(Click to enlarge) Every now and again, people discover a post I wrote back in 2006 that discusses the Fedex logo, and presents an interview with its designer, Lindon Leader of Leader Creative. A Twitter user tweeted the Fedex article, and before I knew what was happening, a flock of followers were hammering my server. [...]
I was going to post a few images of the new exhibition of Die Duckomenta, but the idea of wading (or waddling) through a hundred and twenty versions of the same joke made me grab just a couple of the non-duck images. (below). Based on that Dancing Dutchman. (Click these thumbnails to enlarge them, please) [...]
Categories: Art,Graphics,Illustration
Tagged: concept art, Illustration
All this showery midsummer rain has played havoc with sporting fixtures, and worse is on the way according to the meteorological office. Much worse by the look of things… The inhabitants of Chelmsford in Essex must have had a very nasty fright when they checked the BBC weather forecast at 4.00 this afternoon. (Cluck to [...]
Tagged: big blue duck, weather
There are so many handy tips about obscure Photoshop techniques floating around, that sooner or later, some of the more arcane ones just float off, beyond the reach of memory. Well; my memory, anyway. The research I do entails a lot of scanning, and of all sorts of materials. Typescripts, books and magazines, and even [...]
One of the most popular posts (so far) on this blog is a piece I wroted and quoted about the Fedex Logo and its designer, Lindon Leader, way back in early September 2006. Looking at my blog’s stats, I notice that over 16,000 people have stopped by to have a look at that one article [...]
Categories: Graphics,Typography
Tagged: corporate bullshit, logo, negative space, positive space
Here is a selection of beautiful samples of the chromolithographic printer’s art, applied to cigar boxes. They seem to be speculative samples that were sent out to North American cigar packers around 1880 -1910, judging by the costumes. While it’s fortunate that whoever runs the Brasilian website containing these images has gone to the trouble [...]
Categories: Graphics,Illustration,Visual Research
This is one of the oddest websites I have seen in a while. I cannot remember what I was researching when I found it. All I know is that I was held entranced in its soft and quirky grip for a time that seemed to last for ages, but in reality was probably very short. [...]
One of the mantras in screenwriting is that you have to know the end before you can write the beginning. Or the middle. (If you click this thumbnail, it will get slightly bigger, but not much!) This set on Flickr concentrates on the very, very end of the film. In truth, it’s the bit that [...]
(Cliquez l’image minuscule pour l’agrandir) There’s a less scabrous version here, albeit with terrible pincushion distortion. Rummaging around on the Onslow auction site for some posters by Eric Kennington, I came across this little gem by a French poster artist that I’d never heard of before; Jean d’Ylen. Socks were blown off. Have a look [...]
Categories: Art,Graphics,Illustration
