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DON’T PANIC POSTER “Drawn real-size on the theme of ‘war’, this is a hand-coloured piece using Copic and Pantone markers. This was a subtle way at getting back at some people who had been copying my work in the US.” See the website

Gianluca is one of the fresh wave of new talent we’re seeing coming out of Argentina at the moment. He’s self-taught and worked at the motion graphics studio Punga. Currently he’s with the graphic design studio Rock Instrument Bureau. During his short career he’s worked for clients including Nike, Pony, MTV, Cartoon Network, Zune, mun2 and Discovery Networks. “ I love type and illustration, and particularly like it when both are present,” he says. “I’ve always been really inspired by music, it has been a trigger for many projects. Working at Punga was a great experience but my true passion lies in print, so that’s probably why I left .” Lala This series of images represents Gianluca’s friend Lala and various aspects of her personality. “She’s the weirdest of my friends. This illustration is just the tip of the iceberg,” he says. See more at: www.gianlucafallone.com Post via: Computerarts.com

Browsing again, I bumped into this article regarding Bembo typeface . Very interesting. " At a recent panel discussion on New Zealand book design, I lambasted the overuse of Bembo in many New Zealand books. As more questions were asked than could be answered, I wrote this article to explain myself. Let me begin with a brief history. Before digital typesetting and offset printing, there was the letterpress. A typeface was composed of fonts, one font for each size. These size-specific fonts consisted of individual letters made from metal alloy. Single letters were placed by hand to create words, words were aligned into sentences, sentences were stacked to make paragraphs, and these were inked and pressed into paper. As a printing process it is fairly basic. Woodcuts and potato stamps use a similar method." read more

Freelance illustrator and graphic designer Chris Ede graduated last year with a first class degree. He is now working to develop his career within the illustration industry.

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Jeremyville has conceptualised, produced and designed the first major book in the world on the designer toy movement: Vinyl Will Kill!

Norman McLaren was one of the most significant abstract filmmakers of the British inter-war period. Born in 1914 in Stirling, Scotland, he entered the Glasgow School of Fine Arts in 1932, where he became interested in film and joined the School's Kine Society. His earliest extant film, Seven Till Five (1933), a "day in the life of an art school", was clearly influenced by Eisenstein and displays a strongly formalist attitude. (more)

Most of Atkinson's illustrations are figurative, but made using abstract processes with each form as a shape or each line as a texture. (more)

Today it is the 50th anniversary of one of the most popular typographic font, the 'Helvetica'. There is an interesting article in today's BBC digital edition. Opinion, examples taken from advertisement and corporative design are outlined in it. Let us see: 'The Helvetica font is celebrating its 50th birthday. You've probably seen it a thousand times today. Why? At this moment in boardrooms across the globe, captains of industry are leafing through sheet after sheet of typefaces. There are hundreds of choices, but many of these movers and shakers don't take a lot of leafing before plumping for Helvetica. We live in a world where we are surrounded 24 hours a day by adverts and corporate communications, many in typefaces chosen to subliminally complement the message. (more) .

Neopod is the online portfolio of digital designer Liam Wolf, providing simple and effective digital design solutions for the web. The name Neopod is derived from 'Neo' meaning new and POD standing for ' Place Of Design '. ( visit )

MOCK OPTIC REED ANDERSON draws highly ornate constellations of flora and fauna by folding large pieces of paper into sections, cutting holes into the paper and then applying different layers of color. The drawings are visual palindromes, mirroring positive, negative and dimensional space. (more)

Title Sequence by Saul Bass for the movie 'Anatomy of a murder' (1959). ...

Badiu's work is a mixture between Cinema 4D and Illustrator, the result is a range of mix media images that Badiu communicate his ideas affectively. (see) .

Check out this tutorial. Taken from ' computer arts ' magazine. Screen printing is a tricky, messy process, but it’s the less than perfect areas that create that distinctive look. Here, Computer Arts regular Derek Lea reveals how to simulate silk-screened imperfections in Photoshop... (start)

Sahatarch Pittarong , 23, is a freelance illustrator and a graphic designer. Check out his website. Awesome indeed.

Get the glass es un juego de mesa producido en 3d como parte de la nueva campana de 'got milk' en USA. El objetivo del juego es conducir a la familia Adachi sobre el tablero hacia la nevera, entonces ellos pueden obtener la leche. Usando el raton, el jugador lanza el dado y empieza a avanzar. Al ir avanzando, las casillas generan uno de tres tipos de cartas. Las cartas de la suerte autorizan al jugador para avanzar, las cartas malas devuelven al jugador y las cartas 'inteligentes' requieren que el jugador resuelva una pregunta y asi continuar. Los agentes que cuidan el refrigerador van tras las huellas del jugador y estan al acecho... el resto es innecesario... Interesante el juegito, eso si...toma su tiempo. Los graficos son impresionantes, la interactividad muy interesante al igual que toda la narrativa que maneja. 'Get the glass' es una muy buena respuesta al problema de como implementar un juego de mesa en una pieza grafica digital interactiva agregandole c...

Por ahi dando tumbos en la red me encontre con esta deliciosa pagina , una coleccion de las peores caratulas de discos de todos los timepos. (yo incluiria algunas mas). Browsing again I found this nice site with a delightful series of appalling album covers. Jim's collection

Lars Fiske , an interesting Norwegian illustrator portfolio.

Samorost 2 is a game designed by amanita design . Give it a try. Flashforward Film Festival 2006. Winner ('original Sound category') Highly recommended in 'best game' and 'most innovative visual effects' category in Gameshadow innovation in games awards. Best web browser game 2007 independent game festival. Seoul Net Festival 2006 Winner.

Guitar shred show is one of those playful websites we bump into time to time, have you got some spare time? just go and jam with Mr Fast Fingers guitar session, but be aware, you must defeat the devil and play on your own... this site rocks -literally speaking-. It is also remarkable the work in Macromedia Flash to develop this piece. Play here . Guitar shred show es uno de esos deliciosos sitios de internet para entretenrse por un buen rato. Tiene un segundo? veya y haga jam con Mr Fast Fingers pero recuerde que al final debe derrotar al diablo. Ademas de ser un sitio muy entretendio, hay que destacar las maravillas que se pueden hacer con flash, y una muy buena idea por supuesto. Pinche aca .