Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #128. By Brian Cronin| November 8, 2007 @ 9:57 PM |55 Comments| This is the one-hundred and twenty-eighth in a series of examinations of comic book urban legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous one-hundred and twenty-seven. Click here for a similar archive, only arranged by subject. Let’s begin! COMIC URBAN LEGEND: Marvel was planning a Ghost Rider/Casper the Friendly Ghost crossover STATUS: True While hard to believe, at one point, Marvel was actually a planning a crossover between these two characters!!
It is a little less surprising when you take into consideration the 1994 crossover between Marvel and Archie Comics, where Archie and the Punisher met up. If two such disparate character as Archie and the Punisher could team-up, why not Ghost Rider and Casper? This must have been going through writer Ivan Velez, Jr.’s mind when the Ghost Rider writer pitched the story idea a few years after the Archie/Punisher crossover. Neat, huh? That was my “A” plan. Fallout Shelter Handbook 1962. UPDATE: I've scanned more images -- check them out HERE. I found this musty handbook from 1962 in a pile of similarly musty magazines and articles in a booth at the Inman Park Arts Festival several years back.
The illustrated cover was what initially caught my eye but then I glanced at the large bold lettering at the top and I immediately put it in my "to buy" pile. The cover is classic: your average white American family enjoying life as best as they can after an atomic attack. What I love the most about it is that Mom is in her day dress, apron and all, preparing dinner, and Dad is relaxing in his jacket, smoking a pipe, having just finished reading the liner notes to something by the Ray Coniff Singers, probably. I didn't even take a gander at what was inside until later at home. Most of what you'll find in the handbook is pretty standard construction "how-to's" -- it could've been sold at a Home Depot if they had them back then.
This just struck me as funny. Everybody poops. 39 Olympic Logos From 1924 to 2012. Living in Vancouver, Canada, I’ve been seeing the logo of the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympic Games more and more around the city as the date draws closer. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how the design trends in Olympic logos have evolved over the years. Noticeably, the logos seem to have changed from a monochromatic trend to a more multicolor approach in recent years. Logo design seems to have been streamlined to simpler and cleaner shapes.
This article features every logo from the summer and winter Olympic games from 1924 to 2012. Paris – Summer 1924 Lake Placid – Winter 1932 Los Angeles – Summer 1932 Garmisch-Partenkirchen – Winter 1936 Berlin – Summer 1936 St. London – Summer 1948 Oslo – Winter 1952 Helsinki – Summer 1952 Cortina d’Ampezzo – Winter 1956 Melbourne / Stockholm – Summer 1956 Squaw Valley – Winter 1960 Rome – Summer 1960 Innsbruck – Winter 1964 Tokyo – Summer 1964 Grenoble – Winter 1968 Mexico – Summer 1968 Sapporo – Winter 1972 Munich – Summer 1972 Innsbruck – Winter 1976. The Art of Propaganda: Retro Soviet Posters. One of the great aesthetic legacies of the Soviet Union is the great wealth of magnificent propaganda posters it left behind. Lenin takes responsibility for creating the first truly modern propaganda machine, from postage stamps and Mayday parades to monumental sculptures. Perhaps its most colorful, dramatic and original form was the poster.
Graphic, bright and compelling, soviet propaganda posters are often viewed as the quintessence of an epoch, reflecting the way that the country’s rulers addressed the governed. This post is sponsored by LargeFormatPosters.com, a company that provides affordableposter printing services. What makes Soviet posters so precious and so valuable is their innovative manner and the talent of the authors. The attention to details is amazing, scope of techniques is endless. The Russian avant-garde artists were the first in the world to use photographic images as part of design. Death to world imperialism D. Forever together! On the Horses, Proletariat!
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40 Cool and Creative T-Shirt Illustration Designs | You the Designer. Focus On Composing Photos: Focus on the Fundamentals. Peter Ensenberger, “Focus On Composing Photos: Focus on the Fundamentals” F..al Press | 2011 | ISBN: 024081505X | 155 pages | File type: PDF | 39,7 mb As digital cameras and software packages become more advanced, seemingly by the minute, it has become easier than ever to overlook the basic elements which have always resulted in the best photographs, no matter how fancy (or primitive) the camera itself.
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Humorous Artworks by Denis Zilber. Denis Zilber is a freelance illustrator and animator from Tel Aviv, Israel. His works filled with exaggerated characters, ideas, colors, grotesque style and a sense of humor. View the website. 50 Amazing Gig Posters Sure to Inspire. The gig poster scene isn’t exactly the best kept secret among music fiends like myself. It is a tradition that started in the 60′s and is still going strong. Nowadays, the majority of indie bands have a growing collection of poster art that is just too incredible to simply throw away once the show has ended. Not surprisingly, this has led to the gig poster being something of a collectors item for music fanatics everywhere.
The following are 50 hand picked gig posters whose creativity and imagination blew me away. Rilo Kiley Designer: Lure Design Inc Les Savy Fav Designer: Cody Fennell Devendra Banhart Designer: Spike Press The National Broken Social Scene Designer: The Small Stakes My Morning Jacket Designer: Andrio Abero Mates Of State Andrew Bird Designer: Gina Kelly The Decemberists Designer: Little Jacket Animal Collective Designer: Delicious Design League Deerhoof The Shins Designer: Kevin Tong …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Designer: Dave Conrey We Are Scientists Designer: Jonathan Schmitt Stars.
Breathtaking Typographic Posters - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement You can’t design without type. However, yon can use only type (or mostly only type) to create breath-taking designs. In fact, many graphic designers and artists take exactly this route to communicate their ideas through their works. The results are sometimes crazy, sometimes artsy, sometimes beautiful, but often just different from things we’re used to. You can’t design without type: this1 is an argument for it. This post showcases over 50 breathtaking typographic posters designed by artists across the globe.
You may also want to take a look at the article Typography In Motion2 we’ve published few months ago. So what can be achieved out of simple letters and symbols? Breathtaking Typographic Posters Christina Koehn / University of Washington, USA Alex Banks3 / United Kingdom Emiliano Lionel Suárez4 / Argentina Juanma Teixidó5 / Asunción, Paraguay Emil Kozak6 / Spain Pablo Alfieri7 / Buenos Aires, Argentina HeyHo8 / France Vincent Bousserez9 / Paris, France in the lab11 Bunch30 / UK.
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A well-designed website is important for the growth of a business and often to create a “fresh” and clear image for a company (or a product, or a freelancer) we need the help of the art of simplicity. For these reasons a minimal and super-clean layout can be the perfect solution for an attractive website. In this post, after a little overview, you’ll see some of the best examples of minimalism in modern web design The more time and effort you dedicate for a usable, user friendly design and hitting your objectives, the higher are your chances for getting better results in the end of the month. A Short Overview Contrast. The Latest Trends in Web Design | Web Design. Predicting the evolution of web design is like trying to milk a male goat. Despite ever-changing design trends and techniques, purists and idealists maintain that the principles of great design are timeless. This is true to an extent, but the recent rapid and consistent development of the Internet across many dimensions and in diverse ways has to be taken into account.
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It’s essential for Designers to have a good understanding of typography and selection as the importance of typography in design can’t be neglected. The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into attractive piece of art. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of web designing are Look, Appearance and Outcome which helps you to keep apart from normal wave. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner.
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