Rolf Harris Demonstrates A Photoshopesque Image Editing Programme 1984

Here’s a video of Rolf Harris “demonstrating” an image editing program on Good Morning Britain in 1984. I’m not sure what the program is, I don’t think it is actually Photoshop, but the computer looks a bit like a Commodore 64. Rolf doesn’t seem 100% sure of what he’s doing. I like how’s he using a joystick for drawing though. Around 2 minutes in, the presenter in the matching yellow trousers and jacket asks “do you think this is a serious art form?” Some people are still asking that question today.

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Launch Of Ooh Nice! An Illustration Blog

Last year I set up a new illustration blog called ooh nice, originally as a sort of illustration scrap book for me. Since January I’ve been looking after it in earnest and posting illustration, drawing and animation links on a daily basis.

If you would like to see your own illustration or sketchbook included on the site, please contact me on the ooh-nice site.

I’ve also set up a second twitter account (because really one is never enough, is it ) and if you’re interested in Illustration you can follow me here.

Illustration by IC4 Design.

I’d warmly welcome any comments and suggestions. The new blog is just a baby and I’m sure it will go under several changes and face lifts, but I’d love to hear from you.

Logorama – The Oscar Winning Animated Short – A Feast For The Eyes Of Logo Designers!

Congratulations to the team who created Logorama, for winning the best animated short film. Directed by Nicolas Schmerkin (Autor de Minuit). The film is clever and funny and takes place in a world entirely populated by logos.

I love this movie for many reasons, two of them being a) I’m a logo designer so the nerd in me gets very excited by seeing lots of well-known logos, and b) I love the animation and bright colours in this film.

The movie is hilarious but has serious undertones about how corporations are taking over the world – look out for Ronald McDonald holding a child hostage. Sheer brilliance.

The movie is just over 16 minutes long and is well worth your time. Here it is in two parts.

Congratulations also to the team from Brown Bag Films for the wonderful achievement of receiving a nomination for the brilliant Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty. This is their second Oscar nomination having previously received one for “Give Up Your Oul Sins”.

Sebastien Kruger Caricature iPhone App

If you’re working in the field or are a fan of caricature, you might be interested in the Sebastien Kruger workshop app. The App has 33 pages showing the work flow used to create a large Michael Jackson painting. According to the blurb on the the Artist Sketchbook pages;

From September 21-25, 2009 26 artists from 11 countries came to Barsinghausen/Germany to join Krüger’s 5th Painting Workshop. Sebastian Krüger gave 2 live presentations on large canvases (160 x 180 cm / about 71 x 98 in). Please enjoy Krüger’s workshop documentary which includes 31 working steps (photos) of his painting "Neverland calling," painted with acrylic on canvas.

You can buy the app here.

Go Faster: Graphic Design On Sports Cars

If you’re into sports cars AND graphics, you might be interested in a new hardback book about both of those things called “Go Faster: The Graphic Design of Racing Cars” by Sven Voelker.

The book discusses how numbers, stripes, logos and colours are not just thrown onto the car “willy, nilly” (official design term, ahem) by the marketers, but rather strategically placed by teams of designers.

The book has over one hundred example of racecar graphic design as well as a number of blank models on which you can imagine your own designs.

Here’s a few images from the book.

Images from Top Speed

Daily Drop Cap Favourites

The Daily Drop Cap, if you haven’t seen it before, is a blog set up by typographer & illustrator Jessica Hirsche. She posts (almost) daily a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap which you can use for free in your personal blogs to make them even more lovely. Thank you to Jessica for making such beautiful typography available.

I’ve picked out a few of my favourites, click on the image to go the link for that letter and instructions on how to use it in your web page:

These are just a few of my faves, there are absolutely tons more on the Daily Drop Cap site.

Retro Illustrations For BAFTAs By Tavis Coburn

In another post of “I wish I made these”, here’s a set of posters designed and illustrated by Tavis Coburn for this year’s BAFTAs. Each illustration depicts one of the Best Film nominees and quite lovely they are too. The films nominated (and shown in order below) were Avatar, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Precious and Up In The Air.

(found via Creativity, images from Dutch Uncle)

Retro Packaging

There’s a Flickr stream called Advertising that has tons of photographs of retro packaging. I just love looking at this stuff and graphic design from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. The packaging is generally brightly coloured, although often with a limited palette per item. The fonts and typography are very cool and the illustration quirky . The pictures in this stream are by Roadside Pictures and you should check out their cool American roadside photography too.

Here’s a couple of my favourites from the Advertising set.

Photo Recipes With Scott Kelby

If you’ve bought any of Scott Kelby’s “The Digital Photography Book”, volume 1, 2, or 3 (I’ve bought the three of them – I’m a big Scott Kelby fan and also clearly a showoff) you will be familiar with the section at the end of each book called “the recipe to get this shot”. In this section he gives a brief explanation of how different shots were achieved and post-processed. Now there is a video available where you can watch and see how the shots were done, it’s called “Photo Recipes Live”.

You can watch the first 45 minutes for free (see below) and if you like what you see you can buy the full two hour video from Peachpit. You can use the coupon code KELBYPREMIERE to get the two hour video for $29.24 which should be a saving of 35% during checkout on peachpit.com.

Note: I didn’t receive any payment or there’s no affiliate link here, just passing on some info.

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Thought this might be quite corny, but it actually gave me goosebumps.

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