Friday 20 December 2013

Anyone for Cheese?

Seems the obvious choice, right? Cheese specialist needs business card...

Cheese grater business card

Filmography of Hollywood Cars

Iconic cars of film and television from 1929 to the modern day. http://calmtheham.com/collections/featured/products/filmography-of-cars

The Filmography of Cars

Truth & Lies

Poster series by Justin Barber that ‘takes some of the most common, everyday lies we tell ourselves and hear from others, and bluntly translates them into the unequivocal truth.’ This series sets out to uncover the ‘inane conversational nuances that reveal paradoxical dichotomies in our otherwise ordinary life’. www.behance.net/gallery/Truth-and-Lies/2018665

Kanye West vs Creative Director

Can you tell the difference between a Kanye West quote and a Creative Director's www.kanyevscreative.com Good fun.

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Tuesday 17 December 2013

Sunday 17 November 2013

Ben Newman

Anyone who hasn't discovered the wonderful children's book, Professor Astro Cat's Fronstiers of Space by Domic Walliman and Ben Newman should take a gander at its glorious content. If you want a taste of Newman's style - check out his abstract, retro, 50s aesthetics over at bennewman.co.uk where you can also read his blog and listen to his Podcast, Porcelain Panther.

Dean Trippe - Something Terrible

'With great power, comes great responsibility.' Beautiful, poetic comic with a crucial message. Read an abridged sample of the comic at Upworthy and download the entire story for 99 cents (62p). Also visit Dean's stunning illustration work over at his official site.

Monday 28 October 2013

Creative Boom's 50 of the best websites for daily inspiration

http://creative-boom.com/tips/50-of-the-best-websites-for-daily-inspiration/ *Note: Some of the links don't seem to work therefore will require you to click on the weblinks provided on the Web Sauce.



Sebastien Feraut

Paris-based artist Sebastien Feraut makes the most of symmetrical layout in his designs. The results are both balanced and striking.

Monday 21 October 2013

Simon Væth

Væth's illustrations showcase a variety of media - the results of which are both quirky and hugely expressive.

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United Colors of Benetton - Faces of Color

Benetton's campaign that aimed to promote both their fashion range and the Unhate foundation - an equal rights and fair treatment charity.

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Microsoft - Child of the 90s

Great ad...shame about the browser.


Japan Philharmonic Orchestra - 'Pill Harmonic'

To reinvigorate interest in classical music, the Japan Philharmonic teamed up with I&S BBDO Tokyo to create a unique campaign that places classical music data in small cards resembling drug prescriptions.


Friday 11 October 2013

Gerhard Human

South African Illustrator, Gerhard Human shows off his effortless use of detailed linework. These are energetic, highly-stylised compositions reminiscent of Moebius' surreal imagery that manages to capture a keen sense of narrative and odd, idiosyncratic view of the world.

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Gumulon - 'Chew the Future!'

Ad agency, Wieden+Kennedy have created an insane campaign for Stride Gum that manages to allow players to control the main character's movement, simply by chewing gum. In the app game, Gumulon, you make use of the forward-facing camera on the iPhone, where the game tracks players’ jaw movements. Anyone sick of chewing, the game can also be controlled via the touchscreen.


SKY - The Talking Window

A unique device that talks to weary commuters as they rest their heads on the glass. The contact activates an audio ad that plays into the sleeper’s ear - to the uninitiated, the message from the advert seems to be a voice talking inside their head, and nobody else can hear it. A small transmitter attached to the window sends out inaudible high-frequency vibrations, which translate into sound in the brain. This magic is known officially as ‘Bone Conduction’, and has previously only been used by the military and to help the deaf.

Wednesday 9 October 2013

Sanna Annukka

British Illustrator, Sanna Annukka works predominantly in print and textiles where her work expresses her love of pattern, decoration and mythology so often found in traditional cultures all over the world, but especially close to her heart (her Mother is Finnish) are the Sami people of Lapland.


Advertising Done Right: 40 Clever Examples

Clever and memorable use of advertising. Check out the rest over at Inspirationfeed.

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Coran 'Kizer' Stone

Kizer's work on DeviantArt consists of a slightly skewed view of popular culture through his reimagining of famous characters from film, animation and comic book lore. The results have more vibrancy and energy than most work you see animated today. Check out his Ego Series in particular.



Paul Pope

One of the most innovative and respective artists and designers of the last 20 years - Paul Pope embraces both mechanical and natural form through effortless inks and solid layouts. Anyone interested in comics will know him for Batman: Year 100, Liquid and 100%.

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Brands turned into Angry Birds

Russian graphic designer, Yakushev Grigory has created a parody of the popular game using famous brands.

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IBM - People for Smarter Cities

To announce their 'People for Smarter Cities' project, Ogilvy&Mather (France) transformed outdoor advertising in to urban furniture.

Friday 4 October 2013

Fashion X

To mark the 50th anniversary of the X-Men, Kevin Wada, a San Francisco-based illustrator, has reimagined their costumes, removing spandex attire and giving them all the trendy twist they deserve.

The fashionable X-Men

Miyazaki Nouveau

Gorgeous Art Nouveau inspired portraits of Hayao Miyazaki's characters.

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Photoshop Live - Street Retouch Prank

Anyone for PhotoJacker? Hilarious use of Adobe Photoshop to break he boredom of waiting for the bus.

Tuesday 1 October 2013

Breakfast New York

This is REAL footage of Points shot in Brooklyn, NY. Everything was captured on camera, and no CG is being used. More info at breakfastny.com/points At first, the unassuming street sign looks like any of its traditional counterparts - but up close passers-by will see an updating digital display directing them to local events, bar deals and landmarks. A menu, positioned on the pole, allows users to change the data depending on what they’re looking for. It's currently being used at events, with plans for a permanent position soon.

Thursday 19 September 2013

Brubaker & Phillips

Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have racked up more than enough credentials independently as both writer and respective artist. Brubaker (along with Greg Rucka) has become responsible for redefining the crime genre in comics, giving birth to a whole line of immersive titles to rival anything HBO puts on the small screen. Their collaboration on Gotham Central - a supremely crafted series from the pov of the Gotham City Police Department, where Batman rarely reveals himself, is a series up there with NYPD: Blue and The Wire. This is the cops' story as they battle the crime and ridicule of policing a city where the vigilante rules the night. As well as his reinvention of Captain America, redefining the patriot's ongoing series as a hard edged espionage thriller - it is his Eisner Award winning collaborations with Sean Phillips that has produced some of the best comics on the shelves today.



Incognito. What if you were an ex-super villain hiding out in Witness Protection... but all you could think about were the days when the rules didn't apply to you? Could you stand the toil of an average life after years of leaving destruction in your wake? And what if you couldn't stand it? What would you do then? Incognito - a twisted mash-up of noir and super-heroics



Sleeper tells the story of agent Holden Carver and the secret criminal organization he becomes enmeshed with. Carver is forced to live one day at a time in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse he plays with its leader, Tao, the amoral master of manipulation trying to elude detection since he has no way back in from the cold.



Criminal sets the noirish scene of multiple tales that intersect and collide on the urban streets of America. The first volume, Coward, tells the story of Leo, a professional pickpocket who is also a legendary heist-planner and thief. But there's a catch with Leo, he won't work any job that he doesn't call all the shots on, he won't allow guns, and the minute things turn south, he's looking for any exit that won't land him in prison. But when he's lured into a risky heist, all his rules go out the window, and he ends up on the run from the cops and the bad men who double-crossed him. Now Leo must come face-to-face with the violence he's kept bottled up inside for 20 years, and nothing will ever be the same for him again.



Fatale. Still delivering their distinctive flourishes of noir, this is a different story entirely with Lovecraftian vertibrae and the twisted, tangled mess of immortality and deadly forces beyond human comprehension. One of the best titles on the shelf currently - fans of classic intrigue and characters who tread a thin line between crime and utter terror, won't be disapointed.

The Scarecrow

The Scarecrow companion film for Chipotle's new app-based game.


Illustrations by Jazzberry Blue

Toronto-based artist Jazzberry Blue specializes in bold graphics with a psychedelic edge.
www.jazzberryblue.com

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Tuesday 17 September 2013

All the World's a Page

'Introducing a novel as you’ve never seen one before, now as a poster as you’ve never read one before.' www.all-the-worlds-a-page.com


 

Tasty New Type Specimen

Brighton-based font foundry, Colophon have produced a glorious font package that includes a set of books and posters lovingly designed as the type itself.

Know Where You Stand

Seth Taras takes you on a walk through time in his series of photographs, Know Where You Stand.
Witness the same place from a different decade juxtaposed with daily events. The result is both complacent and eery.


Big Monsters on Tiny Post-Its

Donn Kenn draws monsters on Post-Its with a ball-point pen in his unique, twisted style. Gorey meets Miyazaki.

Orphea Billboard Trap


To advertise their new 4D insect spray in the run up to summer, Orphea and Publicis Italy made a billboard which not only advertises the product, but actually traps insects.

Heineken Ignite



Heineken have created an interactive beer bottle that parties with you.The base of the Heineken Ignite is studded with LEDs and motion & sound detectors, which cause the bottle to illuminate each time you drink and can also be remotely synchronised to react to surrounding music, creating your own beer-filled, mobile light show.
 

Monday 9 September 2013

News Briefly


A range of postage stamps from a campaign that aims to help businessmen find the news they need amongst the sea of information. The result is short snapshots in the format of a stamp, published and encouraged to be used on post. The irony.

Have a break...have No WiFi


Kit Kat: Free No-WiFi Zone from Fethi Uluak on Vimeo.

The Underground Library


The Underground Library from Keri Tan on Vimeo. A community project based on a research campaign by students at Miami Ad School that aims to solve the dwindling numbers of visitors to New York’s free public libraries. Interactive virtual bookshelves allow commuters to choose the opening chapter of a free digital book to read on their smartphone while on the subway. On leaving the subway, a map appears on their handset, directing them to the nearest public library so they are able to pick up a copy of the book and finish their book.

Friday 6 September 2013

Made Men

Check out this exclusive peek at an upcoming graphic novel about the RFK assassination. Showcasing the stunning, atmospheric art of Daniel J. Zollinger. Published by McFarland.

Page 25 of my upcoming book. Writer and publisher to be announced.Art by “Z” . (Daniel J Zollinger) 2013

Movie Posters Viewed from Behind

A series of images created by photographerLúcio Cunha to promote a new surround sound home theatre system by LG.