Archive for July, 2006

papercraft

Into papercraft? Into gaming? Into one or the other? Well, check out these awesome papercraft creations of Link, Princess Zelda, Majora’s Mask and a bunch of vehicles from Advance Wars and more. Included are pics of the finished pieces and even downloadable pdfs so you can give your own try at creating these. Temptation to [...]

mmmm, competitions.

Coroflot is a great site for design professionals, seeking to get their work out there and maybe land some work in return. 555design has released a new issue of Eroded, check it out. Mario Hugo has a nice portfolio of works. Terras Gauda, a wine company, are holding its annual poster design competition, check out [...]

Music news.

According to The Tripwire, Damon Albarn (of Blur, Gorillaz) is creating a new band, rather than continuing work with Blur. The NME reports that it was supposed to happen with Danger Mouse (if you don’t know already, Gnarls Barkley, MF Doom, Gorillaz); working title The Good The Bad and The Queen. Playing on the record [...]

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Prickie

Prickie has been featured on Phirebrush in the past (sotw I do believe) but it’s such a great site and project I can’t help but feature it again.
Prickie is an online shop for button badges designed by a wide range of artists. That’s right, you can sign up and offer your artwork as badges [...]

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slowly but surely we are getting the older interviews back online. thanks for your patience!

links ahoy!

After a 5 year hiatus, Designgraphik is back with a new release: VIII. error magazine is a new kid on the block, but they already got 2 issues under their belt, check em out. ISO50 has released 3 new prints, get em while their hot. The Art of Digital Show is having a request for [...]

mummy munnys 2 and 3

Ok, time for a bit of self promotion.
I am offering two Mummy Munnys (well, #2 and #3 of 6). First come, first serve. $100 / each. Hand signed & numbered. Free shipping in the US (sorry, international will have to pay). Once they are gone, they are gone.
Check them out: Mummy Munny #2 [...]

take me to vectortown

The gang over at Vectortown has added an interview with john schwegel. Check out this interesting house, that has a rotating center for 4 different rooms. Beautiful flash website for artist Cromm Cruac. The gang at Alaska have some amazing designs and have done work for hustler and countless others (some works NSFW)

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turtle power.

The teaser trailer for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is out now. I must say, the live action movies were awesome, but the animation to this just looks fantastic!

new nikon on the way.

Nikon has a nice teaser up stating they will have a new camera in 20 days. Will this be the sucessor to the D50/D70? I guess we’ll find out. Hopefully this will lower the price of the other models as well. (I’m still waiting to finally get a new dslr, maybe I’ll wait now. haha). [...]

monument

Monument Studios has just launched, which is the combined efforts of dennis, justin and pascal. Keep an eye on them, great things are on the horizon for sure.

Download and Burn (legally, not in hell!!!)

CinemaNow unveiled it’s new service last night that allows customers to not only download feature films onto their computers, but also allows the user to burn the movie to DVD for use with any standard DVD player. More info at

Edit Your Photos in a Flash

Adobe announced today that the beta of lightroom, a new program to touch-up and organize photographs, is now available for both windows and mac. They describe it as, and I quote, “Designed by photographers, for photographers.” Those adobe slicks seem to like using a certain catch phrase from an awesome t-shirt company.
Coincidence? I think [...]