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Parallels’ Raised By Wolves remix by Kilian Eng on Vimeo

More animation by Killian Eng/DW Design.

Tags: art, cool finds, design, illustration, music by steve
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Normandie’s Circle of the Beloved membership kit arrived in the mail. Wrote about it last week.

Box o good stuff: Handmade CDs by the band and a bunch of things I designed, black and white tees, poster, lifetime show pass. For more info, hit up their merch page.

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‘No Longer Empty (NLE) is a comprised of arts advocates, curators and artists who orchestrate public art exhibitions in vacated storefronts and properties in New York City.’

Street artist Gaia paints a mural at 223 East Broadway, NYC.

Gaia’s website. More about NLE here.

Found via Bloodwars Magazine

Tags: art, cool finds, illustration by steve
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So Sacramento’s kinda full of Kansas City emigres.

Many graphic design studio owners came from there, having studied under the legendary Rob Roy Kelly at the Kansas City Art Institute. And it may be only a matter of time until DJG ends up in Sac (I’m just guessing).

The Kansas City Kings moved to Sacramento in 1985. And recently, I found out a few of my students have been designing Kings billboards on the side.

Part of a campaign headed up by Sacramento Kings creative director Heather Vaughan – the handmade, graffiti-themed billboards have been appearing all over town. Not prints, but the actual handpainted art. The project has garnered national publicity appearing as a ‘Coast to Coast Best Practice’ in the Sports Business Journal.

Time-lapse video, above. Work (by students) below. More details here.

Demetris Washington

Jonathan Price

Daniel Mendez

Found via Lyndsie Ross, Kings design intern

Tags: cool finds, design, education, illustration by steve
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(Unofficial) music video for Instant Remedy’s Fairlight.

Animation by DW Design.

Mesmerizing.

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40th Anniversary Woodstock tribute poster tied to a west coast music festival.

This was a collaborative project I designed with psychedelic light show legend George Holden. His liquid light backgrounds, my illustration and lettering.

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Here’s 25 posters.

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New documentary on the history – and current status – of American Rock Poster art. More info here.

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Prep

Experimental, architectural, typographic. The work of UK-based Peter Crawley.

Follow the progress of his latest piece (pictured) on Twitter.

Detail

Midway

Plus
Here’s an interview over at Ape on the Moon.

And
A link to the final product.

Found via Natasha Newton

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Polka, by Rodolfo Collado Hernandez, Vancouver Film School

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A bit over 25 years ago, Modern Dog hit the Seattle music scene doing graphic design in a way it wasn’t supposed to be done. Hand drawn illustration, messy over the top typography, bright colors, goofy text. Humor!

What’s not to love?

You can fetch their book here. You may have seen their work for Blue Q (images below). Modern Dog website. I’ve also had some great conversations with co-owner Robynne Raye.

Been swapping recipes. Soup is good food.

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