Link Round-Up: January 14, 2011

Metropolis 2106 by THMC
45 Incredible Futuristic Scifi 3D City Illustrations

Insects Created from Recycled Human Hair - 1-800-Recycling

Should I work for free? - a flowchart for graphic designers.

Steampunk Dalek wallpaper for your desktop

Step by step tutorial for making a plush creature.

Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising

World Of Warcraft Couple Create A Horde-Themed Bathroom

Mash-Up: Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto AVATAR by Patrick Brown

"Niko Bellic jacking a Mountain Banshee from Avatar... Poor Jake Sully! Me and my old mate Brent have always had this thing with the tagline "This is a jecking" just some random talk we do from GTA IV"

Sweets: Dragon Cake

Photos of this amazing cake have been making the rounds of all the internet's biggest image aggregaters, including Digg and Reddit, but I don't think that I've ever seen the whole gallery together in one place. So, here, I've collected all the photos of this amazing cake in one place.

The cake was made by Mike’s Amazing Cakes for Flickr user Astro-Lopithecus back in 2007. It looks as if the occasion was his birthday.

Link Round-Up: January 13, 2011

Uncle Zod by Memory Palace

30 Epic Examples of Game Concept Art

Arrested Motion has lots of storyboard sketches from Banksy's opening for the Simpsons... including some very funny material.

A Blogger Taking The Same Vendor Machine Photo For More Than 5 Years

College Humor demonstrates Five New Ways to Tie a Tie

Exit Through the Gift Shop is a film by Banksy (copious previously) about himself, street art, celebrity, and Mister Brainwash.

'Flaming C' Action Figure Brings Conan Super-Hero to the Third Dimension

Artist: Jim Lee

Jim Lee, the 46-year-old DC Comics co-publisher, is arguably the single most popular comic-book artist of the last two decades years. In this interview with the L.A. Times walks us through drawing a superhero face. Specifically, what you should and shouldn't do and why going for a realistic look is wrong.

Link Round-Up: January 12, 2011

"Cybernetic Lifeform Node" by Brandon Schaefer

Different forms of artistic playing card artwork from around the world.

How to photoshop, the rap version [SLCH]

Introducing Silk, a magical interactive artwork. Go ahead, give it a whirl. Some likable Silk wallpaper too.

The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, so they may be shared in a fun and meaningful way. The goal is to collect and organize all the symbols that form our language into one easy-to-use online library that can be accessed by anyone. All the symbols on their site are completely free to download, and can be used for design projects, architecture presentations, art pieces — just about anything.

Mash-Up: Bill & Ted / Doctor Who

"Most Heinous" by ChristopherJones

This 11 x 17 inch reproduction print is an original illustration of Bill and Ted having landed in their time-traveling phone booth, only to find themselves surrounded by the Daleks of Doctor Who.  The original illustration was hand-drawn by ChristopherJones with color added digitally in Adobe Photoshop. It's printed on Matte Heavyweight paper in full color, and each print comes with an original signature in silver.

Price: $15