This years poster in all its Hello Kitty glory. This is one of my favorite fonts by Tomi Haaparanta, Suomi Script. You can purchase the poster for $20 at Bootleg.
A brand Bootleg created for new ski apparel startup PharNorth using the amazing Typodermic font Marianas.
If you've ever had the great fortune of riding a freighter, you will appreciate this movie by Lorenzo Fonda. Via Tommy Kane
Always the most inspiring for myself are childrens books, uninhibited beautiful illustration and artwork not muddled by logos. I ran across these illustrators reading scores of library books to Henry, our 3 year old son.
How to Live Before You Die
Amazing illustrations by Asaf Hanuka on a well designed site. I like his clean style and brilliantly funny subject manner.
Funny. Still laughing hours later. Coby Shultz strikes again with another brilliant t-shirt design for Ames Bros.
Truly American illustrations by Adam Hanyes. Funny wtih brilliant concepts and an amazingly simple style. His portfolio on Behance is worth the time, the details in the painting are so well placed.
So funny. So brilliant. Glennz site is worth the time and the calendar builder is great.
Its also worth browsing the concept section on his Behance profile. via abuzeedo
You have to dig deep to find good work on the web. Jon Keegans work is a good example of amazing work combined with good content on the site. these sketchbook pages are great insight into the artists process.
Bootleg recently completed illustrations for this animated short, Green With Envy. Illustration by Hiller Higman, font by Ray Larabie.
Just funny. Nothing more.
I don't own an iPhone. I'm not that hip. If I could own one I probably would but out here in the sticks of MT it is not an available service yet. At any rate, I have been avoiding publishing back to the this blog (abduzeedo) partially because of the plethora of slick photoshoppy iPhone screen saver tutorials but after this interview about the legendary star wars poster illustrator I couldn't resist any more. It's very inspirational for any aspiring illustrator.
A project started by the founder of the Little Chimp Society. It displays works by artists from around the world sent in by mail. This is another entry included in our GD Books section of the blog, an additional site dedicated exclusively to the review of design books.
These are so simple, funny and brilliant. While researching graphic novels I came across this group of images from francophone comic creator Obomsawin for the animated film Here & There. A description of one of Obosawins books on amazon reads "In a minimalist style like (but even simpler than)".
Some kind of genius. this is a great site. its not easy to create a promotional site that is interesting for multiple parties to navigate and offers good content. The sketchbook gallery is always a nice touch on an artists site because you can see directly into the heart of their work.
Recent inspiration for a video we are illustrating. "Putumayo's CD covers feature the distinctive art of Nicola Heindl, whose colorful, folkloric style represents one of Putumayo's goals: to connect the traditional to the contemporary. By combining appealing music and visuals with creative retail marketing, Putumayo has developed a unique brand identity - a rarity in today's artist-based music industry."
Nicola has painted more than 100 colorful album covers for Putumayo World Music.
There's something true and something funny in this video on social networking and branding. Provided by Mightypop.
Friend and client Brock Dubbles of Vgalt.com got some recent recognition from Star Tribune in article about using video games as learning tools in the classroom. As he explains, "Research shows that kids want to perform where they have competence. Games are part of their lives."
We recently incorporated this font into the not yet live redesign of the favl.org site. Fertigo Pro is a free front from the Exljbris Font Foundry.
Thanks to Richard Binder of Richard's Pens for displaying this painting on his gallery page. It was done with a Pelikan M200 fountain pen with a specialty nib that Richard ground to an extra fine point.
A recent packaging deisign by Bootleg Enterprise for The Natural Baby Company. The font used for the logo is Coquette from the Mark Simonson Studio. I discovered Marks fonts in a MyFonts newsletter, a great type resource and worthy email newsletter.
Stay alive out there, he says on his profile. The artwork of Luke Ramsey featured on his blog Bits and Bobs.