Entries tagged “characters”
Hello Kitty, front cover star for Elle
Elle Taiwan honors their magazine’s 20th Anniversary with a double cover featuring Hello Kitty as a stylish fashion model (December 2011 issue). There is also a behind the scenes video for some insight behind the photoshoot of the feline icon.
Interactive Google Doodle remembering Art Clokey with Gumby characters
Google celebrates the 90th birthday anniversary of Arthur “Art” Clokey with an adorable, animated, interactive Gumby themed Google Doodle logo design (including Pokey and friends).
October 12, 2011, we celebrate Gumby creator Art Clokey’s 90th birthday, and Google is honoring this stop motion pioneer with a doodle. Google’s home page will feature a unique interactive stop motion clay doodle created by the Clokey Productions Premavision studios. Coinciding with the birthday fanfare is the premiere of the new http://www.Gumby.com website—Gumby’s new home!
“The Google Doodle is the perfect tribute to my fathers work,” says Joe Clokey, Art Clokey’s son and creator of Gumby’s new website. “Art’s life and film career were ahead of their time. My dad would have been thrilled to be connected with Google in this way.”
A true visionary and pioneer, Art Clokey touched millions around the world with his creations. Art’s clay animation short Gumbasia expressed an exciting kinesthetic brand of film making that has influenced many of our current leading directors…” —press release about Google Doodle for Gumby’s creator and the launch of new Gumby World site for classic film clips, history, products, and biographical information
“G” and “J” Blockhead, “Square Thinkers” (Gumby’s nemeses)
Prickle without Goo (dragon of dinosaur?)
Pokey pony (best friend and sidekick)
Aside from honoring the birthday of the late Art Clokey, the new Google Doodle is a fun way to reintroduce the characters made of clay from the stop-motion animated television classic. There’s plenty to read and watch about innovation in animation with Gumby.com as the base—only wish there were larger, archival images and photographs. Below is one of the old video gems:
Art Clokey’s early Gumby action / Montage of Clips from 50′s Episodes
Book cover designer Peter Mendelsund interviews Chip Kidd about his work space.
(via trendhunter via nerdapproved)
After the season finale, FOX and The Simpsons leave the audience a cliffhanger on the fate of Ned’s new relationship with Edna. Through a fun marketing campaign, complete with Facebook and Twitter icons, “the love and future happiness of Ned Flanders and Edna Krabappel are in your hands.”
While Google in the US honored Mother’s Day, Google.it wished a very happy Google Doodle birthday anniversary to Roger Hargreaves and his beloved Mr Men and Little Miss characters.
(more logo design appropriations via design:related)
Miyazaki’s Totoro character made with Lego bricks by Iain Heath
Smurf happens…
new trailer and film posters for The Smurfs movie, due in theaters August 3rd, 2011.
the very best the 1980s had to offer:
54 Cereals We Loved and Lost - A Tribute
(via Urlesque, above Rainbow Brite cereal c. 1984 via Jason Liebig)
“…It’s time again to share this batch of wonderful Christmas cards from the Disney studio collected by Disney animator, Claire Weeks from 1938 through the mid-1950s. The designs on these cards are so much fun, it makes you wish the films themselves looked this cartoony.” —Animation Archive
(above corresponds with year the feature film Lady and the Tramp was released: 1955)
Shepard Fairey’s OBEY x Hello Kitty screen print for the Sanrio Small Gifts Art Show
(via OBEY GIANT)
Cookie Monster auditions for Saturday Night Live, in the latest viral video stunt from Sesame Street
