Nastya Nudnik: emoji-nation

Ukrainian art director and digital artist Nastya Nudnik's "emoji-nation" series pairs well-known works of art with popular culture, social media and graphic design elements to create works that are as clever as they are timely.

My personal favorite is the 4th series, where paintings gain the addition of modal dialogs, but they're all pretty great in their own way. You can see them all right here: part 1, which pairs paintings with their emoji counterparts; part 2, where Edward Hopper's works gain social media icons; part 3, which shows paintings as movie posters; the aforementioned part 4; and part 5, which adds elements of Google's interface.


(Via kottke)

Pat Shannon

Equator (detail), 2008. Cut newspaper, acrylic gel, hardboard, 46"h x 24"w x 7"d.

Equator, 2008. Cut newspaper, acrylic gel, hardboard, 46"h x 24"w x 7"d. Funny pages, dialogue removed, characters popped. Photo: John Colan.

 Open house (detail), 2008. Cut newspaper, acrylic gel, binder's board, 17"h x 24"w x 22"d. Real estate listings, houses popped.

Summer Sale, 2008. Cut newspaper and acrylic gel, 11"h x 9"w. Home store insert.

Lot, 2008, Cut newspaper, acrylic gel, plexi shelves, 14"h x 23"w x 14"d. Auto pages, text removed, cars popped.

Artist Pat Shannon's clever manipulation of newspapers  - ads, comics, broadsheets, and inserts, among others - reveal the hidden beauty behind these often overlooked sections. I particularly love the houses from the real estate listings, and there's just something so appealing about the bright colors of a home store insert when it's devoid of content. See more on Shannon's website.

(Via The Jealous Curator)

if I had a million dollars

I would buy...{the twin peaks edition}

A Damn Fine Coffee Tote Bag from Kate Rowland Illustration.

Carbon Crusader's Twin Peaks Pencil Set.

A Lucy Moran key chain from Dana Damki.

Kate Rowland Illustration's Log Lady Brooch.

And a Great Northern key chain, from Welcome to Twin Peaks.

if I had a million dollars

I would buy...{the pop culture edition}

One of Adam Rabalais' Goonies movie posters.

A Nadine Hurley brooch, from Dana Damki.

Double Bravo Designs' The Year You Were Born 2012 NYC letterpress card.

This thunder in our hearts tote, from fieldguided.

And Kelsy Garrity Riley's Lady Mary print.

square inch design - minimalist children's stories

Hyper-minimalist poster designs of classic children's stories, by Christian Jackson of Square Inch Design. I am totally in love.

(Via A CUP OF JO)

Fro Design Co - mario propaganda

Propaganda posters have a long and fascinating history that I'm not going to get into today, suffice it to say that they're one of those topics - along with World's Fairs, the Bauhaus and both the European and American Arts and Crafts Movements - that I know way too much about. So when someone like LA-based graphic artist/web designer Fro does as nice a job of combining propaganda posters and one of the greatest video games of all time to create Mario Propaganda, then you know that I'm going to be pretty darn thrilled about it. And yes, these bad boys are available to purchase.

(Via Public School)

music philosophy

This poster pretty much sums it all up for me. It's by Mico, who designs a new lyrics-based poster each week as part of his Music Philosphy series. In addition to the above words of wisdom, I've included some of my other favorites below. You can find insight from the likes of Johnny Cash, Aerosmith, The Beatles, Judy Garland, The Smiths, Blind Melon, and many more here, at the Music Philosphy website, with a few select ones availabe as t-shirts, here.

(Via Mint)

retrofuturs

I think that these images of various web services, conceived of as retro book covers, by French graphic designer Stephane Massa-Bidal (aka Retrofuturs), are fantastic. Because "to be or not to be followed" is what Twitter is all about, and big brother, along with the rest of the world, absolutely is watching you on YouTube.

(Via Etsy's News From the Craft + Style Blogoshere: March 4, 2010)

Albert Exergian: tv posters

I like how these clever, modernist posters of popular shows, from Austrian designer Albert Exergian, do such a great job in clearly, simply expressing what each show is really all about: a paperclip for MacGyver, Dexter's blood slides, the red and white checkered tablecloth from an Italian restaurant for The Sopranos. These are some of my favorites, but you can view all of them at Blanka, where they're for sale, and on Exergian's website, where you can also see more of his work.

(Via The Observer's Very Short List)