Oh, how we revel in our minimalist poster addiction — from minimalist’ed dancing to disasters to films to philosophy. Here’s the latest fix: London-based designer Stefan Van Zoggel’s Meme Movie Posters, a re-imagining the most potent viral videos as films, and then, as minimalist film posters. From Epic Beard Man to the Man With the Golden Voice to my personal favorite, the Russian animatron-esque singer of Trololo — here are your new favorite film meme minimalisms. Filmemes. Filminimemelist filminimemes! Oh, yes. Good stuff.
Oh, how we revel in our minimalist poster addiction — from minimalist’ed dancing to disasters to films to philosophy. Here’s the latest fix: London-based designer Stefan Van Zoggel’s Meme Movie Posters, a re-imagining the most potent viral videos as films, and then, as minimalist film posters. From Epic Beard Man to the Man With the Golden Voice to my personal favorite, the Russian animatron-esque singer of Trololo — here are your new favorite film meme minimalisms. Filmemes. Filminimemelist filminimemes! Oh, yes. Good stuff.
This latest minimalist thing is nifty, nifty. Niege Borges Alves’ The Dancing Plague of 1518 series — named after the Dancing Plague of 1518 — neatly explains some of pop culture’s notable dance routines, from Little Miss Sunshine to Pulp Picture to the pelvic thru-ust, that really drives you insa-ane-ane-ane-ane-ane-ane. Fantastic, but their Elaine’s dance poster is condescending because a lot of people dance like this, shut up. Read more »
These Shot Glasses Look Drunk
Yesterday, we discovered the aesthetic joys of luxurious methadone packaging. Just in time for lunch time, here are some awesomely TIPSY shot glasses by Loris&Livia. Bottoming out has never looked so stylish, so bottoms up! These Dalí-esque beauties are actually classic French Duralex Picardie glasses, deformed with some skillful melting in East London and perfect for a dainty serving of liquor and giggles about how meta they are. Read more »
From Pop Chart Labs, the makers of The Beauteous Bike Lanes of New York City map, comes a chart so intricate, this thumbnail can’t do it justice. Come, come here for the Constitutions of Classic Cocktails – click to zoom and peruse in detail. The pie-chart/line-graph/linear-pictorial guide breaks down 68 classic drinks into their constituents, from the spirits to bitters, to the mixers and splashes, to the garnishes on top. So many drinks. Just one liver. It took year for these chart-masters to create this informational gem and it is “as functional as it is beautiful.” Hang it on your wall, study it up and down and all around. Read more »
‘Drive’ With James Dean: Movies From an Alternate Universe
Same sensitive brand of badass, different jacket. If you liked Drive and that handsome lad of yore who died driving, behold: Posters for Movies From an Alternate Universe by Peter Stults. This series is just excellent, and not because Dean Martin, Jack Lemmon and Jerry Lewis and a baby Tom Cruise could have made damn good Hangover. Check ‘em. Read more »
Planex Australia is an office furniture brand that injects style and design into their products, so naturally when it comes to campaigns they’d never dream of doing some banal shoot using the typical coffee mug and desk lamp. Instead, they hired fetishy photographer Peter Coulson to capture the pieces with some black & white Helmut Newton influence as a trio of half-naked models pose amongst the work. Hiding in cabinets, trouserless typing, and smoking cigars in the work place? Human resources, eat your heart out.
Brooklyn-based designer and hopeless AFOL David Cole made some “taxidermied” deer, fox and bear figures out of Legos. Oh, they’re so cute, right? First the internet wanted them all. Now the internet wants more, more, more. Seriously, he’s back-ordered for 1,500 of these little things, which are essentially pixelated animals in IRL, comprised of “mostly new” Lego bits and hand-drawn instructions at just under $30 a pop. Read more »
There’s a very techie explanation as to why these portraits of perty ladies (and a cowboy) look like they’ve degenerated into partial, porous digital silhouettes, but just like you don’t need science to write science fiction, you don’t need to know all that junk to enjoy the cyberpunkish visual aesthetic: stringy facial shreds, mega-polydactyl limbs, whoah ho-ho, etc. A collaborative effort of designers Ayaka Ito, Randall Church and some RIT students, the Scribbled Line People were created using HDRI sphere lighting, a 3D flash drawing app, some intricate channel rendering, blah blah blah.
So, minimalist superhero posters and minimalist pictogram posters had a spawn of love children and here they are. Aw, lookit how cute they are too. They’re not intensely sophisticated but, there’s one thoughtful side-effect to reducing these superpowerful fictional pop culture icons down to the basic elements of their recognizable costumes and frequently repeated catchphrases – it’s realizing that those catchphrases are incompetent. How was a humanoid-sized Superman ever mistaken for a much smaller bird or a much bigger airplane? Egh.
The city has unveiled its latest traffic safety campaign and it’s very clever. Presenting with enthusiasm: Curbside Haiku, a series of minimalist posters wherein in pictogram people get into a series of unfortunate interactions with NYC traffic. Put your magical phone over the QR code and wise poems appear, stylized in traditional haiku, instructing you on how to best avoid disaster, whether you’re biking or walking. They’re actually very well written: “Oncoming cars rush/Each a 3-ton bullet./And you, flesh and bone.” Oh, I can relate.
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