{"id":12588,"date":"2007-12-14T15:46:34","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T15:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/12\/friday-illustrations-japanese-cuteness-grand-theft-auto-and-more.html"},"modified":"2007-12-14T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T15:46:34","slug":"friday_illustrations_japanese_cuteness_gra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/friday_illustrations_japanese_cuteness_gra\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Illustrations: Japanese cuteness, Grand Theft Auto, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Illustrator Justin Gerard offers what looks like a nice set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandstudios.com\/tools\/\">Photoshop tools<\/a>.&#160; Here you can see him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/portlandstudios\">putting them into action<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Michal Tatarkiewicz creates cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woostercollective.com\/2007\/11\/shit_were_diggin_michal_tatarkiewiczs_su.html\">life-sized subway drawings<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/michal_tatarkiewicz_draws_the_subway_8260.asp\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Rockstar Games commissioned four mural artists to create a large version of the new <em>Grand Theft Auto<\/em> box art, hosted in a Brooklyn warehouse.&#160; Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockstargames.com\/IV\/trailer_splash.html?play=boxart\">timelapse video<\/a> of the 31-hour creation process. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/grand-theft-auto-iv.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Logos:\n<ul>\n<li>PingMag surveys <a href=\"http:\/\/pingmag.jp\/2007\/12\/13\/transport-logo\/\">cute Japanese logos for transportation companies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>On CreativePro, Malcolm Grear reveals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/howto\/24985.html?cprose=daily\">how to create memorable logos<\/a> (featuring some cool examples).<\/li>\n<li>The Comcast logotype has undergone some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/comcast-rebranding.html\">rework<\/a>.&#160; Blink and you&#8217;ll miss the changes, but what do you want to bet they paid a million bucks for the privilege? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Historic bits:\n<ul>\n<li>The Getty features a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/research\/conducting_research\/digitized_collections\/lissitzky\/fold_out\/index.htm\">long, folding photomontage<\/a> from master <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/El_Lissitzky\">El Lissitzky<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.k10k.net\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Cornell is hosting a gallery of some <a href=\"http:\/\/fantastic.library.cornell.edu\/viewall.php\">crazy historic illustrations<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/125336922\/cornells_fantastic_i.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Somewhat similarly, the Trade Card Place features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradecards.com\/articles\/articles.html\">galleries of Victorian trade cards<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/09\/21\/gallery-of-victorian.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Word to the wise: <a href=\"http:\/\/blacknewblack.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/grisly-1920s-public-service.html\">Don&#8217;t send your kids onto railroad tracks<\/a>.&#160; Limb-shedding badness <em>will<\/em> ensue. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/09\/10\/do-not-send-your-chi.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a nice collection of Roman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touregypt.net\/featurestories\/mport.htm\">funerary portrait art<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/08\/21\/funerary-portrait-art\/\">Via<\/a>]\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustrator Justin Gerard offers what looks like a nice set of Photoshop tools.&#160; Here you can see him putting them into action. Michal Tatarkiewicz creates cool life-sized subway drawings. 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