entries Tagged as [design]

Gravity

Available at Dave Eggers’ Superhero Supply Store in Brooklyn. Which is really just a front for 826NYC.

TED Prize talk below.

Found via theclickclickpress

StudioKxx

The work of Krzysztof Domaradzki.

Fuck shit up

Found via Zinzi Graham

Klein letters

The (left-handed) lettering work of Todd Klein.

From his book on comic book lettering.

Superman: The logo

A look at the design and evolution of Superman’s logotype.

Detailed article here.

Action Comics 1

Action Comics No. 1 as ‘covered’ by illustrator Tom Addison.

More comic book ‘covers’ here. The original Action No. 1, below.

The early Batman logos

Comic book lettering artist Todd Klein takes a detailed look at the early Batman logotypes.

Part one here. Part two here.

With later Batman logo analysis here, here and here.

Bat shirt

Alexa Chung’s Bat Tunic for Madewell. Released in December.

Already sold out (tho flittering around eBay).

Metropolis reinterpreted 2

Metropolis poster by Pietari Posti and Underware. 6-layered silkscreen print, 2008. Run of 100.

With glow-in-the-dark lettering.

Metropolis reinterpreted 1

Posters for Metropolis by Maelle De Bernardini. From 2002.

Metropolis visuals

Cinematography for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) was inspired by Paul Citroen’s 1923 Metropolis photomontage (above).

And so was Boris Bilinsky’s poster for the film (below).

Commercial artists took some liberties with how they created visual promotion for Metropolis – redrawing or recreating the ‘maschinenmensch’ (machine-man) and the modernist cityscapes. [Read more →]


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