Skineart is a site dedicated to the collection of sketches, doodles, illustrations and fully-fledged fine art pieces rendered beautifully in Moleskine notebooks.

The piece above, by an artist with the handle MattiasA, is a great example of what inspirational designs can come from spending time with a pen and pad.

But to what extent is the author inspired by the history of the Moleskine itself? Picasso is often cited as a Moleskine adopter; does this link with a master of art inspire all moleskine users to produce feets of design to the best of their ability?

Kaleidoscopic renders created with the iPhone app, JDReflect.

Generative art, although a little soulless and repetitive (in an exponentially repetitive way), is both interactively entertaining, and generally fun, especially with the way it’s vessel is executed by Joshua Davis and his mobile applications outfit, Sideways.

The iPhone provides a perfect platform for this type of iterative art style, whereby screen touches control how the kaleidoscopic images evolve. The kaleidoscope results are based on an image generated from mashing together preset colour schemes with Davis’s design styles, a system, that although limited by 9-10 colour palettes and 6 styles, still has an infinite number of variations and ‘generations’.

This poster entitled SUGOI! by the two person studio, TADO, is really very cool. Based in Sheffield, UK, the pair, Mike and Katie, dedicate their days to creating cool characters and rich, sumptious illustrations for customers and cool people alike.

The SUGOI! poster originally began life as a commission for Virgin Atlantic, and following the success of the design, the pair decided to remix it into something a bit more personal, and use sales of the print to benefit the charity, Western Part Hospital Cancer. Great design, great cause.

Check out TADO here.

An alphabet created from tree branches and leaves. The letter forms were photographed on a winter’s day with a clear, almost a white sky which creates a very graphic black and white contrast. Each letter is unique with a different thickness of branch and background.

The word ‘natural’.