{"id":12358,"date":"2007-05-18T09:57:42","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T09:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/05\/friday-illustration.html"},"modified":"2007-05-18T09:57:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T09:57:42","slug":"friday_illustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/friday_illustration\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Illustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Dept. of the Brilliantly Simple: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Viva dry erase: Slate shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2164266\">a great new set UPS ads<\/a> and talks about how they came to be. <\/li>\n<li>Comedy Central&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/adhunt.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/comedy-central.html\">new illustrated campaign<\/a> is a model of efficiency&#8211;and it&#8217;s more than a little edgy in spots.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/05\/08\/clever-comedy-central-ads\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Can you make an ad campaign from clip art?&#160; Yes, if you&#8217;re making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clioawards.com\/winners\/image_pop.cfm?media_directory=print&amp;website_entry_id=200715425&amp;is_c=1&amp;image_no=5\">dirty little stories<\/a> for 42 Below Vodka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And elsewhere: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of stock illustrations, Gene Gable features the great clip art (oxymoron? not this time) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/feature\/25499.html?cprose=daily\">Lew Hymers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Alberto Seveso has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recycledarea.co.uk\/gnocca\/illustratio.html\">really fresh take<\/a> on the genre of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/08\/vector_vixens.html\">vector-illustrated women<\/a>.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/indiffident\/show\/\">More images<\/a> are on Flickr, and you can buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recycledarea.co.uk\/shop.php\">prints<\/a> on his site. [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/05\/02\/alberto-seveso\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvector.com\/\">Tech Vector<\/a> offers a clean design, good choons, great A2Detail. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.k10k.net\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbernasconi.com.ar\/home.htm\">Pablo Bernasconi<\/a> makes cool collage portraits.&#160; The site navigation is a little wonky, but I think it&#8217;s worth the effort. [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/05\/09\/pablo-bernasconi\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Fiodor Sumkin is back with <a href=\"http:\/\/fiodor.opera78.com\/\">more letter-rich goodness<\/a>.&#160; His site&#8217;s frameset design makes it hard to link to specific bits, but I especially like the &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/fiodor.opera78.com\/moscow_80.html\">Moscow-80<\/a>&quot; work.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a collection of Photoshop-powered <a href=\"http:\/\/peety-passion.com\/peetypassion\/2007\/05\/07\/the-land-of-the-strange\/\">fantastical houses<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/fantastical_houses_6257.asp\">Via<\/a>].&#160;Reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_2237937.html?menu=\">this defiant dude<\/a>&#8211;no Photoshop involved. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, it&#8217;s a little tangential, but I spotted a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/05\/16\/adobe-takes-over-the-universe\/\">shout-out for CS3<\/a> on illustration blog Drawn: &quot;You\u2019ve probably already heard all the buzz about it being the biggest upgrade ever, bla bla bla. Well, this time the buzz is true&#8230; I predict our industry (I mean anything graphically creative) is about to undergo a huge jump in look, feel, efficiency, and impact because of this.&quot;&#160;Thanks, guys!  [Via Joe Ault]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Dept. of the Brilliantly Simple: Viva dry erase: Slate shows a great new set UPS ads and talks about how they came to be. Comedy Central&#8217;s new illustrated campaign is a model of efficiency&#8211;and it&#8217;s more than a little edgy in spots. [Via] Can you make an ad campaign from clip art?&#160; Yes, [&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\/12358"}],"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=12358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}