Showing posts with label typography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label typography. Show all posts

9.28.2007

The Friday Are

Sunset effects in Photoshop
Nothing too special here, bascially it's how to take an existing photo and spruce it up, but the technique on how to get sun flares, and some other things are pretty right on.
Gallery of Illustrated Book Endpapers
Before book endpapers were blank, they used to have thematic illustrations, check it out.
Artblog of juvenile lifers in prison
Vintage ads featuring OJ
For some reason OJ sports a booted third leg. Strange, weird, awesome, and now, just a tiny bit sad.
15 examples of great web typography
After being linked to from Digg, this post crashed ILT's server. Excellent type, and well-written analysis.
Collection of old magazine scans
Guy publishes an archive of old magazine scans, nice nice.
Beehive in bell jar
Amazing slideshow of someone who put a bell jar on top of hole in a beehive, bees build hive within the belljar, instant honey!
Tea-bag art
"Join the group in four easy steps:

1. Drop a bag of tea on an index card
2. Allow to dry
3. Finish drawing
4. Scan and share on Flickr
4. Drink tea

The above “leg warmers” image is by Flickr user, Dave Gray."



This video is so awesome, it got loaded twice into the same clip. Drawn stop-motion animation using walls as the animating surface, so sweet.

Baby Hands
Soap!

Drink
Pepsi

Help!
Replaced by CGI!

Mona Lisa
in tiny increments



Steampunk
PC!

Round
& Round

Urban cup-holders
for street parties

Tilt-shift
photography

Rolled-up
Newspaper sculpture


Knitting's
New Wave

Kids
Rock

Soul finds excellent
photos from the war.

Guiness
coaster

Tom Ford's
New Perfume Ads




Rachell
Sumpter

Stewart
R Justin

Justin
Quinn

John Connelly
Presents

Coop
just Coop

Unknown
Artist

Luc
Melanson

Dr
Lakra

Becky
Cloonan

Chen
Lei

Joshua
Middleton

Anna
Faith Nicholls

Faile
Just Faile

Eamo
Donnelly

Arms
rock

9.09.2007

The Sunday Are

new shows added to the Calendar:

Peter Rogiers & Andrew Schoultz @ Roberts & Tilton
Allison Cortson @The Happy Lion, LA




The decline and fall of the ligature
I Love Typography comes through again, one of the best blogs going right now.
Boing Boing's roundup of free web resources
yay.
Awesome Spoilers
You too can be cool.
Mona Lisa web meme
Apparently all the cool kids are drawing their version of Mona Lisa in an awesome new internet meme. yay.
this verion by "Apelad" Adam Koford
Hack a Roomba into a poster printer
Usually this site has hacks that involve a lot of electronic skill and such, but this was just too good to pass up sharing. There's also a how-to on how to make your own Cintiq tablet
GPS heels designed to help sex workers
Every little bit helps I guess.
Little People Nuart Gallery show
Love love love this, one of the Illust favorites. Installations of little (inch-tall) random people all over cityscapes gets a gallery show, yay!
Haruo Suiekichi
Tons of steampunk watches that are seriously amazing, unfortunately, they're not really for sale.
Just for reference, Warren Ellis's thoughts on Steampunk:
"Is it possible that steampunk is making a comeback as acquiescence to the notion that our more recent apparently plausible models of the future will never come to reality?"
Monocycle replica
Speaking of steampunk, Makezine has pics of a monocycle (made famous in a form on South Park), which is just about the coolest thing ever.
One Condoms
One condoms is holding a contest for packaging designs, your design could be seen in a glance while trying to be ripped apart!
Kitchentop Letterpress
DIY your own letterpress, sweet! Also, Drawn has a video about the the Firefly Press in action.


On the streets:


Illustrators around the web:
Maria
Hinze

Brian
Dettmer

Ray
Doty

Femke
Hiemstra

Cayetano
Ferrer

Adam
Strange

Unknown
Photographer

Ashley
Wood

Meomi
Meomi

Scott
Hansen (aka iso50)

Art-O-Mat
vending machines

Gary
Taxali

Faile
Faile

David
MacDowell

22 Flavors
project



as always, most in the last 3 rows found via Drawn & Juxtapoz