A quick smattering of links before the workday really starts. Keep trying on that scavenger hunt. The secret prize is worth it.
There seems to be a new trend in the illustration/communication design/art world, or rather a return to an old trend: psychedelia. The color schemes have slowly started shifting over to bright pinks, oranges, purples and greens with the colors bleeding into each other and generally shaking the retina in its foundations. As many psychedelic drugs as I’ve taken in the course of my life (think: a lot, and then triple that amount, and then cube that amount), you’d think that my eyes wouldn’t even see separate colors anymore, but they do, and they love them. Minimalism is fine in certain things, and it definitely gave designers more time to focus on interesting font structures, but in the art world I’m glad that artists are trying to arrest the eye again, to capture the viewer. I could talk about it all day (because I specialize in bullshit) but I think you should just check out some fine examples of what I’m talking about.
I saw a poster in a book a few days ago with a weird looking hamster being poked in the stomach and making a face somewhere between wretching and ecstasy. For whatever fated reason I found the website of that poster’s creator this morning. Zeloot makes that magic.
Another artist who, in the first five seconds of seeing his page, just dropped into my top five with a fucking bullet is Thomas Han. His colors make me get DT’s-esque shakes in a very good way. I keep getting sidetracked on this post by his site, in fact.
Though the colors aren’t exactly psychedelic in Kevin Dart’s illustrations, they are vivid and eye-catching. Couple that with his cool, neo-lounge style and Corman-inspired subject matter and you’ve got a colorful snail of awesome eating its way through your cabbages.
And lastly, the folks over at Stickerobot are having a little design contest with a prize package that made me feel very awkward in the pants region. Middle-school-history-class-put-a-book-in-front-of-it-awkward.
Richard Delicious | 25-Jul-06 at 9:07 am | Permalink
Here’s some awesome graffiti related things I found today.
Graffiti Robot
Interactive Architecture
The above link is from the very awesome, although somtimes poorly implemented Graffiti Research Lab
Brad | 25-Jul-06 at 11:54 am | Permalink
I messed with these guys a while back, because they had an amazing software/camera/lightbox that allowed them to map a tag 3-Dimensionally while it was being created. The Z-axis is time. It was amazing.