Illustrator Paul Kreitmann’s work is featured in a set of clever ads for Alka Seltzer, chronicling the plight of a dumpling-shaped protagonist to avoid trouble with a bear, the mob, a magician’s assistant, a beach bully, and a fellow inmate. Subtle visual humor that bolsters the tagline “Dissolve your problems.”
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Old sugar has nothing going for it, but NewSugar has universal appeal. Weighing in at 112 pages, the illustration mag's new issue is filled with fresh art, plus Q&As with a cast of working illustrators.
After you check out an issue or two on their website, stop in and share your thoughts at the NewSugar group here on Veer Ideas.
A couple hundred faces in, the Unusual Suspects has turned out an amazing and eclectic variety of mugs and thugs, and one extraordinary bug.
If you tried to build a face earlier and found yourself in the 20% of patient, good looking folks with an incompatible version of Flash … we’ve updated things on our end and it should work perfectly for you now.
Maybe it’s the wide-eyed enthusiasm. Maybe it’s the way she says “grenouille”. Beyond adorable, this video of a little French girl making up a story is a burst of pure creativity.
Add an accordion track and a montage of black and white photos, and this child's imagination would be screening at your local art house theater.
Want to know more about design? Read some design books. On his new site The Designers Review of Books, designer Andy Polaine reviews only design-related books.
As Andy suggests, The Little Know-It-All could be a good place to start, and a good Christmas gift for the bathroom-reading designer in your life.
(Shout-out for the nice use of Ale Paul's Buffet Script in the masthead, too.)
It seems nothing is more magnetic (at least to us humans) than another face. A weird, distorted one? Even better. The endlessly amusing Unusual Suspects face builder app proves it (witness a few amazing contributions), as does Chris Ro's Efface book project, which achieves a similar effect on the printed page. Says Ro:
“Fourteen faces were constructed, de-constructed and fused in the hopes of assembling experiences that are simultaneously simple and yet very complex. The objective was to encounter the human face as one previously may not have encountered before.”
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If we were handing out awards for dreaming big, today's would go to Bulgaria. Sixty years ago, a flood caused their ancient city of Seuthopolis to be submerged at the bottom of a lake. Now they're taking it back in the name of tourism.
At the hard-to-miss city limits, a circular embankment will hold water back, allowing Seuthopolis to stay dry in a 1,377 ft. diameter recess. Just enough space to hold our collective awe.
Clever street art is a constant joy. Like this set of photos by urban remodeler SpY, whose work ranges from the flower-pot-in-a-basketball-hoop variety to wielding a welding torch to liven up the city's bike racks.
If social statements aren't your thing, here's one of summer's best examples of street art as opportunistic hilarity.
Toy store FAO Schwarz and Jim Henson's Muppet Workshop appear to have joined forces, for the betterment of all mankind.
The Muppet Whatnot Workshop lets you choose a body, eyes, nose, and outfit for your puppet, preview the ensemble, and then place your order for $90. Hand rod included, for wild, frog-like exclamations.
Nothing stirs the imagination like an empty page, so it's no wonder people have long been fascinated with ruins and ghost towns. There's that haunting sensation that you're all alone, but you shouldn't be... and that haunted sensation that you're all alone, but are you really? Add some historical context, years of grime, and a bank of fog rolling in and around the looping tendrils of a decrepit roller coaster, and you've got atmosphere that's off the charts.
Check out this great photo showcase of abandoned theme parks, theaters, schools, and pools.
