Holly Farrell

Love her paintings. These are acrylic & oil on masonite. To see her website, click here.

Ad of the Decade

Ad of the Decade: Matthew Welch’s Apple iPod Silhouette Campaign

Judges weighed in and thousands of people voted for AdWeek’s “Best of 2000s,” recognizing the decade’s best in the marketing, media, and agency world. With nearly twice as many votes as the runner-up, the Apple iPod silhouette campaign was honored as the best Out-of-Home-Ad of the Decade. Shot by Matthew Welch, the campaign marks a definitive moment in advertising. Read the interview with Matthew Welch here: http://www.ba-reps.com/blog/matthew-welch-wins-outofhome-ad-decade/#more-1465

Something from Brazil

Around the World With the Bodoni Family

Written by graphic designer Teresa Monachino and printed by The Society of Revisionist Typographers, the 60-page limited edition book "Around The World With The Bodoni Family" cleverly takes a look at the centuries-old font by associating letters with places. Using the Bodoni typeface, Monachino illustrates a geographic location with each letter of the alphabet.
You can buy at the design museum shop.

A sad loss...

David Levine, a painter and illustrator whose macro-headed, somberly expressive, astringently probing and hardly ever flattering caricatures of intellectuals and athletes, politicians and potentates were the visual trademark of The New York Review of Books for nearly half a century, died In Manhattan. He was 83 and lived in Brooklyn. Read his full story here.

Leap Organics

Package Design for a new soap line called Leap Organics.
Illustrations by Charles Bloom

Gary Fernandez

His illustrations are just phenomenal. Check out his showcase at http://www.garyfernandez.net/

Tim Burton at MoMA

Behind the Scenes:

Rough sketches

From my sketchbook.
© Barbara Graetzer

Charles and Ray Eames for Polaroid

Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film from Ekim on Vimeo.

Dan Stafford

Done by illustrator, Dan Stafford - A 23-year-old London-based illustrator. He was born in Manchester, Stafford and graduated this year from Loughborough University School of Art & Design with First Class Honours in Visual Communication.
Phenomenal work!

Absolut Anthem

A group of artists comes together in locations around the world to create art pieces that spell out the philosophy of Absolut Vodka. "See something different in an ABSOLUT WORLD."

Minto Fresh

Love the illustrations in this campaign. So much fun!
Done by Advertising Agency: Draft FCB + Ulka, India
Illustrator: Rajesh Sutar
Photographer: Rohit Poojari

Amelia's Anthology of Illustration

Compiled, designed and published by Amelia Gregory of Amelia's Magazine fame. This new book features dozens of illustrations (by a selection of up and coming illustrators) that vividly bring to life a variety of yet-to-be-implemented contraptions and technologies that could provide renewable energy in the future. The book not only showcases illustration work along with interviews and profile pieces on each of the 40 featured illustrators, but also promotes clever ideas for renewable energy-creating technologies, with explanations of these concepts too. Here are some spreads from the 264 page hardback (first edition) tome.

Read more and see more at http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/december/amelias-anthology-of-illustration

Andrew Bannecker

Andrew Bannecker and KTV Media for Tory Burch from BERNSTEIN & ANDRIULLI on Vimeo.

Andrew Bannecker and KTV Media Give the Gift of Tory Burch
I love the illustration. It was done by Andrew Bannecker. It was his 1st, but I'm sure he'll do more animations in the future.
The piece was animated by KTV Media.