What’s not to love about old horror movies? Even better, what’s not to love about old horror movie posters?? Download these color palettes and make your own horror movie poster:

a guy i work with passed this on to me and now i to you:

Former EMU Graphic Design student Jon Fenlon (above, on the left), class of ‘07, passed away running the Detroit Marathon on Sat. of what appears to be heart failure. Jon studied abroad in London with me in Spring 2007 (a few images of his work below). He was an extremely talented student who quickly found success shortly after school as an art director at Campbell-Ewald. Beyond his professional accomplishments in life he was a vibrant person and a pleasure to work with.

He will be missed.

In case you missed it a few weeks ago they opened up what seemed to be the gates of hell in front of Ford Hall last week. It was quite the site to see, as are some of these links:

2012 Olympics pictograms are revealed.

A good interview with film maker/animator Jeff Scher.

Some great illustrations by Fernando Volken Togni.

Great slide show of the work of Walter Dexel.

Greyscale Gorilla critiques demo reels.

Logos that make good use of negative space.

Essay #1 by Minimal.

Psyop brings you How to Animate.

Furniture to keep you active.

Cardboard characters in the real world; an animation.

Sheaff (various ephemera).

An interesting concert perhaps; the Decemberists have hired several animators to create video for their concert.

Sita Sings the Blues (a wonderful animated feature).

Thriller without Michael and zombies.

Fontstuctor Peter De Roy.

Amazing stencil graffiti.

Jesus 2000.

This may be a repeat but worth visiting again: the art and motion of Beatles Rock Band.

Photosketch.

Trademarkia.

Nice whimsical title sequence for Flash on the Beach.

EMYou the magazine is sponsoring a video contest asking why you love Ypsi. So get your video skills sharpened and enter it! Here’s some information from their website:

What We’re Looking For:
We’re interested in YOU making the case for your Ypsi-love, as easy or as difficult that may be. Show us in pictures, or tell us in word or song. Anyway you want to present it video wise is fine, as long as you’re creative and convincing!

Rules and Winners:
Contestants can enter one video in each of the three categories listed below (add as many videos as you’d like). The video should be between 30 seconds and  2 minutes long and speak to why you (one person, one group, a business, etc…) love Ypsilanti!

Prizes:
First Place: $150
Second Place: $100
Third Place: $50

DEADLINE OCT 19

You can now create images as you would on Photoshop, but on the web… And for FREE!

http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

As the students in Image Making 1 embark on a week long collage making project I figured I’d post some additional inspiration that wasn’t shown in slides. A quick search through some saved links I have these artists/designers to share. I’ll be bringing some zines in the near future.
The flickr set of Snail Booty

The work of Eduardo Recife

The work of Wangechi Mutu:

Mary Gordon:

The bizarre collages of Gordon Magnin:

The simple and clever combinations of Javier Jaen:

The behance portfolio of Alejandro Chavetta is full of goodies:

The blog of Johnny Applehead has some there:

The work of Pirlugi Longo:

and the behance folio of Luis Toledo:

As people begin to work on their altered books in Image Making 2, I figured I would share this recent short film by Adam Gault. In Off the Course Gault brings to life the altered book.

If you are in the mood for more motion work involving the book, check out the title sequence for Bored to Death.

School’s back (well, actually it has been back for sometime now)! That said, we’ve all been busy around here making work, getting classes underway, and having some fun. As evidence of how busy things have been around here, featured above is Rachel Auriemma’s amazing work for a one week assignment in the Advanced Graphic design class. I have been busy collecting links for you to feast your eyes upon so without further delay here they are:

A three-year exhibition of El Lissitzky’s work starts this year.

Amazing flickr set of astronomy photographs.

Crazy plush toys.

Hand painted movie posters from Ghana.

Beautiful illustrative typographic compositions on dark backgrounds.

In case you ever decide to print the internet you should know this…

Six fonts that anger folks.

The work of Cosmic.

Graphic Designer vs. Client.

Kachi Kachi Yama.

Sing Sang Sung.

Some great classic book covers.

HTML Color Codes: an online exhibition.

The bizarre graphic work and illustration of elzo Le Durt Du quartier.

The Daily Drop Cap.

Friends of Type.

The Cut and Paste season of events gets underway on Oct. 16th in NYC.

Heat sensitive business cards.

Some very interesting game mods.

My friend Jimmy Luu exhibits his Office of Printed Ephemera.

Wired makes over Craiglist.

A set of icons created to work with Helvetica.

Enjoy the semester, more posts on their way soon!