Tag Archives: illustration
Calligraphy by Mouneer El Shaarani ???? ???????
Calligraphy (#59), Mouneer El Shaarani???? ??????? Lots of really beautiful stuff here. There is no indication in the gallery pages of what anything actually says for those of us who don’t grok the script, and I almost don’t want to … more…
Eduardo Recife
Eduardo Recife, Detail from animations for HBO, commissioned by Raygun for Assume the Position, 2006 There’s a short video clip also, with some of the animations in situ. Assume the Position looks like it might be worth looking at, although … more…
Jaime Hernandez’ Theme Time promo poster
Theme Time Radio Hour, promo poster, Jaime Hernandez, 2007 Jaime “Love and Rockets” Hernandez has made a promotional poster for the second season of Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour series. Click for the larger image at bobdylan.com. For this, I … more…
BibliOdyssey’s Coffee Table Venture
If you haven’t been enjoying peacay’s plunges into the archives of the various museums and libraries of the world, bringing obscure and fascinating eye candy to the eager masses, then you just haven’t been paying attention. Now there is a … more…
only a paper moon
Adam “Ape Lad” Koford alerts us to only a paper moon, a haunting collection of century-old studio photos employing the classic paper moon prop. As Adam points out, there’s some excellent faces among these pictures — mostly on the subjects, … more…
world of anarchie
Susan Archie is the design genius behind nearly all the best box sets that have been released in the last ten years or so. Seriously: all the various Revenant boxes, the Albert Ayler box, the Charley Patton box, the Beefheart … more…
APOLITEWINTER
Sink, James Jean and Kenichi Hoshine, from -apolitewinter-, 2006 (via suzanne g)
Anatomical tattoos
I’m surprised at the number of visitors washing up on the shores of this blog looking for tattoos, of one sort or another. I’ve seldom posted about tattoos, and I don’t have any. Still they come. This is for them. … more…
Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers!
Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers! Oh yes! A handsome collection, being a side-dish of the rather wonderful and previously unsuspected (by me, at any rate) octopus blog, Octopia. This cover particularly caught my eye, despite that the perspective and scale are … more…
Christian Ward
Kitano, Christian Ward I have to say that much of the work doesn’t have the impact that this one does — I guess that this sort of impact has limited appeal in commercial illustration — but I do like the … more…