I am not sure if you’re all familiar with this site… but I think it’s brilliant! Francesco Mugnai teaches graphic design and also works as a Web Manager. What’s really cool is this section on infographics, which makes even the “dullest” information seem interesting…
You can also link through to i am Photoshop which has a variety of resources for graphic designers and 25 absolutely stunning wallpapers. Enjoy!
In keeping with my light display theme, here is a cool new ad for Honda, which reminds me a little of the previous post about Samsung’s LED sheep.
I have to say, I didn’t expect anything less from Honda, who is always trying to do something that is visually stunning or innovative.
What’s also really interesting is the video player on Vimeo that allows you to feel more involved in the experience due to the darkening effect…
Today’s inspiration comes to us in the form of a short video from The Blackthinking Collection – completely surprising little clip proving DJs will scratch just about anything!
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/
They extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using their visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour…
What’s really cool is that you can have a selection of colours in your search criteria – what a great tool for any artist!
Feel free to send me your best “palette”… here is an image I found searching six colours…
Sorry, I can’t resist the temptation of posting ads – but here is something slightly different from the world of digital advertising.
In this case it is about a “shaking advert”, if you click on the link below you get taken to the YouTube channel where Warrior destroys the entire screen with his jumps, shots, attacks, etc…
A connected artist has many sources of inspiration; one of my favourites is the advertisement. If we look around, our world is full of ads trying to attract our attention and arouse our expectations.
Who doesn’t remember our favourite gorilla? The first time that anyone watched this ad they expected something… anything but a gorilla playing drums!
Another good example is this ad for Quicksilver; for a brief moment there is nothing in the screen but a mountain. Again, the expectation…
So, from here on I encourage you to share adverts you consider to be attractive and arty!
I’ve just created an account at Jamendo.com
I’m experimenting with my new blog, which questions what we feel is inspiring as an “artist”. Any type of artist, whether a singer, novelist, painter or graphic designer needs inspiration as part of the creative process, and I hope the selection of work you find here will help you in some way or another….
I hope to not simply clutter the blog with “cool advertising” but coming from an advertising background it is obviously something I am very familiar with. I do feel we are living in a world full of propaganda, but art can come from anywhere – can’t it?
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