Category: Art & Design

  • 1949 National Candy Wholesalers Association Salesman Catalog

    1949 National Candy Wholesalers Association Salesman Catalog

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    1949 National Candy Wholesalers Association Salesman Catalog The 1949 salesman’s catalog from the National Candy Wholesalers Association is full of great images and slogans for making confectionery sales. View the via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/1949-national-candy-wholesalers-association-salesman-catalog/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+laughingsquid+%28Laughing+Squid%29 The 1949 salesman’s catalog from the National Candy Wholesalers Association is full of great images and slogans for making confectionery sales

  • Mosaics of Movie Poster Clichés

    Mosaics of Movie Poster Clichés

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    Mosaics of Movie Poster Clichés French film distributor Christophe Courtois has evidently seen thousands of film posters in his life: witness his spot on and often hilarious film posters via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/mosaics-of-movie-poster-cliches/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+laughingsquid+%28Laughing+Squid%29

  • FIRST LOOK: Invader in Brasil

    FIRST LOOK: Invader in Brasil

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    Wooster Collective: FIRST LOOK: Invader in Brasil via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2011/09/first_look_invader_in_brasil.html

  • The Evolution of Video Game Controllers

    The Evolution of Video Game Controllers

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    The Evolution of Video Game Controllers Poster by Pop Chart Lab The Evolution of Video Game Controllers by Pop Chart Lab, featuring “119 species and 11 genera over seven decades of gaming”. This new “Deluxe Edition” is via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/the-evolution-of-video-game-controllers-2/ The Evolution of Video Game Controllers by Pop Chart Lab, featuring “119 species and…

  • Why writers sometimes work for free and designers don’t, as Huffington Post contest reminds journalists

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    Poynter: The AIGA worked to ensure that professional designers should be compensated fairly for their work long before technology allowed for easy, free publication of writing and photography

  • The Titanic Taxonomy of Professional Wrestler Names

    The Titanic Taxonomy of Professional Wrestler Names

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    The Titanic Taxonomy of Professional Wrestler Names Pop Chart Lab has created The Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestler Names, celebrating the noms de guerre of 382 professional wrestlers. via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/the-titanic-taxonomy-of-professional-wrestler-names/ Pop Chart Lab has created The Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestler Names, celebrating the noms de guerre of 382 professional wrestlers.

  • Graphic of Everyone Killed by Jason Voorhees In Friday The 13th Films

    Graphic of Everyone Killed by Jason Voorhees In Friday The 13th Films

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    Graphic of Everyone Killed by Jason Voorhees In Friday The 13th Films Andrew Barr of Canada’s newspaper National Post collaborated with illustrator Mike Faille to tally up the carnage from antagonist Jason Voorhees in the via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/graphic-of-everyone-killed-by-jason-voorhees-in-friday-the-13th-films/ Andrew Barr of Canada’s newspaper National Post collaborated with illustrator Mike Faille to tally up the…

  • Artist EVOL Installs Miniature City Underneath Grassy Field

    Artist EVOL Installs Miniature City Underneath Grassy Field

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    Artist EVOL Installs Miniature City Underneath Grassy Field German artist EVOL uses stencils to create the illusion of tiny buildings on walls and street furniture. For his latest installation, he excavated an via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/artist-evol-installs-miniature-city-underneath-grassy-field/

  • An appreciation of '60s and '70s bubblegum trading cards

    An appreciation of '60s and '70s bubblegum trading cards

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    An appreciation of ’60s and ’70s bubblegum trading cards Dangerous Minds recently did a nice image gallery of selected bubblegum trading cards of the 1960s and ’70s, including some sci-fi classics, Bo Derek, What’s Happening, and Dukes of Haz… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/07/12/an-appreciation-of-6.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag Dangerous Minds recently did a nice image gallery of selected bubblegum trading…

  • David Young V Interview

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    David Young V is on a mission. Shuttling between two studio spaces in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco— frequently in the dead of night—he engages in the business of recovering fragments from a future world. To hear him speak about the tomorrow he foresees; a world of zealots, martyrs, psychotic orphans and armed bike…

  • Wooster Collective at TEDxBloomington (The Video)

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  • Mosh pit paintings by Dan Witz

    Mosh pit paintings by Dan Witz

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    Brooklyn painter, street artist, and musician Dan Witz has a solo show opening at NYC’s Jonatha

  • Jerry Saltz on Why the Work of Today’s Well-Educated Artists Lacks Content — New York Magazine

    Jerry Saltz on Why the Work of Today’s Well-Educated Artists Lacks Content — New York Magazine

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    Jerry Saltz on Why the Work of Today’s Well-Educated Artists Lacks Content — New York Magazine – Nymag I went to Venice, and I came back worried. Every two years, the central attraction of the Biennale is a kind of State of the Art World show. This year’s, called “Illuminations,” has its share of high…

  • Very bad late '90s hip-hop cover art

    Very bad late '90s hip-hop cover art

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    Very bad late ’90s hip-hop cover art An academic appreciation of very bad late ’90s Hip-Hop cover art. (thanks, David) via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/10/very-bad-late-90s-hi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag

  • Bad Art of The Rapture

    Bad Art of The Rapture

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    Bad Art of The Rapture Eager for May 21? Can’t wait for Jesus to dustbust up all the Christians so you can get on with your on post-rapture orgies and looting? Well, some of us via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/bad-art-of-the-rapture/

  • The Graffiti of War

    The Graffiti of War

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    The Graffiti of War From war, art. This is the basic premise of The Graffiti of War, a project from two combat veterans that features the unconventional military art that soldiers, seamen, marines, and airmen (and wom… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/27/the-graffiti-of-war.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag From war, art. This is the basic premise of The Graffiti of War ,…

  • US Soldier-Taggers: Afghanistan as Fight Club

    US Soldier-Taggers: Afghanistan as Fight Club

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    Soldier-Taggers: Afghanistan as Fight Club – Reading The Pictures Street art depends on disrupting the order and values of everyday life. Except, that is, when it’s riffing off of “Fight Club” and posted on a NATO military base in Afghanistan. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2011/04/us-soldier-taggers-afghanistan-as-fight-club/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Bagnewsnotes+(BAGnewsNotes) Here we’re introduced to the artist ZEROSIX, whose imagery is…

  • Miniature Town Brings Its Creator a New Life

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    Miniature Town Brings Its Creator a New Life As a way to cope with his new life after an attack, Mark Hogancamp built a Nazi-besieged, World War II era town in his backyard at 1/6th scale. He populated the model town with miniature alter egos of him and his friends. Each one is a personality…

  • FIRST LOOK: JR Kicks Of His TED Wish "Inside Out" In Tunisia

    FIRST LOOK: JR Kicks Of His TED Wish "Inside Out" In Tunisia

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    Wooster Collective: FIRST LOOK: JR Kicks Of His TED Wish “Inside Out” In Tunisia via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2011/03/first_look_jr_kicks_of_his_ted_wish_insi.html Two photographers – Agence France Presse’s Roberto Schmidt and Getty Images’ Joe Raedle – have gone missing in Libya alongside AFP reporter Dave Clark

  • JR in the NYT Magazine – Supercolossal Street Art

    JR in the NYT Magazine – Supercolossal Street Art

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    Supercolossal Street Art For the street artist known only as JR, the world is a canvas. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27Photograffeur-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss In the bottom right-hand corner of the poster was a label, too sophisticated to be a graffiti artist’s tag but something along those lines: a Japanese-like calligraphic symbol concocted from the letters “J” and “R” above a…