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.

Well, the day has finally come. June 29, 2010. This marks ten full years since the release of one of the most addictive keyboard-and-click video games ever created. It was there, in that game, online with thousands of other players fighting, leveling up, collecting treasures, that I realized my obsessive personality. I believe every modern person has this sort of “disorder” to some degree, they call it Obsessive Compulsive Disorder if I’m not mistaken, OCD for short. Diablo II (aka Diablo 2) took hold of that piece of each of us, the people finding themselves part of this new internet community, and held on tight.

Ten years tight.

And then there was the Social Media. And the clicking.

Now you might notice the “DIGG” logo mark stuck to the Diablo II image above. Why? Because it’s the same. Over the past few days I’ve attached myself to the community of DIGG like it was a game. Because it is a game. When you’ve got a brain like me and the rest of us young gentlemen and ladies who can’t keep their hands still, all you’ve got to do is provide a ranking system and you’ve got them occupied.

If you want to survive in today’s capitalizing network, you’ve got to keep your head. You consider your obsessive nature a disorder and you’re stuck feeling bad about it. You tell yourself you’re strong and that being obsessed allows you to do mass amounts of work, well, you’ll burn out, buddy. So what’s to be done? How many roads must a man walk down? Do girls just want to have fun?

Let’s talk about what we do on WFDJ to stay occupied in a healthy manner, or at least a progressively social manner. Sound good? How about we number this list, too.

1. DIGG – On this share and read site, I’ve found it beneficial to be yourself: ca77 is the name I go by. We had a WFDJ DIGG and it petered out. It had a little bit to do with that I lost interested back when I started it, and a lot to do with the fact that people on DIGG like to feel like they’re working with people as opposed to organizations. Now we’re making friends, connections, and cross-links. Up-voting per friendly suggestions, rooting out false prophets aka spammers, and submitting our own material here and there to capitalize on the work it does take to be a helpful member in this squad of workers.

2. FACEBOOK – Here we’re in a few places. There’s my personal page, something everybody’d probably enjoy having if they had one, then there’s both the WFDJ website page and personality. These both have their own unique abilities, both of them important to how we round out our facebook presence. The website page is the place where people basically thumb-up our page and suggest it to others. Real simple. The personality page is the same thing you get when you sign yourself up for facebook. If you’ll take a look you’ll see the name on it is “WorldFamous DesignJunkies” because we’ve got to fool fb into believing the presence is a person. People see this, find it unique, and friend it right away. 946 friends end up being much more valuable than 2,000 thumbs-ups. For real.

3. TUMBLR – A super-simple and lovely genius setup for bloggers from the start to the super-used-to. The WFDJ tumblr account acts as a subsidary of WFDJ’s main news page, allowing for more attention to be payed to individual images and quotes from pages. People today on these internets are interested not only in the content they’re peeking at, but in the way they’re peeking at it too. Tumblr is unique in it’s…well… twitter-list sort of friends feed, showing updates from everyone they love at once, with simple buttons for liking and re-posting. That, and if you’ve got the personality we’re talking about, tumblr’s a place where you can post thoughts and sub-images that come to your knowledgeable mind throughout the day not big enough for a whole post.

4. TWITTER – Have one. Love it. Don’t hold back. Unless you’re the kind of person who posts every 5 minutes, because that’s a cause to hold back. People de-friend people who post too much. I’d wager to say that posting too frequently is the number one reason people de-friend on Twitter. An awesome service to use to post to twitter is http://su.pr/, a site made by StumbleUpon for people to have instant url-shortening complete with a handy SU head-board. Always with the head-boards. Always with the grasp of the fingers.

5. STUMBLEUPON – This community is perhaps the most difficult to be a part of because of it’s dis-jointed nature. There are message boards and there are ways to send messages back and forth, but there’s so much sharing that it’s basically impossible to work with other people. Your best bet for becoming successful at SU is to follow the rules you’d work with for Reddit or Digg. Be sensible, work on helping other people first, yourself in the back of your mind most of the time, in front every once in a while. We’ve been at it so long that our method is to post different singular images from WFDJ, using SU as an image-sharing program rather than as a news aggregator.

6. REDDIT – Find your favorite sub-Reddit and thrive in it. I’ve had some little success working with the people who run the Star Wars list. Each subreddit has its own moderators and family, so it’s possible to be cool with these healthy “medium groups.”

With all of these plus finding the content plus preparing and publishing the content, one has the opportunity to have this OCD nature without messing a single one up by too much participation. Always keep in mind that everyone on these internets is a person, and that many people go to multiples of these sites. That means if you post the same thing to each of them, these people will find you and they will slap you in the face, digitally. So be new and unique with each little thing you post. In fact, just to be safe, never post the same thing twice. Not only is that healthy, it keeps you spry.

Stay spry!

And if you want to eat your life alive, play D2… or depending on when you read this post, play D3. And good luck, you’ll be alone there. It’s going to be TOO good.

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

Surely you’ve heard of the merger that took place a bunch of months ago, the one where Disney corporation purchased Marvel Comics for 4 billion bucks. People cried, people laughed, people put mouse ears on every one of the Marvel Comics superheroes. But what about TRON? Who weeps for the forgotten combo? The best combo. The combo that just can’t happen, but definitely should because it’d be so light bright. I’m speaking of course of TRON meets Iron Man. Yes yes, how pretty the posters would be.

But the rest would be crap! Oh my god how horrible that’d be. But I love that initial image. Such greateness in glowing lines. There’s one more similar image in the gallery below, along with the tiny cross section of successful or mildly successful images created for the first B3TA forum Marvel VS Disney pic creator contest. No prizes, no official winner (I think you know which one it REALLY is though,) and no rules. Lots of crap. A few sassy moments of smarts. Lots of fun.

Fun for everyone! Take a peek through the gallery below, then feel free to show them up by making your own. Blow it up, put it on your wall, and break down, put mouse ears on it. I can tell you wanna, you dirty dogg you.

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

In honor of Portugal beating North Korea in their latest world cup game 7-0, oh my god, here is an image of Kim Jong-il as illustrated by Sakkan (サッカン). I want Jong-il to see this and change his mind about his more than likely plausible decision to murder the entire N.Korean football team. I joke, but also seriously hope they don’t end up missing. The image above, by that wild illustrator Sakkan, depicts Kim as a Pokemon hunter, the characters around him referring to North Korean abduction of Japanese citizens. Weird! But look, the idea that Kim is a Pokemon master makes it all make sense. Gotta Catch Em All!

The following information comes from the crowd at BoingBoing from when they discovered the Kim image a few days ago:

The red text in the lower left hand corner seems to read
“Rocket Monster Kim (Gold)” And the Pikachu rockets are labeled “pika-don” which I think means “Boom!” The blue text looks like “Let’s go kidnapping!”, a reference to the North Korean abduction of Japanese citizens over the years. – gmoke

More specifically, pika-don is a reference to the bright flash (pika) and explosive noise (don) of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. – oepn

Fabulous. Now let’s also look at the extended works of Sakkan. He’s a humorist in his illustrations, basically all of them, a wild and crazy sensibility that generally comes standard with the anime-style way of executing stories and people and situations. Look at how cute! Also take another peek at how excellent Sakkan is at portraiture. That’s definitely Kim up there, and down in the gallery you won’t be mistaking Bruce, Sam, and a couple other sassy fellas and ladies. And don’t forget his take on the Twitter Overload image.

To contact Sakkan, visit him at his Sakkan webpage, a page full of Sakkan illustrations and lists and lists of his accomplishments. If you happen to find out more about him in the way of screenprinted posters, let me know, must have!

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

I don’t mean to call designer Mike Lemanski an alien from an Orson Scott Wells novel, but he IS a bugger! He’s got so much good stuff! So much stuff that is good! In this post you’ll see but a fraction of it in the form of posters. Poster gallery yay! Everyone loves a good poster gallery. The image you see above is the least “posterish” item in the set in that it’s not any bigger than a standard size handheld piece of paper, but because I would LOVE to have it screenprinted gigantic and hung on my wall, it’s up there at the top.

The way I found this particular genius shape and letter arranger was over at It’s Nice That, the image from which was posted over at Buamai. There, now you know a couple of my secrets you didn’t know before. Digg it?

Now Lemanski is an excellent dude. He’s got senses for excellence that some folk only bubbles in bong dream of. Puff high, you sons of sam, you’ll never be able to quite click the colors in the right columns like Mike. You all want to be like Mike.

But lo! You can be actually. It’s just that Mike Lemanski’s got his portfolio locked down. He knows, or maybe doesn’t know he knows but DOES know, exactly, what, he’s got to present in order to get noticed. His best stuff, his most amazing works, and they all work together in an excellent way.

Hey all you design students out there! Stop digging through the trash! Put down your crappy new-age iCrappers and put up a simple portfolio as fast as now! Get published and find yourself in a whole new world of opportunity!

Look at these posters. Mike Lemanski is excellent.

NOTE: some of these posters are for work, some of them are for play. All of them are important in their very own way.

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

Imunna tell you about a guy named Peter Elson. He’s an illustrator and a big-brain-having imagination exploder. He’s passed on to the next world in 1998 but his works live on ever to today. You might not have ever seen a thing of his before because he worked for science fiction magazines which are really radical because they tell tales that eventually turn to reality, but they’ve got a generally underground following if you know what I mean. Let’s talk about how a person find himself drawing for such a publication.

One finds their self in whatever line of work they can find their self in. Now there’s all sorts of factors at work, the ones that work hardest at directing the person being family members, kids and elders especially. So how does Peter Elson end up working for a bunch of magazines that publish stories about science fiction? Well, I have no idea. But let’s talk about what else he might have become.

He could have worked as a conceptual artist for films, an industrial designer or a person who works WITH an industrial designer as a visionary, a comic artist, an album cover designer, a poster artist, basically any number of utterly fabulous NEW jobs that have just come into creation in the past, what, 20 years?

But I tell you what, he did science fiction illustrations, and he did them well.

Take a peek at a small sampling of his works below.

You can find more works of Peter Elson on his portfolio / gallery collected site, as run and operated by the folks who hold sway over his works. Sometimes I like these sorts of people, sometimes I hate em, but in this case, I’m pretty sure the owners are family members of Elson, so it’s positive for sure. Keeping the future alive’s what they’re doing!

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

Just don’t get in the way of his digital drawing pad. He’ll kiss you so much! With his art. Bobby Chiu is a digital artist and designer. He’s worked on everything from teaching digital painting to designing Star Wars toys. And today, well! I’m going to show you some of the concept work he did for the Tim Burton version of Alice in Wonderland, just in time for… is the DVD out now? Probably it is.

Above you’ll see a couple of lovely flowers. The yellow one was done by Chiu exclusively, the red one for some reason is a collaboration between Chiu and fellow digital artist Peter Chan. They both work at the same place, Imaginism Studios, where you can see an extended look at all of their works.

So Imaginism Studios was hired to work on concept art for Alice in Wonderland. Below you’ll get a glimpse of some of the most fantastic lovelies you’ll ever put your AIW lovin eyeballs on. All of them down there done by Chiu. Then, after that set, there’s about a billion other images by Chiu, all done with his hands and heart. Very fabulous digital workings.

What you’re about to look at here comes from all over the place. When you get to be such a total badass in artworks that you teach, your works get spread out all over these internets like cool creamy butter. Sometimes you don’t even release them yourself! How dare! Some of the places the particular gallery you’re about to look at comes from are: Imaginism (of course), CGSociety, IStudios Blog, It’sArt Magazine, bobbychiu twitter, DeviantArt, and more I’m sure.

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

Here at this headquarters for fabulous artifacts and non-facts and ideas we like to call World Famous Design Junkies, there is a great big love for the continued proliferation of the pop symbol bangin’ Mickey Mouse. You know who else feels that way? Designer Todd Proctor. He’s part of an excellent breed of designer functioning in today’s world using his wits as well as his skills for arrangement. That’s how you get some sweet exposure. That’s how you get some sweet mula. Maybe.

Above and below you’ll see a couple Mickeys and a whole lotta other amazing things. Lots of digital work here, but in the spirit of antiquity*, you can feel that Proctor’s payed his dues. He’s payed the cost to be a pixel boss. *And you know when I say antiquity I’m speaking of the absurd notion that analog design is passe. One cannot become a skillful designer without the ability to draw pictures in sand.

These images make Todd Proctor “internet famous.” But take a peek and see, many of them have reached fruition unto the physical realm of our real world. Our real world where, of course, it is at. You get born there, you die there, and if you’ve never printed or seen print the ink to a piece of paper the poster you’ve designed, I dare you to die a satisfied individual. I say thee nay! Dirty hands made these.

Devour these works by Todd Proctor and check him out on his own network or contact him and hire him directly, you lucky dog, at: Email:todd@toddproctordesign.com or Phone: 0414 452 284 or Skype: Todd777

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

D.U. = Such amazing concepts that I’ve just got to assume they’re from a Different Universe. Holy wow and oh my goodness gracious. The motorcycles you’re about to see are designed by Mikhail Smolyanov aka Solif. He’s a bad mofo and he likes to design auto-related projects. The one’s I’m featuring here are his motorcycle collection, starting above with the tube-like ARX and working down into the wildly colored tame bikes. Completely fantastic by the standards of the standard motorcycle you’d see on the real world street today.

Mikhail Smolyanov is Russian, and runs his own personal news blog over at http://solifdesign.blogspot.com/ – check it out. He posts new stuff all the time, and it’s ripe for the picking. And when I say picking, I mean you publishers, it’s your job to make this man famous, famous because he is amazing and I want these bikes to make it to the creator floor. Let’s futurize this place, mothers! Let’s make Solif real life!

The motorcycles you see below go in this order with names: ARX 2, ARX 3 (I don’t know what happened to ARX 1), ARX 3 Trike, Della, C-Org (this is the orange and yellow one we’re at now,) Speeder Mechanicus, Steampunk Style V2 Black Widow, and of course the Steampunk Style V1 Black Widow, which is the same but not the same.

Oh my god want. Want all. All want now. Mikhail Smolyanov’s weapon of choice is 3D Studio Max. Are you in to the rendering of 3D objects? Yeah I totally rendered an egg one time. It was amazing. But I’ll tell you what. I’ve seen a whole load of renderings whilst working for Yanko Design, and these are good. So, so very good.

Love Smolyanov. Love Solif. Spread bike love.

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

Dearest world, he says, I’m wondering if you, since you’re all fans of the greatest television animated series of all time, have any artwork from this series? That’s right, boys and girls! John K, the creator and main mind behind Ren and Stimpy is looking for your contributions! He’s creating some sort of fabulous bible-like construction for Spumco! You don’t know what Spumco aka Spümcø is?! Come on in then! You like to see fabulous illustrations of Ren and Stimpy characters?! Yes! We’ve got that here too!

As you may be well aware, John K, aka John Kricfalusi, is the big brain behind Ren and Stimpy and he’s got one FANTASTIC blog. It’s informative almost constantly to EPIC preportions! You can find it at http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/ and I recommend you read it EVERY DAY!

Then there’s Spumco Inc. – it’s was an animation studio based in Los Angeles, California. They got their first big start when Nickelodeon shot a call out for new cartoons – one of the ones they chose was made by Spumco – Ren and Stimpy! After and before that there were a bunch of other works that were also pretty neat, take a peek at a list and get out your animation cells of those works too!

Now down to brass tacks. If you’ve got any original Ren and Stimpy artwork, that means hand-drawn, painted, otherwise, and would be so gracious as to let John K scan it at high-rez so as to print it in the up n coming Spumco book, that’d be great!

Contact someone named Dan at pictureboxinc@pictureboxinc.com for more details.

You will get an acknowledgment in the book and a big thanks from me! and I’m sure from the fans who want this book too

If you own an animation art gallery, I’ll be glad to plug it and link to it.

Thanks!

-John K

Hooray wee! Now let’s look at some of what he’s talking about. Pics!

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

For your life to be at ease. Console games for your extracurricular life. The following is a collection of console games photographed in a regular and magnificent manner. Look below for the set of games owned by collector extraordinaire Phil Penninger, in a set conceived and executed by Patrick Molnar. These photographs show the differences and similarities, but more than that, they reveal something interesting in the viewer in the way they show interest. I tell you the most important part about this whole project is the eyeballs that hover above it. Game on.

Copyright © Patrick Molnar / Concept, Photography & Design by Patrick Molnar / Collection by Phil Penninger

Right now there’s a compilation book in the world, at least one of those, information is a little hazy on if there’s going to be more, like to be sold. But, BUT! There is some definite arrows pointing toward a poster in the future, which would be just lovely.

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

That’s right child, it’s Star Wars time. It’s that time of the day, not the week, the day, when you get your Darth Vader helmet on and start clicking around seeing if you can find something, anything you haven’t seen before. A lost prop, a photo of Lando, anything! And what do you find, yes, what do you find indeed?! You find a boombox of white, blue, and red, and a pair of gold headphones. They look familiar, you say to yourself, they look familiar indeed.

What you see above and below you is the work and reference points for artist BUKO in his quest to design the perfect t-shrit for the business machine known as Threadless. Now what’s going on here is that normally this is sort of a paying gig, normally someone might come up to me on the internets and say hey, I’ll give you a thousand billion dollars if you post my design on World Famous Design Junkies*, but this design is just SO GOOD, that I’ve got to promote it. I want this shirt to make it to the light of day, just so I can buy one.

*(this has never happened)

That’s how pimpadellic I find it to be.

So click here: http://tinyurl.com/ya5zdxs and vote the heck out of it.

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

When you take a seat at your local sidewalk-side business, do you think about where you’re sitting in proximity to the windows? Perhaps if you do, when the windows seem too small, this becomes a non issue. Or maybe if you do, you sit close because you like to show off what you’re wearing, or maybe it’s spring and you want to stay close to the warming of the world? This photo project/collection “Through The Glass” by Stefano Mattia asks these questions, if you ask me, especially the one “what are you looking at, buster?” To the photographer. Or to whoever’s looking.

This project consists of a collection of 12 photos spanning Rome, Beijing, Paris, London, and Padova and two full years of photography, starting in 2008, going through the present, aka when this post is posted in early 2010. It’s what Mattia calls an ongoing project, so heed and take a peek at his page if this post is rather old when you see it.

It’s just as important to frame your photos as it is to frame your photo when you’re in this internet world. Blogs fire up their engines at the site of a set of pics that’ve got a name on them. When that name isn’t just some silly sad sack of arbitrary, the best things happen! “Through The Glass” is a classy set, each of the photos taken in a way that could never realistically be exact due to their proximity in the world, yet there they are, so nicely packed, they seem as though they could have been taken through the same pane of glass.

Fa real.

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

Wait wait what? This is World Famous Design Junkies! We’re supposed to be family oriented, right? To a degree, shall we say. When something so innocent yet so double-take delicious comes up on this doorstep well, it’s just really too difficult not to shoot it, stuff it, and hang it on the wall. Look at this wrapping paper! It’s made by designer Paul Schlacter as a personal project (MAKE IT REAL NOW) to be used as wrapping paper for presents to be given at baby showers. Magnificent!

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

You know what I think? I think it’s just TRRRIBLE what people do with their pets when they don’t want them anymore. They just kick them in the river! Well that’s alright. But only if the pets we’re talking about are “Disposable Pets!” This is a product designed by masterpiecer Charlotte Dumoncel D’Argence. Each of these lovely little guys is made out of what I can only be assured is fully bio-degradable material so that when you toss it in the washing machine, it disintegrates! In the fire, it burns! In outer space, it floats!

Get yourself any of the following: rabbit, hampster, dog, or cat! As you can see below, you can feel free to destroy these pets in any way you choose! Only be careful, they might come back alive and give you hella papercuts!

Sometimes… dead is bettah.

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

The Moldy Peaches are a group that sings lovely music in a very raw way. They sing simple songs, about very average and fabulous things. Sometimes with swearing, sometimes for childrens. And all of it wonderful. What we’ve got here is a full-hilt design for an album and world tour for the Moldy Peaches called Fruits in the Back Yard – New in the Neighborhood. Designed by superstar Petita Pou for Kimya Dawson and Adam Green.

This would will would will be fabulous. Advertisements on trash bags and tire swings, cd albums with the peach. Nice little peaches with peaches on the shirts. Shirts and shirts and shirts! World tour in a trailer house. Who wouldn’t want to get to there? Noone. That’s who!

For an example of the crowd and music these two tend to, here’s a short video of a cover of one of Kimya’s songs “Little Panda Bear” by my friend Betsey.

Sounds great doesn’t it? Now look through the gallery to see the whole project, piece by piece, peach by peach. Can’t wait for the new old peaches!

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

Here’s a fun little illustration project hacked on up by Konstantin Shalev. In it, several different “Space Crime” objects are created with interchangeable color schemes. What you see above is the ultra-smashed-together vision made for the final product – a bus. But check it out – look at that mass. The intensity of the color is only matched by the fineness of the detail. Not one object is made out of silly scale. Fabulousness.

I’m gonna need a laser gun, an apple with an eye in it, a bunch of diamonds, and a brain in a glass sphere. This project is intended to go up with the LaFraise contest “Pim my Bus.” If you’re especially into voting designs up to busses, you can do that right on their site http://en.lafraise.com/.

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

Welcome to the click-out world of Michael Johansson. The work you see above is his dingy. It’s called Toys’R'Us and it’s a 1:1 scale model of a boat with all the necessities for staying afloat along with it. This sort of model should remind you of 1-piece click-out toys packaged with action figures such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Michael Johansson specializes in parodying this particular moment in toydom by creating life-sized models with that molded-plastic “break-apart and play” action specifically in mind.

Some other models made this year are Some Assembly Required – Bed Frame Included, and Foldable Hand Truck Assembly, which are both also appearing below in the gallery. Think about how silly this is! It’s just taking the piss out of real toys in the world, things we make for eachother to play with, things we make for eachother to spend time on.

Imagine such a simple comparison!

We live with these toys all day, every day.

TOYS’R'US – Dingy scale 1:1
Mixed Media: dinghy, boat equipment, welded metal frame, spraypaint
Dimensions: 2 x 2,6 m.
Installation view: Besökarna, Västra Hamnen, Malmö (S)

Some Assembly Required – Bed Frame Included, 2009
Folding bed, welded metal frame, spray paint.
Dimensions: 3.2 x 1.3 m
Installation view: Frameworks, Østfold Kunstnersenter, Fredrikstad (N)

Foldable Hand Truck Assembly, 2009
Hand truck, welded metal frame, spray paint.
Dimensions: 0.9 x 1.8 m
Exhibited at: Frameworks, Østfold Kunstnersenter, Fredrikstad (N) 2009

Michael Johansson’s just been in a show called Örebro Open Art, Örebro (S) 2009 – which is where the Toys’R'Us boat was exhibited, and he’s gonna have more soon. He’s primed to go big soon, biggie big. The gallery you see below contains the boat, the bed frame, and the truck and wheels amongst many others, all of the rest besides these ones marked 2009 being before 2009, none older than 2006 if I’m not mistaken!

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Let me tell you about science manual books. Science manual books are manuals full of science related materials and science related illustrations. Most of the illustrations in science manuals are line-drawings. Since the illustrations in science manuals are line drawings, and on the whole, look basically the same, they’re very viable for super-simple collage. Super-simple collage is what’s going on right here! Super weird compositions by design entity known as Culprit Tech. Main member/illustrator: Matt Pattinson.

The gallery at the bottom contains images from the newest show.

Culprit Tech has been making amalgamations such as the ones found in this post since December 2007. What Culprit Tech does is to create collage works out of old science magazines and books and all that lovely stuff, take those collages and animate them, finally adding music by musician Mammal live!

Culprit Tech’s most recent show was just this November at Analogue Books, their next will be sometime in the next two months! The video below is an example of what you’ll see at a live show, projected on a screen, the music live.

Pictures from the November show on the flicker of [Virtualv]

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Oh hello to thee who can hold a brush and swing the ink with it. What we’ve got here for you is a collection of concept-art illustrations from a fellow named Harshvardhan Kadam of Inkbrush N’ Me – all of them fabulous, all of them unnamed. Have a glance at some skillful swooshes and shwashes.

Refreshing, no? It is a true master who has the skills in both artistry of the brush and artistry of the letter. Kadam knows what’s up.

I am a freelance illustrator, concept artist and a comicbook designer based in India. I also enjoy working on video projections, new media installations, graffiti art and paintings.

All artwork herein is © Harshvardhan Kadam unless otherwise noted.

BONUS: check out Kadam’s interview at CG Tantra!

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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.

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.

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Holy crap I’m totally pumped up for this insane event. It’s gonna be next week, November 12, in West Hollywood. If any of you folks wanna go there and take a bunch of photos for us to post, we’d definitely shoot a sticker+fun pack your way for the trouble.

Look at all the celebs and their artworks!

Please join us for this special event to help raise funds and awareness for Marriage Equality. The event will present the Love Unites x Shepard Fairey Project featuring an Auction of celebrity customized Love Unites screenprints and an original Love Unties fine art piece by Shepard Fairey.

November 12th, 2009
8:00pm – 11:00pm
DJ Sets by Shepard Fairey and Ryan Kenney

Presented by FAIR @
Andaz West Hollywood
8410 Sunset Blvd, LA, CA

$30 General Admission ($40 at the Door)
$100 VIP Admission ($125 at the Door)
Proceeds to Benefit Marriage Equality
Discounted Valet

OMG VIP for only $100 lulz. Open bar, dude!

VIP Admission more info
A VIP ticket includes gourmet appetizers, gift bags, 3 hours of open bar provided by Absolut, special pool deck access with cityscape views, up-close-and personal viewing of select celebrity customized prints, cabana beds and more. This price jumps to $125 at the door. Tickets are tax deductible since FAIR is an organization functioning under a 501c3 fiscal sponsorship agreement.

But it’s all tax deductible so spend wildly!

These photos are technically not animal parts inside-out, but animals with their insides… out. They’re all taken by one Nazif Topçuoğlu who is one splendid and spectacular photographer if I do say so myself. These photos fit perfectly into his artist statement, in which he searches for images that remind the viewer of an unclear past. In my mind, I’m hoping he’s a slaughterhouse attendant as a child.

Head cheese.

STATEMENT

On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.

M. Proust, On Reading

The underlying thread in my work is a constant preoccupation with time, memory and loss. I worry about the transience of people and things in general, and try to reconstruct unclear and imperfect images of an idealized past. Such an attempt inevitably requires the ability to recapture past, hence my constant art-historical references to classic paintings and photographs as well as to authors such as Proust and Thomas Mann. Hence I have no problems with my images becoming visually seductive in the process.

Another and more specific aspect of the recent Readers, is its pre-occupation with the contradicting positions of women in Turkey. When employing the representations of youth as imagery, one has to deal with the issues of gender roles and male gaze. In these photographs, unlike the more common examples, a respectful stance towards the female has been taken. The subjectification of the female youth as a gender-free ideal, inevitably involves her intelligence, beauty, energy, and struggle as the major concerns of this work

I do photography because… I need to produce the images which are provocative but not exploitative that I would enjoy looking at.

There are two sets here: COLOUR OFFAL and BLACK AND WHITE OFFAL – I’m sure with your super eyeball brains and such, you’ll be able to tell the difference between the two. Color is color, and so on.

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

A most terrifying of categories.

Hope you’re not eating anything right about now.