Invisible Creatures Poster

Cool Poster by Invisible Creatures in Seattle for an upcoming Brian Posehn/ Judah Friedlander show at The Moore Theater. Clean and simple. These guys do dope work. Check ‘em.

Hollis Brown Thornton

I keep going back to this guys site lately. Hollis Brown Thornton is an artist out of Aiken, South Carolina. Dealing with things like myth and memory he works in a few different mediums, most interestingly is his carbon transfer process (which he describes in depth). He is showing works from his most recent series “The Earth on the Back of a Giant Turtle” until Semptember 7, 2008 at the 20th Anniversary Juried Art Exhibition, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC.

Found it my damn self.

Lo-fi digital camp at it’s best.

Stop motion genius’s Pepper Melon did this short film called “Ela in Love at First Byte”. If you were a child in the 80’s and watched Tron, Thundercats and John Carpenter films, then you will dig this. If you have time check out Pepper Melon’s site cause they do some cool work.

Love the FFF

New Design work

I just did this poster for a spoken word show coming up in Eugene, Oregon. The poster features a type treatment I’m working on. The show features original poetry and music, and the venue will be showing photography taken on a trip to NYC by the two performers. This poster features a portrait taken by Tobin (spoken word artist) of a guy who tried to fight him after the shot was taken. Ah New York… it’s a hell of a town. Check out The Brutalist, Aug. 29th at the Wandering Goat in Eugene Oregon. Show’s at 7pm.

By day I am the Sr. Graphic Designer for Imagination International, Inc.- the North American importer and distributor of Copic markers from Japan. I redesigned the new product catalog for the company and just got it back from the printers. It’s not on my website yet but you can download a pdf version from www.copicmarker.com if you wanna check it out.

Lyle Owerko & Geoff McFetridge

This guys photography is great. Plus, you can print one off for your very own. I chose a boom box from “The Boom Box Project”. Lest you think he is simply nostalgic for pop culture, he has very interesting and intense photos and portraits of his journeys in Africa and was the man on the scene for Time magazines 9/11 cover. See Lyle Owerko’s work here.

Again with the FFF

Through Mr. Owerko’s blog I was reminded of Solitary Arts (Geoff McFetridge & Yong-Ki Chang). Mr. McFetridge wrote a cool piece on drawing, skateboarding and surfing and how they are all connected. All things I dig. Read it.

Red & Grey Studio

This site is cool. The work looks cool. I need a table with my name on it. Check out Red & Grey.

Saw it on FFF

House of Cards screen saver

Radiohead just released a kick ass screen saver based on their “House of Cards” video. It plays the song and is interactive. Love it.

Surf art by Spencer Reynolds

Spencer Reynolds is a monument in the surf art world. If experience could be portrayed through color and line, then he has accomplished this. Check out his paintings and illustrations. He has prints for sale. I own one of his paintings and I love it. If you live in and around the Portland, Oregon or Coast region, he shows frequently so check out his news section for updates.

Found through a Halloween party in 1994.

Stuff Whats Funny

I don’t feel the need to explain this.
Thanks Spencer

United by Fate - Behind the Scenes…

If you haven’t seen Globe’s “United by Fate” skate film episodes they are worth your time. Episode 4 will be out soon, so they say. And in the meantime they have been kind enough to release some behind the scenes episodes. Check it…

Mr. Bowlegs makes with the cool designs

Sometimes you see stuff and you say to yourself “Blast! That’s so good… it should’ve been mine.” Check out the cool work at Mr. Bowlegs

Found at Lightgreen

Al Jazeera coverage on Georgia v. Russia

Part 1

Part 2

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A whiny, out-of-touch rant about hipsters

photos by Haddow?

I can accept rants from magazines like Adbusters. They are about instigating cultural change. Paradigm shifts come from ranters. But this article sounds like an insecure hipster having an identity crisis. Author Douglas Haddow skillfully brand name-drops and dissects all that is hipster and decries it in the broadest most generalizing way possible. Somehow he seems to have missed the effects of post-structuralism (i.e. the re-contextualization of signs and symbols) and blames the current youth culture for the ills of western capitalism.

For a solid response to the article, read broken-hearted Literary Addicts’ post.

Found through Design Notes

Book Covers! Yes!

I love me some book covers. Check out this smorgasbord of design goodness. C’est Français.

From Changethethought

Both sides of the illustration coin…

It’s an illustration day…

This guys has a great hands-on, paint and collage style. Check out James Gulliver Hancock. You can also get some desktop wallpaper at Kitsune Noir’s weekly wallpaper feature.

Found it at +KN

…and now for the other side of the coin… SUPERHEROES! Hell’s yes.

If you wanna see some kick ass sketches of your favorite vigilantes of justice then run, don’t walk, to the sketch blog of Travis Kotzabue. Check out his Thor… ’tis mighty. You can see more of his work for games an comics at the website porfolio he shares with his equally talented brother Jordan. As if that weren’t enough, Travis did an issue of the online comic for NBC’s “Heroes” series. Check it.

Found him on my speed-dial.

Design Inspirado

I like to check this blog out to get my design wheels turning. I have a small vinyl collection, but only a few 45’s. Looking at some of these brings on memories of my grandparents house. I can almost smell the old sleeves next to the Louis Lamour dime novels.

Check ‘em out at Record Envelope

Da Werewolves of Chessboxin’

This is a golden nugget of musical joy.
Wu-Tang and Warren Zevon. Da Werewolves of Chessboxin’. Mash up by Elliot and DJ Quix.

You’d be much cooler if you listened.

Found through Hot Biscuits.

Print Making, Skate Graphics & the Post-Modern Pastiche

One thing I can’t help noticing is that much of the graphic design writing I come across is rarely done intelligently or from an art historical perspective. There are exceptions of course. But the vapid descriptions are often left at “amazing”, “brilliant” and my favorite, “I really love the colors”. This tends to displace the relevancy of commercial visual communication. Just because something is done for money or to sell a product doesn’t mean there isn’t any conceptual thought behind hit. Granted, it may not be the same as the ambiguous or monumental installation at the latest neighborhood Biennial. Certainly it will be more accessible. God knows “high” art could use a lesson in accessibility from time to time.

This article, while short, is a breathe of fresh air in that it addresses the theoretical concerns of the pastiche in post-modernism. Dennis McNett is a printmaker and a teacher at the Pratt Institute. Fecal Face writer Andreas Trolf does a good job of making the heavy points about McNett’s work without drowning you in theory.

It’s got skateboard graphics! C’mon! You’ll love the colors!

Some David Carson for your Friday

from David Carson’s “The End of Print”.