Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) was a Dutch painter and an important contributor to the "De Stijl" art movement. He started as a landscape painter and ended up in developing the Neoplasticism, reducing compositions to the basic of form and colour. His famous way of Geometric Abstraction consisted of geometric shapes (especially rectangles) in primary colours and black lines on white ground.

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) was a major figure in the Abstract Expressionism and especially in Action Painting. He got famous for his technique of pouring and dripping paint onto a lying canvas. In the process of painting he used his whole body, which made him look like kind of dancing around. Pollock denied his paintings to be just "accidents". He usually had an idea about how the picture was going to look.

Josef Lada was a Czech painter and writer. Entirely self-taught, he developed his style as a caricaturist for newspapers and later as an illustrator. He is best known as the illustrator of The Good Soldier Svejk. Above is one of Josef Lada’s scenes from the Czech countryside.

Here you see artwork by Jim Mahfood, which is part of the experience when you visit Sushi & Robots, a journal and portfolio by Jina Bolton.

Jina Bolton is a designer, developer, author, speaker and artist working and residing in San Francisco. She is also part of the Crush + Lovely crew, a bunch of people who believe that the web can be better. A credo I strongly agree with. And in case you love coffee, have a look at Art in my coffee!

The East Side Gallery is an international memorial of freedom. It is a 1.3 km long section of the Berlin Wall located near the centre of Berlin. The gallery consists of approximately 100 paintings by artists from all over the world, painted on the east side of the wall in 1990, which document the time of change, the euphoria and the hopes for a better future.

My thanks go to Nina for the pictures and inspiration for this post.

The Studio On Fire is a design and letterpress workplace. They print for other designers but also design themselves, as for example this CD artwork. And here’s another inspiring example.

"He’s Barack Obama" is an animated short movie, mixing drawings, photos, graphics, video, text and music. As a satire, it is basically meant to be witty, but in this case it is for sure also very good advertising for its producers.

JibJab is a company set up by the brothers Evan and Gregg Spiridellis. Since their start in a Brooklyn garage in 1999, they have grown to a 35-person company sited in L.A. Their business idea is to produce quality fun content which can be personalized, as for example eCards including the faces of your choice.

A while ago, I stumbled over the website of the Washington Printmakers Gallery, and over this shiny, fiery work by Allison Long. She used the monotype technique and worked additionally with a pen. It seems that light attracts my attention again and again. Allison Long currently lives in Owings Mills, Maryland, and this is her blog.

Created by Thomas Szabo and Helene Giraud, Minuscule is a French TV series about the experiences of insects in their wildlife surroundings. Whereas the insects are modelled in 3D, the scenery is real. The series is made for a wide audience but primarily for children. Its lack of spoken language is one reason for its universal success. But there’s plenty of sounds from ambient recordings to sound effects such as cars or helicopters. Click here to watch the episode "Catapult".

"Dot Dash" obviously consists of dots and dashes. The shining colors make the painting appear rather optimistic. Especially with the impression of watching a town from bird’s perspective, I get a feeling of space within the picture.

John David O’Shaughnessy was born in New Brunswick NJ in 1964. He currently lives in New England.

Visiting the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition in Prague, I discovered this photography by Miguel Lasa. It shows a polar bear in the first rays of sunlight.

Click on the picture for a closer look.

The vases created by Rony Plesl are hand blown and hand cut originals, therefore only released as limited editions. They consist of uranium glass which glows in unique ways, depending on the source of light.

Casted glass sculptures inspire Rony Plesl for his works from architecture to commercial design, including brand design, jewellery, interior design and fine art.