Bigshot Toyworks’ suicidal interpretation of the iconic Twitter board covers the latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek. The magazine’s cover story explores how the five-year old web startup survived internal turmoil, power outages, and an embarrassing security breach to finally become a successful, viable business.
Nomoco is exhibiting her colorful and intricate illustrations in Mexico, starting this week. “Small Picture Story” opens Wednesday, February 29th at Vertigo Gallery in Colonia Roma quarter of Mexico City. The show will feature the illustrator’s ethereal and serene images of girls, birds, and buildings, created with watercolor. Nomoco also filmed an interview with the gallery, seen below, to discuss her early ambitions and her cycle of inspirations and subjects also interviews the illustrator. She adds that she prefers the smaller template as “the smaller it is, the less I make a mistake. Because I am really focused on the tiny bits.”
“Small Picture Story” runs until March 31st. More details are available on Vertigo Gallery’s website.
Brisk Bodega brought its pop-up shop devoted to art, music, and Star Wars to New York City last night. The multi-city “Brisk Bodega Cantina” series features original artwork inspired by Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, recently re-released in theaters in 3D. The pop-ups expand on Brisk’s “Dark vs. Light” campaign, which finds Darth Maul battling Yoda for control over the universe’s iced tea. Tristan Eaton, Artek, POSE, Eye One, Mark Dean Vega, Jasper Wong, and Dual Forces contributed original artwork.
Rizon Parein creates a dramatic CGI opener for Fast Company’s “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies” spread. It is the magazine’s biggest package of the year. The annual guide ranks the most important companies whose innovations have an impact on their industries and our own culture. Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google and Twitter are among the 50 companies that topped this year’s list.
Ilovedust creates three billboards for Tic Tacs in Times Square, New York City. The billboards stand eight stories high and are the latest element in Tic Tac’s augmented reality “Shake It Up” campaign. The campaign centers on a mobile app that offers extras beyond the outdoor and print ads. The billboards feature facts and images created using Tic Tacs. They appear as personalized ads with the user at the center when they are AR-enhanced. The resulting images, which appear to be pictures of users in Times Square, can also be sent to friends through the Tic Tac Facebook page.
Ken Fallin is exhibiting his iconic celebrity portraits, old and new, this month in Los Angeles. The solo show, entitled “Ken Fallin Draws Hollywood,” opens today at the Hamilton-Selway Fine Art Gallery. Fallin submitted over 160 drawings to the gallery, most of them related to film and celebrity. Most of the published work is from his contributions to The Wall Street Journal including the drawings of Liza Minelli, Colin Firth, George Lucas, and Paul Newman.
Ilovedust collaborated with Wieden + Kennedy NY on branding for ESPN’s Winter X Games. The action sports event took place in late January in Aspen, Colorado. As part of the multi-media project, Ilovedust created two 30-second animated spots. ESPN provided athlete footage that the design studio created art for in an interactive flash execution. The spots aired on television as promotion for this year’s games.
Rod Hunt collaborates with Hornall Anderson Design in Seattle on illustrations for Quaker Oats. Hunt created original back of box artwork for two Quaker Oats cereals, Life and the new Crunchtime. Five different versions of the illustration were created for the Original, Cinnamon, and Maple Brown Sugar flavors of Life and the Strawberry and Apple Cinnamon flavors of Crunchtime.
Gary Baseman’s photograph is part of a group show for Polaroid at the Impossible Project Space NYC. “Instant Revolution” features photography by Baseman and four other contemporary artists, James Franco, Maripol, Mary Ellen Mark, and Jennifer Juniper Stratford. The exhibition is the first in an upcoming series of artistic collaborations throughout 2012 that honor the launch of the Polaroid Classic line. The new product line celebrates the seventy-five year legacy of the instant film and camera company.
Julene Harrison hand-cuts the words and flowers of Spring for The Washington Post’s Spring Arts Preview. The special Arts section features spring’s most anticipated events in theater, film, art, dance, and music recommended by the newspaper’s staff.
Andrew Rae collaborates with VML to give Bear Naked’s website a winter makeover. The granola brand calls itself the “official fuel of winter fun.” The “Winteractive” site features a Wintervention, polls, games, and advice from the Mountain Oracle Man. The site allows users to connect with their friends over Facebook and Twitter by sending them the different interactive features.
Kai and Sunny’s “Flower Show” box sets have been accepted in the Victoria & Albert Museum Collection. The British museum’s prints collection consists of about 500,000 prints encompassing both fine art and commercial production. The V&A’s Senior Curator of Prints Gill Saunders accepted box set 1 and box set 2.
Ilovedust collaborates with Wieden + Kennedy NY for an exciting, multi-media branding for ESPN’s Winter X Games in Aspen. The design studio worked with the team at Wieden + Kennedy to create a multi-facetted campaign consisting of two 30-second animated spots, a course map, for the interactive site and custom posters featuring action sports’ biggest names, including Sebastien Toutant. The campaign blends rich illustration in Ilovedust’s signature style with photography from previous Winter X Games.
The Winter X Games will air January 26- 29th on ESPN.
Serial Cut designs the campaign for the new Toyota Prius V. Saatchi & Saatchi LA commissioned the Madrid-based studio for Toyota USA. It is the biggest campaign Serial Cut has ever put together. The visuals highlight three features of the new Prius V: more versatility, efficiency, and connectivity. It took several months of pre-production, a six-day photo shoot and two months of post-production to complete the design.
Haze collaborates with Heineken on a limited edition custom draught glass set. HAZE X Heineken includes two glasses and an original print numbered and hand signed by Haze. The set, while intentionally minimalist in its graphic elements, also reflects a lot of form married to function and modern production values in the creation of its glass and packaging.
