne
Who does not like sexy fashion? I present you photographer Henrik Purienne... Sultry.
Can you feel that Richardson vibe too?
Source: Trend.Land
Matthew Woodson
Amazing illustrator. Some of the work is quite eerie, other illustrations are just great to look at.
I particularly <3 the stills of In the Mood for Love, as you might know from (my favourite) director: Wong Kar Wai.
Sources:
Booooooom!
Matthew Woodson
Words To Work By
Now that we're talking posters, there are six typographic posters uploaded from ad agency Publicis Mojo in Sydney. But these aren’t ads. Instead, Mojo creative director Micah Walker tells us the poster project, entitled Words To Work By, is the first of a series of self-initiated projects that will see the agency link up and work with various different artists and designers…
“The set of six posters, are designed as resolutions, and poke fun at some of the clichés we all come across in the industry,” explains Walker. “They’re a limited edition print run of 100, some as lithographs and some as screen prints. We sent them out to friends, clients and colleagues, as a crafted hello more than anything else. Luca Ionescu, from Like Minded Studio, worked closely with us to bring the lines to life in a way that felt appropriate and fresh. It’s all just part of us trying to keep a constant spirit of creative productivity. It’s nice to not only do ads all the time,” he adds.
There are another three left below.
Source: Creative Review
The Girlfriend Experience
The girlfriend experience (commonly known as GFE) is a type of service a female prostitute offers which includes acting like a girlfriend to the client.
I was drawn to the freshness of this movie poster (it's truly original), but even more by the girl on it... adult film star Sasha Grey. The thing that makes it credible is the name under it: Steven Soderbergh. I'm honestly looking forward to this, just to see how "talented" she really is. The woman is supposed to be very popular in the industry.
Don't forget to check the Magnolia Pictures' trailer out.
Pop Down Project
The Pop_Down Project offers an alternative to the “pop up” advertising we encounter on the streets. They write:
"On the Internet, getting rid of unsolicited pop-ups is pretty easy. In real life, things are a tad more complicated. The Pop_Down Project aims at symbolically restoring everyone’s right to non-exposure: Just stick a “Close window” button on any public space pollution."
Apparently you can head to the site to download the template and start sticking yourself. It's kind of fun, but I wouldn't be so sure of its effectiveness.
Sources:
Urban Prankster
Pop Down Project
Wilkinson Sword: Mow the lawn
I dropped my jaw of the awesomeness. There's actually a pun or an ambiguity in every shot. :')
Great Google gimmicks
1) Funny, well made. 
Source: Boomerang
2) Why oh why, didn't I think of this?! So simple, so genius, so effective. But the best thing is, Ji Lee shares the pdf with all of us! 
Source: Ji Lee
3) Tired of those douchebags who don't do their own research, even if it takes only 2 seconds of their time? Instead they take the trouble to go to a forum, sign in on it, open a thread, type a broad question about their trivial shit and wait for hours for the right response? Well, you're obviously annoyed and wish they would die, but you're also a helpful human being. So here's a new sarcastic way to tell 'em to piss the hell off while providing the perfect results. "Let me google that for you."
Source: LMGTFY
Fukasawa fruit juice design
Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa has created a series of creative fruit juice packages that have the look and feel of the fruit they contain. I love it, I love it, I love it. 
“I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the color and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.”
Source: TheDieline
Mad Men
Change a fresh white Oxford, choose your favourite cufflinks, pour a scotch, light a smoke, while pondering about how you became the most awesome creative director on the entire East Coast... how you became a Mad Man. 
This paints a picture of the amazing American show on AMC about advertising executives in the late fifties and sixties. According to the first episode, the phrase “Mad Men” was a slang term coined in the fifties for advertisers working on Madison Avenue (by advertisers working on Madison Avenue). 
Vanity Fair photo shoot
After the first episode I became a huge fan, I'm promoting it to everyone I know. Its audience is still relatively small, but it deserves a huge count of viewers, because it's probably the best show since The Sopranos, as it has the same creator: Matthew Weiner. Two seasons have passed by now, the third one will return this summer. An enormous campaign is coming! I'm looking forward to it and so should you, I'm telling you now so you have time to check the previous episodes by then.
Entertainment Weekly photo shoot
The show's so stylish it almost hurts, it's oozes masculinity, gentleman manners, womanizing charm and creative superiority. The art direction is so crisp and flawlessly historical... well, almost. The drama is mature, dark and explores the times gone by. Acting is top notch, its characters intensely intriguing. John Hamm is awesome as the charismatic, square-jawed, silver-tongued Don Draper with a idyllic family, a trophy wife, countless mistresses and a job that fits him like his grey perfectly tailored suit. 
Especially for people in this field, the show unravels the very foundations and evolution of creative advertising. Very cool. Although it's set in a fictitious agency called Sterling Cooper, there's a lot of name-dropping like McCann Erickson, BBDO, Ogilvy & Mather... it's hard not to feel involved. I love it.
Sources:
AMC
EW
Vanity Fair
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