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Adrian Johnson

Thanks to Jessica I've spent a good portion of my morning combing through the portfolio of Adrian Johnson. His illustration style reminds me of Jesse LeDoux in a very vague way - mostly just the fun atmosphere of the character design. Take a moment to browse the portfolio and then read this interview for even further insight into his process.

Limits to Growth

This Mitchell Whitelaw piece is intriguing for a number of reasons. Obviously the basic aesthetic appeal is there but the fact that it's generated by a program called Processing is what caught my eye. The software itself describes itself in a rather vague way:

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool.

Great. Too bad there are no screenshots of the actual application and the API just verifies that it's some sort of C++ style language.

Long story short, the work of art is computer generated - assumingly from real data. You can view other iterations of the generation here.

Link via Jessica.

Book Covers: Inspire

This collection of book covers is inspiring in many ways - as there are so many styles across the board to take in. I particularly love the Dave Kinsey, WK Interact, Fotografia Publica and Herb Lubalin covers.

Via Jessica.

So Much Pileup

So Much Pileup is a new blog compiling "graphic design artifacts and inspiration from the 1960s - 1980s." There is already quite a bit of stuff worth checking out and seems like it might be worth RSS'ing this one.

Via Jessica.

Folk Typography

Jessica sent over a link to the Folk Typography Flickr Pool and I've been browsing through it finding a hodge podge of various greatness and not so great examples. After making it through a few pages you realize that sometimes the simplest signs are the ones that work best.

Homer Euro

“A one euro coin has turned up in Spain bearing the face of cartoon couch potato Homer Simpson instead of that of the country's king.”

I'm not sure what you'd call it - art project, graffiti, counterfeiting - but the Homer Euro is sublime in its subtle execution. Via Jessica.

Photostream goodness

The Ben Pearce photostream is, far and away, the best thing I've encountered on the Internet in a long long time. It's 60+ pages of pure unadulterated goodness. Many of the images are NSFW but that's par for the course. Honestly, I love this so much that I'm even hesitant to post it at all.. it's that good. My deepest gratitudes to Jessica for the link.

Worthwhile Links

• 78 rpm records converted into mp3. There are over 2,450 already available. I dunno what you do with this but it's impressive.
• Jessica Bigarel - great blog, beautiful images.
• iPhone as Modem - phone has to be hacked but it can be done.
• Iconspedia - various collections of high quality icons. I'm sure there are only nine million of these type of sites out there but I particularly enjoyed their offerings.

Blow Up

Blow Up is a Flickr viewer that makes your images as big as the browser can display and tacks on a great thumbnail to browse through to other results. Sometimes the results are a little blurry / pixelated but you can only blow up an image so big, ya know? The interface is quite nice. I suggest you go blow up yourself. Via Jessica.

Fliqlo

The Fliqlo screensaver looks / behaves just like an alarm clock with the flip numbers. Simplicity at its best. You can see it in action here and thank Jessica for the heads up.

Terrifying Sweaters

Jessica had me check out this Henkel ad campaign featuring a series of individuals in contorted sweaters doing a variety of mundane tasks. Sitting on the couch watching TV has never been more terrifying than when done inside of an overly stretched sweater. Seriously.. it creeps me out.