What is the internets coming to? I’ve spoken about this before, and I’ll speak about it again, as it’s always important to take note of your surroundings, especially when you work in the environment you study. Now I studied film, movies, in college, which makes me a superior bullshit artist. Movies have lots of elements, lots of people working on the ton-load of pieces that have to be put together to make entertainment or art. And what, since we’re here, does these internets take away from all that? Screencaps. As the internet social scene shares, it is the most micro content, the perfect moments, that get the macro attention.

It’s just like when graphic design got smart, reducing your brand’s name from 5 words to one. Simple, perfect.
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Let’s talk about copying for a moment. Ripping off someone else’s hard work, and using it as one’s own. Let’s start by me saying that I basically have a hard time taking anyone seriously who says they’ve not been properly credited in these modern times. I don’t believe for a moment that any one person is qualified enough to explore a single idea to the fullest. I believe in the sharing and free distribution of ideas, and the idea that once an idea is freed into the world, it is free. For the betterment of the idea. The following set of images (and the one above) were found and set up by designer / artist / internet person / retired design professor Bob Caruthers.
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Now I have never seen, in my days of looking, a better description of what it is like to be a modern obsessive design…well…junkie. This person right here, Gabriel Baldessin sums it up as he describes his design collection: “Proof of a constant oscillation between accumulating objects (notably printed matter), and the desire to own the absolute minimum.” What a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to collect ephemera. I feel this, and so should you. You collector of cargo. Below you will see the evidence designer/photographer Gabriel Baldessin describes. Lovely things.
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When I think of things precious, I think of a ring, I think of something breakable, something special. When I think of a breakable, special item, I think of Bleeding Gums Murphy of the Simpsons, who lost all of his riches spending it on Fabergé eggs, then breaking them in the alleyway. But that’s not this! Nay! This is the works of a Chinese magician artist by the name of Ma Jun. It is his trade to recreate objects of little worth in Porcelain, painting them with fine colors, creating in them a value far beyond the dreams of the original.

Below you’ll find a sampling of his newer and older works.
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Hello all you portfolio havers. Designers and artists, photographers and crazy people. Let me show you a rather interesting development in modern-day internet collections of works: The Grab Bag. That’s what designer Mark Stuckert calls it. It’s a side-collection of works that the artist has done, oddities they’ve found that are exclusive to them, or just wonderful mistakes.
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Hello all you photo collectors, lend me your hands. Pray to whatever got you believe in and take a bunch of photos of the signs that let you know who you’re speaking to. The photos you are about to look through are here courtesy of professional Jessica Maullu, who identifies herself not as a photographer or a videographer or an artist or designer, but as a Visual Catcher. What an interesting way to describe it. Maullu! Keep on catching!
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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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In here we’ve got what’s called an artshow full of acrylic, ink, and gold and silver leaf. It’s called “From Kojiki to Modern Heroism” and it’s made up of works from Tat Ito & Hiro Kurata. It’s flat, really flat. The word Kojiki refers to the oldest known chronicle of Japan in Japan. Modern Heroism, well, that’s what we’ve got. Discover for yourself the way Ito and Kurata turn elements into both simplicity and storytelling confusion.
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Hello ! And welcome to the first limited collection of single cuttout frames right out the comic books! I’m sure you’ve noticed the trend o’ people goin on into their illustrated novels, chopping out single frames and posting them on the interwebs. When they’re by themselves, they mean so much more! Or so much different. Below you’ll find the first bunch of frames I’ve begun harvesting for World Famous Design Junkies. These are all from Spiderman comics. Spiderman web spinning or web spinning related comics for shiznil. Find the greatness in the singular frame right here.
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Adam Koford is an illustrator who knows his space. He’s a comic artist who knows where his box is. He knows how important, essential, and healthy it can be to climb around in and cultivate a single culture. His is of these internets. Not just that though, cats. Cats and comics. Koford has a narrative running that contains two cats who are homeless, but know the solids they can do inside a single frame.

One joke each, always conscious of the media.
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So I was about to do a post about the Moldy Peaches. I’m sure you’ll be able to peek at that in a few minutes. But on the way, I’d copied and pasted an image that, in the process, turned into a long row of digital nonsense. It’s really quite beautiful. In the gallery below is the whole thing cut up into pieces for you to take a look at or for free use on any project.
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