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Seasonal Kitchen
A lovely (Northern Hemisphere) infographic depicting when fruits are in season. Luckily, the time of year is listed as well as the month, so those of us living in the Southern Hemisphere can just ignore the months and focus on the seasons. Available throughThe Sweet Tooth Paper Goods Company, also for Vegetables and Herbs. Designed by Russell van Kraayenburg.
Poster of the week #3. May 31, 2013
Last week I got inspired by Janet Jackson’s Control album art. This week I wanted to put some constraint on the poster. Two colors and a simple vector drawing. If text is used no more than five words.
preview!
Chinese Death Star
Victo Ngai
I did the cover of the New York Times Sunday Review yesterday. The article is about the aggressive global push of China’s state-capitalism and the fear of China’s world domination. You can read the article here.
AD Aviva gave me the great suggestion of maybe having an image “dominating” the page, instead of being boxed in a rectangle.
After a couple round of sketches, we agreed that having the Great Wall expanding and covering the entire globe was the best solution for this article as it also relates to the Chinese investing in building dams and infrastructure all over the world.
During the inking stage, I thought, why not also make the extending walls look like monstrous testicles? Then my boyfriend Kyle walked by and said “Your drew a Chinese Death Star!” I am okay with that.
Many thanks again to the wonderful Aviva and the NYTimes!
and the envelopes are done. Had a bit of an issue with maths on this one. I made it to dimension and then added a bit of space to make sure that it will all fit inside, but obviously not enough including the string binding….works well as a prototype but if I had time on Monday I’ll remake them a little bigger so they are easier to use. Right now you have to pull or push the bits back in quite delicately.
Also couldn’t afford laser cutting so I could’t put in a stencil for reverse graffiti :(
Bound and ready.
Now I just need to decide on an envelope. Been having some issues coming to a decision on this one. I an’t decide what sort of fold, such as do I want to do one that opens at the top or at the side? How will it fasten? Do I want it to be a clip or twist of some kind or glue or a fold? Do I want it to be plain or a design on the front? Or a design inside?
At the moment I’m really struggling with whether I should have any text on the front. I like the idea of making it cryptic. But then I don’t want it to be so elusive that people throw it away before bothering with it…hmmm
Artists:
TheUpsideUp
“Art group TheUpsideUp somehow managed to combine three of our favorite subjects into one beautiful new installation - street art, origami and typography. First spotted this past Tuesday morning in San Francisco, on Asian Art Museum’s exterior wall, the pretty 3-D art installation was thought to be the work of Parisian origami artist Mademoiselle Maurice (who you may remember from this post). TheUpsideUp, which describes itself as making “mindful” street art, quickly claimed its work over Twitter. What’s most stunning is that the word “fly” is in the white space of hundreds of origami butterflies that change from white to a rainbow of colors.”
Found at:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/theupsideup-origami-street-art-san-francisco
