Archive for the ‘Art’Category

More Photoshoppery

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I’ve been working through some tutorials just trying to get to grips with the nuts and bolts of Photoshop now that I have it on my work box. The plan is to use a combination of Photoshop and Flash to produce the illustrations for the graphic novel. Here’s my latest drawing. I can take next to no credit for it since I was following tutorials but I learned a few tricks when making it…

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05 2009

New Design

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I’ve been playing around with ideas for the design for the site since I’ve never been happy about the fact I use an off the shelf template. Here’s my first attempt…

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05 2009

Peter Funch

Photographer Peter Funch sets up his camera in a stationary position on the streets of New York and takes photo’s of the passers by. Then he makes composites of, for example, all the people talking on phones as they pass, or all those wearing red. Sometimes it’s hard to tell at first glance that it’s not just a straight point and shoot crowd scene, but there’s normally something not quite right about them that keeps you looking.

Click either image for the full gallery.

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04 2009

Gris Grimly & Bobby Chiu

This post on the Tutorial9 blog on childrens book illustrators has exposed me to the rather wonderful work of both Gris Grimly and Bobby Chiu.

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04 2009

400 Business Cards

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Over at the Logo Designer Blog they have an epic roundup of 400 of the finest business card designs doing the rounds.

Plenty highlights, as you might expect. The full post can be found here, but a few of my favourites can be found after the jump:

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03 2009

When Graphs go wrong…

…it produces some really rather fetching abstract art.

A nice collection of images produced when data visualisation software suffers epic fail.

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Click either image to go to the full gallery.

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03 2009

The Worldwide Logo Design Winners 2008

I’ve been mulling over a logo design for this here site for a while now. There’s plenty of food for thought amongst the 2008 winners of WOLDA.

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Now if only that annual wasn’t quite so pricy.

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03 2009

‘Tricked by Treats’ – Joe Vaux

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From his Manimal Collection.

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02 2009

Nathan Ota

There’s Something in the Water

Nice advert for V Water.

Via Laughing Squid

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01 2009