With each new age, especially ones that come with technological or social changes, aka all of them, there comes some artwork that defines the age. Not so much defines the age as epitomizes the craft. Here it is. The computer age spewed pixels, and in its horrible terror of colors in perfect squares made a thing that was unique. Still is. Here’s a set of illustrations as made by Alex Peverett, all out of pixels in such strange arrangements. All of them have fabulous titles too, like “CtadLSCrambl (2010)” (pictured above.)

In here you’ll see some things that, statistically, you’ll probably think look super horrible and ugly. But let me tell you! It isn’t. Stop yourself from seeing what’s there and see what it all means. What does it all mean? It’s swooshes of waves, even though it looks to be squared off.

To see new works, supposing this post is old as dirt, take a peek over at http://main.softoceanhotel.net/, or if you’re super excited and need to communicate more directly with Peverett, email right up to alex(((AT)))softoceanhotel.net. And good luck! He might be a total wild animal!

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

A tiny documentary in four photos of the insides of the photographer. It’s Ibai Acevedo’s strangest moment in four frames. Acevedo is a multitalented photographer whose filled herself with some colorful liquids and… let it all come out… upwards?

Devour such a lovely situation en large.

This project, “Lo que tengo yo dentro,” is listed under the “Personal” section of Acevedo’s online portfolio. Personal, side, “random”, these are the projects I just cannot leave a portfolio without looking through. And more often than not, there’s something in there that ends up being fantastic and perfect for World Famous Design Junkies. Lo que tengo yo dentro means “What Do I Have Inside,” basically.

To get in contact with Ibai Acevedo with the emailings, use this one: hello @ ibaiacevedo.com, or, if you want to see lots more work updates and such, head on over to http://ibaiacevedo.com/ and click click click and see see.

ALSO right after the four liquid inside photos there’s some other fabulous selections from Acevedo’s portfolio. It’s impossible to post them all though, they’re too epic for one post.

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

I was writing a post for the greatest industrial design project posting site on the planet Yanko Design today and I happened upon an amazing quote. It’s the one you see above. It’s got LEGO in it. Sometimes things so simple as a recollection of someone else’s childhood ring such a true bell in you it brings a tear to your eye. That happened to me here. Not just about the building block toy, but about the knowing what’s fun and knowing what brings you joy as a kid remaining lit through to your adult life.

Thustly, I have made this LEGO post. It is full of LEGO.

The quote above comes from a multi-talented industrial designer by the name of James Howlett. He’s up in the UK and his online portfolio resides at http://jameshowlett.co.uk/ He’s got amazing ideas. Search for his name in quotes “James Howlett” on Yanko Design starting at midnight (that’s when the post I wrote will be posted) and check out how it all plays out. Hint: it’s rather do-it-yourself and oh Idunno… block inspired?

On a slightly side-note, I’ve heard people go nuts when other people say “LEGOS” because that’s technically not correct. This reminds me of the band The Prodigy aka Prodigy – called both things not because of mis-spoken terms, but because the guy in the band who was in charge of approving album designs saw that adding or subtracting the “THE” made for a clearer or more awesome message. That’s graphic design.

Now let’s look at some LEGOS.

Also BTW I was going to tabulate about how LEGO affected my life, but it’s incalculable. I would be a different person today if it weren’t for LEGO. Thank you LEGO for being there as a tool for me to teach ME how to build. Love and hearts forever.

The following photos come from the following photographers: DuneChaser, BatBoy2424, MSKogly, Eva The Weaver, Eddie Scholl, DZ Knight 2003, FATIMA, WunzTwice, Vintage LOVE, KendramCCracken, SavaTheAggie, AndTheMonkey, LetterB, Syclone16, Josh Ellingson, WarpDesign, GreenColander, Tim Ellis, PeriGirl, click0happy, jRittenHouse, JPob, Matt Downey, Sava The Aggie, Fraggle Rawker, CC Chapman, Kaptian Kobold, IAmAdam, splorp, UESC, bjmurphy234, Ben Spark, Dlofink, buttershug, LegoJunkie, and Jammarz. Thanks for LEGO lovelies!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies 3D category.

Let’s talk. Let’s talk for a moment about blogging. About how it’s a bit of a faux pas to report on things that are in between a year and ancient. That is, how dare I write about something that happened 2 years ago, it’s not new and it’s not vintage! It is a blog crime. But hello! Let’s break this silly tradition. Let me do it right now, here’s something right around the borderline – here’s some colortastic photos taken by photographer / writer / fabulous dude Ryan Muir at The Flaming Lips headline ATP NY 2009, at Kutshers Country Club.

Now BEHOLD these ultra-amazing photos of this concert. The Flaming Lips always put on these sort of concerts, always with the lights and the balls. So many balls, so many lights, everyone loves it! It’s a big hippie slam festival every time they roll through the town.

Now go look at this gallery. Keep in mind that it’s not new and it’s not vintage. Fear for your life, for it is wrong! But perchance you’ve not seen these images before, and perhaps your MIND is blown by these photos, an amazing array of fantastic arrangements in space… and time! Look upon them and laugh in merriment, then put it all in your psychedelic colored corncob and glass pipe and smoke it.

Ryan Muir is a prolific photographer and writer for the Brooklyn Vegan.

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

When you go into a graphic design project, especially when that project is something so simple as a poster, just a poster, you’ve got to go wild. By wild I don’t mean crazy, I mean wild. I mean you’ve got to throw a boomerang, see how far it can go, then catch it. Catch this. This is a poster as put together and made by designers at Aesthetically Loyal (Anthony Kolber). It’s a poster for a thing called “Yes Diggity!”

Here’s some official information from Aesthetically Loyal on the project:

This project formed the poster for Yes Diggity’s first birthday party at Miss Libertines. It was a literal progression of the brand into the physical realm. We formed a numeral one using the diamonds from the logo’s crown, constructed from folded pieces of cardboard, hand-folded, pasted onto our wall and photographed. The accompanying type treatment was an exercise in extending the concept of the monospaced font to a mono-hierarchical structure, forcing only colour and text decoration to highlight the degrees of importance within the information.

That’s heavy! It’s almost a “trick” constructing something amazing, taking a photo of it, turning it then into a poster. But it’s not. It’s a real thing. it’s not a trick at all, it’s just a really awesome method for making something fantabulous.

Head on over to the Aesthetically Loyal online portfolio to take a peek at their info and/or to see if they’ve got anything newer (or older!) out there to see: http://aestheticallyloyal.com/ – it’s hot. OR if you’d like to contact them directly, hang a left over to ae @ aestheticallyloyal.com for an email adventure.

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

If you’ll remember a few weeks ago, we posted some pics of a painting in process by a certain mister painter Isaac Arvold. At the time of the painting of the painting, Arvold was unsure of the final fate of the painting. Well look at this! This is one of the several new bike parking places for the city’s new biking initiative. On the endcap here we see the same painting we’re talking about sitting behind a biker on one of these green bikes!

Additionally interesting is the street that this is on – Hennepin – only a couple blocks away from the bridge that the painting depicts. How super!

For more info on the original work, head on over to [Isaac Arvold Big Fat Painting]

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

The doodlers of this world know the need. They’ve felt the feeling you feel when you wanna cover every single bit of negative space on a page. Elena Nogués feels that need, and she feeds the need. This project goes by the name “Caotics” and it’s completely indicative of the fun, good, wild times to be had throughout the entirety of Nogués portfolio of colors applied to canvases.

Take a peek at these super cute doodlies! These most excellent smatterings of shapes and lines are in a collection of seven. In the gallery below, you’ll see these appear first. After that, more images made by Nogués that show her fantastic skill. It’s good stuff. It’s really excellent, skillful stuff.

If you’re gonna wanna get in contact with Nogués to hire her services or to commission a piece of artwork, email her at elena@elenanogues.com or enter her http://elenanogues.com/ internet portfolio and click on through there.

Peek on through this gallery of her works, first seven works of Caotics and beyond, and don’t hesitate to giggle. There’s lots of giggles to be had here, that’s to be sure.

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

I’ve got some healthy amount of rage in my heart today. That’s why when I happened upon these “Animal Gangs” images illustrated by Mostrico!, I was totally pumped up. Mostrico is a very talented illustrator that hails from Medellín, Colombia, and also goes by the name Alejo Giraldo. These animal heads are part of a set, as many fantastic projects are – a set that includes a Cat, a Zebra, a Panda Bear, and a Fox, each of these with their own animal pack to run with them. Stay hard!

Each of these images is a pencil/pen and ink drawing turned to digital illustration and coloring image. Also they are each of them completely bad ass. Gangs are as follows:

The Lower East Side Bandana Foxes

The Downtown Roller Bears

The East Village Zebra Punks

The Upper East Side Dagger Cats

Which one would you choose to affiliate with? You know good and well which one I’d have to run alongside.

This whole project reminds me of the classic gang-battle action film The Warriors. In that movie, it’s not long into the future and all the gangs of the 5 boroughs of New York are called in for a meeting by the leader of one of the baddest of all the gangs. This leader’s name is Cyrus and he rocks a speech about how if the gangs, diverse as they are, as disparate as they are, rolled together, well then they’d run the city. All of them so strange.

All of them so wild.

These gangs reflect that. Each of these animal gangs is super fabulous for their own unique qualities and skills. Each one of these illustrations is amazing on its own, but without the power of the rest of the animals, they’ve just got so much to work with. Together, in this set of colors and lines, in this new collection, the powers each of them creates is more powerful than the sum of their parts — synergy!

To find more info on the designer / illustrator / artist Mostrico!, just head on over to his flicker account and do a little dance. To send him a message, head on over to his Behance message center.

ALSO, BONUS – included below the animal gangs images is a set of other images from the portfolio of Mostrico! I’m sure you’ll grow to love them as I have. They are all cute and have faces prettier than a mother could love.

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

OR! Onomatopoeics!

At the heart of every great piece of pop is a simple combination. A combination of words, a catchphrase, a combination of colors, an iconic image, and sometimes a combination of it all, so perfectly distilled that it sends shockwaves through our collective systems that never stop! Behold, Bat-viewers! It’s the action cards! Those everloving combinations of color and exclamation the likes of which have never been used as effectively before or since! Gotta catch em all, someday, you never know – a good shot is below!

This is a collection of bat-cards used at the point of contact in the Batman live-action television series and bigtime bomb movie! You’ll see combos of 2 and 3 colors as well as singular splashes over the still-moving screen. These kinds of cards of course come from the colorful creations drawn into comics since the dawn of coolness. Keep reading, bat-lovers, because the story doesn’t end there. Nay!

One must attest to the greatness of those who took and take the time to scour the great bat-archive for these images. Those fine folks with the time, effort, and great and holy task of watching every single episode of the Batman show and movie to find these indubitable images, look them up, they’s amazing! These are them: John (A.Pennyworth), Scott Sebring, Shadenfreude!, Bat Mania!, TV Squad!, Batman 66!, M-Rumors!, Cynical-C!, TV Acres!, Graphics Hunt!, Bat Blog!, Museum.TV!, and a bunch o’ random folks on Photobucket!

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

Those gray flyers you see walking around your feet, picking up the crumbs, landing on your face if your face looks like a reasonable place to land. Yeah, those pigeons. That’s what’s going on here. These are the artworks of one Laurel Roth as represented by Frey Norris, Packer Schopf, and Schroeder Romero Galleries. Each of these birds is part of set called “Biodiversity Reclamation Suits for Urban Pigeons.” That means Roth takes pigeons (hand carved mannequins), sets them on stands, and crochets yarn coats for them to look totally and wholly fancy in. Everyone loves a little fancification, right?

Even dirty birds like to feel loved and to look super sassy.

From the Biodiversity Reclamation Suits for Urban Pigeons, the bird you see above is the green-coated “Carolina Parakeet.” This is the newest bird, this set beginning in 2007 and continuing on to 2010 (and hopefully beyond.) The dimensions and ingredients of this bird (and basically the rest of the birds in the set are as thus:

crocheted yarn, hand carved pigeon mannequin, walnut stand
8 x 9 x 13 in.
20 x 23 x 33 cm.

Below you’ll see several other birds, each of them with a different name: Dodo, Passenger Pigeon, Ivory Billed Woodpecker, and of course that Carolina Parakeet. This is the sort of settling into the art that I’m loving seeing at this point in our sharing internet history. I speak occasionally on these internets of the art movement were in right now, the one that’s tied directly into the graphic design acceptance boom and internetting life we’re quickly becoming fully accustomed to. You can see the understanding of the people this project is going to reach, but you can feel the confidence and calmness in the project too.

What I mean is some projects I post here on WFDJ know their audience for sure, but take that understanding hardcore, not reeling back the project into the real world. Take the 365 Stormtroopers project. It’s wild, it’s wonderful, it’s now. In 10, 20 years, it’s still going to be cute, but the impact, its strongest point, isn’t going to be there anymore. Where Stormtrooper action figure photos take heart in their surprising comedy, these birds come correct in a very “this is excellent” manner.

Great craft, great execution, very aesthetically pleasing, and still it has the initial impact, but one that I don’t think is going to fade over time. It’s always going to be strange seeing human-crafted pseudo-clothing covered pigeon.

Especially if that clothing is a Dodo costume.

If you’d like to get in contact with Laurel Roth, head on over to the LR contact page or touch base with any of the following galleries which represent: Schroeder Romero Gallery in New York, Frey Norris Gallery in San Francisco, and Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago.

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

Today (I wrote this a few days ago) I hear the sad news that one of the ultimate original players in the Graffiti and Hip-hop world has kicked the bucket. “RAMM::ELL::ZEE” or Rammellzee as he was called died today [June 27, 2010] whilst, if the rumors are true, he was doing math equations in none other than his home town and city, Far Rockaway, Queens, New York. How unbelievably appropriate for one of the most mathematically sound wild-style artists of many generations. The first I ever heard of him, he was being described in the Graffiti documentary film “Style Wars,” his paintings of weapon-clad letters being shown by his pal Dondi, another king.

In humble celebration of the passing of Ram, I and we present to you a gallery of armored letters, operators that blow the lids off all that they encounter. Rest in peace, Zee.

“The letter is armed to stop all the phony formations, lies, and tricknowlegies placed upon its structure.” – RAM EL ZEE

Rammel is an enigma. An eternally complicated graffiti man who, according to wikipedia, revealed in an interview that his name meant heavy, heavy stuff – derived from “RAM” plus “‘M’ for ‘Magnitude’, ‘Sigma’ (Σ) the first summation operator, first ‘L’ – ‘longitude’, second ‘L’ – ‘latitude’, ‘Z’ – ‘z-bar’, Σ, Σ – ‘summation’.”

Dondi speaking about a work with Ram in a Style Wars “scene extra”:

And that’s just the tip of this metal, mental iceberg. Look for some videos of this crazy brilliant man if you dare. He’s wild. Above begins and below continues the gallery including a couple of works by Ram himself (above being a “B” by Ram owned by a private party), plus a bunch of paintings by adventurers that were inspired without a doubt by Ram’s life in one way or another. Have a feast on these giant masterpieces in his honor.

Where appropriate, the filenames of the letters in the gallery below will lead you to their sources. Due to the super-futuristic nature of Ramm Ell Zee, I expect you to know how to access that information. Internets, graffiti, letters with weapons. Activate!

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

It puts the lotion on the skin? No. Put shoe on head? Yes. The following is a set of selections from graphic design group Akatre‘s photo project “Mains d’Œuvres” – Series pictures for annual communication. They take these photos, yes, then they print them up and mail them out as “mailers” – communication papers to their former and current clients, friends, and maybe even family. This is not only a perfect example of taking the basics of one’s life to an extraordinary level, it’s also just the sort of pie anyone could make to fly over the pages of the entire internet overnight.

What pie, what? I’m talking about modern internet skateboarding. Getting around, getting up, getting to the eyeballs of people for your own personal purposes. Get up and get noticed so you can get a job, get up and get noticed so you can have a popular blog.

Here’s the formula:

1. Base, understandable canvas.

2. Slight tweak of color OR mix with another canvas.

3. Repeat, repeat.

4. Collect into one set.

5. Proliferate.

Now this canvas thing could be anything from a set of photos to a wildly popular film series to an actual canvas. Sometimes all you’ve got to do is the collecting. In the project you’re looking at right now here in this post, it’s two canvases mixed together. You’ve got the portrait and you’ve got the coverup. Smashed together, simply, they get hot, so hot.

It’s a set to be admired and shucks about. Modern art, as I’ve read about a billion times is: “I could do that” “yeah, but you didn’t.” Ain’t that the truth?

To contact Akatre, email them at akatre@akatre.com or visit their portfolio site: http://akatre.com/. They’re really quite brilliant. Lots of projects. Lots of brilliance. Lots of professional amazingness.

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

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Don’t you just love it when you discover a new artist or musician, love them, then find out they’ve got a new album or show coming out? I love that. That’s happening right now. The artist’s name is Marco Zamora, he does fantastic works in black and white with explosions of color, and he’s got a solo show coming up at gallery Miscelanea in Bercelona.

Above and below you’ll see a selection of paintings and prints that are indicative of what’ll be in that show. Flip out.

Zamora lives and rolls out in Los Angeles, California, but that show is definitely all the way over in Barcelona. He does paintings, drawings, and screenprints, all of them in a very similar vein. Street life, buildings, and people carrying bags are amongst his favorite subjects, all of them made juicy sweet with his ice-cream flavored color dings.

Sensory Overload
Solo Show
JULY 15th 2010
Miscelanea
c / Guardia 10
08001 Barcelona

Dings and dings and dings! Below you’ll find works he’s already done, this show’ll show more than likely a bunch of new works that expand on these. It’s like a fantasy of perfect blacks and whites and colors. I just can’t believe how magical this situation is.

If you’re in Barcelona… you know… go to this show.

And if Zamora is there, give him a high five for me.

To contact Zamora, email him at zamorart@gmail.com. To click through additional works of his, head on over to his http://www.marcozamora.com/ personal portfolio, http://zamorart.blogspot.com/ blog, or flickr photostream.

BONUS: He was also just in a show called “Totally Spoked” in Portland Oregon. The poster for this show was designed by none other than WFDJ favorite Aesthetic Apparatus.

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

So I’m sure you’re aware that once an appliance sort of… runs its course, and you’re not really using it much anymore because it doesn’t work so well, or it doesn’t keep the ice cream as cold as it used to, it swallows the energy. It swallows a BUNCH of energy, and you’re paying for it. And you don’t like that, right? Well check it out. There’s a place that can take care of that for you, and they’re affiliated with puppets. Puppets, you say? Yes. Big furry ones. Terrifying puppets from HELL.

They’re more insane than they are hellbound, but they’re definitely creepy. These are the creatures created by Furry Puppet Studio for commercials that’ll be made for PECO electric company. PECO is the group that I just spoke about, the ones who’ll take your electricity hungry giants away for you. You’ll wish they were real. You’re already wishing they were real. Perhaps they could grab a soda for you when you didn’t want to get up.

EDIT: The commercials themselves are filmed by Tierny ad agency.

You know what they remind me of? Chairy the Chair. Or any of the other hundred wild animate pieces of furniture that Pee Wee Herman keeps at his Playhouse. But these are heavy. By that I mean they’re totally amazingly well made, researched and executed.

Take a peek at the images in the gallery below and if you’re in a place where you can listen to sound, watch the making-of video they just uploaded too. Neat stuff! And what an odd subject, yes? When’s the last time you discussed puppet design and creation with your cohorts? Interesting subject.

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

The most excellent sculpture I ever built in art school was one I made out of free wood glue and wood scraps from the scrap wood bin. All free, all A+. That’s sort of, in a way, what’s going on here with these newest works of wood and paint magic by Shawn Smith. Plywood, acrylic paint, and sometimes ink. That’s what these masterworks are made of. The heads of animals is what they replicate. The eyeballs of the elite are what they attract.

Your dollars is what they HOPE to attract. Buy them, gallery owners. I must see more! The only way for an artist to have the amount of time it takes to construct these things is if they’ve got the cash to eat dinner! So gallery owners, I say again, support Shawn Smith! This whole wood chippies glued together idea is fantastic!

The gallery below is in chronological order by year. Each year, starting in 2005, there are several works which were produced throughout the year. The gallery is ordered top to bottom, the newest ones at the bottom. Then after the gallery of individual projects, you’re going to see a set of images that all look alike, all of them with buzzards attacking an office. This is the bigger project of Smith’s dealing with these woodies. It’s called Vicious Venue and it’s a total bird attack!

Take a look at some words from Smith on the project:

Vicious Venue My recent work explores my interest in birds of prey as a source of conceptual inspiration and analogy. I am fascinated by vultures and the visceral way most people react to them. For my exhibition at Lawndale Art Center, I asked the question, “What would a digital vulture eat if it was somehow trapped inside this reality?” Vicious Venue is a sculptural installation consisting of a group of life-size pixelated vultures devouring an analog office full of obsolete technologies (like a typewriter, rolodex, and a rotary phone). The viewer becomes an intruder into the space, as if they are stumbling into the middle of the ongoing carnage as the vultures pick the office’s carcass clean. The title of the exhibition, Vicious Venue, refers to the double meaning of “venue” as both a place, and a group of vultures.

Scary. Again Vicious Venue is at the bottom of the gallery in it’s entirety.

To follow the further artworks and designworks of mister Shawn Smith, find him at his portfolio page, the gallery that represents him in Dallas: Craighead Green, or the gallery that represents him in Austin: DBerman Gallery.

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

The image you see above of a rather epic looking Neil Young with guitar is the latest in a series of famous persons portraits by modern artist Shepard Fairey. These images were all had their debut at the May Day show that took place on May 5, 2010. There’s been a wild cross section, boy howdy. This is the first landscape style to be released. Neil Young. Musician and political activist and one classy looking mother.

Some words from Shepard Fairey on his Neil Young image reference’s original photographer, rock and roll photo taker Henry Diltz, the magic man:

ROCK ‘N’ ROLL PHOTOGRAPHER – HENRY DILTZ

Henry Diltz has been one of the most important photographers in rock ‘n’ roll for almost half a century, shooting rock icons from Jimi Hendrix to Kurt Cobain. I met him through Henry Rollins when he was working as a still photographer on The Henry Rollins Show, and have been a fan ever since I first saw his work.

Diltz started out as a folk musician, playing with the Modern Folk Quartet, and bought his first camera while on tour with them. He started hanging out with The Monkees and taking photos of them, and shot an album cover—the first of over eighty he would go on to shoot—for The Lovin’ Spoonful. He immersed himself in the rock scene and became the go-to photographer for bands like The Doors and Crosby, Stills and Nash, and was the official photographer for Woodstock and the Monterey Music Festival. He transcended the hippie generation and continued to shoot an extremely impressive roster of artists too long to list here. The reference photo of Neil Young for this piece was taken in 1969 and my all time favorite photo of Neil.

Thanks for collaborating Henry.

-Shepard Fairey

Also included below is a collection of other fabulous faces from the May Day set, each of them having been released to the internets world over the past few weeks, continuing through when this post is posted. Peek at them.

Neil Young 18 x 24″ Screen Print, Signed by Shepard Fairey and Henry Diltz. Numbered Edition of 450 Nico 18 x 24″ Screen Print, Signed and Numbered Edition of 450 Joe Strummer 18 x 24″ Screen Print, Signed by Shepard Fairey and Kate Simon. Numbered Edition of 450 Jean-Michel Basquiat 18 x 24″ Screen Print, Signed and Numbered Edition of 450 Keith Haring 18 x 24″ Screen Print, Signed and Numbered Edition of 450 (also a separate “green” edition of 450) Muhammad Ali 18 x 24″ Screen Print, Signed and Numbered Edition of 450 Debbie Harry 18 x 24″ Screen Print, Signed and Numbered Edition of 450

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

The following is a collection of images prepared and executed by a designer that goes by the name “Data Driven Decision Making” and, in addition to being a designer, is what I’d call a magician. Maybe a color magician. Not just color though, arrangement of mathematically perfect squares in a way that makes anyone who glances upon them glance twice. This has to do with not only making things beautiful, but in accessing the minds of all the people who will most likely see these images, taking their collective visual experiences and molding those into engaging singular images.

So here they are, Data Driven Decision Making conglomerations. In this collection of his images, you’re bound to find some engaging experiences. This, though not necessarily more or less than everyday lovely graphic design, will bring you to a new place in your day. These images will move you one square in any direction.

Your attention, your mind.

Depending on the age of this post, head over to the portfolio site of DDDM for new amalgamations. Also feel free to purchase some of these images, as applied to tshirts, over at this Russian-only PrintDirect store. Also his REAL name is Nikolay Bezhko and you can check him out on twitter over at Cashaloot.

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

The loveliness of crayon packaging is something many folks only experience and appreciate if they have a child born unto them. Or if they get a kid, have a kid, live near a kid, any of that fun stuff. But I say to you, this much is true: designing the packaging of a crayon box should be high on the list of dreams for any fun-loving graphic magician, especially if they don’t have to work for the god group Crayola. Everyone knows that if you wanna be cool as a kid, you need Crayola crayons. This is of course due to their ultra-godly power in branding mostly, then just a bit because of their product quality.

Take a peek at these other… what you might call… “losers.”

Here’s were worlds collide. One wants to create a strong brand as a designer, but then if you’ve got mercy on the world, you don’t want that brand to annihilate the entirety of the competition. Many of the brand crayons you’ll see in this gallery were wiped off the earth not BY Crayola but certainly BECAUSE of it.

Take a peekie at the cool colors and smart/cute boxes and tins they sit in.

This gallery is part of an ever-growing collection of boxes and tins collected by the fabulous documentarian photographer Christian Montone, whose name I thought at first was Monotone, and now think he should consider changing his name to better suit my wishes for a more AWESOME world. Check his galleries out for fabulous collections galore! All the photos below are done by him, and he more than likely owns all the crayons. Neat!

+there’s a couple paints in there. Sneak’d ya!

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Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey. The Greatest Show on Earth. Al G. Kelly and Miller Bros. 2nd Largest Circus. These are the dirt and mud spawning beds of some of the most fantastic poster design in the history of the world. I’m drawing a line in the sand here, a circus line. One that clowns honk their lives on. Lions and tigers, trapeze artists, acrobats, and everything else they could fit inside three rings and a whole mess of tent. This is a poster collection consisting of the Princeton University collection of American Circus posters PLUS a whole mess of additional posters as wrangled up from collections across the internet, including of course the US Library of Congress – our friends!

NOTE: On the copyright of these items: for the most part, anything from Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey are from the 1940′s and 50′s and are probably still within someone’s legal right to claim ownership over. MANY of the other items you’ll find here are from around the 1900′s, making them so old that they’re legally entered into the public domain. If you do not know what this mumbo jumbo is about, please take the time to read up on USA copyright before you start your own tshirt and poster business with these images.

With fabulousness such as this, it’s tempting, isn’t it? Hella tempting.

Now the following collection is hella diverse. You’re going to find posters from the previously mentioned Ringling Bros and Barnum & Baileys all the way down to Al G. Kelly and Miller Bros. 2nd Largest Circus and Circus Krone. That one, Krone, for example, is German, but for the most part, this collection stays in America.

What we’re searching for here is excellence. Pre-cursors to the maximus minimalist design of today, here’s the extravagance without getting the jumblance. True masters are at work here, truly masters in their fields. And what’s ironic about that? Many of these posters were probably designed in a field. All grassy and inky. Covered in elephant dung.

Super awesome!

To access details about many of these posters, please move your brain on over to a collective page here that’s got each poster listed with the information Princeton uncovered about date, accession, size, and even the drawer they’ve got it held in if you ever plan on going over to see these posters in real life. I bet they get even doozier.

Another excellent resource for more information on these images is Wikimedia Commons, where searching for Circus Posters is as simple as doing a double backflip, catching a lion along the way! — Now let’s take a look down here. In some cases I left the whole poster (most cases, I should say,) but then in a bunch of pictures I cut down posters for you to see some magnificent close-ups.

ALSO: Check out these sources for more magical poster power – V. Poster Works, Circus Museum, Vintage Rock and Roll, and the NYPL Gallery Library. Note that this gallery is considerably large in the “American Circus” category, but some other languages and attractions were allowed to slip in due to awesomeness. Example: Solomon the Man Monkey – this missing link goes to church on Sunday!

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Below you’ll find the rest of the gallery. Feel free to click any tiny image here to bring up a larger version, then move back and forth through the gallery using the “Next Image” and “Previous Image” links. Then, if you’d like the entire set in their largest format, don’t hesitate to download a big fat .zip file of all the pictures: wfdj_circusposters.zip courtesy of the hardcore design collector family here at WFDJ.

All good things must fade away. Or rot. That’s why you’ve got to get out there and photograph them. So everyone can hoard them! In this case, it’s about food. How could a person possibly wear a helmet made of cauliflower? This is a question that everyone should be asking themselves, especially if they’re in the fashion industry, as true fruits, vegetables, and dead animals, are really pretty! And should, by all means, be worn as jewelry. That’s what designer / photographer Fulvio Bonavia thought, and thinks, and thusly made happen. This set of photos is called “A Matter of Taste.”

These sorts of fashionable bits have existed, often executed poorly by those with more imagination than craftsmanship. However, they HAVE been translated quite well into such things as dresses and shoes. An excellent, albeit strange example of this is the watermelon knitted sweater by Sirena con Jersey. Another really fabulous example is the popcorn bucket dress by Nicole Linder. Of course neither of these are made out of any REAL fruits or popped vegetables, but they’re cute, right?

The next step I think is absurdly designed sneakers. Maybe just painted up a bit.

But until then…

What you’re about to view in the gallery below is only a small sampling of the cornucopia of foods translated as clothing as photographed by Bonavia. When one thinks of it, one wonders why things such as this have not been executed with as much skill in the past. It must just take the right combination of brain power and availability of action. Also it’s gotta be the right season for the farmers to grow these things.

NOTE: These items are now part of a published book by the same name “A Matter of Taste.” Fulvio Bonavia was inundated with requests so often that he collected all the images together in a fabulous presentation book, available wherever in the world you might find it for sale, you lucky dog you.

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Wayyy too many commas in this post. Lulz.

When I first remember the idea being thrown around that someday we’d have little to no print, that being a world where we’d be able to transmit all of our ideas digitally, I remember the word being “awesome!” there’ll be no waste! Right? Do you remember having this conversation with everyone? No need to waste ink, just use your computer to get all your info, save the world! But now we’re getting there. We’re maybe even within reaching space of eliminating paper and print in a major way, but wait! says we, wait a second! What about making posters and handbills, what about the neatness of having a piece of print in your hands? And what about all those hockey cards?

Artist Laren DiCioccio addresses this all in a big handful of teeny, tiny swoops with her extended “sewn” works.

Your brain will benefit from a read of DiCioccio’s artist statement:

My work investigates the physical/tangible beauty of commonplace mass-produced media-objects, most recently: the newspaper, magazines, office papers and writing pads, plastic bags, 35 mm slides. These media are becoming obsolete, replaced by the invisible efficiency of various technologies. In some cases, this transition is a good thing- faster transmission and distribution of information, streamlined systems, openness to user input, less waste. But a hole is left behind by the disappearance of these everyday objects. What will happen when we no longer touch information? When newsprint does not rub off onto our fingertips? When we no longer write longhand?

The tedious handiwork and obsessive care I employ to create my work aims to remind the viewer of these simple but intimate pieces of everyday life and to provoke a pang of nostalgia for the familiar physicality of these objects.

What you’re about to view are the contents of two projects by the one known as DiCioccio. The first in the gallery is the “sewnnews” project. This is a project done over daily news articles, the New York Times to be exact – this project has been going on for several years now, only put onto the internet very recently. The newest works are from 2010.

Then you’re going to see a bunch of slides. This second project is known as “35mm sewnslides” and is done in a very similar vein as the news. But while the paper is sewn into a casing of hand-embroidered cotton muslin, the slides are instead embroidered directly onto the fragile bridal organza. In both cases, the final product has threads left to hang out in the wind. Loving, lovely strands of color.

Fragility, nostalgia, ritualistic beauty.

Currently Laren DiCioccio is represented by:
Jack Fischer Gallery
49 Geary Suite 440
San Francisco, CA 94108
www.jackfischergallery.com

So be sure to get in contact with them if you’re gonna want to get in contact with her!

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Yays the fellow called Kaws, also known as Brian Donnelly is in this month’s edition (May 2010) of Interview Magazine. The cover has Madonna with a red painted cross on an image of her face. In celebration, it’s time for a master-blaster of Kaws-related pics. Blaster. Master. A collection right here and now, below, in no particular order, for the greater good of understanding the simplicity of his genius superstrokes. It’s all in the single line. The one that goes from fat to thin. Doubled up, placed on the face. Placed on the glove. Perfection.

You see the x x eyes? They are key. Elements to also look for are the teeth, the row of the teeth, and the sharp, black curved line. Outline. Below you’re going to find photos that span the whole art career of Kaws, from when he began spraying that name, “KAWS,” to now, when he’s doing very well for himself with his own brand and lots of artshows and toys and products. Everything a design-minded artist individual could want in this modern world.

If you love Kaws, and are unaware of how to find the continued works of him and his companies, take a look at this limited list. It’s super fabulous:
http://www.kawsone.com/blog/ Donnelly’s blog on Donnelly’s site.
http://blog.honeyee.com/kaws/ Donnelly’s blog on Honeyee’s site.
BBCIceCream Kaws tag archive at blog written by Pharrell Williams and crew.
http://fuckyeakaws.tumblr.com/ infinite updates of random KAWS images

Now take a hefty set of clickings through this vast* set. *Vast, yet limited, when compared to the true group of Kaws creations that are in the world. Variations on a theme, and hundreds and hundreds of them. Maybe thousands. At least hundreds of variations, thousands of items. Domination of the street art conscious world. This planet anyway.

Peeks!

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Fingers collect to make the hand, and the hand draws the type. It is my pleasure to be telling you about the fantabulous works of none other than illustrator / designer Camila Drozd. In this post you will see several examples of Drozd hand-drawn-type. This is not some silly-biller work, this is craftwork. This is something that no Joe-Shmo can do, this is the work of a professional. A professional whose worked for hours and hours, days and days, years and years to get to an excellent place. An excellent place where even the personal doodles show shining spirits from Design Heaven blinking their eyes in amazement.

That’s what’s here.

The works you see above and below are executed by Camila Drozd for fun. These are “Personal Type Work” works made just for promotion and enjoyment. Can you even imagine the things done by Drozd for pro work? No way! It’d be so good, how could anyone imagine it! That’s why there’s some examples of that shown below as well.

Please immerse yourself in these undeniably lovely hand-made letterings and if you do feel so lucky as to have a project that Drozd could work on, contact through email at info@camiladrozd.com. Drozd is available for freelance work at the time this post is made, so get to it!

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It gets real, real basic. right here in two posters. There’s several posters in this post because it’s more about the artist/designer here but look above. That’s a poster duo that’s brilliant. Bigger versions below. These two posters “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and “Girls Also Wanna Have Babies” together were made by Bastardgraphics for an expanded show/movement by the name of LuvGalz – art, fashion, and femininity. Bastardgraphics is in the business of digitally illustrating ideas in a simple manner, and with the above and below as example, I say to thee thus: BG so good at it!

Bastardgraphics is also known as Julien Rivoire, an art director and designer living in the heart of France, in Lyon. Rivoire’s worked with such groups as Universal Music, Karmaloop, and Doble Skateboards. He’s good with the COLORS. He’s good with the VECTORS. And he’s good with the ARRANGEMENT of all the elements.

All of the things you see in this post are almost certainly for sale in some form or another, just contact BG here: info@bastardgraphics.com or hang a right over to the http://bastardgraphics.com/ website; it’s fulla fulla fulla stuffs.

A2 prints, posters, lotsa fun stuffs.

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Let’s talk about an artist by the name of Glennray Tutor. Here is a guy who takes the most difficult of all painting techniques, and just keeps on doing it over. And over. And over again. Until he’s so good at it, it is just spectacularly unbelievable. And he’s got a painting in that movie The Blindside. No kidding! What’s featured above and below here in this post gallery are specifically a set of his collection paintings depicting marbles and fireworks.

Now, this guy is pro. He is so fantastically pro. Just a quick flip through this gallery, even a quick blink at the first image above will tell you that. And he’s still at it! Sometimes when artists get this good, they slow down and paint maybe a few a year, quitting up a bit to drive up prices or taking some leisure time because perhaps they’ve found themselves in their colors. But not this guy! He’s reelin em out, with no lack of quality for it!

Do you you have any idea how difficult it is to paint a marble? So hard.

Behold his newest set of them! And fireworks, too!

Take a look through this gallery (noting for fun the image showing where one of the prints of his paintings shows up in The Blind Side), then head over to his store where you can pick up some prints of your own! They’re utterly excellent I’m sure.

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Here’s a guy. He goes by the title Numskull and he does some graffiti. He also does canvas paintings, paint on wood slabs, and mixed media sculptures. He’s a picker. He’s the kind of guy I’d expect to be found at the flea market finding odds and ends that he could chop up into their graphical bits and redistribute them in his own idiom. He does that sort of thing for sure. He’s got a slew of mashup collages going on, all with perfect color and pitch.

I could not believe I’d never seen this man before when I first laid eyeballs upon him. His work is totally lovely! And would/does fit in this modern share share culture we’re living in on these internets. Not only that, these paintings are so sharp, I’d be apt to say they’ll be in a gallery near you quite soon. Habeeb it.

NOTE: There’s Simpsons eyeballs in this guy’s artworks. You know what this means, don’t you? It means enough peeps have re-used those Matt Groening features that they’re officially unofficially in the same category as Mickey Mouse gloves! Hoy!

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