Spotted the illustrations of Tavis Coburn on Design Work Life (one of the best blogs out there, by the way). Here the images are promoting the BAFTAs, Britains equivalent of The Academy Awards. Love how a single style is applied across multiple movies titles — we need more of this.
See the series here »
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If you’ve had an ear open to advertising/design-related chatter in the past year or so, you’ve probably heard about Please Feed The Animals and Lemonade, the short documentary illustrating inspiration stories of folks who had been laid off from advertising jobs, and subsequently transformed their lives.
I just watched it on Hulu. It’s incredibly inspirational! Go [...]
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Luckily, the astute folks at the New York Times are highly organised, and thus they have produced for our enjoyment, a grid-based, icon-fueled look at the last ten years in news, business, culture, and other categories of time–space. Love it.
Think for a second that this was done mainly with icons. One tiny image can encapsulate [...]
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Today turned up a sparkly little collection of French movie posters from the 50s and 60s. Great stuff, check ‘em out.
Am I the only on who feels that some of these would make excellent book covers? Especially the ones sans photographs, that are heavily graphical. Could work, non?
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The Advertising and Design community has been talking about Art & Copy, the new documentary film about the ad industry. With anticipation, we’ve been sharing the trailer all over the various Internet outlets.
Well, last night I snuck out to a preview and managed to watch the film. The two words on my tongue after seeing [...]
// a tale of advertising: outdoor, advertising: print, advertising: tv/radio, brands & branding, cinema, music, national identities, photography, politics, the industry
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Movie poster are usually pretty lame. Repetitive ideas, groupthink and compromise, templates, and occasionally a Photoshop Disaster. But today, PSD TUTS has compiled a collection of 50 Brilliantly Photoshopped Movie Posters. Not that Photoshop is necessarily employed to retouch or otherwise hoodwink the audience, but these are generally pretty awesome in their artistic composition and/or [...]
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After watching the Oscar-nominated documentary Encounters at the End of the World, I thought it fitting to highlight one of the most underrated design arenas on the planet: the South Pole markers.
Turns out that every year, a new Pole marker is erected and the previous one is retired. It’s kinda like the All-Star game for [...]
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