January 2009
16 posts
Grandma's Graphics: Public Domain Children's... →
Should you need any for any reason. The resolution’s kind of bad, but the illustrations are kind of great.
Aesthetic Echo →
Are We Scared of the Change(s) We Need? →
Yes, I blog for the Huffington Post (like everyone else on the planet). However, I’ve done so rather recently and think the subject matter of the new post is somewhat compelling. It’s about whether or not Americans are willing to make the sacrifices that an economic crisis and a new president will require.
For example:
The postmortem on the crisis formerly known as subprime lending...
Food Party Episode IV →
The latest installment of Food Party is on the internet. The strange brainchild of Thu Tran, Zacharia Durr, Peter van Hyning, and some other creative people currently residing in Brooklyn (via Ohio), Food Party is about food. But it is about so much more than that. Love, nature, science, friendship. Oh, and pure 5-year-old retardation. It was recently screened at Monkeytown by the cast, along with...
Grouper. Heavy Water. Phaseone mix.
This has been...
William Mortensen
Evidently, before photoshop, there was a thing called Pictorialism. A pre-modernist, turn of the century school of photographic thought, Pictorialism strongly promoted the use of staging, retouching, hand-worked negatives, and a general approach that treated photography more like painting. Eventually lost to the steamroller of ‘intellectual progress,’ Pictorialism nevertheless...
The Complete Ninja Turtles →
Basically every Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic in one place. Dating back to the original Eastman and Laird books from 1984. Pretty fascinating to see where it all started, now that the franchise has completed its entire pop-culture arc. Also, a stark reminder of just how martial-arts crazed the 80s were. Also, generally awesome in the nerdiest way possible.
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"Costs of higher education (direct costs and lost... →
Matter
Matter is a book by designer Leah Koransky in which she catalogs the 620 items in her apartment by length of posession, emotional attachment, and frequency of use. She does so via a simple but striking visual information hierarchy employing color, opacity and size. Koransky cites a quote from Robert Irwin to explain her intent:
“I was no longer just looking at objects occupying space, but...
Water Song.
A sketch done based on a chord...
Anatomy of a Commercial Art Gig →
Illustrator S.Britt offers a step-by-step perspective on how Lexus’s “December to Remember” ads went from client concept sketches to finished products. The illustrations are great and the comments are both funny and illuminating. Not much love for Lexus or the ad firm, surprise.
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