Filed under: design, found stuff | Tags: art, crafts, design, inlay, jewelry boxes, woodwork
Whew. It’s been a long time since I’ve posted. But I’m back from an amazing fishing trip, and ready to start up my summer work. I recently started working for Heartwood Creations, a local company that specializes in inlay design for wooden boxes. Their work ranges from classic jewelry boxes, to western/outdoors crafts, to some very artfully designed pieces worth taking a look at. Definitely an area of design outside the normal realm of print and web and an interesting combination of 2d aesthetics on a 3d final product.
Filed under: found stuff | Tags: animation, art, credits, Disney, graphic design, Iron Man, James Bond, movies, Psycho, Saul Bass, Superbad
Movie credits are great graphic design inspiration. The ultimate combination of images and text in motion. Here are five particularly great examples, plus a bunch more to keep you hunting.
1. Psycho
In many ways, designer Saul Bass invented movie titles. Every sequence made today draws from Bass’s work. Most often indirectly, but when a film maker wants that “old movie” look, like in Catch Me if You Can, they will go right for that “Saul Bass” look. By using cut and paste paper animation and minimal color schemes, Bass was able to convey the essential tone of the movie in an abstract, visceral way.
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Filed under: found stuff | Tags: art, comic books, comics, design, Frank Miller, illustration, movies, The Spirit, Will Eisner
I’ve been looking forward to this movie for some time. Being a huge fan of Will Eisner and The Spirit, it’s good to see that the movie fell into the hands of Frank Miller who, after Sin City and 300 has shown that, at the very least he knows how to translate comics into movies. (more…)
Filed under: found stuff | Tags: art, drawing, figure drawing, illustration, life drawing, nude
The savvy artist or designer will grab any good source for reference material and inspiration that he or she can get. These are my TOP 3 internet figure drawing resources.
Looking for some inspiration on developing your personal style? This is the place. Each week they meet to draw from a model in a certain theme. Anything from super geeky star wars costumes, to poses and costumes inspired by famous artists. Afterwards, they post the best work along with a photo from the model online. It’s great to see each illustrator’s take on the subject and then give it a try yourself. Good, unique, stylish, figure drawing.
2. Andrew Loomis Drawing Books
Andrew Loomis came from the golden age of 20th century illustration, where magazines had more hand -drawn artwork than photography. He needed to draw accurately, dynamically, and from his head. Fortunately, he also developed some of the most fun, most accurate, most easy to learn and simply some of the best techniques for figure drawing and illustration. Unfortunately, his books are out of print.
Luckily for all of us in the internet age, much of his work is available online. Artcone has a comprehensive post of many links where this stuff is available for download.
3. artnudes
Finding pictures of naked people on the internet is easy. Finding interesting dynamic artistic poses with a wide variety of angles, body types, and lighting is not. The artnudes blog contains some of the best in artistic nude photography, great inspiration and anatomical references for the figure artist sick of looking in the mirror.
Filed under: found stuff | Tags: art, design, digital camera, drunk, facebook, flickr, keep it pg, nude, party, photography, photos, pics
Don’t untag all of those embarrassing drunken facebook pics of yourself just yet, you could be sitting on an artistic goldmine. As digital cameras continue to get smaller, more affordable, and exponentially higher quality, that candid shot of you and your friends getting black-out drunk at a Halloween party, or getting naked in someone’s apartment might make for some artsy, edgy-as-hell, photography. (more…)
Filed under: found stuff | Tags: art, drink recipies, energy drinks, graphic design, howling monkey
If the 99 cent for 16 ounces price tag wasn’t enough, this energy drink boasts some of the greatest web and graphic design of anything available at a corner convenience store.
These two music videos are some of my favorites, and use some killer typography as their main focus. (more…)
