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Illustration Thursday:
6 Vintage Illustration Sets on Flickr
I ran out of time putting this together yesterday, so here’s this week’s Illustration Thursday: Vintage Illustrations, especially that from the 1950s-early 1970s, are some of my favorite things. The style, the use of line work, the color, printing process-it’s just all awesome. Anyways, I’ve put together a list of some of my favorite vintage...
Co-Op Stamp : Belgium 1970
This is a great find from over at GrainEdit: a postage stamp promoting ‘international coopertaive alliance” from Belgium. Three cheers, this is awesome. I love the repetitive style and the orange used. And I’m pretty sure that typeface in the orange field is a straight rip-off of the ABC logo designed by Paul Rand in...
Rockin’ Robin DTV Music Video
As a small child, I always loved the DTV (Disney TV) music video specials they would show on ABC or around the holidays. So many pop songs, so many random mashups! Anyways, I was bumming around on BestWeekEver today, and they had this DTV Video to the song Rockin’ Robin, and it’s actually very intertaining....
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Illustration : Ward Jenkins
Warm, fun, and great illustration and animation work by Ward Jenkins out of Portland. Ward has been doing animation and illustration for a long time, working in both Atlanta and Portland. I just love his style. It’s very mid-century style illustration but with a warmth and personality that I really dig. Definitely check out the...
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Awesome Books : Dear Gretchen
Visualizing with handmade paper graphs the frequency of words, topics, and phrases in notes from childhood, Dear Gretchen is a fancinating and visually stimulating book put together by Gretchen, INC. Amazing. Check it out. PS: Her site is beautiful as well. Cheers!
THE NEW BIKE!
I can’t believe I haven’t even mentioned this yet: Last week, I GOT A NEW BIKE! Well, it’s definately new to me. And it just so happens to be the super-classy ride seem above-a Ted Williams Free Spirit bike from Sears. And though that’s not techinally me in that picture, it might as well be,...
Cartoon Modern : Fifties Animation
Animation and illustrations from the 50s through the late 60s probably have to be my favorite style of all time. I just dig all of it–the colors, the line work, the angles….Just awesome. Anyways, Cartoon Modern is a great little blog that follows the development of a book of the same name that shows and...
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Sesame Street Animation @ Hulu
Over on Hulu, you can watch a bunch of Sesame Street clips, which is sweet. But what is even sweeter is that they have a BUNCH of their animations, which just totally made my days. These where always some of my favorite parts of the show as a kid QUESTION: Does anyone else get this...
Grain Edit : Frank Chimero Interview
Frank Chimero, one of my favorite contemporary illustrators and designers, has a great interview over at Grain Edit. Talking about his inspiration for work, his history as an artist, and working at Missouri State (whoop whoop Springfield!), it’s a great interview. He also goes through the development steps he used for the newest addition to...
Web Wednesday : Design Inspiration
I’m an obessive collector. I’ll admit that. But what I’ve found as I’ve work in the design arena/read design blogs, is that almost everyone in this business is as well. That almost everyone has a folder filled with brochures or a binder full of magazine ads. And this is comforting. So this week’s Web Wednesday...
A Happy Town in France : Matte Stephens
Though I was not pulled from the top hat to win a prize of awesome UO pillows featuring his illustration, I still think Matte Stephens does fantastic work. The above is called “A Happy Town in France” and its very lovely. I think it definitely deserves an Awesome Show, Great Job! Cheers!