Louise Fili is a designer and author who specializes in, among others, the design of food packaging and restaurant identity. It's easy how the knowledge she gained in authoring such books as Italian Art Deco and Dutch Modern has influenced her work.
Use your imagination—if you have the budget, there are some very interesting commercial applications for these stunning, lifelike figures. Gene Poor's LifeFormations is a leading producer of highly realistic museum figures—static and animatronics. I first saw their work on a C-SPAN broadcast surrounding the dedication of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum. What captured my interest was the fact that visitors can stand right next to these incredibly detailed, life-sized figures in the middle of the museums plaza.
As they stand in the museum...
Is it just me, or have they broken some new ground here. Forget whether you agree or disagree with this candidate's politics—I think it is among the most successful campaign sites I've seen: great brand, intuitive Web, excellent messaging.
Threadless is a perpetual tee shirt design competition. Creators Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart came up with the idea after Jake won a similar competition. Submit your illustration and you could come away with a prize that, at this writing, is worth $2000.
Brown University offers an interesting way of organizing a lot of information. Roll over the listings here and up pops an anchor image for each section.
The Brown University home page...
Noli Novak is one of the artists behind the Wall Street Journal's signature stipple illustration style. She's been creating portraits for the paper since 1987.
An exhibit surrounding the WSJ style at the National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery...
Some interesting marketing insights by Seth Godin, the author of All Marketers are Liars and a contributing editor to Fast Company magazine.
Seth Godin speaks at Google...
About his work, Kristain Olson says, “I want my work to look alien, or foreign, or just beautiful, to remind (the viewer) of a world they don't understand but are fascinated by.” He hit the nail on the head.
A close-up showing some of the mind boggling detail.
What does it look like when you combine an interest of motion picture special effects with conventional photography. A world that is too fantastic, to be real, and too real to be fantasy. On the inside menu choose “photos” and be sure to click “how it was done” at the top left of each image—fascinating.
I contributed a column to the November/December 2006 issue of Layers Magazine—The How-To Magazine for Everything Adobe. The magazine is published by Photoshop guru Scott Kelby's KW Media Group. A good publication run by folks who understand the art of teaching. Hope you'll check it out.
Roger Black continues to reinvent his signature palette to great effect: Giza and Interstate typefaces and black, red, and white space.
