Time again for our weekly picks from the Creative Review blog. Check 'em out:
With the new Indiana Jones movie on its way next week, and its excellent poster adorning the walls of theaters/malls/airports/subways everywhere, what better time to pay tribute to the man behind the art. Drew Struzan's awe-inspiring body of work spans from the Marx Bros.' Animal Crackers in 1974 to advance posters for next year's Hellboy sequel – with almost every Spielberg and Lucas production in between.
Scantily-clad car washers are bound to catch your eye on a sunny day. In a tribute to summer, DDB Canada’s recent spot for Subaru features tons of suds-covered skin. Via AdFreak.
When a child sees something lurking in the closet or peeking out from under the bed, there's never a sketch artist around to take down the eyewitness account. That's where Marvel & DC alum Dave DeVries and his Monster Engine come in.
DeVries takes drawings that have leapt from the imaginations of children and infuses them with a more practiced artistic hand. In his before/after galleries of monsters and superheroes, the transformations are dramatic, inspiring, and even a tad unnerving.
Anyone who has actually encountered a giant evil chomping baseball will want to take a moment to brace themselves before clicking through.
via shape + colour
If you fast forward through commercials and are lucky enough to not have a fluorescent beer sign anywhere in your abode, you may be among those who think of their homes as shelter from advertising. Even if (especially if) you've had a hand in such messages during your 9 to 5.
Debranded Home contends that once an item has flown off the store shelf, its convincing packaging has run its course. They currently sell two sets of stickers to organize bath products after you've transfered your store-bought goods to plain containers.
Kitchen and condiment stickers can't be far behind – important if you're wary of mixing up your de-branded hair product with your de-branded mayonnaise.
via The Dieline
Compiling bits of digital data gleaned from the communication habits of millions of New Yorkers may seem like some covert national security exercise. It’s not … at least not in this case. Using several months worth of anonymous, aggregated long distance telephone and internet data flowing between the five boroughs and other international centers, MIT researchers created something intrinsically attractive (and actually kind of useful). The NYTE (New York Talk Exchange) project was recently featured as part of the Design and Elastic Mind exhibition at the MoMA.
We’ve been huge fans of Joel Trussell since his mindblowing viking guitar battle video for Jason Forrest’s War Photographer.
Joel recently completed another video for Morcheeba’s Enjoy the Ride in his trademark mythical-voodoo-storybook(?) illustration style.
And if Morcheeba’s not your style, the video also works pretty well with The Sword’s Iron Swan as a soundtrack.
(Thanks Joe)
A new speaking series by the good people at Under Consideration (and proudly sponsored by Veer) kicks off Thursday night at the Art Directors Club in New York. The first one features designers Sam Potts and Martin Venezky.
Says Armin: “[their] work displays a serious commitment to detail, craft and language, while often showcasing an equally delightful engagement to a sophisticated visual abundance – all with decidedly opposite results.”
One thing they definitely have in common though, is a great sense of humor.
Find out more at the Opposites Attract web site.
Designer (and self-admitted type dork) Adam Dustan has been squirreling away our highly collectable Veer catalogs for several years. One day he decided to remove all of the type-related pages and create his own custom type specimen book. Adam thought we might enjoy seeing the coil-bound fruits of his labor … and he was right. What a clever (and obviously useful) way to repurpose those teetering piles of direct marketing goodness.
It’s Friday, so time again to share our favorite posts by our friends on the Creative Review blog. Some particularly outstanding stories this week, they're all must-clicks:
