Onward Kashiyama: Couleurs Ad

3 Chill

31 May

Japanese clothing company Onward Kashiyama promotes its “Couleurs” collection with a pixelated self-portrait of Van Gogh composed of 2700 polo shirts in 24 different varieties.

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Pencil vs Camera

3 Chill

28 May

Pencil vs Camera” is a personal project started by a talented Belgian artist Ben Heine. He overlaps hand drawn works of art with reality to create a stunning effect.

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Jumping Over The Flagpole in Super Mario

4 Chill

27 May

You’ve hugged this pole a thousand times before, but is it really possible to jump clean over it?

iPad + Velcro

4 Chill

26 May

A match made in heaven.

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Obviously, HP Thinks We Are Stupid

3 Chill

25 May

Here’s an interesting graph comparing the price of HP ink to other various fluids, some bodily in nature. A $30 HP #45  black ink cartridge gives you 42ml, pricing out to $0.71/ml. Meanwhile, blood apparently costs $200 for 500ml from the Red Cross, pricing out to $0.40/ml.

Amazing Projection on Buildings

1 Chill

23 May

NuFormer is a company in the Netherlands that specializes in outdoor advertising of a very peculiar sort — done on the faces of buildings. Real buildings are mapped and modeled in 3D, and then animations are created using those models and projected back onto the building. Pretty chill.

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Music: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Around the Bend

Introducing Google TV

1 Chill

21 May

Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet.

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Or you can just hook up your computer to your TV with an HDMI cable.

More info @ Google TV

Google Doodle: Pac-Man

1 Chill

21 May

At first glance it may look like a regular “doodle” by Google, but this time they took it a step further. For Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary,  you can actually play Pac-Man on the Google’s homepage. Just click on ‘insert coin‘ under the search field.

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Crater Face

2 Chill

20 May

Astronaut risks life and limb to bring two “moon pimples” together for love.

It’s rare to watch something that is sweet, funny, sad and topped with great music.

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Credits: Skyler Page

Pentagram Marks

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While the original hardcover edition was limited to 1,000 copies, I just snagged a copy of a the more affordable and just as useful paperback edition of Pentagram Marks.

The book comprises four hundred logo marks from nearly four decades of branding from the Pentagram design company. It’s a great look at a single company’s design output, even if it isn’t the best logo source book out there because of some of its datedness.

The logos are presented in (somewhat) alphabetical order, in black and white, and I will say that this spread is perhaps the finest among them. It’s like they’re about to have a little feathered showdown:

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Jon Han

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Illustrator Jon Han creates his conceptual images using a combination of sketchy hand-drawn elements with sharp digital edges and flat colours. Check out his blog, too.

Katrin Wiehle

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Some nice patterns and illustrations from German illustrator Katrin Wiehle. That goose pattern is pretty adorable. (via Mike Lowery)

Charles Schulz’s Teen Comics

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The Comicrazys blog has posted some scans from the out-of-print Charles Schulz book What Was Bugging Ol’ Pharaoh?

In Schulz’s Peanuts, the adults were always offstage, so it was easy to assume he never drew adults, teenagers, or anyone over the age of ten. So these cartoons are interesting artefacts from a man who spent 50 years drawing small children. What also sets some of these apart is their overt religious themes.

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Schulz was a devout Christian, but in 50 years of Peanuts, he managed to keep references to God out of his strip. There were a few exceptions, such as the Charlie Brown Christmas Special, of course, and this famous example from 1963:

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And while these cartoons feature mostly teenagers, we’re even treated to an actual adult now and then. So we can easily imagine how Charlie Brown might look when he grows up.

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Most, if not all, of these teenager cartoons have been reprinted recently in a paperback book called Schulz’s Youth. But as books go, it feels like an ugly slapped-together afterthought. Those beautiful captions set in Futura that so perfectly place the cartoons in the late 50s/early 60s are replaced with oversized captions purposelessly set in font based on Schulz’s handwriting from the latter half of his career. And there’s something about that old, yellowed paper that brings a cartoon to life that today’s ultra-smooth bleached-white paper fails to do.

Here’s another of Schulz’s book of teen cartoons, this one from my collection, called Young Pillars:

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Eddy Broth t-shirt

Hey Kids! S.britt’s beloved Eddy Broth is ALWAYS FUN and now you can be too! Get with it! No one who wears this t-shirt will ever be the same. Imagine the amazement and shock of your friends when they see you hanging out with Eddy instead of them.

Completely fire-proof, permanent, Soviet-surplus lead-based inks. Gigantic 8” x 8” design. Brilliant in normal light, spectacular in no light. Takes only minutes to put on, for a lifetime of enjoyment. Easy and exciting to wear, you’ll be the center of attention wherever you go. Reduce jealous onlookers to cringing helplessness in just seconds. You’ll never be alone again with Eddy so close to your heart! Once you start wearing your new Eddy Broth t-shirt, you’ll possess a new self-confidence that will generate A NEW YOU! You’ll be able to master any situation, regardless of your age, race or income level.

GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU THE LIFE OF THE PARTY! Each 3-color, 100% cotton American Apparel t-shirt comes with a Best Friend Membership Card and free decal! All proceeds go the Eddy Broth Picture Book fund.

Crater Face

It’s rare to watch something that is as ridiculous and hilarious as it is sweet and touching.

Evolution of PC Audio – As Told by Secret of Monkey Island

3 Chill

20 May

Computer audio has come quite a way since 1981 and here is a short video comparing everything major from the PC speaker to Adlib on up to cards from today!

Don’t we all miss the retro sounds :(

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