Hemp

I found this in Victor Moscoso's book Sex, Rock and Optical Illusions. I thought this image timely after a few states just passed laws legalizing marijuana. Anyway, Victor Moscoso is the designer I chose for my T-shirt project this semester. I just came across this book this week. By the way, can you make out the title? It says "I love hemp." He uses the background rather than the foreground to spell the words, which makes it a bit hard to read.

Stormy

This picture is from Pixel Perfect edited by Kathleen Ziegler and Nick Greco. The text reads, "When asked by Allison Burton, art director at Katsin/Loeb Advertising, to create a series of illustrations for their ad campaign for Fireman's Fund Insurance, Koeb worked hard to create images that would resonate with the campaign copy. He wanted something more than the usual man in a suit that is so often associated with business insurance. Burton and Koeb discussed different approaches, and finally came to the idea of a man flying out of sandcastles, facing a coming storm. The concept was to give the insured, "License to get on with it!"

I thought this was a little timely with so many people still recovering from Hurricane Sandy.

Digital creator: Bill Koeb
Client: Katsin/Loeb Advertising
Software: Adobe Photoshop

Faces Are Fascinating

Most people can't help but look at faces. This image is a very creative use of a face amid an urban landscape. It was part of a series of posters that used different faces and different urban landscapes. I also really like the 2-color design here.

I found this in Colour Mania (2009). Design: Helmo; Photography: Olivier Roller, Tendance Floue; Client: Jazzdor Festival.

Read Gray Matter

I found this in Advertising: New Techniques for Visual Seduction edited by Thomas Rempen. It's a little hard to tell what that red spot in the middle of the 'brain' is, but it is the cover of the magazine The Economist,  which is the client for this photo by Roy Zhang.

I think this photo is really clever. I am fascinated by the brain and how it works and when it does not. And of course, if I could make more gray matter by reading a magazine, I would -- a great reason to read The Economist. Someone must have spent some time arranging all those magazines just right. They even got the look of the central sulcus (the line down the middle). The background color fits their image at the magazine. It all really works!

Paranoia

This photo is by Peter Scanlan, who wrote, "The concept for this piece for the Village Voice was to show how anyone can fall under suspicion in the climate of fear we find ourselves living in. In the background, I included the husband from American Gothic, taken from a Voice cover featuring paranoia in America, which I'd done several weeks earlier. It seemed appropriate."
From Society of Illustrators 47.

It's All in the Eyes

I like this design, the way it directs attention to the eyes. It fit well with the article it accompanied in Computer Arts, which discussed different designers.

Care for the Cure

It's hard to see here, but this was a clever use of typography: Care for the Cure in Typography 32. Substituting the u for the a just as in DNA changes the word from cure to care. The double helix is apparent.

Design: Knut Maierhofer
Motion design: Gabriel Weiss
Expert motion design: Cecil Rustemeyer
Brand company: KMS TEAM GmbH
Client: Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics