November 2, 2009 @ 2:12 am
I didn’t think I’d care, but CrunchGear just posted about the death of Don Ivan Punchatz, the artist behind the original DOOM video game box, and it sorta made me a bit sad.
DOOM was one of the first PC games I ever played and I can recall seeing this image every time I launched the game. And now the man who subconsciously told me that it was ok to shoot aliens is dead. It’s weird to think that DOOM is more than 15 years old.
September 28, 2009 @ 7:16 pm
Photo: Ng Han Guan/Associated Press
This magnificent photo of a bull pinning a man (Bernie Madoff) to the wall is courtesy of The Wall Street Journal. The sculpture was created by Chen Wenling to illustrate the global financial crisis. It is now on display in Beijing.
September 18, 2009 @ 8:20 pm
Scott Thomas, the design director of the Obama Presidential Campaign, is putting together a book called Designing Obama that takes a look at the enormous effect the art community had on helping elect President Barack Obama. The book features the artwork of those people who were officially and unofficially helping the campaign gain attention in the media. Spread out among 360 pages are inspirational, beautiful, and influential pieces of art that each ended up serving its part in electing America’s first African-American President.
The wonderful thing about this book is that it’s being funded just like the grassroots movements during the campaign. Together with KICKSTARTER, Scott Thomas is hoping to raise at least $65,000 to run the minimum order of books. Any additional proceeds during the fundraiser (from now until Novemeber 4, 2009) will be used to print additional books for every single person who pledges to help this project through to the end.
Currently there are 4 levels of participation each with its own unique copy of Designing Obama. You can pledge $10, $50, $100, or $150 and if for whatever reason the book doesn’t raise at least $65,000 by November 4th, you get all of your money back — no questions asked!
Head on over to KICKSTARTER now to help get this beautiful book out the door as soon as possible!
Watch the promo video for the book below.
Designing Obama from mas / menos on Vimeo.
September 8, 2009 @ 6:36 pm
This little installation by Jack Williams uses 350 Royal Pine air fresheners to create a floating forest.
This is one of my fears I didn’t even know I had. I would hate to be in a room filled with Royal Pine air fresheners because while they look nice, they certainly do not smell nice.
August 22, 2009 @ 6:51 pm
Every weekday over at Film The Blanks, a new movie poster is posted with all words, letters, and non-essential elements removed. The website is an experiment in abstraction, replacing words, faces, and shapes with block colors. Some of the film posters are easy while others are incredibly hard. If you want to have a look at all of the ones that have been posted so far, you can check out this Flickr photoset here.
Also, if you’re interested, you can buy the posters here.
July 17, 2009 @ 1:10 pm
This is the story of a young man and woman who show their love for each other via Post-It art in the office. It starts out small and gets pretty crazy. Check out the credits on the video’s IMDB page. Thanks Pam! [via]
