Design Inspiration: Leandro Castelao

Leandro Castelao is an illustrator from Buenos Aires. I like that he's virtually created a visual language; his style can be translated to anything. Grain Edit described it as an exploded view of Charlie Harper's style. It's as if he puts an x-ray up to things and sees that they have wiring and circuitry inside.

In addition to housing his portfolio, his website also has a shop where you can buy prints!

Design Inspiration: AKUTOU

Akutou is a freelance designer and illustrator.
His drawing style and choice of vibrant colors remind me of So-Me. I can tell he totally gets the look of the 80s - he's really good at using the blues, pinks and yellows to maximum effect. Check out his blog for inspiration. Also music videos (if he hadn't posted about Future Cop I would have never been exposed to their awesomeness)!

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A set of doodles by Nebojsa Cvetkovic

This guy's art is so wonderfully random!

http://www.ncmessbook.blogspot.com/

Design Inspiration: Simon Page

Simon Page does wonderful geometric patterns, reminiscent of book covers from the 70s and 80s. No doubt his mathematics background inspired that.

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(from thisisallido.com)

(via threeframes.net)

Namco's Visual Arcade History

Just finished a personal infographics project I was working on for a little more than a month. I actually like it!

I've also posted it on flickr with more details.

Design Inspiration: Shusei Nagaoka

Via Pink Tentacle.
Number two is now my desktop :)

Drawings yeah!

I just learned about some comics!

Octopus Pie, about two girls who become roomates. I like this one - one girl looks like Marjane from Persepolis and the other looks like Scott Pilgrim.

Bakuman, about two high schoolers who decide to write manga. It's by the Death Note team. Looks pretty good so far.

I'm still an Achewood fan, too.

Design Inspiration: Mark Weaver

Mark Weaver's work is totally different than what I usually see from modern designers. I love the look of the film grain from the old photography he uses. Everything he does has a 50s-60s sci-fi edge and it's great!

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That's one way to get...ahead...

This guy's papercraft is insane. A NeoGAF user with incredible 3D modeling skills made a wearable papercraft self-portrait of his head and.posted images on the forums.

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Drawn Infographics

XKCD's drawings of character interaction charts are amazing. The hand-drawn quality gives it more life I think.

3D Dot Game Heroes

An old-school Zelda parody with 3D sprites. The best thing is that the light and depth-of-field tricks make the sprites look "real."

Wow. This game is adorable.

How Children Fail

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Children_Fail

I wish I had this book when I was like, 10. I especially like the stuff about how teachers can sometimes make children afraid to take challenges in school (or life) because of an instilled fear of failure:

They fear wrong answers and shy away from challenges because they may not have the right answer. This fear, which rules them in the school setting, does their thinking and learning a great disservice. A teacher’s job is to help them overcome their fears of failure and explore the problem for real learning. So often, teachers are doing the opposite — building children’s fears up to monumental proportions. Children need to see that failure is honorable, and that it helps them construct meaning. It should not be seen as humiliating, but as a step to real learning. Being afraid of mistakes, they never try to understand their own mistakes and cannot and will not try to understand when their thinking is faulty. Adding to children’s fear in school is corporal punishment and humiliation, both of which can scare children into right/wrong thinking and away from their natural exploratory thinking.

Also, Pelican/Penguin book covers are quite nice.

I'm making a font

Tentatively named "3.5" since it's inspired by floppy disks. I used Illustrator and most of it is done, but I'm testing it out before I try to use Fontstruct or something to make it usable.