When Pixar want a shit hot vintage poster designing for one of their films, they come knocking on Eric Tan’s door. He has a surprisingly modest blog documenting his amazing catalogue of work, looking forward to Pixar’s next realease to see what he does for them.
More retro styled, printing press looking goodness over at Kilowatt Kat, by Australian illustrator Adam Nickel.
Via: Bearskinrug.
You’ll need to make a bit of time to have a good look round Dr. Odio’s Flickr collection, it’s pretty extensive. If you like bizzare images, retro future stuff, circus freaks, strange love, evil rabbits and monsters, then you’re on to a winner here.
Via: Graphik Addict.
There’s a good deal of vintage looking illustration around these days, a reaction I suppose to the too perfect results of using a computer. Well I’m all for it as you might of guessed from the look of my blog, I love all the off set colours, halftone effects and paper textures. There’s always the tendancy do over do it (myself guilty in the past..), but an excellent example of this done right is Patrick Leger’s work, lovely stuff.
Via: Yewknee.
I‘m loving the crudely cut paper collage and sketchy drawings of Laurie Rosenworld, very reminiscent of the 50’s sort of style. She’s got 3 new books out which look amazing.
It’s been a long while since I’ve ever really used the filter menu in Photoshop, but it seems they’ve come a long way since the old flaming text effect ;) Came across the Permanent Press filter from Mister Retro, and I must say I’m pretty impressed. Turn your shiney crisp computer generated graphics into vintage offset prints full of character and soul. There’s a load of presets, above is a couple of examples, but you can tweek and adjust just about everything. Costs $99.
Here’s a fun little site, the Bureau of Communication has a load of ‘fill in blank’ stationary for everday correspondence. Everything from Formal Apology to Declaration of Romantic Intent, their easy-to-use forms will ensure that your message is clearly conveyed.
El estratografico has a great collection of vintage comic book sound effect scans. I love the fucked misprinted detail on these.
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Blighmy this guys good! Ross Macdonald has masses of class work to see on his site, illustrations, comics, movie props like the National Treasure: Book of Secrets above, childrens books and beautiful letterpress design work. Always lovely to a good breadth of work and even nicer that all of it is made with spot on retro/vintage styling.
The Nonist has a great post about the bad language in baseball circa the 1890’s. Apparently it was so flithy that they had to issue Special Instructions To Players, but the best bit is they reprinted some of the most offending language:
“You cunt-lapping dog!”
“I’ll make you suck my ass!”
Genius, good to see things haven’t changed much! More about the document here.
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