Eye-candy via Pete Candeland who did the terrific animations for Beatles Rock Band. Despite being an advertisement, it’s hard not to admire the strong visual aesthetic in his work.

Graphic designer Jonathan Puckey uses a plugin in Adobe Illustrator to create vectorized portaits based on the Delaunay Triangulation.Puckey is able to create these illustrations using the help of Scriptographer and Color Averaging by Jürg Lehni both plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator.

[Jonathan Puckey via 360]

Words can’t properly describe the enjoyment I get out of seeing these highly-stylized videos for the Beatles Rock Band. Great use of digital motion graphics in conjunction with what looks like hand-drawn animation to create something wholly befitting as a modern day take on the seminal band. Somehow I imagine these minute-long videos will still trounce the crap out of the completely unncessary remake of Yellow Submarine.

Curious to see how these numbers were determined. More images at Creative Cloud.

Garson Yu interview – Forget the Film, Watch the Titles from SubmarineChannel on Vimeo.

Great little interview of Garson Yu, the preeminent master of motion graphics and title sequences. An almost under-appreciated art form in its own right that’s slowly getting its due. His studio’s work on Watchmen was one of the best things about that film.


related: Best Movie Titles EVER

Some spectacular paintings from Kazuki Takamatsu. Almost like looking into the aesthetic of an anti-Murakami.
[KT via TaT]

Just what is Food + Sex Magazine? Even I’m not completely sure despite what they say:

Collage art food magazine, Food + Sex, is a combined effort of artists, writers, farmers and foodmakers exploring how desire shapes the food environment. By weaving erotic, shocking and thoughtful layers of beauty, wildness and the human spirit, we peer into the fire of hope and fear to find the hidden, seek the cosmic and reflect on the elemental connectedness in life that opens us to new ways of being. Included in its pages are a visual patchwork of uncommon art, essays and excerpts by thinkers, makers and doers from the food underground and beyond.

A hippy-esque idealogy presented through snug little essays sandwiched between high-end designs, it seems. Their debut magazine is available for preview and gives some sort of glimpse for what they’re going for. Though one of their most intriguing stories about psychedelic mushrooms, titled “Tripping Balls on the Magic Penis” seems to have been already been printed in a previous issue of Vice.


[via Eat Me Daily]

Over at SuperPunch they’ve collected a fair number of the visual mash-ups of Disney meets Marvel. Got to love the speed of the interwebz. News hits of Disney purchasing Marvel and literally within hours these little gems are making the rounds.

Contributor abides by a simple mantra: skateboards for all.

The negative effects of poverty are very significant and limiting for those who are affected by it on a daily basis, but are especially difficult for youth. For these youth things that we take for granted – let’s say, the simple action of going out to play with friends on a skateboard – seem unattainable. Without access to a positive support through a group of peers and healthy alternatives to focus on, these kids can lose their way. By working with non-profit organizations across Canada, who are dedicated to youth at risk and children in lower-income neighborhoods, we hope to encourage successful outcomes through the addition of skateboarding as a positive reinforcement.

So bid on one of many amazingly decorated longboards and help a good cause while simultaneously grabbing yourself a new mode of transportation.

The Echo Park Time Travel Mart has joined together with the Federation for the Advancement of Time to create this beautiful poster series. No matter when you live, it’s always the right time for good temporal citizenship!*

Great new series of posters for sale at the 826 Workshop in Echo Park by Amy Martin. You can purchase them here.