After almost two months of writing and sharing very interesting stories from all over the creative globe, I’ve decided to run a very simple giveaway with a cool gift.

This is the first giveaway here on DwA. When I came to the idea to give something away to my readers I didn’t know what to give and what to ask in return. I realized that the tees from the huge Threadless collection are enough awesome for the creative artists and in a hope you will like it I’ve run this giveaway.

More info inside!

My dear guys Sanja and Pedja have decided to make a pair of gadget-friendly geek jeans called WTFJeans. They have simply wanted to make 2 pairs of jeans, one pair for each one. They just wanted to have a jeans which they really like. A pair that is comfortable, of a nice denim color and with some nicely fitted pockets which are big enough to put their iPhones, but at the same time not too big as at those baggy hip-hoppers jeans. And after less than a 3 months we got their product available for purchase via online shop.

After two interesting stories about Marta and Lindsay time is for some typography ‘n’ print. Below you can see a poster made by Lotta Nieminen in a collaboration with Otto Donner for Helsinki Letters, a kit to document the city’s typographic development.

It seems DwA is becoming a home of interesting worth-reading stories. Today I’m glad to present you Lindsay Adler, a professional fashion and portrait photographer from New York-London route. I’ve done an awesome interview with her, enjoy.

I’ve read you began photographing at age 13, that’s amazing. How you started? With camera obscura?

I first started photography at age 13 as a way to share time with my mother and grandmother. Both were hobbyist photographers and we lived on a large farm in upstate NY that provided ample photographic opportunities. We would take walks together and photograph whatever we saw—fall foliage, mushrooms, farm animals, hay fields, and more.

Photography took on an important significance in those early days. First, it was an important memory sharing time with my grandma who later died of cancer. Second, it instilled in me the ability to appreciate the beauty around me. It is far too easy to become blind to all the beautiful things around you—you see them everyday and they just become ‘normal’. But photography provided me a way to explore and appreciate my environment.

Whole interview is inside (don’t forget to read short advices for the beginners on the bottom)!

Writing about people who I really like has always been the best spent time, love and passion. Today’s very interesting story is about my dear friend Marta Lamovšek, a photographer and art director extraordinary currently based in London. She was very individualistic as a kid and she still is. Marta’s personality is Idealist Champion, that’s means she is here to inspire (her primary purpose in this word).

My life has always been an exciting drama, pregnant with possibilities, I always had a passion for novelty. The only thing I never seem to get bored of is meeting really fascinating people who inspires me.

Some of people are watching me kinda what a hell are you doing? O’yes I’m blogging and it makes me happy. (Un)fortunately, they don’t understand nothing else in spite of, for example, losing time on Facebook. They are not ambitious at all, just click here, click there, with no any special sense. Who cares, it’s their life. Let’s back to ours.

Artists were always incomprehensible and what’s wrong with that? Our work is our inside expression, you can like it or not. Being an artists is a big advantage. You can sit on the ground in the middle of the street at the summer season, drawing your masterpiece. Passers are watching? No problem, they are just a piece of the urban environment.

Many times people were gathered around me when I was holding my camera and performing, creeping on the street etc. That’s what I like in the public, relaxed you can do anything.

Wearing “strange” clothes can be unacceptable for an serious businessman, but not for you, a person with creative brain. Look, I’m writing this article next to 5 people who are loud-talking about… actually I can’t hear them thanks to Mory Kanté on my iPod . I’m in my world.

This morning was so boring in the school, so I’ve enjoyed the Twitter timeline and listened Papa Roach on my iPod until I saw my friend Nasc has published a new pixel art on his blog. He drew a TV News tower with the “Die without Art” sign on it. Nasc has included several things in tribute to the site and Twitter users who support him, including my blog, DwA.

With his young daughter Nasc has watched Disney’s new computer-animated film “Up!”, so he paid homage to the man with balloons in the work area. Can you find him? He’s so little, I know. You can see a bigger picture here.

Digital graffiti wall? Wow! Guys from Chairman Ting performed at the Salt Building inside the Athlete’s Village. They were commissioned by The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Interesting fact is that Tangible Interaction have made this unique digital graffiti wall technology using Open Frameworks. Creative open source, for the win.

Now, artists can digitally “paint” a surface in the same way they can tag a wall with traditional spray paint.

I like simple and clean things, minimal things, especially art. It must not everything be clear always, depends on how each person understands it. In my eternal searching for creative artists, I’ve found this shot by Joseph Wee.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. — Socrates

You’ve noticed something new here? O’yes it’s a header illustration made by my dear friend Djurdjica Selec also know as Djuro. She’s amazing and really nice person, I usually call her a ninja because she kicks ass in drawing stuff. As freelance web designer and illustrator she works with the clients around the world. Djurdjica recently moved to the coast and still can’t believe it.

To realize what she meant with the illustration I asked her a few questions:

Interview is inside! It’s worth reading.