Ever since I was a little kid, my grandpa always encouraged me to draw ’cause he said he found “an artist” in me. And a truth that was, I was always carrying around a pack of coloured pencils, drawing books, etc I still remember I was very careful not to draw out of the lines and that kind of meticulousness led me in the end (I think) to be a designer.
And though I was kinda good at it, I always admired those guys who could draw off the top of their heads maintaining volume, dimensions and whatnot only by thinking of it and probably that turned out in me focusing more as a logo/photo-manip/layout designer instead of an Illustrator. However, for many years I left the graphics path and moved on to audio and video but finally came back to decide this as my main income activity.
So now I’ve been in the industry for a little while now and I’m trying to match up my illustration skills with the other ones. I’ve come across some beautiful vector sites but one really caught my attention.
Bloodsweatvector was founded by Brad Mahaffey and Jared Nickerson, it is an artist collective and showcase of the most talented vector artists in the world. The site has a nice variety of styles and it’s a great place to find inspiration for fresh and new ideas for those loving bezier curves, there’s also vector t-shirt designs and currently a €1000 design contest.
Be sure to check them out and prepare to be amazed with some beautiful, fresh vector art!
February 16, 2009 – 3:59 pm
Little do I know about a country like Ukraine except that they’re nowadays closing a deal with Japan on building farms or something like that. My current addiction to Playfish‘s GeoChallenge reminds me of the fact that their flag is simple in design (2 colored stripes: yellow and blue) and that they’re basically on the verge of bankrupcy like so many other economies during this year.
However, something coming from this country has caught my attention in the past days in which I find myself clicking (without knowing) back to the same site over and over again. Studio Psycho is a little creative/design and illustration agency in Ukraine which demonstrates what our business means in times like these: time and creativity.
I have always been a sucker for extremely detailed illustrations, even over “recent” styles that I have come to like so much, more cartoony, more McBess if you may. And images like the one illustrating this post have glamoured me back into realistic-organic design. I have seen a couple of dissectional graphics in the past (i remember one about a shark) but definetely the guys over at Psycho really know what they’re doing. Nice job!
I have read an interesting theory stating that Psycho is responsible for the Smart Grid site. It certainly does keep the same aesthetics. What do you guys think?
Enjoy!
February 5, 2009 – 12:44 pm
My feedreader has become a real problem due to the vast number of feeds I want to read on so many topics. My ‘design-related’ tab has been growing at least 1 feed a week since I decided to keep netvibes as organized as I could and the constant updating really drives me crazy. One of these constantly updated feeds is the amazing social bookmarking site FFFFound! I have tried to get an invite since forever but these are extremely scarce even in those invite-exchange sites and I’ve never been interested in any other like we heart it, vi.sualize.us, etc.
Anyways, I got some time ago an invite to a similar site called yay!everyday and it served me well for a couple of weeks. Lots of interesting people were posting real nice images and the posibility to like&comment them made the interaction much more attractive. Somehow I began forgetting to log in having tons of work to do (plus the million feed reading i feel compelled to do everymorning) and it became kind of irrelevant as i was already receiving the ffffound! stream to my netvibes and later to my Macbook screensaver to save some time.
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February 3, 2009 – 11:12 am
Bill Murray has never been a great favorite of mine, i have liked some of his films but definetely wouldn’t say I’m a notorious fan. However, I ran into this poster and couldn’t help noticing that I have seen him in all of these characters and liked it a great deal. From Zissou’s amazing numbness to the 80′s cheesy Ghostbuster, author Tim Doyle creates a beautiful four color silkscreen that will remind you that, maybe, you are a Murray fan too.
This is a stacked version of Murray times poster
I meant a stacked version because this is originally a widescreen poster that Nakatomi Inc has got for you . Buy the piece here, there is also a glow in the dark version!!
