Google Doodle and Typography

I'm really liking the Google home page illustration from yesterday. The colors, typography and texturing are all really nice looking. Not only is the image easy to watch in a trance-like state, it clicked through to awesome information as usual. It was Inge Lehmann's 127th birthday - a lady who changed the way the world thinks, and the way we think we stand upon it.

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An excerpt from wiki:

Inge Lehmann ForMemRS (May 13, 1888 – February 21, 1993) was a Danish seismologist and geophysicist. In 1936, she discovered that the Earth has a solid inner core inside a molten outer core. Before that, scientists believed Earth's core to be a single molten sphere. However, seismologists had been unable to explain careful measurements of seismic waves from earthquakes, which were inconsistent with the Earth having a single molten core. Lehmann analysed the seismic wave measurements, and she concluded that Earth must have a solid inner inside a molten outer core to produce seismic waves that matched the measurements. Other seismologists tested and and then accepted Lehmann's explanation.

Bumpers, Stop-Motion and Daisy Fuentes from 90s MTV

This is the brilliance that made me want to get into video and art, and video mixed with art - as we now call motion graphics.

I'll start with a clip of, what I considered at the age of 13, the best MTV Bumper in the Live Action Category.

 

A classic series of MTV Shorts, including Joe's Apartment at the 5:30 mark. Singing roaches and first dates.

 

Gnarly. So, let's sign off on a positive note with Miss Daisy Fuentes (another best from MTV, but in a 13-year-old-queezy-stomach way), who tells us about an opportunity she has for us to embrace.

Vintage Men's Publications

I collected this set of vintage men's mags as I was concepting for a client project that focuses on outdoor life. It seemed the cover art revolved around run-ins with devious animals and tribal villains alike. Article lead-ins lured you in to consider some of your sexual ponderings, whether they were culturally acceptable or not.

Feature stories illustrate ladies in distress - a classic men's fantasy that runs strong with international appeal. Apparently, it was common to fight for your love just outside of a really nicely designed living space with modern furniture, mid-century modern, or course. They seem to bridge the gap between indoors and outdoors bringing jungles and waterways to the edge of a room.

Although, you also have struggles with your more natural elements, like wind, in the case. 

It's not all hard times in this day and age. Below is an illustration of a nice day on a riverboat. Complete with partially nude girls running around without a care in the world, and consequently, men asserting their dominance with grins from ear to ear. This is a somewhat familiar scene I can gladly say. Ever been to Devils Cove in Austin, TX for the 4th of July? God Bless America, and it's creative illustrators.

The Bone Slicer Graphic

This is an apparel design I did over Halloween this year. There are old medical devices and tools surrounding the type for The Bone Slicers.

New Print

Sight & Sound - a design I did for the agency.

Typography Illustration of Velvet Underground Lyrics

Wrapper Design of the Tootsie Roll Pop

How many years does it take to appreciate the wrapper of a Tootsie Roll Pop? I just realized how cool these wrappers were yesterday after someone offered me a Tootsie Roll Pop, the first after a long lapse in time.

I love the simplicity of the illustrations and the sports the kids are playing. Props on the skateboarding one, especially. I think the girl is riding backwards while shaking her hips. She seems very confident, too. At a glance this looks dangerous, but isn't that the point of skating in the first place. Pushing your luck and doing things that the properties of physics say you shouldn't. The boy is obviously very impressed, and he's completely drooling over her—eyes wide and jaw on the floor. I know exactly how you feel buddy, it used to happen to me too.

These illustrations remind me to stay young, and that I need to get back to the park. I personally prefer BMX but I have a longboard to carve down mellow slopes and take a casual lunch cruise. House Park is my local spot where I do my soul searching and shin splitting.