Chewbacca riding a squirrel into battle against Nazis. Enough said. Check out Tyler Edlin’s other work here.
Archive for category art
Tyler
Aug 4
greg
Jul 27
Is there really much more that I can say about these paintings beyond their obvious brilliance? No. So I won’t. The portraits are done to perfection by artist Greg Peltz. Found via Josh Spear.
Francoise
Jul 21
Hey everyone, sorry about the hiatus. I’ve been working on a new design for the site, but realized that I can’t just neglect it while I’m doing that so I promise to keep posting. I decided to go with something that has a lot of color, and isn’t another video… So I’ve decided to show you an amazing artist named Francois Nielly who was born in Marseille and is now living in Paris. She does her work from black and white photos and uses a painting trowel instead of a brush. Check out her site here. Via Cool Hunter.
the big caption
May 25
Much like Unhappy Hipsters, The Big Caption is a site of captioned images that tell a story. A very funny story. The main difference is that The Big Caption uses the versatile form of font to help express the irony of our amazing world. Go check it out. Found via Josh Spear.
andy
May 20
Here’s a fresh artist, Andy Thomson, that continues the western theme promoted by Red Dead Redemption. I especially like the Spaghetti Western influences in the first piece. You can go and check him out here at Society6.
cardboard boards
May 18
I heard about these last year when my friend Sascha came back from Maker Faire full of tales of beautiful surfboards made of cardboard. Now that Maker Fair is coming around again, I’m again interested in whether Mike Sheldrake has started to produce these for the average Joe (he’s made one for Alex Knost but to my knowledge has started selling them yet, referring to do more R&D first). What are they? They’re surfboards made completely of cardboard that are put together in a shape and pattern used in by aerospace applications to make the weak material strong by dispersing the support throughout the board. This cardboard is then draped with the normal fiberglass and resin to make it watertight. They’re made out of material that is often made of recycled material, and lets just face it: They look just plain rad. Mike’s site is here, although last time I checked no one was home. Hmmm maybe he’ll be at this year’s Maker Faire. Video of assembly after the break.
lost
May 17
Now that it’s entering the home stretch, few can say that the TV series Lost is anything but a major piece of the popular consciousness pie from the last decade. Like it, love it, or despise it, Lost has captured the imagination of many, including graphic designer Alex Griendling who has taken the iconography of the show’s first season one step further by playing with the cultish aspects of the series, making the main characters into their own Tarot cards. I’m not much of a mystic (sorry Laura!) and don’t subscribe to the charlatianism of Tarot readings, but at least with these cards I wouldn’t mind watching them being meaningfully flipped over (love that the smoke is present in every card). Check out the whole set here. Thanks Charlie.
glennz
May 14
With the crazy success of Threadless.com there were bound to be some offshoots. Now, one of the graphic designers behind some of the better T-shirts at the site has gone all independent, creating his own site at glennz.com. His style is great at communicating the hilarious and ironic. Thanks Jon.
rework
Apr 13
I was just listening to a story on the NUMMI car plant closing in Fremont on a recent This American Life, and it was frustrating to listen to how GM bungled their business to bankruptcy in ’08. How could they not see what was coming? How could they be so inefficient? With this frustration hanging in the air, I was recently introduced to the book Rework. Apparently authors Jason Fried and David Hansson from 37signals, go through their strategies and dispel many of the “truisms” of business and entrepreneurism. Maybe it’s time to rethink some things. If you want to get an example of their writing check out 37signals, or the book here.
god of war
Apr 5
It’s only fitting that upon the recent release of God of War 3 that it’s protagonist, angst-ridden Kratos, should be found being angry in a renaissance painting (specifically Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson’s “Revolt In Cairo”). The game’s art direction is pretty amazing, but this takes it to another level of course. Apparently Kratos was born to be revolting in Cairo. The piece is part of Worth 1000′s photoshop, found via Kotaku.
