We’ve noticed that the Imperial War Museum has released a Poster Application, perfect for all War / Poster enthusiasts. In the IWM collection of 20,000 posters they have selected 30 from the Second World War.
Some are famous pieces that can still be spotted around most design studios today, maybe it be a mug or a mouse mat, such as the famous ‘Keep Calm And Carry On’ poster produced by the British Government in 1939 in the anticipation of the air ..read more
Mike Lamanski is a freelance Graphic Designer / Illustrator from the UK. After graduating with a first class B.A honours in Graphic Design & Media Communication from Huddersfield he then moved to working in a design agency in Leeds for a while, he has now progressed to freelance work. He has a tremendous back catalogue of clients listed on his website, some of them include giant brands such as Google, Coca Cola, IBM, BBC and Fortune Magazine just to name ..read more
It’s edging nearer and nearer to Christmas day, and if your undecided about presents why not get a beautiful London transport museum poster, there’s 5,000 so you shouldn’t be too stuck on picking one to choose also they have been produced from 1900 to the present day.
So if you know someone who is avid poster collector, this would be the perfect present, I am particularly keen on the London Zoo collection. If you don’t get it for Christmas you could always ..read more
While searching on the internet the other day, I was literally blown away by the beauty of Charley Harper’s work and really sad I had not discovered this marvellous artist sooner.
Harper was an American Modernist artist, who was best know for his specific design style of producing wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations. After passing in 2007, he has left a legacy of prints, that can be enjoyed and talked about for years to come.
The simplicity and beauty of his ..read more
Archan Nair brings some serious colour and passion to these cold winter nights with his vibrant, mixed media visual graphics. Archan is a self developed visual artist, Illustrator and Art Director. His specialities are based in mixed media, illustration, and digital art.
Archan is inspired by various phases and forms of life, he then creates his beautiful intricate works that connect the various dimensions of our existence.
Before his move into becoming a full time Art Director and Visual artist he was ..read more
I thought I would share a useful bit of code I recently used when building a wordpress site. I found myself embedding text, for example home page text or footer text in the theme files. This is fine if the text is not going to be edited, but if the client would like constant ability to edit this text then we need to create a page for this.
I created a page called ‘home page text’ in the admin and set ..read more
Here at Popcorn, we love reggae and hot food, so we keep following Levi Roots’… He just launched his iphone app. Bravo! Clever and attractive. Bit of sunshine in this cold December.
The Neo Cube looks like the perfect gift for Christmas, especially for the fiddling art director amongst us.
The Cube is composed of 216 individual high-energy sphere magnets, which can be formed into billions of shapes and patterns. It is highly addictive!
Joshua Mays is a Mural artist, Illustrator and Designer originally from Denver and has been resided in Philadelphia for the past 7 years. He’s contributed to exhibitions across the US in Philadelphia, New York, Denver, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles and has exhibited internationally in Mexico City, London and Johannesburg, South Africa. He’s created illustration’s for various clientele, including Jill Scott, Ursula Rucker, Jneiro Jarel, Circulations (Japan) and Ubeat (Germany).
He also has a blog that he created with the word Soldren which he states represents ..read more
Recently I’ve been following the work of young creative Illustrator and Art Director Saad Moosajee. British born Saad who now resides in America has an immense portfolio of top client work for such companies as Nike, Oxfam Australia, Nokia and Tiger Beer, just to name a few.
He has also already had exhibitions in Sydney and his home town of London, England. He mostly works in 2D and 3D design, and has even stated that that his drawing skills are ..read more
While shopping for pantone Christmas gifts last week, this wonderful hotel popped up, I had briefly heard about a pantone inspired hotel in Brussels. Sounds like a true designers delight (or nightmare), and possibly well worth a trip solely for the true pantone experience. In this age of Pop up designer boutique hotels I think this could be one niche that could well take off.
The Pantone Hotel invites you to experience the city of Brussels through a lens of ..read more
Lygia Pape clearly had an oral fixation. The Brazilian artist, who died in 2004, was a founding member of her country’s Neo-Concrete movement, which took the work of abstract European modernists and injected it with a dose of touchy-feely sensuality. For Pape, this celebration of the physical found its locus in the mouth.
A film of a giant open mouth confronts you as you enter this survey of Pape’s work from the 1950′s to the 1970′s. Framed by ..read more
We came across this fantastic video that shows 50 years of D&AD work in under two minutes. Popcorn Design have followed D&AD for a number of years now and always admire their work and the work they do with up and coming designers.
To find out more about D&AD visit their website: http://www.dandad.org
Matt known as ATMA in the art scene, was invited by the city hall of Paris to paint a large scale portrait of Ali Akbar, a colourful newspaper street seller of the Latin Quarter. The Popcorn team went down to Paris for the opening to celebrate.
Fantastic design by the late John Gorham, used as the album cover of Metronomy’s “English Riviera”. See you in Cornwall!