Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages (Animation)

Not the most Amazing animation out there, but it uses almost everything that I was inspired for my illustration characters, also a good history on the Olympic pictograms and how they evolved.
Take note and watch it here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/24/sports/olympics/pictograms-interactive.html.
I will let someone else do the reserch this time :)

Steffen Bygebjerg: End Scene

End scene, is a musicale animation, I guess I should call it 'Motion Graphics' since that is what it is, I loved how everything was in sync with the music, and I love the use of the very simple shapes, this is a grand example of what can be done with just using squares and circles.
Also all the shapes were printed out first, then rescanned to give the shapes the rough effect they have in the piece.
Really loved this piece, I would love to experiment with music like this.
Anyway watch this musicale adventure here http://vimeo.com/6857186
Enjoy.

oh no! It's the Bauhaus!

It's funny how the first time I ever heard of the Bauhaus, was through the most boring documentery of my life, and my class mates too.
The documentery left a bad taste about the Bauhaus in me for a while, but soon I began realising it for the geometric awsomeness it was.
The Bauhaus seems to bring together all sorts of different manners of the creative industry like, Art, Archtiecture, Graphic Design, Interior design, Industrial design and Typography.
It follows the ways of its major influence 'Modernism', and it shows.

Bruno Monguzzi

Monguzzi tries to recapture the spirit of the early Russian Constructivist, using siple shapes and geometry. I really do like the shapes he uses and the placement of the shapes in the composition, and how he blends shapes and typography together to create something new.
Colours go really well with his designs, offereing some nice colour contrasts.

Tom Purvis

A little bit different to simple shapes but I might aswell mention Tom Purvis. I have to admit that his poster work for different holiday locations hold some of the most impressive colours I have seen in designs, not say it's the 'best' but its worth commenting on. The block out colours of the different illustrations work so well with the colour schemes, they contrast well with the surrounding colours to give off a simple shape, or form.
The illustrations are on border between realism and, well, 'stylised'... I don't want to use the word 'cartoony' sounds too childish.
I think the colours and illustrations really capture each loctions feel, obviously I haven't been to any of the areas, but I can just imagine and feel the mood by just looking at these really old posters.
Tom Purvis (1888- 1959)

Adolphe Mouron Cassandre

A.M. cassandre is one of the few designers I found in my book on geometrical designs, he has done some really interesting pieces of designs, illustration and typography. Most of his designs have a very cubic feel to them, which for the time gave off a very modern look about them.
Again it amazes me how traditional designs give off their own feel about them, also gaining off geometrical designs for that time is a feat in itself.
A.M. Cassandre (1901- 1968)

Hitting the books

Just some primary research from an almost interesting book on the geometry of Designs, what I really found interesting was some of the art pieces in the book, but the book was looking at geometry of the designs, and some of the grid systems that the designs were made from really interested me and continues to drive me forward into the world of perfectly geometrical designs, also I did enjoy looking at the different shapes some of the grid systems made, really an inspiration to me.
Some of the artists in the book are aslo infact very interesting and I shall be creating seperate posts to talk about some of them.