This is the trailer for Art & Copy, a forthcoming documentary by Doug Pray, director of alt-culture art house doc faves Scratch, Infamy and Surfwise:
ART & COPY reveals the stories behind and the personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of our time and their campaigns, including Lee Clow (Apple Computer 1984, [...]
You are hereby officially notified and informed that the next communal gathering of The Benevolent Association of People Inappropriately Obsessed with Mid-Century Furniture and Designer Eyeglass Frames, a.k.a. KERNSPIRACY, has been scheduled for next Wednesday, the 15th of May. The “Ides of May,” even. Be there, or be scorned by your creative peers.
link » KERNSPIRACY
Forget all of those “X as a Penguin book cover” sites, here’s a frakking awesome collection of REAL scifi book covers from Penguin spanning 1935-2009.
link » The Art of Penguin Science Fiction
Stoked Mentoring is a non-profit in Los Angeles and New York that connects with disadvantaged teenagers through action sports, teaching them life skills and and connecting them with mentors through surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding. On May 2-3, Stoked is hosting two fundraising “Stoked Sessions” art shows at Upper Playground downtown. Over 200 artists, including names [...]
I love this 80’s-meets-00’s illustration work by Helsinki-based Sakke Soini. They should hire him to do the key art for Tron 2.
link » Behance.net: Retro Futurism
link » Behance.net: Retro Futurism II
link » Sakke Soini on MySpace
NYTimes.com Design Director Khoi Vinh’s take on the Tropicana packaging scandal is notable primarily because he’s the only person I’ve seen addressing the usability problems introduced by Arnell’s revisions to the brand:
link » Subtraction: Orange You Sorry About Tropicana?
link » NYTimes.com: Tropicana Discovers Some Buyers Are Passionate About Packaging
“Just another skateboard art show” opening this weekend at HVW8’s gallery space. Featuring work by Winston Tseng, Matt Eversole, Todd Bratrud and Jerry Hsu.
link » HVW8
link » enjoi
My wife’s 6th, 7th and 8th grade art students are hand-drawing Valentines Day cards for every student in their middle school. She brought home a batch the other day and they were so charming and inspiring I decided to scan a bunch and put them up on Flickr. Yes, some of them are upside down. [...]
You may have noticed that everything pretty much went to hell at the end of 2008. Unfortunatey, that included all of the big, secret plans that were in the works for groundbreaking KERNSPIRACY events. So, ‘09 is all about getting back on track, and we’re starting with a good ol’ fashion “drinks and arm wrestling” [...]
In conjunction with this week’s MacWorld Expo, Linotype has released the latest version of their widely lauded font management application, FontExplorer X. The newly rechristened “FontExplorer X Pro 2.0″ now features CS4 auto-activation and connectivity with the equally new FontExplorer X Server, but unfortunately for current users the formerly freeware app is now going to [...]
