Let me say a quote from the movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark” : “Look at this. [holds up a silver pocket watch] It’s worthless. Ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless! Like the Ark. Men will kill for it; men like you and me.” Truly that is a wise quote. There is another reality to that situation too, that being the sand-beaten and abandoned houses and buildings left alone by people, left to rot, left to fall. They’re both worth nothing to some people and are, again, priceless to others. Designer / photographer Kenneth Sabbar of PLUSGOOD Media is this sort of person, and constantly on the hunt.

Above and below you’ll see the extent of the PLUSGOOD Ghost Town photo collection to the date this post was originally posted. If it’s much later than that, go on over to PLUSGOOD Media to see if there’s lots more. All of these photos are collected in the deserts of Nevada.

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Behold the weaponized hotness. The fabulous electronic guitar duo Ratatat are on a world tour and they’re coming to First Avenue, thusly there is a concert poster for it. Illustrated by Chris Burns (yours truly) and distributed without official clearance. Free bullets of musical magic for sale today.

View larger version by clicking gallery thumbnail below or by heading on over to the portfolio of CB where you will find many other eyeball enlightening items of such wonder and magic as you certainly never have seen before!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies under the influence category.

How many steps do you take in getting your face erased in the morning? A lot? None? Here’s a guy whose done a project three times, each of them a charcoal drawing on vellum, each of them taken through a process of nothing to life to death, all the while displayed at Galerie Pangee in Montreal. This project is interesting in that when I first glanced at it, I expected the face to go from black to full, full as in an instantly recognizable face. But nay! It goes from start to start! This is a project of deterioration called “(TRANS) FORMATIONS.”

This artist here, Jason Botkin, he’s cool. He’s got a sense of the ghost in the machine. That is, the ability to capture moments, time lengths, even people’s souls, in a video or still camera. Of course it’s all false in the sense that we can’t converse with it, we can’t interact with it the same way we’d of been able to if we’d been there while it was the way we’re looking at it through the camera now, but all the same, it’s still here for us to look at. And the whole idea’s stronger for it.

These drawings still exist somewhere in their “finished” state, but I don’t think you’re going to find them at the Pangee anymore. Look below the gallery for the three videos of the pieces that were displayed alongside them during their tenure at the gallery, sitting side-by-side as shown in the preview pic above.

Take a look through the gallery below and if you’d like to get in contact with Jason Botkin, email him at jjbotkin@yahoo.com or go to his website to see more of his works in their natural habitat http://jasonbotkin.com/ and tell him I think he’s cool.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies deconstruction category.

A hundred and twenty-three years before 1995, there was railroad built in Costa Rica that connected San Jose to Limon in the Caribbean coast. A hundred and twenty-three years later, the Costa Rican government shut it down. Some years after that, in 2003, photographer Guillermo A. Durán and his pal (unnamed) took a two day hike along the length of the lost railway. This is that journey nutshelled inside a collection of some fabulous black and white photographs. Be prepared for some nature-rules-rocks.

This journey officially begins in the tiny town of Turrialba and aims for Siquirres town, down inside the Reventazon River canyon. If you’d like to take this entire journey en español, take a peek at the blogspot blog that accompanied along the trail: Cuenticos 506. This is a sort of journey every photographer aught to have to take: one that follows a trail set by a person or organization before them, one where they’ve got to capture a set of images inside a wholly especial set of events during a set of days that had been laid down over a long set of years. In this case, that amount of days for the photographers was two, while the remains of the events they collected was over a hundred and twenty three!

While the photographer’s ultimate goal, that one where they attempt to collect the heart and the soul of their subject, is ultimately impossible, try they must. And try we must to support, for even the most lofty goal is important for the human spirit to run after.

Now take a peek at this one.

To get in contact with the photographer Guillermo A. Durán, email over to gds506 at gmail.com. To continue to fawn over his works with your eyeballs, take a look in the gallery below, then head on over to his official http://duranfoto.net/ internets.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies black and white category.

Let me show you something sharp. This set of masks and mask related works right here belong to designer / artist Tan Howe Qin. He’s got what some people might call… a style. If you take a close look at his angles, his color pallet, his deep, deep distain for curvy lines, you’ll see it! Then smell the electronics. Buttons and light reflections everywhere. Grays! Grays blacks and whites for everyone!

This is a modern sort of sack of lines and circles. This is the sort of work that might never have been created if it weren’t for the great understanding of math that is computer graphics. Tan Howe Qin takes full advantage of the simple max-out then-reduce method of mayhem in his works. Masks especially here, then for fun, a couple of his alternative works like the Be@rbrick toy, a Tofu special edition, some Star Wars droids on superjuice, an amazing ape shirt that should DEFINITELY be produced by X-LARGE, and a few things that I don’t know the name of but recognize as pop.

Oh and a customized image of one of Michael Lau’s Gardener toys.

Super cool!

Then take a jaunt on over to his portfolio blog page for additional works and/or to hire him for his magical work-making hands and brain. He has an alternate name: Room-99, and he lives and works in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sometimes people need to know that for site-specific works, you know?

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Australia born, Tokyo based, doodle livin’. That’s what’s going on with illustrator / motion graphics designer Ant Hayes. And here’s a project: “Portrait Series.” This is where normally someone would take photos of all their subjects or draw them from real life, making them look either real nice or real silly, etcetera. In the case of the ANT, there’s something really wild going on. Tubes. Tentacles, patterns, pyramids, stripes, circles, squirmy bits. Something’s coming out of these people.

EeeeEEEwww is what I said when I first looked at these creepers. Then I remembered how long it takes to draw something like this. The patience and the skill, the radical planning it takes, or the sense to work in a way that allows for excellent growth. You’ll see seven people in this slermy crew, then more of the way of the sword of ANT below that.

ANT is in to drawing, doodling, inking. He’s one of those fabulous ones who’s got a fun sort of sensibility that attaches itself easily to lots of different kinds of media, especially those that can travel far on the streets like clothing, stickers, posters, all that.

To contact ANT for a commission, drawing, night on the town, email him at or visit his excellent portfolio sort of site at http://www.antisant.com/ – dig it!

NOTE: When you look down below I’m sure you’ll recognize several images, marks, pictures, that are other artist’s works covered in ANT’s doodles. This is another series called “Other People’s Things” and it includes several artists and brands you may have heard of such as James Jarvis, Bape, Obey, and KAWS. This series was done in time to be exhibited at Design Festa Vol.29! A very very fun exhibition where all the cool designers and artists go to high five!

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This is a print collaboration pre-drawing by two masters of weirdness. Designer / artist / illustrator the both of them. First there’s Stefan Super A, a sculptor and painter also who makes great big giant things that you’ll be seeing in the gallery below, too. Then there’s Emilski, whose got a knack for drawing, and whose drawings in the gallery below I’m sure you’ll be able to identify. Together these titans have creating this masterful work of fabulous bullets and bombs all aimed right at your face! This image (seen above) goes by the name “NO HOPE” and will be a print sometime in the near future (2010 I hope!)

It’s got so many bullets. So many bombs. Look at the mass amount of death heading toward the heavens. Peek and see them all out, see each of the little men and ladies in this purely black and white masterpiece here, and awe at it.

Guns and faces! They’re all aimed and ready. They’re also all maddened or joyous, all ready to die or kill for the fun of it! Hang loose!

Glance at this image and the magnifications, then browse the rest of the gallery below for more works done by both artists. There’s two paintings that show the stylistic approach of Emilski, then there’s a bunch of sculpturistic paintings and sculptures as designed by Super A colors, application, eyeballs, every bit of it fabulous. Love it.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies black and white category.

Here’s an installation artist by the name of Clemens Behr who specializes in wildness. Lines and grids everywhere, red and black and silver, all of it on cardboard and tape. So it’s not the most expensive to execute! And best ever, he’s sponsored (at least in this newest exhibition) by Montana Spray Paint for all that color! This newest exhibition is a solo show by the name of “Black and White Everything (And Me)” and it’s taken place at the ROJO®artspace in Barcelona. It’s nearly finished now, so we can show you pics!

The pics you see above and below are presented by Behr himself. If you’d like the gallery’s selection of photos, that being a bunch of photos of people who went to the show, head on over to revisita for headshots.

Now I dunno how many installation pieces we’ve had here at WFDJ, but I’m willing to bit that not many. That’s because usually installation art sucks balls. This one right here though, it does not suck balls. It rocks balls.

Paper, cardboard, tape, paint, spraypaint, insanity. ROJO®artspace Barcelona 16.03.2010 . 30.04.2010 “Black and White Everything (And Me)” Clemens Behr

BONUS: The next exhibition at the ROJO is another artist we’ve had up on WFDJ very recently, he’s got hell of color and goes by the name James Roper.

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A crew who want to be known as “Department of D.I.Y.” have posted some street signs designed to do nothing but inspire some courtesy. Bike accidents in Los Angeles are rampant. Not that they aren’t in quite a few places, (shout out to my homie who just got hit-and-run in Albany NY,) but in Los Angeles the people with the printers and wheatpaste and brushes are up on it. This is love for the greater good.

Also tied on to this movement (and submitted to us) is this question and answer manifesto from the crew, telling of why and what is going on:

Who? The Department of D.I.Y. is a vast group of concerned cyclists and commuters living in Los Angeles some of whom are victims of road rage, hit and runs and / or harassment, many of whom feel that motorists do not fully respect their rights to use our common streets, all of whom wish for a safer more amicable relationship with motor vehicle traffic.

Why? Because this beloved city of Los Angeles can’t, won’t or doesn’t care about the safety of vulnerable road users, the Department of D.I.Y. aims to make a broad appeal to drivers via the campaign. The message “Please Pass With Care” is not intended to be political, nor is it intended to criticize the driver’s choice of transportation mode, it is a simple message of empathy. It is an honest straight forward appeal to drivers to give bicycle riders a brake, some room on the road, and some common human respect. The lives of cyclists are literally in their hands.

Where? Everywhere people drive cars.

When? The sooner that the message gets out the better. A lot of blood has been spilled in the streets. Every week that goes by, another hit and run, or another close call, or another chilling case of harassment occurs. This can not be tolerated.

How? This public appeal is to be spread in a respectful manner in the public space with maximum visibility to drivers.

So these are being put up right now in Los Angeles first, then it would be awesome if they spread across the USA, because god knows the message needs to be shot out of a cannon. I love that they’re both in English and Spanish, that’s healthy growth. You know that people who don’t speak English can drive cars? Wow! And everyone has the ability to hit people on bikes. Please heed the call! Share the road with everyone!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies black and white category. That’s because this issue is nothing less and nothing more than black and white.

I’ve found some skulls here, skulls chock full of detail. Lots of stuff going on here, lots and lots of stuff. Lines going this way, and that way, and every which way. Shades and gradients, blacks and whites. All sorts of stuff. And all this stuff is done by illustrator / designer Iain Macarthur. We’ve featured him before. You know why? Do you? Do you even know why? He’s got the skills. He can do the deeds. He’s made this little collection of bone-tastic skulls just for you to look at and love, for you to then demand more of and hire him on to do something wonderful for you (with pencils.)

The man who has done these skulls is a skillful artist, making sharp lines and darks and lights in a fashion that allows for great detail and far-away impact. Devour nicely. Iain Macarthur lives and breathes in Swindon, England, but we live in the future, so if you’re living anywhere on earth, feel free to contact him using this email address: fish_monger_256@msn.com and hire him freelance.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies black and white category.

Here’s a newspaper with one single aim, to let the world know about the people for whom roads are named after. Quite simple, yes? It’s not in publication yet, but when it is, it’ll be called HaMazkir (aka The Reminder) and will probably be published in Helsinki, Finland or places in Isreal, which is where the designer lives and lived, respectively. Tirza Ben Porat has this fabulous idea and some great layouts for a perspective issue collected right here in this post. Take a peekie!

If you’re interested in this newspaper, would like to help Porat create it, or are interested in translating and bringing it to your neighborhood, head on over to Porat’s portfolio site or contact at tirzabp@gmail.com for the full story and all the funky information you might ever need. Dig.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies gridwork category.

Just when I need reminding the least, another reason why I love working on these internets comes up. This is a series of photos that goes by the name “Retail Careers” by Auckland, New Zealand resident Ill Domus. The following set is, yes! you guessed it, candid photos of people working in retail clothing sales environments. I’d like to mention that these photos were taken with great skill, but that when you take a set of photos with such a lovely command line as this, they could be half blurry and they’d still be super cool. Take em all!

*EDIT* oops not just clothing sales, crap sales too.

When the idea doth striketh, and striketh it shall, take all your photos as fast as you can. If you’re anything of a creative like yours truly, you’ve got to act fast or the idea slips away. Feel free to do badly at the craft if need be, as even if your project isn’t accepted widely, it might inspire someone to take that idea and expand.

Thus, modernity.

BUT let me reiterate in saying that Ill Domus has some skill with a blade, and that these photos were done with some amazing skill and deserve a showing in some high class galleriazz in New York and whatnot, make a million dollars.

To the best of my knowledge, these photos were all taken in hte Auckland area.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies bad taste category. Not because the photos are done in any kind of bad taste way, but because retail gives me a bad taste in my mouth sometimes. Like after drinking some pepto.

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.

Watch this video direct from Wong! (This video is hosted on WFDJ, please contact Michael Wong directly if you’d like a copy to show on your own site, or classroom.)

And Wong! If you have any of those arrows left over, send one to me!

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BONUS! The project then continued with clickers on couriers!

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!

Oh how I love chimps with tails. You know that’s wrong, right? Chimps don’t have tails. They don’t EVER have tails. They do hold up magazines though. I saw it. I’ve seen many a monkey in my day too, and they definitely swing around like what’s depicted here.

Robert Ball knows what’s up. He’s got the best of both worlds.

In fresh black and white, no grays inbetween.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies black and white category.

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!

Let’s discuss this important understanding – why these pages are enthralling. How that understanding can be applied to what we’re doing in projects we’re doing today.

Take a look at the pictures. They’re absurd. They’re like early cinema, the actors turning the drama meter over to 11. You understand what they’re talking about instantly, and now, in a basically comedic way. They’re funny, but that’s not it. What’s it is how these relationship situations reflect on the situations we get in today – and how we feel about those situations.

The idea that the pet-like obedience the woman is supposed to work with is totally absurd, tied to the idea that the images used to describe this obedience are defiantly dramatic, that’s what’s important. You could skip a step with these and instead of interpreting what works to apply to new projects, just take these images and slap them on some woman-power product, you’re good. Right? Sure, you money grabber you.

It’s the feeling. Taste the feeling, and why you feel it.

But above all, stay sober, and make sure your socks aren’t wrinkled.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies deconstruction category.

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.

Devour their aptitude for cleanliness, clarity, and frivolity.

I think you’ll notice fantastically well-chosen detail mixed with pop-flat black and white framing features. In these nine pictures are evidence of a very talented illustrator. The bold use of these new-age features shows Macarthur to be an artist designer who wishes not only to participate in our modern creative arts world and scene, but also to move it forward.

I think the most interesting of the bunch is the one you see above with the anti-hands and hat, but definitely consider the Bill. He’s got flowers on his mind. And in his beard.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies outer space category.

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.

Words from the group:

Commanding is a group of artists/educators/students at NYU who hope to create a dialogue about the changing environments in which we live. We post signs based on simple computer commands that relate directly to the gentrification, development and hopefully preservation of the neighborhoods that we interact with everyday

This project is part of an interesting trend in which school project participators attempt to communicate with their environment through symbols that open peoples eyes but don’t directly connect back to their source. The symbols are there, but unlike an advertisement, there’s no address or tiny copy that shows how to get in contact with the poster’s creators. An intriguing development.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies custom culture category.

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!

I think it’s really creepy too. It gives me a strange vibe, like I’ve never seen anything like this before, other than in horror movies with mirrors and such reflecting things you can’t otherwise see. I believe photographs have strange powers too. But don’t worry about that, you aren’t afraid of satan are you? Naw!

Let’s look through a whole gallery of these sorts of photos for some amazing inspiration to see what we’re gonna do!

The following contributions are from: Tinflower, KeithW, UWGB Admissions, Gordon Calder, alfieyork, Haunted Snowfort, hairyegg, AldenC, hawkGaar, Hombertho, AmyCox000, Jennifer Glass, Cory Templeton, Fuxe73, 4Durt, BenD, XsuperflyX, Tom5, and probably the most bad mofo of them all, JasonePowell.

Powell isn’t necessarily the guy who came up with the idea to put an old photo in front of a new scene to take a picture, but he’s REALLY GOOD AT IT, and he does have a gigantic pool of these sorts of photos floating around on flickr. This pool grows everyday, and it’s awesome and amazing. When you take some of these photos, be sure to contribute to Powell’s group for the most massive thumbs ups and such.

When you take photos like this, you might want to start with some stock photos if you havn’t already got a supply. A good resource for these sorts of photos to put in front of photos, is Powell’s source list. This is where to start if you havn’t been collecting what we in the industry call “instant relatives” from estate sales and rummage sales for 23p apiece.

So! Let’s get to it! Glance your way through these lovely examples below, then get yourself on the road to bringing the past back alive! Don’t wake up any terrifying zombie ghosts though, or I’ll tell em we didn’t send ya!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies celebration category.

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.

This exhibition is made by designer/artist Marie le Mounier who is enamored with images that appear in different instances yet appear to have the majority of their pixels in the same place, if you know what I mean.

Explore below this exhibition of ladies and duck if you dare.

Marie le Mounierborn in brest, france in 1970, lives in brussels since 2003. educated in photography at masschusetts college of arts, boston, usa and école nationale supérieure de la photographie, arles, france.

worked for art related institutions, galleries and artists until 2003 beginning of her artistic career.

exhibitions include solo show at the rencontres internationales de la photographie, arles. group exhibitions at toronto school of art gallery, couvent de la tourette, lyon, CipM, marseille, station mir, hérouville saint-clair, centre d’art contemporain de ventabren, les photaumnales, beauvais, mois de la photo winnipeg, canada.

recent exhibitions : solo “angel”, botanique, brussels, 2009, group honorons honoré, de garage, mechelen, september – october 2008.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies black and white category.

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.

These have been scrounged from all over the internets. If you are one of the photographers of these phantastic photos, shoot me an email or a comment here. If you’d like to take credit for bringing an image here to the internet, I give you a hearty thank you and internet hand shake. If you’ve got photos you’d like to add to the collection, feel free to also contact!

This post is composed of photos from the movies, (the original trilogy,) making-of photos, a few posters, products, and advertisements. MOSTLY it’s photos from cut scenes and promotional photos. Everything is super amazing and very wild.

Star Wars: one of, if not the greatest non-Jesus brands in history.

UPDATE: There is now another Rare Star Wars Photos post by the name of More Star Wars Rarities. More on-set, behind the scenes, during shots, and good time havin by the crew.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies outer space category.

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.

This post is from the World Famous Design Junkies fashion category, and if you’re in to this sort of stuff, that fashion link is the link you aught to click. Discover what the Swedes are doing with their time nowadays. Looking super lovely and creeptastic at the same time! That’s what!

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.

No quotes here. You know all about Michael Jackson.

What this collection contains are moments of oddity, moments of uniqueness for the unique one. Michael Jackson is not called names negatively here, instead he’s applauded for his life of weirdness… his life of wildness.

Take a peek at this set of the impossible to equal moments in the life of MJ.

Several of these photos come from the collections of Steve Whiddon, MJ Love, MJ In The Early 80′s (now defunct website), Captian Cupcake, Brooklyn Skeptic, Mike Powell, Don Emmert, MTV, and other photographers I could not identify I’m sure.

Special thanks to Bubbles the monkey.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies Celebritarianism category.

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.

These photos were arranged and photographed by Italian designer / photographer Bela Borsodi with Art Department design group. In Italy with nice lighting. And that’s all the info we’ve got! But what else do you need to know? Look at these fantastic images – they speak quite loudly in their silence, if I do say so myself.

This post is a part of the World Famous Design Junkies photography category.

As Emigre turns 25, FontFeed celebrates with a big huge post (you’ve gotta click that), and World Famous Design Junkies gets buckwild. I saw this fantastically red book cover that you see above* and said OH my goodness this is a good cover. The colors. The colors are so lovely I can scarcely believe it. This doesn’t happen just every 10 minutes, so I said to myself then that it was time, OMFG!

Time for the very first World Famous Design Junkies color retrospective!

*If anyone wants to pick this book up for me, that’d be just super.

This book, designed and edited by Emigre co-​founder and designer Rudy VanderLans, is a selection of reprints, using original digital files, tracing Emigre’s devel opment from its early bitmap design days in the late 1980s through to the exper i mental layouts that defined the so called “Legibility Wars” of the late 1990s, to the critical design writing of the early 2000s.

Emigre No.70 is a must have book for those who missed out on all the excitement the first time around and for those who have been long time Emigre fans alike. Any graphic design library would be incom plete without it.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies COLOR category – imagine that!

It is a powerful designer indeed who can not only set type, not only illustrate, but also pull the entire day-glo library out and put it in a blender and pour the contents into a Diary Queen Blizzard of a collection of works called ICONBLAST!

Your friends and mine, Minneapolis print duo Aesthetic Apparatus, conjure up a vast collection of test prints from all across their print library. As each color comes from each different print project, it is the skilled pulling of each bit of each unfinished test sheet that makes for a good final piece.

Some unnamed street artists (unless you’ve got some good graffiti interpretation skills) let loose the colorsplosion upon some unsuspecting cargo trains on Broadway and Johnson in North Minneapolis.

A color fantasy as seen through the eyes of OG graffiti superstar Futura 2000 – NOTE: the first comment on the post is from Lenny Futura himself!

Designer Dylan Mulvaney’s three-dimensional colortastic font for Manhattan Magazine is slick.

Another adventure into Minneapolis street art, this time up in Uptown. This is part of a gigantic collection of photos from Intermedia Arts – layer upon layer of lovely, lovely paint.

Photographer Jeff McLane places a color chart in the desert.

International photographer super-deluxe Erin Nicole Johnson captures Toronto’s own Honest Ed’s.

Next, we’ve got poster artist Tyler Stout with this fabulous Flight of the Conchords screenprint. Basically a billion colors, all of them precisely sliced.

During a camera battle for a colorful prize I can only imagine has something to do with the ruling of the entire universe, Akif Hakan Celebi manages to photograph a collection of naturally fantastic architectural colors on the streets of Turkey.

In a moment of genius that almost eclipses the rest of this set of underwater pictures, photographer James Cooper finds the distribution of pink spraypaint to be a new experience in the H2O.

This is mine. It is my favorite. It is a painting I acquired at the estate sale of the late James Burnley. The nunery and churchery is unsurpassed.

Aesop and the Brothers Grimm stories told with a neonic fantasmagorioum of color from who knows what dimension, as illustrated by Yiorgos Yiacos of 12×2 Design Group.

Producer / Artist / Rapper Pharrell Williams collaborates with International Superartist Takashi Murakami to create this Art Basel super-piece entitled “Simple Things” — 26,000 individual fine gems direct from the rainbow later and you’ve got Jacob the Jewelers most colorful (and expensive) project yet!

And of course, a “gigantic” post on World Famous Design Junkies wouldn’t be a complete post without the flea market – this one’s in Deutschland!

Click on through to those other sides or enjoy the gallery below!

Hail all you Basterds! It’s the first ever World Famous Design Junkies Tyler Stout post! This dude is spectacular. He’s splendiferous! He does screenprinted movie posters like no other! And tuh-dah, he’s just done one for the newest Quentin Tarantino movie “Inglourious Basterds!” Take a peek at the ingloriousness of it all, then explore the whole Tyler Stout collection ala the gallery right down there below!

Yelling!

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
SUPER LIMITED VARIANT EDITION AND REGULAR EDITION.

Poster by Tyler Stout. Edition of 80. 6 color screenprint w/ metallic inks. 24″x36″.

Hand numbered.

Whether you want to hang this up or blow a hole in it with a Howitzer, that’s your business. Either way, you’re letting people know that you ARE NOT DOWN WITH NAZIS!

Poster by Print Mafia. Commissioned by The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema for IB Premier at the Alamo. Printed by D&L Screenprinting.

Holy crap get in contact with this guy before he’s some kind of international superstar and can no longer take your calls!

ILLUSTRATION WORK: WORK@TSTOUT.COM
PURCHASING INFO: SALES@TSTOUT.COM
OTHER QUESTIONS: INFO@TSTOUT.COM

and for snails
TSTOUT
16313 NE CAPLES RD.
BRUSH PRAIRIE, WA 98606

If you want to buy any of these prints : good luck! For info on further releases, just email the dude with the address(es) above and ask to be put on the mailing list. But why are these all totally sold out? You might ask. Each of these prints is designed and illustrated by Stout. He on occasion has some art direction from the people he’s hired by, but not very often. Not very often at all. He’s trusted to be wickedly sick and amazing. And each of these prints, though offered in different color editions, are made in very limited amounts.

Getchas while they is still haut!

This post is a part of the World Famous Design Junkies Collections category – take a peek through for the easy-to-sift resources you need for the wildness you crave. Also, of course, it’s a part of the WFDJ illustration group. Get your pencils out and scribe a master copy!

Enter photographer and former street artist Ruedione. What he’s got here is a gigantic set of utterly gorgeous photos from his graffiti opus “BACKFLASHES.” They are black, they are white, they are dark, and they are full of light. Taken following his comrades through the back alleys, streets, and trainyards of Germany, Ruedione documents what’s most often thought of as a coldhearted activity in a very emotional way; full of heart.

Welcome to a very intense sequence of events caught in a very real and very raw way by a dude who’s been there, felt that, and now wants to transmit that.

[here, in this project,] the images show all the tension, the adrenalin and the kicks that graffiti writers experience.

[in BACKFLASHES you experience] a visual expedition into a world that usually is restricted to the members of a very small scene. – R

After you’re done clicking on through the preview below, take a look at the talk Ruedione has done with German/English “ilovegraffiti” – Ruedione x Interview And if you haven’t seen it already (I bet you haven’t cause it’s barely in bookstores,) check out where you can purchase the book up at da official news source: http://ruedione.com/blog/

This post is sitting high and pretty up in the World Famous Design Junkies Black and White department. Who would dare dismiss color? Masters of light and darkness.

Black/white reduces everything on its forms, in my case I mean the basics I want to show. There are also series that definitely need colors, in my point of view it is very seldom. For me, transferring emotions is important. It’s not about the pure documentation; this would be impossible, today. I’m just free and work in the most efficient way. -R

B-B-B-BONUS! Here’s the music video for ATOM ONE’s song “Stahlbeton” – completely constructed of photographs taken and set in motion by Ruedione!

The busy hand moves in many directions!