Amateur filmmaker and musician Andrew Wilson has cranked up an instrumental rock song he wrote with a colorful video that combines light-painting and stop-motion animation. Wilson took a photo of each fret and body component on his Gibson Les Paul and colorized each with Photoshop. He then synced the song up to the images that corresponded to the specific frets played throughout the track. [via cldfx]
Attention Mainstream Media: the financial crisis did not replace the environmental crisis on our doorstep. Crumbling credit markets shouldn’t overshadow the crumbling polar caps. Bear markets are scary, but so are dying polar bears. So who is going to give us a sense of balance? It is often the creatives at advertising agencies that are tasked with giving us perspective. To remind us that we humans are battling a war on two fronts, both financial and environmental, here are 30 amazing advertisements in honor of Earth Day 2009.
By artfully framing characters from popular films with signature movie quotes and his innate eye for dramatic design, Poland-born graphic designer Grzegorz Domaradzki has created a series of movie posters that convey the mood and personality of specific cinema imagery. Domaradzki graduated from the Slovakia’s Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava and has worked as an illustrator and graphic designer for several large advertising agencies. His Vector Movie Posters are colorful, bold and wonderfully detailed with choppy lines and aggressive, staggered design elements. The posters are reproduced with key quotes alongside illustrated characters, which makes the 2-D prints look more like enlarged frames from the graphic novelization of the movies. [via behance]
While the YouCrave network primarily focuses on men’s content, this item is just too visually (and functionally) progressive to pass up. Essentially, this dress is what you make it. In 2008, clothing creator Berber Soepboer tapped graphic designer Michiel Schuurman to create a fabric canvas for a line of dresses. The “Colouring-Dress” is made from a black and white patterned fabric created to be colored-in at the whim of its wearer. The trio of “Assembly-Dresses” were made to be stripped and deconstructed with a button system that allows the wearer to mix and match Schuurman’s intricately patterned textile. [via fabrikproject and yatzer]
A Japanese artist with a very unique style of painting, Tadaomi Shibuya, has his own special way of expressing love for his favorite musicians. Brushing up the likes of Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Miles Davis and others, Shibuya uses the simplicity of angular lines to create his works of art. A purely human concept, the complexity of these apparently simple-looking paintings lies in the fact that nothing that surrounds us is perfectly straight. From flowing hair to lips, sensuous eyes to serious faces, all the curves here are portrayed as a mixture of straight lines. Truly gracious! [via MyModernMet]
Swedish creative Stina Persson uses ink and watercolors to create vibrant illustrations that dance with texture and casual detail. Using watercolors and drops of ink, her deft sketches are immediate and look effortless but clearly come from master hand and eye. Based in Stockholm, Persson has created images for Absolut Vodka, Godiva, DKNY, Target and scores of other high-profile clients and had her work featured in publications like Harper’s Bazaar, Nylon Magazine and Elle UK. [via booooooom]
Art Wolfe’s lens captures the color of a dynamic planet rife with surprising detail, pattern and texture. Throughout his 30-year career, Wolfe’s camera has become an advocate for the worlds, creatures and people it has seen. Educated at the University of Washington, Wolfe and his photos have won scores of awards — including the honor of being considered a Canon “Explorer of Light” — and he has taken more than a million photographs and published 60 books. Clearly, the planet Wolfe helps us picture is one worth preserving. [via fubiz]
