Christoph's website
(from You Look Marvelous)
10/29/10
Stickers I made for my friends in Noco!
I helped the band Noco with their video shoot, and I got the idea for these stickers afterward!
10/3/10
8/29/10
TV show openings from way back when
I was going through Youtube user bobtwcatlanta's videos and realizing that TV show openings from the '60s to early '90s are a thing of beauty. Especially when you see an actor you know pop up in a show you never knew existed! I love how they showcase these actors by putting together snippets of their characters' best moments and making a sort of feel-good collage.
Go here for a total nostalgia-fest: http://www.youtube.com/user/bobtwcatlanta
Go here for a total nostalgia-fest: http://www.youtube.com/user/bobtwcatlanta
8/12/10
6/20/10
Design Inspiration: The Zonders
The Zonders is a collective of illustrators with a visual style inspired by 70s sci-fi album cover and book design. Lots of album cover work, as you can see!
http://www.thezonders.com/
http://www.thezonders.blogspot.com/
http://www.thezonders.com/
http://www.thezonders.blogspot.com/
5/31/10
5/25/10
4/11/10
Design Inspiration: Yusuke Nagano
Just discovered Yusuke Nagano's illustration work at The Strange Attractor.
My inspiration comes from drawing anything and everything that comes my way. I truly enjoy it so much that it's a pleasure for me to draw anything, Industrial motors, people, nature or fantasy pictures, I enjoy it all. I find it important to work and exchange ideas with young people who have the same passion, the same view of life, New perspectives keep me going.
My inspiration comes from drawing anything and everything that comes my way. I truly enjoy it so much that it's a pleasure for me to draw anything, Industrial motors, people, nature or fantasy pictures, I enjoy it all. I find it important to work and exchange ideas with young people who have the same passion, the same view of life, New perspectives keep me going.
3/29/10
Design Inspiration: Superbrothers
I've taken way too long to post about Superbrothers, a pixel artist from Canada. I remember falling in love with the look and feel of his videos when I discovered his website last year. His characters are very abstract but he still maintains a high level of detail, and the animation is incredible.
I looked to Jordan Mechner‘s Prince of Persia and Eric Chahi‘s Out of this World as well as the original Super Mario Bros, and I began to make some discoveries of my own. I began to avoid curves and outlines, deploying ‘jaggies’ carefully, keeping the focus on carefully calibrated fields of color and a sparse approach to pattern and texture. I experimented with less cumbersome stick-limbed pin-headed pixel rigs, which has since become my aesthetic preference. Eventually I began to see a distinct style develop – it seemed fresh, clean and absolute.
Website
Twitter
In-depth interview at 8-bit Today
DOT MATRIX REVOLUTION from superbrothers on Vimeo.
DESIGN REBOOT HD from superbrothers on Vimeo.
I looked to Jordan Mechner‘s Prince of Persia and Eric Chahi‘s Out of this World as well as the original Super Mario Bros, and I began to make some discoveries of my own. I began to avoid curves and outlines, deploying ‘jaggies’ carefully, keeping the focus on carefully calibrated fields of color and a sparse approach to pattern and texture. I experimented with less cumbersome stick-limbed pin-headed pixel rigs, which has since become my aesthetic preference. Eventually I began to see a distinct style develop – it seemed fresh, clean and absolute.
Website
In-depth interview at 8-bit Today
DOT MATRIX REVOLUTION from superbrothers on Vimeo.
DESIGN REBOOT HD from superbrothers on Vimeo.
"sword" S:S&S EP @ GDC 2010 from Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery on Vimeo.
3/21/10
MD Wine Festival poster entry
I recently entered a poster contest for the Maryland Wine Festival.
I went with a "wine pouring" theme here, with the colors going from red to white wine. The green background is supposed to bring to mind spacious vineyards or whatever. Surprisingly, I like how it came out, despite the fact that I crammed the night before :P
I went with a "wine pouring" theme here, with the colors going from red to white wine. The green background is supposed to bring to mind spacious vineyards or whatever. Surprisingly, I like how it came out, despite the fact that I crammed the night before :P
3/13/10
CO-OP logo update
CO-OP, a show about videogames, recently went to a live format and with that started using a new logo! Even better, it was designed by the creator of Fez, a game I blogged about way back when.
Matt Chandronait explains:
Why is this logo new/old instead of just new? Because it's what indie game designer Phil Fish originally came up with wa-hay back in the day when we were first slapping our show and our business together!
That original CO-OP logo was deemed by some powers that be that it wasn't "gamer" enough, but we've always had a soft spot in our collective heart for it and with the launch of a show that will hopefully involve you as much as it does us, it honestly felt more fitting.
It's really awesome, and it's interesting that this "new" logo was actually created first and they liked this one all along. Even though their first used logo is really creative, this one is much more so! I love its rounded, unified clover-like form. All the letters just fit together perfectly.
Old
New
Matt Chandronait explains:
Why is this logo new/old instead of just new? Because it's what indie game designer Phil Fish originally came up with wa-hay back in the day when we were first slapping our show and our business together!
That original CO-OP logo was deemed by some powers that be that it wasn't "gamer" enough, but we've always had a soft spot in our collective heart for it and with the launch of a show that will hopefully involve you as much as it does us, it honestly felt more fitting.
It's really awesome, and it's interesting that this "new" logo was actually created first and they liked this one all along. Even though their first used logo is really creative, this one is much more so! I love its rounded, unified clover-like form. All the letters just fit together perfectly.
3/11/10
Design Inspiration: souloff
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