Sometime while watching a debate last week, this humorous cartoon** passed by on the internets. In case you missed it, there’s no bailout today, in 1975 WGPR in Detroit became the first black-owned and operated station in the states, and the first ever US congress adjourned in 1789. Good times! And of less significance I bring you these finds:

Vintage poison labels.

An interview with the artist/designer behind the Beatles Yellow Submarine.

Hot Rods and Hairy Beasts. It just sounds cool.

Luchadors! and more of them here!

The School of Life.

XXX! Porn made safe to watch with friends.

Awesome animated game. Crappy Cat!

Laser cutting!

Everything is OK.

Desperate for Love. A video created by in the spirit of the exquisite corpse.

Bastards! Adobe unleashed CS4. Why do they keep doing that to me I was happy with CS3. Save your pennies!

Amazingly stylish, The Pumpkin of Nyefar.

Highlights from Ottawa’s animation festival.

Jokes + Type = typographunnies.

Another amazingly stylish video for Canada’s Blue Water Project.

**It should be noted I am not endorsing Barack Obama for President, or for that matter any political candidate. Its just a funny cartoon.

Tuesday, Sept. 23, 6:00p.m.
Student Center Ballroom *

Photographer Paul Shambroom is best known for his projects examining power structures within the United States. Recent projects include Meetings, a collection of photographs of municipal and community meetings across the country, and Security, a series documenting anti-terrorist training camps in the post-9/11 era. Shambroom’s work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Julie Saul Gallery, both in New York; at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Three monographs of his photos have been published.

http://paulshambroomart.com

* NOTE: this location has been changed from the original announcements due to flooding in the Halle basement.

The Stocks are Falling! The Stocks are Falling! As our economy continues to slid into one of the worst financial crises here is what came across my web browser this week! Graphic above from the NYTimes.

A calligraphy exhibition.

Some interesting work by Tin&Ed.

The titles of Little Nemo in Slumberland are great examples of type.

Flip camera tilt-shift experiments. (I want to try this!)

NetFlix origami.

Kako Ueda make amazing paper-cut illustrations.

Great Flickr sets of matchboxes.

Damaged goods.

A jam session of comics made by Chicago artists.

8mm Film basics. I have an old Super 8 that I have been dying to use for something.

Minimal websites.

Laugh-out loud cats.

Polygon Playground = the next evolution of the school playground.

Alvin Lustig.

Great article on the cover and typography design of some trashy old novels. Also of similar interest, XXX movie posters of the 60s and 70s. (NSFW)

Nice work by Richard Alan Roberts.

Saul Bass logos, always good.

Check out how people re-imagined the White House.

Frank Porter the Hot Dog eating champ…the toy!

50 Gig posters to inspire you.

Some interesting designed objects by Yuri Suzuki.

I find this guys illustrative work pretty inspiring… check out his Sketchbook

I remember Ryan asking us “what is graphic design?” Here’s a video of someone asking non-designers that question: What is Graphic Design?

This guy points out some things about Web 2.0 trendiness: Destroying the Web 2.0 look

Hurricane Ike has come and gone, and so has another week full of things found on the internet.

A series of interviews with different photographers on flickr.

How to draw anything in 1 step.

Illustrated Polish movie posters.

Russian book covers.

Wallpaper magazine gets a Zaha Hadid make over.

Hurricane Gustav, before, during, and after on Flickr.

Nice motion work by Labour.

Book design stories.

Projector + artist = Berliner dome makeover.

Is it a typeface or a font. Thoughts on how to use the two terms.

Why America is F*cked (graphically at least). Lots of cussing in this one.

Images from the Venice Architecture Beinnale. Which includes the work of former instructor Josh Walton. More here.

Creativeleague is full of demo reels and other moving goodies.

Nice article on Cold War posters.

Agro-veillance. Using surveillance equipment for crop maintenance.

If you haven’t seen Octocat you should watch it. Here is its most recent episode and a nice commentary by creator David O’Reilly who fooled everyone into thinking he was 14yr old Randy Peters.

Magazine covers in motion.

Old book trade labels.

Motionographer has started to podcast interviews with various animation and motion follks.

Action sports + motion = looking thru the b-sides.

Want to add more cowbell. Use this handy online app.

Don’t care about Transformers or Gobots? Try the Incredible Change-Bots.

Who cares about printing on paper, print on bread.

And lastly an interview about an illustration I did for Hobart.

Photo from MedicalStudent’s flickr stream.

Although I can’t take credit for the drawing above, this flash site is pretty amazing. It lets you draw using font characters in an extremely simple UI that records your drawing process (awesome!) and plays back the drawing process when you look at other people’s work (more awesome!). It’s interesting to me that almost everyone draws people/face. I did:

http://fontpark.morisawa.co.jp/permalink?id=4ption5tppc1a36

Some of you may remember Josh Walton, he taught for a few semesters at EMU. Right now he’s doing some amazing interaction design work!

As many of you know, I have been curating a political poster art show this whole summer just in time for the upcoming election. It sets to open this Wed., Oct. 10, 4-7 pm. I will give a gallery talk at 6 PM.

We have 19 designers from 7 countries. At least 3 of the featured designers will be present at the event.

The catalog will be unveiled at the opening and free to all.
A range of medias were used to make the posters- screen printing with acrylics, spray paint, offset lithography, and even… homemade inks with fruit and motor oil!

www.postersofdiscontent.com
for more info and to see the posters.

I’m thinking of screen printing on a post-it an image of Sarah Palin. seems like a moral imperative to be added to my CHANGE poster…
(a former Mayor who tried to remove town library books…yeah that’s progressive)

Show runs till Oct. 9.
Best,
Andrew

Once again welcome back… while most of these finds are not school related they will still fill your day with lots of things to feast your eyes on.

A nice video on the history of Wired magazine.

Nice illustration and knit work by Sandra Juto.

Artist swoon presents his floating cities. More here.

Instead of making books, try using them to make vases.

A not-quite-safe-for-work alphabet inspired by playboy bunnies.

Can’t remember the key code for the copyright symbol, cut and paste it from here.

If you are using Lulu.com and want to use it to its fullest advantages, check out the book Dear Lulu. Speak up has a great article about the project.

Last week we posted about the David Byrne building as instrument project, here’s another video about it.

It’s not funny, its art. Blanca loves art, so do we! Blanca doesn’t understand it, and I don’t either.

Imagine the possibilities, if we can print houses, what else can we print!

Crazy video. It makes me dizzy.

eBay for learnin’.

Saul Bass talks about his film titles. (Its a bit long but really good stuff!)

Great collection of fantasy book covers.

Another record cover site.

Love the flickr pool of experimental typography. (Lots of inspiring stuff for you 302 folks)

A few wall papers become dimensional.

Papercraft Hindenburg and Titanic.

Bansky has been in the US sticking it to the man in the post-Katrina south. Be sure to look at the various flickr galleries.

Chinese political comics.

I saw one of these little guys in London last year. Check out the work of Slinkachu.

At least one back to school related link. Go back to school in fashion with one of these lunch boxes.

Layperson’s guide to graphic design.

A cartoon I thought was the most awesome thing 2 years ago will be on Cartoon Network soon. Algebraic!

I put together a list of sites and resources that I thought may be beneficial to those returning to class. While the list was done with students in mind, there is still lots of good stuff for everyone.  Feel free to join in & leave a comment if  you have a favorite to add.

Link: http://www.councilc.com/?q=backtoschool