hand-drawn typography by Natasha
I stumbled upon these incredible hand-drawn typographicalizations over at flickr’s hand-drawn type group (awesome resource). The illustrations are by Natasha at vemod.no. amazing illustration work, both hand-drawn and vector. Her site also includes physical projects (zines, rings and other non-digital objects) photography. Peep her photography project toy cities, insane. There’s a whole slew of this on flickr, but Natasha does it extremely well.
I was perusing my rss feeds this morning, when I came across a post on the PUERTO VALLARTA SCENE (a relatively new blog on what’s happening in PV - good information resource) about a John McCain poster contest. Apparently the McCain campaign wants you to design a cool poster for his campaign, that’s an original idea [ed- insert dramatic irony pause here], the PV Scene post is tongue-in-cheek at best.
Let me stop here for a second, to say that I thought it was common knowledge that anyone with an IQ high enough to be able to “design” a poster (or even to know how to open photoshop), would never vote for John McCain, never mind making (propaganda) posters for his axis of evil campaign. I’m pretty sure there’s only one category of human being that would gladly try to organize type and imagery in to something resembling a poster for John McCain: the CEOs of Exxon / Chevron / Halliburton / Kellogg Brown Root / JP Morgan / AT&T / etc… and they would most surely never use photoshop. They’d use MS Word/Excel/Powerpoint to do it, like good business people would.
Absentmindedly I thought of the original Bush/Cheney bumper sticker, an idea popped and 20 minutes later I had put together this new version for McCain, since basically he’s taking over Bush’s same policies, in exchange for disregarding everything he’s thought and fought for his entire life. They say “All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. McCain has already subjugated his beliefs just to get a shot at that power, you wanna imagine what he’d be like if he actually won? He’d make Napolean look like Ghandi.
Now someone has to take this to kinkos and get it printed out a million times on that cheap poster board and take them to the republican stockholder meeting convention.
The US Campaign for Burma is still kicking with daily videos showcasing Burma’s fight against its military junta.
The above video is a collaborative effort. Isaiah Seret wrote and directed the video. Our nomadic homie Alexander Kori Girard created the drawings and hand-drawn type. I put all the pieces together, added the type cards and laced it all with a bright shiny ribbon. Jesse Klein edited it. and that’s Beirut on the track with “The Penalty”.
Again, do yourself a favor and watch it in high quality, under the lower right hand side of the video.
More on Aung San Suu Kyi (pronounced kinda like “on son sue chee”).
A American Family Man: Re-Design: A Reader Poll
Vincent Skeltis was asked, informally, to re-design Foam (a surfing mag for girls). Skeltis has posted the brief, current/projected readers, the latest cover and a few of the covers from his re-design process. He’s asking people to comment on what he’s done so far (with the disclaimer that the logo is still very rough). Skeltis is letting us all in on his process, which is awesome. It can also be a double-edged sword, so in that sense he’s being very brave (and silently hoping no one skewers him, anonymously, in the comments).
Skeltis has some amazing photography and art-direction over at his portfolio site. I’m sure that whatever designs he ends up presenting, regardless of how they’re eventually implented (or not), his art-direction will be top-notch.
[via APE]
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Update: It seems that Foam had Skeltis pull down the blog entry. understandable. well, I guess i’ll leave this up for posterity sake.
The Year in Pictures hips us to these awesome posters created by Brazilian graphic designer Daniel Molin. The Google Machine™ has never heard of Molin (unless he’s the same guy creating massive amounts of sci-fi fantasy art - which i doubt). That’s a shame. Regardless of your political leanings, these are beautiful pieces of design.
Simplicity works so well.
I’m really diggin’ on Zoo York’s new artist series boards done by Mark and Matt Owens (Matt of VolumeOne fame). The art-direction is pure 70s NY mashup. Equal parts Massimo Vignelli, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand and Lance Weyman mixed with a slight case of Monty Python. Great designs! Having grown up in NY in the 70s-80s my childhood is filled with the kind of iconography that this is derived from. Athletics. has the lickable larger versions.
btw - nice Athletics site, right?! talk about clean and beautiful layout and typography. gorgeous stuff. i’m taking notes. Athletics is Matt and Mark Owen, Samia Saleem, James Ellis, Jason Gnewikow, David Ahuja and Wes Duvall. wow, very cool.
A little birdy tells me that InterfaceFlor are going to be making modular carpet tiles based on the La Fonda Del Sol series from my favorite nice modernist Alexander Girard. The designs look gorgeous and well produced. can’t wait to see them in the wild.
If I end up getting a few of these I’ll be putting them on the wall.
Jan Sochor is a czech-born freelance photographer spliting his time between Europe and South America. His site has some great documentary-style photo essays, presented in a distinctive modern, minimal web presentation. very nice to see the design compliment the visual impact of the images*. His blog is great as well.
[via SwissMiss]
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*i’m not digging the rollover nav, but the design is so nice it’s hard to comment
Sean Finocchio produces gorgeous city-life inspired digital photos on canvas. The above image from his liquor store collection on Supermarket. nice.
Brian Piana has some gorgeous ‘net inspired color bar art over at SpillSomePaint.com. Great concepts and aesthetics. My favorite: The Rise to Power of Tom Delay. [via kottke]
Hi, my name is Ed. I’m a graphic designer who lived in L.A. I quit my job, sold my car, rented out my house and moved to Mexico. Along the way, I learned how to surf and fell in love. This is my story.