{"id":12210,"date":"2006-11-30T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/11\/zombies-communism-other-illustrated-goodness.html"},"modified":"2006-11-30T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T11:59:00","slug":"zombies_communism_other_illustrated_goodne-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/30\/zombies_communism_other_illustrated_goodne-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombies, Communism, &#038; other illustrated goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\nI&#8217;m a fan of both <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constructivism_(art)\">Constructivism<\/a> &amp; retro-ironic propaganda (think <a href=\"http:\/\/english.sina.com\/life\/p\/1\/2006\/1016\/91968.html\">Chinese military ballet<\/a>), so I dig seeing this collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\/archives\/009141.php\">Soviet Photomontages 1917-1953.<\/a>&#160; See also <a href=\"http:\/\/englishrussia.com\/?p=485\">Soviet carpet propaganda<\/a>.  (Doesn&#8217;t it seem a little weird to encourage walking all over your icons?). [<a href=\"http:\/\/eyeteeth.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/castro-carpet.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Think your colleagues are zombies?&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zombieportraits.com\/\">ZombiePortraits.com<\/a> will illustrate your point for just $85. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/11\/27\/custom_portrait_of_y.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><em>Talk about mudflaps, my rickshaw&#8217;s got &#8217;em<\/em>&#8230;&#160; Okay, I have no truck, much less a rickshaw, but if I did I&#8217;d be tempted to pimp it with beautifully illustrated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/meanestindian\/sets\/72057594094242130\/\">Bollywood mudflaps.<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/11\/27\/bollywoodstar_mudfla.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/images\/myflags.swf\">Flags of our Clients<\/a> shows what happens when you&#8217;re <em>too<\/em> attentive to feedback on your illustrations&#8211;in this case, flags of the world.  <\/li>\n<li>Computer Arts discusses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerarts.co.uk\/in_depth\/features\/digital_illustration\">digital illustration revolution<\/a>.  Memorable quote (from 1992): &quot;John Warwicker, Creative Director of design collective <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomato.co.uk\/\">Tomato<\/a>, said without even a trace of irony: &#8216;I can envisage a time when we\u2019ll all need our own individual Macs.&#8217;&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2006\/11\/14\/digital-illustration-the-revolution\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Illustration Friday has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illustrationfriday.com\/interviews\/anitakunz.php\">interview<\/a> with illustrator Anita Kunz, showing some of her great images.  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertocerriteno.com\/\">Alberto Cerrite\u00f1o<\/a> does straight-up gorgeous work. [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2006\/11\/17\/alberto-cerriteno\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li> Creating <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/02\/trompe_loeil.html\">optical illusions<\/a> in a room is one thing, but can you make your room <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuenstlerheim-luise.de\/en\/rooms\/306.htm\">look like a cartoon<\/a>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/11\/14\/room_looks_like_its_.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t tried <a href=\"http:\/\/akvis.com\/en\/sketch\/\">Akvis Sketch,<\/a> but the new version of this Photoshop plug-in promises to convert your images to sketches quickly and easily.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2006\/11\/27\/akvis-sketch-21-is-released\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Gene Gable has posted a collection of lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/feature\/21824.html?cprose=daily\">vintage map art<\/a> in his CreativePro.com column.&#160; (Sadly, nowhere be monsters.)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fan of both Constructivism &amp; retro-ironic propaganda (think Chinese military ballet), so I dig seeing this collection of Soviet Photomontages 1917-1953.&#160; See also Soviet carpet propaganda. (Doesn&#8217;t it seem a little weird to encourage walking all over your icons?). [Via] Think your colleagues are zombies?&#160; ZombiePortraits.com will illustrate your point for just $85. 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