entries Tagged as [illustration]
Food in Jars
I love canning stuff. And it’s getting to be the time of year to cram some stuff into bottles.
Pictured, logo design by Roger Estes for Marisa McClellan’s Food in Jars blog.
A color-coded Ralphs
‘And so was born the ‘shop-at-a-glance’ concept’
An ill-fated design experiment from 1965: Ralphs remodeled with departmentalized, color-coded graphic icons. Article here.
I use a lot of color coding in my own work – but with the assumption that the end user will need other organizational tools to find their way around. ‘Shop-at-a-glance’ never quite caught on; tho I’d love to see what data Ralphs collected as part of their process.
Found via Pleasant Family Shopping
‘Love Boot’
‘Exciting, Neue, Romance! Adventure!’
‘Love Boot’ prints, cards and postcards.
Vintage, repeating playbill poster design featuring type and boot dingbat from my Jeanne Moderno fonts.
And . . . Save $10 on your order of $35 or more at my store. Restrictions apply, go here for details/to get the discount.
(The prints come out really nice too)
So what really happened
Change to Win’s animate of ‘The End of the American Dream?’ – done in the style of RSA Animate.
Found via Occupy San Francisco
Dark Into Light
Video for AM & Shawn Lee’s Dark Into Light. Directed by Christian Borstlap and animated by Paul Postma.
Kolb’s Space Oddity
‘The tale of doomed Major Tom plays out in Kolb’s bright and retro animation style, giving a face to the legendary Bowie character and making the conclusion that much sadder’
Illustrated just for fun. The work of Andrew Kolb.
David Bowie: Space Oddity
Found via ComicsAlliance and Badass Digest
Chewbacca the Bear!
More posters from my room.
In early 1977, Marine World Africa USA was giving away these Coca-Cola promo posters. Their elephants were used in the first Star Wars movie as the banthas – and I ended up with some free wall hangings.
Knew nothing about the movie and I knew nothing about droids, the old guy with the Jesus circles around his head or why something was called a ‘SEE-THREEPIO.’ Also thought Chewbacca the Bear seemed a bit odd.
A few months later, went to the drive in and saw Star Wars. The previous year, saw Logan’s Run at the drive in. Star Wars was something much different.
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the great times new roman controversy
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defining terms: design is not decoration
garcia's 'pure design'
'enhance that image!'
magic highway remixed
the cynic
rad anthem
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Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art
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Advertising Art in the Art Deco Style
Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture
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