{"id":12321,"date":"2007-04-18T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T10:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/04\/illustration-bits-dust-my-ride-creep-my-clown-more.html"},"modified":"2007-04-18T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T10:13:47","slug":"illustration_bits_dust_my_ride_creep_my_cl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/illustration_bits_dust_my_ride_creep_my_cl\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustration bits: Dust My Ride, Creep My Clown, &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\nIt&#8217;s tax time in the US, and illustrator Christoph Niemann created <a href=\"http:\/\/magculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/newYorkerorigami.jpg\">an elegant commentary<\/a> for the cover of the New Yorker.&#160; Elsewhere, his &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophniemann.com\/man\/bpages\/1portfolios\/popups\/empiresofevil.html\">Empires of Evil<\/a>&quot; flags (lighter-hearted than the name would suggest) are inspired, and he certainly has a new take on, er, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophniemann.com\/man\/bpages\/1portfolios\/GA01.html\">dental hygiene.<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/magculture.com\/blog\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Dust artist (yes, dust) Scott Wade has produced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/mitsubishi.html\">some amazing images<\/a> for Mitsubishi&#8217;s new ad campaign. (For more dustiness, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/06\/in_dust_we_trust.html\">see previous<\/a>.) <\/li>\n<li>I can dig illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taramcpherson.com\/artwork.php?pagemode=display&amp;active=painted_illo\">Tara McPherson&#8217;s<\/a> muted palettes. [Via Geoff Scott] <\/li>\n<li>On the other end of the chromatic spectrum, <a href=\"http:\/\/foxnathan.com\/\">Nathan Fox<\/a> punches up retro-fueled imagery. <\/li>\n<li>Our pals at the Chopping Block have launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chopshopstore.com\/home.php\">Chop Shop<\/a>, a spot to sell all manner of groovy swag (gotta love the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chopshopstore.com\/product.php?productid=16142&amp;cat=3\">10-Year Plan<\/a>).&#160; I delight in the great spit and polish (try rolling over the little characters in the header, for instance)&#8211;excellent A2Detail.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone&#8217;s favorite alcoholic raven\/alt newspaper survivor, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drinky_Crow\">Drinky Crow<\/a>, is <a href=\"http:\/\/fantagraphics.com\/drinky.html\">getting his own show<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/04\/11\/drinky_crow_tv_show_.html\">Via<\/a>]  <\/li>\n<li>And lastly, Digital Newsflash offers an interesting moniker for a certain CS3 branding image: &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnewsflash.com\/adobe-photoshop-cs3-ships-today-keep-children-away-from-new-mascot\/\">Creep-o the Clown<\/a>.&quot;&#160;Heh&#8211;yeah, that does induce a little <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fear_of_clowns\">coulrophobia<\/a>, no? \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tax time in the US, and illustrator Christoph Niemann created an elegant commentary for the cover of the New Yorker.&#160; Elsewhere, his &quot;Empires of Evil&quot; flags (lighter-hearted than the name would suggest) are inspired, and he certainly has a new take on, er, dental hygiene. [Via] Dust artist (yes, dust) Scott Wade has produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}