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It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2

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It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2

Almost one year ago I wrote Bang! An Illustration About The History of Everything, about an illustrated book for children (and grown ups) that teaches them about the Big Bang. The text is written in rhyme and the characters are an elderly couple. The writer/illustrator, James Dunbar has since then organized himself better and started a Kickstarter project to fund book 2 which is illustrated in color. Within five days he reached the $1000 pledged and by the end of the pledge he raised $6144. With that amount he created It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2. An illustrated book about the origin of life on Earth. There is an Read more »

The Pathology of Inactive Life

by Darice de Cuba
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The Pathology of Inactive Life

MBike, a bike brand, has a very unique ad campaign using a threesome of fictional pathology illustrations depicting the consequences of an inactive life due to our modern way of life. With computers and machines doing most of the work, we humans spend a lot more time sitting behind a computer than 60 years ago. Not only for work, but socially also. MBike made good use of that fact using pathology illustrations of humans with symptoms such as Deskorheea, Chronic Computerosis and Armchairitis. Read more »

Angry Zombie Birds

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Angry Zombie Birds

There is no end yet in sight for the Angry Birds popularity. What started as an iPhone app has evolved into a huge brand franchise. Toys, board games, games for all consoles, phones and fan art. Tomasz Kaczkowski combined Angry Birds with another popular thing, zombies. Tomasz drew some awesome illustrations of the birds and pig as zombie figures. I must seek out a zombie fan to find out what the fascination is about. I just saw the promo for ‘The Walking Dead’ and no way I’ll be watching those late at night. The Zombie birds are pretty scary for a cartoon illustration, the art work is excellent and worthy Read more »

A ‘No Blasters!’ Star Wars Alphabet

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A ‘No Blasters!’ Star Wars Alphabet

Living in an apartment and with a baby boy on the way, Brandon and Emma Peat had to get creative with decorating the baby room. Painting the walls is not allowed so they were left with few options, posters and prints. Luckily for them they are both artists, so they decided to create their own illustrations. They created the Star Wars alphabet, an illustration for each letter representing a character from Star Wars. Only characters from the original trilogy were considered. I’m not a Star Wars expert but apparently the true fans do not like the prequels that much. Read more »

Yoshi: Tastes Like Chicken

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Yoshi: Tastes Like Chicken

For the upcoming show, “Pixel Pushers: An Exploration of 8‐Bit Digital Media”, curated by Giant Robot, artist Jude Buffum came with the idea to create pixel illustrations inspired by meat diagrams. These illustrations are not just any meat diagram, they are diagrams of 8-bit video game characters like our beloved Yoshi and the always present Koopa amongst others. Imagine you where to eat these video games animals; what would the meat parts be names, how to cook them best and what side dish and drink goes well with it. This is a real creative piece, it does take some fantasy to come up with something so unique and also the Read more »

It Would Have Been Cooler As A Van

by Darice de Cuba
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It Would Have Been Cooler As A Van

Brandon Ortwein came with the creative idea of illustrating famous movie and cartoon cars as vans. Think of the Mach5, Optimus Prime or The Ghostbusters ECO. Logically “The Mystery Machine” is not listed as it has always been cool being originally a van. Most of the converted cars are indeed cooler as a van, but the “DeLorean” and the “Batmobile” are definitely better in their original form. Notoriously missing is Fred Flinstone’s stone age car, that would be something as a van. Read more »

Twaggies: Illustrated Tweets

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Twaggies: Illustrated Tweets

Since the existence of Twitter the online media landscape has changed a lot. We now get breaking news faster through Twitter then traditional media. Celebrities are made, traditional celebrities complain about the paparazzi, information is exchanged and we get a good dose of funny tweets on all subjects. Brooklyn based artist Kiersten Essenpreis and journalist/writer David K. Israel decided to select the most fun tweets and create illustrations of them. David is in charge of selecting the tweets while Kiersten illustrates them, together they present the most hilarious illustrations that make the original tweet even more funnier. Read more »