
From Paper to Screen - The Moleskin
Moleskine is a name recognized widely by designers and at some point all have probably carried these notebooks shoved into our back pockets. Now they are taking to turning notes and drawings into digital files. Welcome the Moleskine Livescribe Notebook Designed to work with the Livescribe 3 smartpen, it uses motion sensors in the pen to record the position and movements made by the user which is then translated into digital images allowing each page to be viewed on smartphone

Art is Blood, Sweat, and Tears...Literally
This story is not for the faint of heart. Brooklyn-based artist, Ted Lawson has taken a new meaning to art being a part of the artist by painting a self portrait using his own blood. This is how he did it.
By using an automated self-filling brush and ink Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC)
machine, he created a vector-based artwork all from bitmap images... and a little of himself.The entire process took hours to complete but Ted kept his energy and blood sugar levels up

HomelessFonts
This is interesting concept and perhaps a little unorthodox, but we're going to share anyways because here at The Bloc, that's what we do! Feel free to share your afterthoughts in the comment box below. There is a new font program out called "HomelessFonts", and it's exactly what you're thinking--fonts created from the signs of homeless men and women. Now you can download Lorraine's font, Luis' font, and so on. Someone's handwritting can reveal a lot about their personality,

Professional Artist Recreates Drawings from When He Was 4-Year's Old
Dutch artist, Telmo Pieper has given some of his childhood drawings a second chance at life. We all remember as a child, when we didn't care if our drawings had proportioned bodies or the same sized eyes. Well as a 4-year old, Piper didn't care about intricate details as well, and he is sharing his childhood artwork with a whole new twist. As you will see below, Pieper took the time to enhance and digitally render a few of his former adolescent masterpieces by adding material

ArchiMusic by Federico Babina
ArchiMusic We just love these graphic posters by Ferderico Babina. The combining forces of music, musican, graphic design, and architecture churning together to become this interactive poster is just so creative to us. The DesignBloc gives this 4 stars! Check out all of the ArchiMusic posters by Ferderico Babina on his website here #architecture #music #graphic #graphicdesign #posters