I love these photos… Everytime I look at them I can almost feel the air of Firenze (Florence). My Flickr is getting more nostalgic this week.

In January I visited this small shop in Firenze called Bartolucci, with hundreds of amazing wood products. ‘

I love how they handle every product (including the more “industrial” ones) with so much care. The colors, the finishing and the textures are really one of a kind.

You can find out more about it at bartolucci.com

Croquettes, krokets or kroketten are very popular in the Netherlands. Bitterbal is a very similar dish, but smaller. I love the color and the textures on this photo.

I finished the base layout for Vulto’s new site today. For this project I had to create about 20 icons. I’m really tired of aqua, Mac OS and XP icons and their over hyped glossy styles.  All I wanted was something simple, colorful and effective, so I used the Adobe Creative Suite icon style as reference.

These are very minimal icons with good visualization. They are easy to customize. I’m sharing some icons with you, and I didn’t forget the original Photoshop file. Enjoy!

Download the PSD file here.

Remember to link back to this site.

I’m almost finished with my galleries from my trip to Belgium in February. I still got around 100 photos to sort, but it shouldn’t take more than a week to finish.

My travel photography galleries at Flickr have never been so popular! This week I received requests from Schmap and Het PR Bureau, from the Netherlands. Schmap requested a photo of the beautiful Florence and Het asked some shots of the National Geographic Store in London. It is always a pleasure to see my work being recognized, specially from people from other corners of the world.

I’m really digging the work of Beat, a photographer from Switzerland. I added him on Flickr last year and to my delight he updates his galleries almost daily. I like the way he breaks the conventional with different angles and lights, specially for the portraits and erotic photos. I’ve used many of his photos for drawing studies. 

Find Beat: Flickr / beat-eisele.com