Entries tagged “fun”
kidrobot x Matt Groening vinyl toy
“…Created by legendary “Life is Hell” cartoonist Matt Groening, THE SIMPSONS is celebrating its 500th episode in February 2012, and Kidrobot is honoring the father of primetime animation in the only way we know how: making him into a 6-inch vinyl toy!
Complete with goatee and glasses, director’s jacket, and pad and pencil accessories, it is the first EVER Simpsons Matt Groening toy…” —kidrobot
vintage camera inspired pillows
(above Amica Eyelux camera canvas printed pillow via In the Seam on etsy)
Die Legowand, wall divider made with thousands of LEGO bricks by Npire
(via Fubiz)
vintage plastic cameras turned into Nightlights by Jason Hull
(first discovered via neatorama, above Ansco Cadet II w/ flash)
‘Companion Rack’ for magazines designed by Gavin Coyle
(via Junk Culture)
Secret Identity of superheroes
Secret Identity by Simon Monk “is an ongoing series of paintings each representing a plastic model of a famous superhero contained in a clear polythene carrier bag…”
(above ‘Peter Parker’ as Spiderman via It’s Nice That)
This white elephant is a part of Phill Playground & Restaurant, a newly designed space by Nuca Studio in Bucharest.
(via dezeen, photograph by Cosmin Dragomir)
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
The Bluth Company Stair Car and other fun “Arrested Development” LEGO brick creations, even including a model home
(via Pepa Quin’s (aka Matt De Lanoy) creations for Brickworld 2011)
gift boxes of camera shaped cookies baked by Manjar
(via craft)
With her young daughter in mind and to provide an alternative to “bad clip-art tattoos,” Swissmiss (with friends) launches Tattly: Designy Temporary Tattoos. Recruiting the design talents of James Victore, Julia Rothman, Jason Santa Maria, Jessica Hische (seen above), Frank Chimero, the color-loving Jessi Arrington and more. The Tattly site starts off with a carefully curated array of typographic & illustrative eye candy.
I’ve never been interested in applying tattoos, permanent or temporary. But, I think many design-minded parents & kids will enjoy the products.
“Typography + Rainbows = Fun,” rainbow types by Marc Johns
(via quipsologies via swissmiss)
Google welcomes the summer solstice with Takashi Murakami’s “First Day of Summer” Google Doodle using Kaikai Kiki characters.
Being mindful of those south of the equator, Murakami made an alternative version of the Google Doodle. “First Day of Winter” illustrates an icy, colder scene with snowflakes and a warm scarf.
Lomography presents “The La Sardina Fish Market” line of sardine tin inspired 35mm analogue wide-angle cameras.
(above is the Marathon model, one of 4 initial designs)
