July 2008
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The Art of Eric Tan
Since the day Wall•e debuted in the theaters I've seen the top two images by artist Eric Tan start to make the rounds on the internet. I love the design treatment he uses that is reminiscent of the trends of the 40's and 50's and the illustrations and colors are fantastic. These two posters almost trick you into thinking that they are truly vintage. After clicking around on his site I found the bottom three images and thought they too were quite awesome, the X-Men one in particular. Well done Eric, well done. -
Wayne Pate Designs
I really like these posters by designer Wayne Pate. Clean lines, very nice use of color and the compositions are perfect. -
Radiohead “House of Cards” Video
This is ridiculous. Radiohead released a "video" for their song "House of Cards" and in typical Radiohead fashion it breaks away from the norm. The story is Thom's face was scanned and then interpolated by what looks like millions of points of data which are then displayed in 3D space. You can pan around and view the data as the song plays and Thom sings. It doesn't look like the used the entire song, just a section of it but it's still very impressive. -
And We’re Back
The blog is fixed and I'm back at work after having 2 weeks off. I feel like a new man. Now all I have to do is go through tons of emails, get caught up on projects and peruse the 2355 articles that just pulled into my RSS feeder. -
What’d you do?!!!
Ah...the immortal words of Chris Farley. If you're looking at my blog and wondering what the heck is going on, allow me to shed some light on the situation. First, some background. I've been designing sites for over 6 years now and while I have a solid grip on the aesthetics, I'm pretty clueless when it comes to the development/coding side of things. Recently I decided that I should try to better understand the back-end side of site development and so I started to learn CSS mainly with a little PHP thrown here and there. I was feeling confident, I was ... -
Long Way Round & Long Way Down
Back in May of 2006 Cynthia and I went to England and Scotland for a business/pleasure trip. Before we left we stopped into Half-Price Books to get a couple of new books to read while we were away. I didn't really know what I wanted to get, but I had heard of the book "Long Way Round" by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman and so when I found a copy I figured I'd check it out. I devoured the book. The book tells the journey of McGregor and Boorman as they circumvented the globe (heading east from London and ending in ... -
Scott Hansen - Making of “Progress”
Scott Hansen recently wrote a post on his blog walking through his process in designing the print he created for the Obama campaign. It's a fairly long post complete with screenshots from Photoshop (like the one above) where you can gain some insight into how he layers up his designs. He also talks about his workflow between Photoshop and Illustrator which is fascinating. Reading a post like this gives me even greater respect for his abilities. I think it's great that he's offering up this degree of insight into his processes beyond his workshops are various worldwide conferences.
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