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Doc Martens – Boot design contest

May 31, 2008 by Adam Jarvis Leave a Comment

Doc Martens is an international icon. Their boots have been stomping around the globe with a distinct branding. Now, this well known boot is taking a kick at the creative side and they seem to need your help to do it.

Roll up your sleeves vector artists. It’s time to put your best foot forward.

“This is your chance to show the world your talent. Choose your canvas: the 8-hole or the 14-hole boot. Use pens, use paint, use whatever. Use your imagination. Weve provided some tools here. Or if you want, you can use your own. This time well have two winners. One voted for by the people. The other chosen by a panel of industry insiders. You enter it. Well make them. Youll see them in shops. Worldwide.”

Learn more here.

motorcycle

May 30, 2008 by Adam Jarvis Leave a Comment

This tutorial walks you through the basic principles of scaling objects in Adobe Illustrator. Even for a seasoned pro, this is an informative video with great insight. Pay attention. There will be a test.

FREE VECTOR DOWNLOAD – Pattern stamps

May 26, 2008 by Adam Jarvis 4 Comments

Here are 4 free vector files offered by mujka. Big thanks. These are great.

*Source: mujka.ca

Skinizi

May 24, 2008 by Adam Jarvis Leave a Comment

Skinizii offers a great lineup of skins for all types of iPod products. We were drawn in by their great designs and could not wait to share them with you. With designs from artists like Skaffs and Celso Junior, this stuff is bound to take off. If you have an iPod touch, this may be just what you’re looking for to make your deck stand out from the rest.

Learn more about Luke Feldman, the man behind Skaffs – here.

Shepard Fairey – OBAMA'S POSTERBOY

May 23, 2008 by Adam Jarvis Leave a Comment

Los Angeles, California —

When the street artist and guerrilla marketerShepard Fairey got word from theObama people that they would welcome his contribution to the campaign, he knew what he wanted to create: a phenomenon.

All political art is propaganda (that is the point), but most political posters are bland, forgettable, wallpaper, like Fred Thompson on an off day. Fairey wanted something more iconic — aspirational, inspirational — and cool. In other words, he wanted to make posters that the cool cats would want. The 2008 Democratic primary season equivalent of the Che poster (with all that implies). More Mao, more right now. The kind of poster that might make its way onto dorm room walls of fanboys. The kind of poster that might sell on eBay, as a signed Fairey Obama recently did, for $5,900. He wanted his posters to go viral.

“I wanted strong. I wanted wise, but not intimidating,” Fairey says of the look for his Obamas. The agitprop pop art has become a must-have accessory among a certain subset of the candidate’s supporters, who have gobbled up more than 80,000 of Fairey’s posters and 150,000 postcard-size stickers since Super Tuesday.

Who is this Shepard Fairey? He is a skate punk — with a secretary. A CEO in Puma sneakers. The rebel who did Pepsi ads. If you live in a big city, including Washington, you have probably seen his handiwork. Since 1989, during his student days at the Rhode Island School of Design, Fairey has been slapping stickers and pasting posters depicting the face of the Andre the Giant, the deceased French actor and professional wrestler, on every available surface, legal and not. Fairey has spent two decades shimmying up lampposts and over chain-link fences in a tenacious public art enterprise, irony performed on a landscape scale. Thousands of his Andre stickers include the word “OBEY” in bold lettering. What are we dealing with here? Obey what? Obey whom? A giant from France? Aha. You have cracked the code. It is reverse psychology. ( Pssst! Don’t obey.)