Category — Illustration

Desktopography have a new collection of gorgeous desktop wallpapers for 2008.

The desktopography project arrived in 2005 as a place to download nature / topological themed wallpapers with edits from selected designers.

Designers spend about 90% of their waking life in front of a computer so the most appealing genre for a wallpaper would be one that has beautiful design mixed with the all important aspect of being outdoors.

Browse and download wallpapers at Desktopography.net

Technorati Tags: design, desktop wallpaper, illustration, PhotoShop, wallpaper

Animals on the underground is an excellent collection of illustrations of animals created out of the London Underground map.

The horizontal, vertical and forty-five degree angle lines create the three basic building blocks (lines) for this simple style which still allows recognisable portraits to be made.

Excellent inspiration and creative technique. What better distraction do you need from the mundane daily trek on the tube?

See more on the AnimalsontheUnderground website

Via blackeiffel

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Lee Vidal’s PhotoShop experiments produced the following ideas, which place retro graphics in real life scenarios.

It’s a nice, simple idea - one that is obvious in some ways, but I haven’t seen it before.

On the one hand, the designer in me would revel in the ease at which the pixellated graphics could be cut out cleanly to be superimposed on a photographic background. On the other, there could be a challenge in combining the blocky, retro bitmap style with the realistic photographic image.

Lee, under the moniker RETROnoob does a good job though.

Retronoob on Deviantart

Via

Technorati Tags: ideas, illustration, retro, retro games

If you used to read Mad Magazine, then you’ll love this feature from the New York Times. Its Al Jaffee’s fold-ins for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form.

From my point of view, a simple but good use of Flash’s new (ish) ability to skew bitmaps.

Check out Fold-Ins, Past and Present

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Yana Rudenko, who works under the banner Raven Concepts, has some really nice design work on her portfolio website. The following two examples of her photo manipulation work caught my eye, with their lush, colourful textures.

The following image was inspired by the HBO’s series Carnival, and depicts a “Circus Freak Bride” .

This image is call Phoenix. Yana produced this work by testing out tutorials she found online.

See more on RavenConcepts.com

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Marc Gabbana is an illustrator and concept artist who works in the advertising, publishing and motion picture industries. He has a truly awesome portfolio of work for films, advertising, and publishing as well as for his own personal ideas.

His first experience in Hollywood was on the movie Spawn, which opened a new arena in which Motion Picture Visual Development offered him the opportunity to see his designs come to life on the big screen. Marc fulfilled a lifelong dream by becoming a Star Wars concept artist for both The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones directed by George Lucas.

His other film credits include Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius, 8 Mile, Hellboy and IMAX’s first all CG 3D movie Cyberworld where he worked as the Production Designer. He also worked as illustrator and concept designer on the Wachowski brothers’ sequels Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions which were immediately followed by The Polar Express directed by Robert Zemeckis with Doug Chiang’s design team.

More on MarcGabbana.com

Via Io9.com

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Jason Freeny, under the moniker Moist Productions has created these wonderfully imaginative illustrations describing the anatomy of a gummi bear and a balloon dog.

Combining the usual (a sweet or a balloon) with the unusual (er - the anatomy), Jason seems to have had alot of fun coming up with these quirky ideas!

There’s more on his website, where you can also get signed prints and other stuff.

MoistProduction.com

Via Io9:
Some mad scientist decided to make gummi bears more juicy by using Frankensteiny technology to give them tiny circulatory systems and crunchy little veins…

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Here are some fantastic pieces of imaginative art by Bruce Jensen. From Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s column on io9.com:

“Bruce Jensen is an artist whose work you’ve probably seen more times than you can remember. Over seven seasons, his art montages formed the backdrop to hundreds of segments on the CBS show 60 Minutes II.

“His work tends toward bold color choices, using a style that can be whimsical or more severe, recalling the architectural surrealism of an artist like Magritte.”

Via io9.com

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With the second generation iPhone supposedly due out next month in June, there might be a rush of new customers, me included!

To help customise all our new iPhones, website Poolga.com provides a selection of free wallpapers, lovingly created by designers and illustrators from around the world.

I love the format - at 320 x 480 pixels, the size is nice and compact and perhaps easy to repurpose other graphics for.

Meanwhile visit Poola.com

Its been awhile since I’ve seen any watercolour work. No idea why. But I just came across artist David Scheirer’s website which he uses to showcase his drawings, watercolors, paintings, comics, and photographs.

Here are a couple of his watercolours.

Before embarking on my design training, I’d previously been using watercolours all my (student) life. There’s something about the medium which allows it to capture the sensibility of life over other media and seeing David’s work is making me itch for a paintbrush again.

To see more of David’s work, visit his website, Studio Tuesday

Via NotCot

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