Peruvian-born, Cecilia Paredes creates these incredible self-portraits using her background as a painter to blend herself seamlessly into the environment.

Via mymodernmet featureshoot

PART 4 of our Holiday Gift Guide is a collection of cool gifts you can use or display in your home, office or studio. Pillows, Posters, Polaroids and pretty much everything else. Enjoy!

Here’s another one of those I wish we had made those products, the Shutter pillows ($48) from Inhabit, available now on Fab.com. (If you’re not signed up  for Fab, you need to to get a cool curation of killer designery products everyday for good prices.)

The Poladarium 2012 tear off Calendar ($34) is a really cool gift for the instant photo lover in your life. It features 366 photos in a collectors box, one for each day and 1 extra to get you into 2013. Not only are you getting tons of variety in the images, you get to learn about the photographer and a brief story about the image on the back of each one. Such a cool idea. (It’s coming from overseas, so order now!)

Accessorize your desk in style with some of these fun camera-infused products.

The Say Cheese Camera Tape Dispenser ($21.99) | Retro Camera Pencil Sharpener ($14.99) | Photo Fanatic Key Cover ($11.99) | Snapshot Pencil Case ($15.99) | Camera Pencil Sharpener ($19) | Camera Stamps ($9)

Got some fun photographs or art to display Creative Walls ($29.99) will lead and inspire you.

You have to hold your cards somehow, why not with this Camera Card Stand ($9.99).

Know someone who’d likes to send pretty pictures in the post? Grab a box of 20 different Pretty Polaroids Notes ($10).

The 35mm ($85) and 16mm ($125) are both hand-made of concrete as part of the “Future Fossil” collection by artist Bughouse and available now at Henry Road.

This 2012 Polaroid Calendar by @xo_azuree ($20) is a fun 5.5″ x 5.5″ calendar for that instant lover who has everything else.

Shiny aluminum camera of yesteryear ($49.95) Need I say more? It’s not small, with measurements of 11.5″ x 8.5″ x 3.5″ available exclusively at Zgallerie.

Got some tables you want to keep nice from drinks and spills? Just use these ceramic Polaroid coasters ($11) from justnoey on Etsy.

1. Starmite on Red - 16″x16″ on canvas ($200) | 2. Icons 101 – 8″x8″ print ($18) | 3. Hawkeye in Red – 4″x6″ framed print ($25) | 4. Smile Yellow on A3 paper ($34) | 5. What Pictures are Made of -12″x12″ on wood ($200) | 6. Photographic Memory - 8″x10″ print ($28) | 7. Stay Focused – 8″x8″ on wood ($100) | 8. Old Camera - 11″x14″ ($50 – Unframed) | 9. Hawkeye on Yellow – 12″x12″ on canvas ($150) | 10. Cameras – 7″x10″ print ($15) | 11. Glitch Part 2 – 13″x13″ print ($36) | 12. Photographer’s Dilema – 11″x14″ print ($50) | 13. 8 1/2 – 11″x17″ poster ($35) | 14. Vintage Camera Hasselblad - 8″x10″ Print ($15) | 15. 28 Camera Drawings – 11″x14″ ($50 – unframed) | 16. Starbright, Starmite - 5″x7″ framed print ($35)

Know of additional camera-infused products you’d want for your home or office? Let us know by commenting below. If you want to see more from the 2011 Gift Guide, check out Part 1: cool cameras under $400, Part 2: Cool Camera, iphone and computer accessories, Part 3: Cool Camera and photography infused Wearables like shirts, bags and more.

Poster artist Jason Munn is the  SFMOMA’s current “Artist Series” artist. After showing initial concepts he was asked to produce four designs for each of the various parts of the SFMOMA’s collection including Media Arts, Painting + Sculpture,  Architecture + Design and Photography (above). Each images is being used on a variety of  items including posters, t-shirts, bags, journals, mugs and more.

The posters are available individually for $30 or as a set of 4 for $100.

Here’s a little fun camera art called Point and Shoot from SoCal based designer Brian Hurst. Loving the textures here, good stuff Brian!

(via abe vizcarra)

I was blown away when I ran across the amazing paper camera sculptures by French design duo Zim & Zou. They designed the cameras as part of their Back to Basics project which featured a variety of colorful nostalgic items like Nintendo controllers, old-school cell phones and more. There’s such attention to detail here … even down to the Leica and Polaroid lettering on the cameras. It’s clear that Zim & Zou are talented, dedicated to their craft, and may have a little too much time on their hands.

Visit Zim & Zou’s Sites:
Zim & Zou Portfolio
Zim & Zou on Behance
Zim & Zou Behind the Scenes

For the enjoyment of camera lover’s world-wide, Boston-based designer Billy Brown has made available illustrations of 100 pixelated cameras and accessories like flashes and memory cards for use however you see fit under a Creative Commons Attribution license. So you can download cameras like Polaroids, Leicas, Lomos and more to use, reuse, edit and alter for projects of all kinds. Have fun!

Found via laughingsquid

Illustrator Lauren Tamaki does amazing work for clients like Good magazine, Swerve and more, but she also has a love for personal projects like this one she’s called Leica Camera.

Found thanks to the lovely @jessicahische

We love making custom shoes, skateboards and painting on cameras and other products and like to see it when other people do to. Here’s a few images from Singapore artist Sun Lee Siew Loo‘s Lomo customization of the cool Sprocket Rocket for a Lomography Asia contest.

Here’s how she did it:

Here’s a cool camera-inspired, Limited edition screen-printed poster for the band The Hidden Cameras by Stéphane Monnet and Agnes Wong of Monnet Design.

Found via HOW