MetaFilter posts tagged with graphic and art

There's a Rendezvous of Strangers

mattdidthat — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:53:25 -0800

Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson) a typographic music video by graphic designer Jackie Lay. Via.

Sit Down, Print Out, Cut Up & Fold On

mattdidthat — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:10:29 -0800

President Obama pencil topper. Olympic Mayor Daley. Parachuting Rod Blagojevich.(Acrobat PDF) Mayor Daley Parking Meter.(Acrobat PDF) Paper sculptures by illustrator and animation artist Joe Fournier.

Heigh-Ho, The Merry-O, The Designer Takes A Wife.

mattdidthat — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:28:55 -0800

Matt Dorfman is one of the creators of Mammal Magazine. Here's his client work, personal work, blog, and his wedding invitation.

SHAPES AND COLORS

The Whelk — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:38:07 -0800

Graphic Design Is: 50 Designs About Graphic Design

The World of 100

fourcheesemac — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:05:18 -0800

The World of 100 -- 20 Posters by Toby Ng (via Daily Dish and Made in England) Toby Ng: This is a self-initiated project based on the scenario – If the world were a village of 100 people. There are a few different versions of this text in circulation about the world’s statistics. I found the data very striking and neatly summarises the world that we live in. So I used information graphics to re-tell the story in another creative way. I designed a set of 20 posters, which contain most of the information. I used simple vector graphics that related to a statistic in order to present the information in the simplest and most accessible way.

"Corel Draw, With Gradients, and Blippo Fuckin' Bold, Man!"

optovox — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:37:39 -0800

The Draplin Design Company is embarking on the World's Longest Yard Sale. Also: The Draplin Project, by Jess Gibson, and Why America Is Fucked. Alternate YouTube link.

Design Ideas, Web Trends, and Tutorials

netbros — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:29:38 -0800

Web Designer Wall is the personal weblog of Nick La who is N.Design Studio. He talks about design ideas he has, design tutorials from Photoshop to CSS, etc., and trends in modern web design. (see previous)

Layer Tennis

GuyZero — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:47:04 -0800

Layer Tennis. Head-to-head graphic artist competition!

Urban Forest Project

tpl1212 — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:58:36 -0800

Design Times Square: The Urban Forest Project "brings 185 banners created by the world’s most celebrated designers, artists, photographers and illustrators to New York’s Times Square. Each banner uses the form of the tree, or a metaphor for the tree, to make a powerful visual statement. Together they create a forest of thought-provoking images at one of the world’s busiest, most energetic, and emphatically urban intersections." Including work by Milton Glaser, the Walker Art Center, and many, many others. Via Speak Up.

witty portraits

madamjujujive — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:41:22 -0800

Pablo Lobato is an Argentinian graphic artist who uses color and geometric shape to create witty portraits and caricatures. More works are available at his website (sound & flash alert). His site's select links to other caricaturists are great, including David Cowles who he names as an influence and the brilliant Hannoch Piven.

A Conversation in Images

misteraitch — Fri, 06 May 2005 01:18:11 -0800

A Polite Winter is an eye-catching 'conversation' in 34 images, between the graphic artists James Jean and Kenichi Hoshine. (via)

Everybody Sees Something Different

yankeefog — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:55:19 -0800

Rashomon ... I thought about posting a link to the distinctive art style of Sam Weber, or the 25 greatest comic book covers ever made, or avante-garde Hungarian photographer László Moholy-Nagy, or this collection of Russian and Ukrainian posters--but instead, I decided to tell you all about the site where I found every one of these links: Rashomon, a new and (thus-far) consistently interesting collection of interesting visual arts links.

István Orosz

misteraitch — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:36:04 -0800

István Orosz (note: annoying Flash, popup window) is a Hungarian graphic artist. His work includes numerous illusionistic engravings which conjure visual paradoxes using tricks with perspective in a manner strongly reminiscent of M. C. Escher's. He has employed the technique of anamorphosis to striking effect.

circles, squares and triangles

Hands of Manos — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:55:41 -0800

It appears to be so simple, but as Fred Astaire once said "they'll never know how hard I work to let the strings show."
Kirsten Ulve started out as a Graphic Designer and later turned to Illustration. You've seen her work on things like Uno Cards, Nick at Night and TV Land. She is a master at caricatures and even has a freaky cool gallery to view as well.

The unsettling world of Viktor Koen

acrobat — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 07:15:57 -0800

Composite images. The unsettling world of Viktor Koen.

Get me a ticket for an aeroplane...

Vidiot — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 06:44:52 -0800

Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera . Amazing collection of posters, road maps, steamship and airline timetables, (more timetables here), post cards, luggage labels (more labels here and here), brochures and more. Seeing this stuff makes me wish I had been born seventy-five years earlier (and with an obscene amount of money.) (Warning: the site is seriously painful to look at, but the content's good. Link via Coudal.)

rushmc — Tue, 18 Jun 2002 06:39:59 -0800

Bad Photoshoppery. When graphic artists go bad. VERY bad. Way stinky bad.