Matchbox Design Concept by Jose Maria Cruz Novillo + Olmos

Posted by Eshark on Sep 24th, 2008

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Awesome ideas of matchbox covers designed by Spanish illustrator Cruz Novillo + Olmos. The design features an ilustration of animals for each letter of the alphabet. It’s kind of hard for me to pick my favorite animals since I always like ‘The Great White Shark’ which is not in the list.

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The concept was totally awesome, just I think the animal illustrations seems like it would be perfect for kids, and the question is.. what would kids will be doing with a match box?

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Now, that I leave to you guys to think, meantime..

What’s your favorite matchbox animal gonna be?

Mountain Dew Green Label Art 2008

Posted by Eshark on Sep 12th, 2008

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Mountain Dew, one of the best-selling carbonated soft drink in the United States has launched Green Label Art, a limited-edition series of carbonated drinking bottles featuring designs created by a variety of talented great artists. This series marks the first ever carbonated soft drink which will be packaged in an aluminum bottle in the U.S. The artists were given a plain, 16-ounce aluminum bottle and they have to come up with their amazing piece of artwork expressions of Mountain Dew.

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There are 12 series aluminum bottle of carbonated Mountain Dew which has been inspired by those great artist. Let’s take a look at the artist profile and their amazing artworks.

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Chuck Anderson (Chicago) - Known for his unscripted, free style ranges from surrealistic kaleidoscopic skyscapes to ornate, handcrafted illustrations. Chuck’s impressive portfolio includes work for Triple Five Soul and Nylon magazine, as well as Lupe Fiasco’s Grammy nominated debut album. visit site

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Dez (Houston) - is known for his work on everything from walls to T-shirts, sneakers and furniture. He has explored graffiti’s application through airbrush, old school caps and digital computer arts.

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Eric Haze (New York) - He has been making an impact for over 30 years with creative influence in the worlds of art, product design and graphics. Haze now owns a design studio in ’86 and went on to design classic logos for The Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, MTV and many more. These days Haze remains world renowned for his graphics and fine art work, as well as his trailblazing streetwear clothing brand. vivit site

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Peat Wollaeger (St. Louis) - Known for his whimsical, raw and brightly colored stenciled characters, Peat started doing urban-influenced designs during the early ‘90s. He was greatly inspired by the guerilla artist Banksy, which he began using stencils and spray paint to reproduce his great graphics artworks. visit site

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Scott Lenhardt & Danny Davis (New York) - Scott has 10 years of commercial and fine art experience with the design of over 45 Burton snowboard graphics under his belt, he was a natural collaborator for DEW snowboarder, Danny Davis. While Danny brings his explosive amplitude and contagious energy to his artwork with Scott’s natural minded style, resulting in an organic great bottle design collaboration. visit Scott’s site, visit Danny’s site

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Troy Denning (New York) - Base on his respect to the Japanese irezumi, Troy Denning has learned from the best in the industry while he studied extensively in Europe and Japan. With 18 solid years of tattooing experience and contribution to the New York’s tattoo and contemporary art communities, Troy has led DEW to his impressive protfolios and his fusion studio and gallery, Invisible NYC. to participate in the project. visit site

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Billy the Artist (New York) - lives by his mantra of “create your own reality.” Capturing the energy of the city around him, Billy’s created his own style called “urban primitive,” a kaleidoscope of puzzle-like images that captured DEW’s attention immediately. visit site

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Mark Smith (Portland) - Skilled in multiple disciplines from concept imaging to custom graphics, Mark Smith blends art and commerce on a daily basis as Creative Director at Jordan Brand. visit site

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Mike Sutfin (Emeryville) - He is known for his precise attention to detail and dynamic compositions. Sutfin began his career by working on Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and World of Warcraft and had created an illustration for Star Wars and Dark Horse Comics. After moving to California, Sutfin created graphics for skateboard brands like DC and Foundation. visit site

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PJ Richardson (Los Angeles) - He spent his earliest years beautifying the local Muni transit system, before a show at a local museum catapulted PJ into the world of fine art. Studied in illustration and computer animation, PJ went on to develop his repertoire of logo, music video and illustration work at his design studio Laundry! which is where DEW found out about his unique style. visit site

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Stephan ‘Maze’ Georges (Brooklyn) - As a teenager, he got sucked into the world of graffiti and quickly began making a name for himself in the game. His early street art experiences continue to inspire his clothing design, allowing him to create urban sportswear with a functional edge.

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Troy Denning (New York) - Base on his respect to the Japanese irezumi, Troy Denning has learned from the best in the industry while he studied extensively in Europe and Japan. With 18 solid years of tattooing experience and contribution to the New York’s tattoo and contemporary art communities, Troy has led DEW to his impressive protfolios and his fusion studio and gallery, Invisible NYC. to participate in the project. visit site

Above is the list of great modern artist around, I admire all of them especially the one I admire most is Mike Sutfin, Chuck Anderson, Troy Denning and Dez..

who would be your favourite artist?

Street Art - Eduardo Relero

Posted by Eshark on Sep 3rd, 2008

If you have read my previous post I wrote about street art artist like Julian Beever and Banksy before, here I introduce to you another talented street painter from Madrid, Spain.. Eduardo Relero, he has made the street of Spain into his own playground to create really awesome work of arts just by using a chalk.

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Amazing street art I must say.. now if you had a chalk in your hand, what will you draw in the street of your neighborhood?

Olympic Poster Design Evolution

Posted by Eshark on Aug 9th, 2008

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August 08, 2008, set the date where another historic day officially marked in the international sports world diary.. the Olympic, China 2008 has finally arrived. Looking through the promotion posters, I always had a question of how would it look like when the Olympic games first started. I’m not really want to talk about the games here, what I really want to share with you guys is about the time line of the creative evolution, innovations and ideas in graphic design elements on the Olympic posters itself.

Let’s take a look at few of Olympic posters which I think has a strong conceptual design ideas.

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1896 - Actually there is no official poster was made for the first Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens, Greece but this photo always refer to the Games of the I Olympiad. As you can see, there’s one lady standing, illustrated as representing the goddess Athena holding the branch of wild olive which symbolizing victory.

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1904 - This was actually is the reproduction of the cover for the programme of the Olympic games itself. The design can merely claimed similar as a concept they used for a poster for classic theater during that time, with an aerial view of a drawing of St-Louis city.

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1912 - The poster picturized a parade of nations, where there are few athletes carrying a twirling flag of each participating country all going towards the main Olympic games. This poster has not been distributed in some other countries since the nudity of the athletes being criticize seriously by some parties which actually refers as the games antiquity.

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1928 - The design was simple, picturing a symbol of victory by an athlete running while holding a laurel branch. The idea was easy where you can see three wavy lines in blue, white and red which represent the colours of the Dutch national flag as the home of the Olympic games during that time.

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1968 - I really like the concept with this poster which been distributed in the Olympic games in Mexico, the black and white lines actually refers to the famous patterns of the Huichole Indians, an indigenous ethnic group of western central Mexico. The poster design came up first with a collaboration of three person, Pedro Ramirez Vazquez (architect), Eduardo Terrazas (President of the Organizing Committee of the Games itself) and an American, Lance Wyman (who originally designed the Mexico 86 logo).

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1988 - A combination of perspective lines and rendered bright light which were done with computer graphic techniques has bring this poster to represent the Olympic games in Seoul. The concept was “Harmony and Progress” where as you can see the light blue and bright orange colours were blended together to symbolise Korea as the Land of Morning Calm.

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1996 - Another poster design which I really love is this one, using a combination of 6 spot colors to become one. Juan Antonio Samaranch, acting as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President during that time has chosen this drawing to be used as the official poster for the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta. This brilliant ideas was named “The Look of the Games” and originally drawn by an artist call Primo Angeli.

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2012 - Until now, there’s no official promo poster yet for the 2012 Olympic games in London, but there is official logo for it. This logo design has brings the world for the first time where the same logo will be used for both the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The jagged emblem, based on the year written 2012, graphically captures the essence of the London 2012 Olympic Games in which the design itself cost around £400,000 and comes in a series of shades of various color like pink, blue, green and orange which later will evolve in the run-up to the Games.

Usually online advertising agencies have hosting arrangements of their own when they start offering web design makeovers or marketing plans like email marketing.

I wonder when will be the Olympic games to be host in my country, Malaysia..

Get inspired guys!

10 Stunning Digital Painting by Alexius

Posted by Eshark on Jul 31st, 2008

Today, I’m sharing with you guys with one of very talented young digital artist that develop many stunning painting works which might blow your mind away. Just by using a Wacom Intuous 6×8 tablet and Photoshop application, this artist had made really a high quality of artwork.

alexiusspotrait.jpg Vitaly S Alexius, a young talented illustrator and a great digital painter, was born in the year 1984, in Novokuznetsk, Siberian Russia. Since he was four, Alexius has been fascinated by drawing a tiny star ships and celestial life. Since 2000, his been tutoring on the subject of drawing and painting, only by the year 2002, he learned Photoshop and have been using it ever since, to develop an innovative, digital-art style, which he claim to call it “Dreaminism”.

Currently his working as a photographer and an illustrator, painting various book covers and graphic novels, and also magic cards.

Below are some of 10 his stunning painting.

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Modern Magic

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Absence of Vision

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Antipodal Evolution

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Deliverance of Amity

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Delphian Calamity

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Expired Hope

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Fantaspoa

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Machinery of The Stars

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Smog

Get to see more stunning work from his portfolios at DeviantArt.

Get inspired!!

Image Manipulation by Joan Charmant

Posted by Eshark on Jul 26th, 2008

How good is your skill in graphic application? such as Photoshop for instance.. Majority of most designers out there are using Photoshop everyday, but have you ever been using Photoshop for image editing until the maximum level you could? Well.. think again! as here I’m sharing with you, one great Photoshop artist who been practising Photoshop for image manipulation into something that is really superb. I present to you Joan Charmant, the master of image manipulating.

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Manggo Blossom

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Free Falling Felines

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Goodbye

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Hopeless Shelter

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Infection

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Mars Fly Trap

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City Hoper

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Assimo’s Ride

What Joan did was really amazing, combining a number of images from different elements and objects into creating one single image that looks real but the fact is surreal. Here’s how the idea was..

from a number of sources images like this :

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to become like this..

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That’s what I call the power of Photoshop, thumbs up to Joan Charmant, I really admire his skills. You can check more artworks on his site joancharmant.com.

Now, one question for you.. ‘How maximum your skill can go?’

Get inspired guys..

20 Brilliant Advertising For Inspiration

Posted by Eshark on Jul 22nd, 2008

Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume more of a particular brand of product or service. Many advertisements are designed to generate increased consumption of those products and services through the creation and reinforcement of “brand image” and “brand loyalty”. Well that’s what Advertising means in wikipedia, but what can you say about the true meaning of Advertising when you see these..

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Drunk Drivers advertisement

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The BBC World advertisement

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FedEx campaign advertisement

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Formula toothcare advertisement

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Funeral Services advertisement

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PETA advertisement

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Martial Arts School advertisement

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LEGO advertisement

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Mini Austin advertisement

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Nestle product billboard advertisement

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Nike billboard advertisement

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Nissan advertisement

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Ravensburger Puzzles advertisement

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McDonalds advertisement

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Volkswagen advertisement

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Star Wars : Episode III, Revenge of The Sith Advertisement

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Jobs In Town advertisement

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Stop’n Grow Bag advertisement

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Australian Postal services advertisement

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YKM shopping bag advertisement

Now you know the meaning of Advertising actually means..

Desktopography - Wallpaper Design Inspiration

Posted by Eshark on Jun 21st, 2008

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No matter you are PC or Mac user or even Linux, desktop wallpaper is the first thing will appear on your computer screen and to me it’s part of my inspiration the first time I’m open up my computer to start design work. Here I would like to share with those who don’t know, a gallery of superb, stunning, quality artwork of desktop wallpaper call Desktopography.

Desktopography is a non-profit and fun project which is started in 2005, all desktop wallpapers are made by selected good designers around the globe which can be download for FREE. Since the year 2005, there are four exhibitions which collected many of good quality desktop wallpapers for designers to get inspired.

Here are some of the desktopography gallery on 2008 exhibition realeased.

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Blue Moon by Microbot

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Connected by Julien Morel

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Flying Low by Nathan Grey

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Little World by Heiko Klug

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Nature Never Go’s Out Of Style by Niklas Lundberg & Ehren Kallman

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Photosynthesis by Marian Rupp

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Pieces Of Life by Jaxe

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Step Forward Little Tommy by Dopamin

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Strawberry Feelings by Laura Pena

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Virus by Igor Scekic

are you had enough already?? Looks yummy?? Download all of them for FREE!!

Street Art or Vandalism

Posted by Eshark on Jun 8th, 2008

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How you define street art?.. Street art is an art of something unique + creative which usually developed in open public areas in order to get attention from people who pass by the area or merely showing of a message to the public through the artwork itself. Below are some of the creative piece from one of street artist from England, Banksy. Check out how he combines his art to the surround environment to become such a creative piece.

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I like this one

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and this one is my favourite..

I really admire his work which is super unique and Banksy is one of among the other talented street artist out there, for example like the famous Julian Beever and another one here.

Check out more of Banksy’s creative works at banksy.co.uk/

Twenty-Six Types of Animals

Posted by Eshark on Apr 6th, 2008

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Typography is one of the main important elements on graphic advertising. How many of you designers out there are really concentrating on typography style and creativeness? Maybe most of you don’t.. but not like this guy, with almost reach 10,000 views over his Flickr account, a young creative guy from US, Jeremy Pettis, has done stunning work of art in typography on his Senior Thesis at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in 2007. It’s a set of A - Z typography style creation base on animals, ‘Twenty-SixTypes of Animals’.

Here are few of his works :

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Checkout the complete 26 sets at Jeremypettis.com (remember to scroll to the right)

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