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40 Beautiful Web Design Portfolios

Andrew Lindstrom — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:03:44 +0000

It’s funny that a web designer’s portfolio – arguably their most valuable marketing tool – is usually neglected and horribly out of date. I know mine is.

I’ve been really itching to overhaul my portfolio website for months now. Though I don’t mind the current layout, it was always meant to be temporary. As is usually the case, it’s just a matter of having the time to do it right.

To get the ball rolling I’ve collected 40 beautiful web design portfolios that for one reason or another blew me away. Some are for larger companies while others are for individual freelancers like myself. Hopefully this will inspire those of us neglecting our portfolios to get off our butts and start designing.

Sofa

C-Graphics

Ayush Saran

Shannon Moeller

Vitor Lourenco

Giant Creative

0at

WP Coder

Tomas Pojeta

Lataka

AdaptD

Ten 24 Media

Jeff Sarmiento

Simple Art

Kavoon

Zendiko

Gareth Dickey

Henry Jones

Fortyseven Media

Design Disease

The Old State

Function

Nofrks

Zee The Designer

Dean Oakley

Fran Boot

Kubca

Jason Reed

Contrast

Just Dot

Popmatik

Andrew Bayley

Rawkes

Paul Wallas

Drawn To Pixels

Alexandru Cohaniuc

Mike Precious

Komodo Media

Junaid Hanif

Nue Media

45 Vintage ‘Space Age’ Illustrations

Andrew Lindstrom — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:47:30 +0000

As a child, I truly believed that at this point in my life I would be living in a space-dome community with a flying car and a robot maid. I can even remember the utter disappointment of realizing that most of the things I read in my dad’s back issues of Popular Science magazine would never see the light of day.

Until we all are living in outer space with flying automobiles and robot servants, we can pass the time with these 45 vintage illustrations of a space age tomorrow. Hopefully these beautiful and creative works of art won’t bring back too many childhood disappointments.

Don’t worry, you’ll get your jetpack someday.

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40 Rad Vintage T-Shirt Designs

Andrew Lindstrom — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:06:27 +0000

The whole vintage t-shirt craze of a couple years ago was one of those rare instances where I was on board of a trend well before it actually became fashionable. Now that the trend is slowly “fading” out and mall kiosks are overstocked with tacky reissues of unsold Ramones concert tee’s – I’m still rockin’ my vintage shirts looking like Johnny-come-lately.

It is in celebration of this slowly dying fashion trend that I have put together a showcase of 40 Rad Vintage T-Shirt Designs for your amusement. Enjoy.

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100 Illustrated Horror Film Posters: Part 2

Andrew Lindstrom — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:01:07 +0000

A few days ago I posted 100 Illustrated Horror Film Posters: Part 1 to get myself, and hopefully others, in the Halloween spirit. Much to my delight the post was a smashing success! Big thanks to everyone who helped spread the word on that article.

As promised here is the second half of the horror and sci-fi illustrated posters collection. Though a lot of these movies are not exactly masterful cinematic achievements, at least they sport some pretty kick ass poster art – so it’s not a complete loss.

Happy Halloween everybody!

Escape From New York

The Dead Are Alive

Critters

Scream and Scream Again

Creepshow

And Now the Screaming Starts

Re-Animator

The Jaws of Death

Vicious Lips

Beyond The Time Barrier

Maniac

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

The Crater Lake Monster

Demons

The Land That Time Forgot

Tomb of Ligeria

Galaxina

Frankenstein

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Invasion of the Saucer-Men

The Legacy

The Bees

Chopping Mall

The People That Time Forgot

Meatcleaver Massacre

The Giant Claw

The Wicker Man

King Kong

Silent Madness

The Evil of Frankenstein

Dorian Gray

The Curse of the Werewolf

Planet Of Dinosaurs

Great White

The Day The Earth Froze

Creature from the Haunted Sea

Devil Girl From Mars

House on Haunted Hill

The Pit and the Pendulum

Not of This Earth

Empire of the Ants

Fiend Without a Face

Eaten Alive

The Cauldron of Death

The Bat People

The Giant Leeches

The Fly

Dawn of the Dead

X

Beast of Blood

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100 Illustrated Horror Film Posters: Part 1

Andrew Lindstrom — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:22:47 +0000

For some, Halloween means costume parties and drunken debauchery. That’s never really been my style. Personally, I like to spend my Halloween evenings eating candy and watching scary movies. Yeah, I’m a nerd – I know.

This Halloween season has had me reminiscing of the brilliant horror and sci-fi movie posters of years past. Particularly, I am a fan of the illustrated posters that used to be the staple of nearly every science fiction and horror film released. These posters are able to communicate so much about a film with a single, masterfully created image that it’s a shame this style isn’t so popular nowadays.

Since there were so many amazing posters to showcase, I have split this post into two parts. Part two will be posted on October 31st. But for now, you may feast on the first half.

Creature from Black Lake

The Kindred

Fright Night

Tarantula!

Death Race 2000

Silent Running

The Thing

Forbidden Planet

House

Planet of the Vampires

Tales of Terror

Kingdom of the Spiders

Day of the Dead

The Winged Serpent

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Road Games

Equinox

Nosferatu

Alligator

The Alpha Incident

Up From the Depths

Zardoz

Dracula

C.H.U.D.

Robinson Crusoe on Mars

The Changeling

Invaders From Mars

The Giant Spider Invasion

Plan 9 From Outer Space

Mortuary

Fantastic Voyage

Dawn of the Mummy

Marooned

Destination Inner Space

Garden of the Dead

Piranha

The Shape of Things to Come

The Day It Came to Earth

Burial Ground

Orca

Mission Mars

First Spaceship on Venus

The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane

War of the Satellites

The Blob

Rollerball

Creature From the Black Lagoon

Atragon

TerrorVision

Jaws

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Inspiration Roundup

Andrew Lindstrom — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:50:32 +0000

It seems that a lot of you out there are total inspiration junkies. That’s cool, I am too. That’s why I’ve decided to put together a collection of some of the best inspiration posts I’ve come across on the net. Some are classics. Some are new. All are awesome.

If you ask me, you should you postpone whatever you were about to do and soak up each and every one of these links. Enjoy!

Excellent Book Covers and Paperbacks

One of my favorite posts from Smashing Magazine, one of my favorite blogs. Here lies a giant collection of book cover art. As I’m not nearly as literate as I pretend to be, I haven’t seen many of these before.

Tadanori Yokoo Posters

An amazing collection of crazy Japanese art from the 60′s courtesy of a journey round my skull.

Olympic Poster Design

Design blog Abduzeedo showcases posters for the Olympic games from 1986 onward. If you ask me they are all fantastic… until 1992, then they take horribly tacky a turn for the worse.

North Korean Propaganda Posters

A superb collection of propaganda art from North Korea. Both beautifully done and completely horrifying.

Barcode Design

Inspiration blog Fubiz puts together an awesome collection of creative barcode designs.

30 Inspiring Poster Designs

Design Reviver showcases 30 beautifully designed posters. Very inspirational stuff here.

50 Beautiful Movie Posters

Another epic post from the great Smashing Magazine. As a fanatic of movie posters I would have to agree with these selections. And hey, they even credited my Polish Poster article in their references!

60 Cool Custom Design Designer Toys

Spoon Graphics does a roundup of 60 customized designer toys. I want all of them!

Mid Century Modern Art Inspiration

Another great post from Abduzeedo! A wonderful collection of match box art from the WWII era.

Mad Men Illustrated

I am huge fan of the Emmy awarding winning series Mad Men. Naturally, I was doing backflips when I happened upon Dyna Moe‘s collection of Mad Men inspired illustrations. Every week she does a new piece inspired by the latest episode. This is 100% awesomeness!

An Ode To Criterion Box Art

Andrew Lindstrom — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:34:18 +0000

For film nerds like myself, the Criterion Collection is the crème de la crème. Every title in their incredible catalog is restored to pristine picture and sound quality and usually boasts some of the best bonus features out there.

But what is really seals the deal is Criterion’s gorgeous box art. Every DVD in the Criterion Collection sports a completely original box art design. They must have some of the best in-house designers working today as their DVD packaging just can’t be beat. Needless to say, this makes it especially hard for the DVD collector to resist.

Here are 50 of my favorites…

Days Of Heaven

The Ice Storm

Le Samourai

Bottle Rocket

Vampyr

Two-Lane Blacktop

Trafic

Yi Yi

Naked Lunch

Yojimbo

F For Fake

Onibaba

Hoop Dreams

The Man Who Fell To Earth

Heaven Can Wait

Scenes From A Marriage

Fires On The Plain

Umberto D

The Atomic Submarine

The Face Of Another

The Leopard

Koko

Ivan’s Childhood

If…

La Commare Secca

The Third Man

The Double Life Of Veronique

Grey Gardens

Kicking And Screaming

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

Missing

Robinson Crusoe On Mars

Port Of Shadows

Fanny & Alexander

Metropolitan

8½

Eyes Without A Face

Night And Fog

Brand Upon The Brain

The Honeymoon Killers

Bicycle Thieves

Ashes + Diamonds

Pierrot Le Fou

Secret Honor

The Bad Sleep Well

Jigoku

The Furies

Army Of Shadows

House Of Games

Amarcord

Source

Criterion has all of their box art (and the films to go with it) available on their website.

50 Inspiring Vintage Advertisements

Andrew Lindstrom — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:43:59 +0000

Like many others I find myself captivated with vintage advertising. There have been numerous articles, blog posts and websites dedicated to the subject and I just can’t seem to get enough.

Specifically, it is the advertising of the 50′s and 60′s that is most aesthetically pleasing to me. It seems every ad in that era was either a beautifully shot photograph or a stunning Rockwellian painting. Not to mention the incredible attention given to layout and typography.

The following are 50 of my personal favorites. I hope you enjoy them.

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100 Illustrated Horror Film Posters: Part 2

Escape From New York

The Dead Are Alive

Critters

Scream and Scream Again

Creepshow

And Now the Screaming Starts

Re-Animator

The Jaws of Death

Vicious Lips

Beyond The Time Barrier

Maniac

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

The Crater Lake Monster

Demons

The Land That Time Forgot

Tomb of Ligeria

Galaxina

Frankenstein

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Invasion of the Saucer-Men

The Legacy

The Bees

Chopping Mall

The People That Time Forgot

Meatcleaver Massacre

The Giant Claw

The Wicker Man

King Kong

Silent Madness

The Evil of Frankenstein

Dorian Gray

The Curse of the Werewolf

Planet Of Dinosaurs

Great White

The Day The Earth Froze

Creature from the Haunted Sea

Devil Girl From Mars

House on Haunted Hill

The Pit and the Pendulum

Not of This Earth

Empire of the Ants

Fiend Without a Face

Eaten Alive

The Cauldron of Death

The Bat People

The Giant Leeches

The Fly

Dawn of the Dead

X

Beast of Blood

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References

100 Illustrated Horror Film Posters: Part 1

Creature from Black Lake

The Kindred

Fright Night

Tarantula!

Death Race 2000

Silent Running

The Thing

Forbidden Planet

House

Planet of the Vampires

Tales of Terror

Kingdom of the Spiders

Day of the Dead

The Winged Serpent

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Road Games

Equinox

Nosferatu