The Flavor » Art http://theflavor.com Design blog by Hazen Creative, Inc. Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:24:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Bond Illustrations http://theflavor.com/2011/12/12/bond-illustrations/ http://theflavor.com/2011/12/12/bond-illustrations/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:02:57 +0000 admin http://theflavor.com/?p=2231 Michael Gillette did these killer illustrations for a new series of James Bond books for Penguin, and has just started selling limited-edition prints of them.

michael gillette, james bond covers, penguin, ian fleming, illustration

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]]> http://theflavor.com/2011/07/13/matt-taylor/feed/ 0 Luminant Point Arrays http://theflavor.com/2011/03/23/luminant-point-arrays/ http://theflavor.com/2011/03/23/luminant-point-arrays/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:10:19 +0000 admin http://theflavor.com/?p=1985 A cool series of photographs by Stephan Tillmans. They were taken at the moment a tube television is switched off. “The television picture breaks down and creates a structure of light. The pictures refuse external reference and broach the issue of the difference between abstraction and concretion in photography.” Via Today and Tomorrow.

 

LEUCHTPUNKTORDNUNGEN, LUMINANT POINT ARRAYS, Stephan Tillmans, tube television, photography

 

 

 

]]> http://theflavor.com/2011/03/23/luminant-point-arrays/feed/ 1 Vans and the places where they were. http://theflavor.com/2011/02/18/vans-and-the-places-where-they-were/ http://theflavor.com/2011/02/18/vans-and-the-places-where-they-were/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:18:37 +0000 admin http://theflavor.com/?p=1970 Man, I thought I had some oddly specific blogs. This one is great. Wish there were more pics!

Some faves:

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From Hobbes313, via ffffound.

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sonnenzimmer interactive poster

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Snake by Acid Washed. From Anthony Burrill on Vimeo.

]]> http://theflavor.com/2010/12/27/video-by-anthony-burrill/feed/ 0 Barry McGee @ Issuu http://theflavor.com/2010/12/08/barry-mcgee-issuu/ http://theflavor.com/2010/12/08/barry-mcgee-issuu/#comments Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:54:03 +0000 admin http://theflavor.com/?p=1780 I just discovered Issuu. And what’s the first thing I happen to click on? This great, purely visual zine from Barry McGee:

 

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Chris Turnham, Kevin Dart (Fleet Street Scandal, and Elizabeth Ito painting a mural at Q Pop in LA.
(Via Grain Edit’s Twitter feed.)

]]> http://theflavor.com/2010/12/01/painting-a-mural/feed/ 0 Vintage Powell Peralta http://theflavor.com/2010/11/29/vintage-powell-peralta/ http://theflavor.com/2010/11/29/vintage-powell-peralta/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:54:35 +0000 admin http://theflavor.com/?p=1753 I pulled this classic ’80s VCJ (Vernon Courtlandt Johnson) art from LifeLounge awhile back:

 

In looking for more, I stumbled across Spider’s Flickr page with a huge repository of Powell stuff. Including some oldies (click to see ’em bigger):

 

A 1978 illo by VCJ:

 

And a 1979 one by VCJ:

 

The classic Bones logo from 1978:

 

As did this cool thing, along with the nested P symbol:

 

And good ol’ Rat Bones from ’83, by C.R.Stecyk III:

C.R.Stecyk III

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