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Illustration
I Can Read Movies, Book Cover Designs
Great book cover designs. Maybe I would have read more if I had these books back in day. She’s a replicant, isn’t she? Hold me. I can’t. But when it comes down to it, who’s holding the umbrella? Let’s see if you bastards can do 90. Hey, lady! You call him Dr. Jones! Aim for…
Coffee Cup Art
California-based artist Cheeming Boey draws some sweet stuff on coffee cups. It’s better than the Styrofoam ending up in the dump that’s for sure.
Old Folk Record Covers
Book Cover Finds
Some great book covers I found of Flickr. I really love the conceptual illustrations found on a lot of the old Pelican books. Enjoy!
Flickr Poster Finds
It’s hard to believe this last poster was created in the 1930’s. It fits right in amongst its contemporary friends. I think it is a sterling example that, like art and music, good design is timeless.
Designers You Should Know: Jacqueline Casey
“some of the most elegant posters in America. . . Her sense of proportion is at once precise and measured, organic and humane.” –Joseph P. Ansell, chair of the Visual Arts Department at Otterbein College in Westerville Jacqueline Casey began working at MIT in 1955 and was assigned to produce summer session materials for the…
Awesome Bands, Awesome Posters
Thanks to gigposters.com
Designers You Should Know: Anton Stankowski
“For him, design was a process, and at the beginning of every design process was not invention, but a critical exploration of the real givens” –The Design Theory, Curator: Peter von Kornatzki Maybe it has to do with Europe’s long and rich history and association with art. Or maybe it’s that Europeans just have more…
Dostoevsky explains the monastic way
“Very different is the monastic way. Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet they alone constitute the way to real and true freedom: I cut away my superfluous and unnecessary needs, through obedience I humble and chasten my vain and proud will, and thereby, with God’s help, attain freedom of spirit, and with that,…