Behold! From on high comes the clicker of a god. Or of GOD! Designer of unconventional things Michael Wong brings you this single campaign for international shipping company DHL. Can you guess what it’s promoting? It’s 24 hours a day tracking of course! As a direct result of this campaign which was centralized around Beijing’s business district, concerned calls about package location went down, and online click counters to the tracking webpage surged. How much exactly is a secret, but the true loveliness of this project is, of course, the giant mouse arrows traveling about the city on DHL yellow delivery vans.
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Here is a collection of some monkey apes if I ever saw one. This set of seven… whatever you might call them illustrated by master drawer Robert Ball. He says he did them for a copywriter friend of his. Not sure if they’ve been used for anything yet, but heck! Here they are now! Published! Magic!
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From the streets of these internets comes this book of pages, a guide for women in dating men circa 1938. Now with this, and more than a couple other things on World Famous Design Junkies, you might ask why, with such regular, un-amazing typography and mediocre pictures, this set of book clippings would be included on the site? Shouldn’t WFDJ just be covering really skillful graphics, well-set letters, fantastic illustrations? Aw hell naw!
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Another batch! Perhaps you remember the last time Iain Macarthur lit up the internet with his lovely pen and ink drawings? He’s not been idle since then, keeping all of his illustration instruments whistling the whole time, as all good workers do. This period around there’s some interesting deviations from the first collection. Amongst those are a heavier allowance of pencil markings, a very obvious dip into the power pool of negative space, and a bit of Bill Murray. Glance with admiration at these amazing portraits.
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Codes from the most basic depths (oxymoron) of the computer keyboard communications. Made into street interactivity. This project is called “Commanding” -it’s an artist/educator/student cooperative that’s got high hopes of creating a dialogue with the changing environments in which it’s tenants live. Save, delete, copy. See a whole collection of real-world applications above and below.
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Oh so you’ve got old photos at recognizable places, yes? So you’d like to reawaken the ghost in the machine? That’s scary. Let’s do it! First, get an old photo you can place. Next, get a camera. Then let’s go to the location you know connects to the photo. OK! Now, stand in just the right place and angle, hold that photo up somehow, and take a photo. Foosh! Look what you’ve done! This is friggin magical!
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The divine she-woman, powerful and indestructible, facing you head on, projectile weapon in hand, no hesitation in her eye. She’s aiming at YOU, son. This post contains an exhibition of women with guns called “Angel.” In it is a vast collection of film and television stills showing nothing other than basically the exact same composition of frame, woman, and gun. And you, staring right down the barrel.
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This post is a collection of hundreds of Star Wars photos from the set, of the movies, and from the promotional shots of the 70’s and 80’s. Doesn’t matter how you feel about Star Wars, it’s affected the way you work. The world you live in today is the world you live in today because of Star Wars. You’d better believe that. Its basically like this: Luke Skywalker: New York, Princess Leia: Los Angeles, Han Solo and Darth Vader: Minneapolis.
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This is one of them fashion shoots. It’s a couple of lovely ladies who have spider legs just as much as they do torso, and they’ve got only black and white on, all over. This set of photos was arranged, lit, and photographed by non other than the sveeeeedish fashionista Jenni Porkka. Discover the dread looks upon the ladies of the monotone room.
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It’s that time again. Time for a World Famous Design Junkies addiction to rear it’s strange, twisted head. If you’re a designer, it’s not called being a pack-rat, it’s called collecting. And that, of course, explains this collection of Michael Jackson oddities perfectly. Michael Jackson: the icon. The dude who became no longer a dude, but a mythical figure in his own time, etc, etc. Here he is, the great branded one; A collection of visual markers.
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Photographer Bela Borsodi has a knack for tearing down the fishing pole, getting straight to the hooks. That’s all you really need to catch the fish. And here she’s lit up a rather sensitive subject with the light of modern fashion. But should she? Take a peek at these color clashing women under cover.
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