{"id":12627,"date":"2008-01-20T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/01\/sunday-illustrations-from-snowboards-to-wonderbras.html"},"modified":"2008-01-20T17:43:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T17:43:48","slug":"sunday_illustrations_from_snowboards_to_wo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/20\/sunday_illustrations_from_snowboards_to_wo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Illustrations: From snowboards to Wonderbras"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\">Kottke<\/a> proclaims <a href=\"http:\/\/minoritykart.ytmnd.com\/\">Minority Kart<\/a> &quot;possibly the GAGOAT (greatest animated GIF of all time).&quot;<\/li>\n<li>I love the beautiful simplicity of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/SINGLE_AD_PAGE.php?ad=mont_grandfonds.jpg\">this snowboarding poster<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not often that a Web design strikes me as particularly fresh, but the punchy, hand-illustrated intro for <a href=\"http:\/\/fray.com\/\">Fray.com<\/a> makes a good go of it. <\/li>\n<li>From the vaults:\n<ul>\n<li>Irony &amp; good cheer come together in this set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mazaika.com\/postcard\/aerospace1.htm\">Old Soviet Christmas cards<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/12\/20\/old-soviet-christmas.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Flickr hosts a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/bigdaddyhame\/sets\/72157603566651280\/\">classic  posters<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coudal.com\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><em>Yes<\/em>, it&#8217;s <u>always<\/u> illegal to kill a woman: the Daily Mail hosts a collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/femail\/article.html?in_article_id=496827&amp;in_page_id=1879&amp;in_a_source\">outrageously politically incorrect advertisements<\/a> from years past.&#160; As might be said on Conan, &quot;Not cool, Zeus&#8211;not cool.&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/vintage_ads\/749920.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Wacom&#8217;s new 12&quot; Cintiq tablet\/monitor <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/338021\/wacom-cintiq-12wx-lcd-pen-tablet-video-review-verdict-simply-amazing\">gets some serious love from Gizmodo<\/a> (a four-minute video demo followed by detailed text). [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawn.ca\">Via<\/a>]&#160; Adobe evangelist Terry White <a href=\"http:\/\/terrywhite.com\/techblog\/?p=450\">loves it<\/a>, too. <\/li>\n<li>Life imitates art:\n<ul>\n<li>Wooster Collective has made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woostercollective.com\/2007\/10\/hmm.html\">thought balloon for the real world<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/10\/25\/thought-balloon-in-t.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>xkcd covers the phenomenon of &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xckd.com\/331\/\">Insisting that real-life objects are Photoshopped<\/a>.&quot; [Via Rob Corell]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of real-life objects, Saatchi &amp; Saatchi makes excellent use of &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/SINGLE_AD_PAGE.php?ad=wonderbra_hills.jpg\">The Wonderbra Hills<\/a>.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Mosaics:\n<ul>\n<li>Dig <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/teknograd-mac-support.html\">these icon mosaics<\/a> for Teknograd Mac Support.&#160; (They just wouldn&#8217;t be the same using the blah-looking folder icons from Leopard.) <\/li>\n<li>Michael Sporn talks about those in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelspornanimation.com\/splog\/?p=1330\">New York subway<\/a>.&#160; For more on that subject, see the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.info\/mta\/aft\/about\/book.html\"><em>Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit<\/em><\/a>.&#160; I always really dug the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.info\/mta\/aft\/permanentart\/permart.html?agency=nyct&amp;line=3&amp;artist=1&amp;station=14\">Irresistible Romance of Travel<\/a> at Grand Army Plaza.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2008\/01\/16\/subway-tile-art\/\">Via<\/a>] \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kottke proclaims Minority Kart &quot;possibly the GAGOAT (greatest animated GIF of all time).&quot; I love the beautiful simplicity of this snowboarding poster. It&#8217;s not often that a Web design strikes me as particularly fresh, but the punchy, hand-illustrated intro for Fray.com makes a good go of it. From the vaults: Irony &amp; good cheer come [&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\/12627"}],"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=12627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}