In case you missed it, here is a clever ad for Guinness from a few years ago.
Even a beer company can appreciate the fact that it takes more than seven days to create and evolve great things.
Archive for the ‘Art & Design’ Category
When Jesus does a handstand … he looks just like Satan.
August 10, 2009
I used to love drawing these types of optical illusions as a kid. I stumbled onto this one and had to share it. I love the clever use of typography.
I slightly modified the original illustration.
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Step aside Buddy Christ. “Jesus in Jeans” is one cool mo fo.
May 13, 2009A church in East Sussex has unveiled a Marcus Cornish bronze statue dubbed “Jesus in jeans” depicting Christ as a man of the 21st century. He doesn’t have the “thumbs up” pose of the Buddy Christ sculpture from the movie Dogma. But he is a very hip Jesus nonetheless.
His arms outstretched pose looks like he’s saying, “Waassup playas? Ya’ll coming into my sacred crib fo worship up in my biness?
To make it even more miraculous, I did a Google search I found proof this sculpture had been fortold in a prophetic dream in 2006. There is a website with the story and a poem to honor the prophetic vision. Check it out.
Giving prayer a new meaning. German men are praying for rain. (not safe for work)
May 1, 2009As a graphic designer I had to appreciate the creativity of this billboard. It was found in a German city, promoting Playboy. When it is raining, the woman’s t-shirt on the billboard reacts like a real wet t-shirt. Pretty funny. Pray away my German brethren.
Accidentally inappropriate graphic design.
April 21, 2009I’m a graphic designer by trade, so I found this logo more than a little interesting. I had a class in college that went into great depth discussing the dangers of creating accidentally inappropriate designs. The problem typically occurs with symbolism that offends certain groups or cultures.
This logo takes the cake. It was designed in 1973 for the Catholic Church’s Archdiocesan Youth Commission. It actually won an award from the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles, and later an AIGA award in 1975. I give it the award for the most accidentally inappropriate logo ever designed.
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Even the church bells can “imagine there is no heaven”.
February 27, 2009
Controversy is growing in England over the decision to play John Lennon’s “Imagine” on the church bells of Liverpool Cathedral church. Church officials have decided to play the song during the North West’s Futuresonic festival.
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
Lennon described his signature song as “anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional and anti-capitalistic.”
I can’t think of a more appropriate instrument to play this classic song than the bells of a cathedral. Maybe John Lennon is more popular than Jesus after all.
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.”
John Lennon
October 1940 – December 1980
But don’t worry about Lennon’s eternal fate. The Roman Catholic Church has recently forgiven him for making this statement
Very gradual change we can believe in.
February 21, 2009
This poster is a great commemorative to the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin.
This is what inherently separates science from religion. Religion requires the constant laws and promises from god. Science is gradually evolving as we discover more evidence of how our world formed. I find it ridiculous when modern day christians try to rationalize science to fit with the bible. If Christians are being truly honest, it is impossible.
There has been countless attempts to rationalize science with the 7 days of creation. They are silly at best. Unless Adam and Eve were monkeys, evolution and the bible can’t possibly work together. Unless fossil carbon dating is bunk science, then the world was not created in 7 days. I could go on, but I’ll save it for a future post. I just thought I’d share this cool poster. Happy 200th Darwin.
Magenta doesn’t exist.
February 17, 2009
I’m a graphic designer by trade. So I work regularly with the base printing colors of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. The color magenta doesn’t actually exist in the light spectrum. So how can we see it? With a brain phenomena called Qualia, our brain actually creates it.
This article has two eye tests that will give you a small window into how our brain processes color. Pretty amazing what our brain will do.
“The light spectrum has a color missing because it does not feel the need to ‘close the loop’ in the way that our brains do. We need color to make sense of the world, but equally we need to make sense of color; even if that means taking opposite ends of the spectrum and bringing them together.”
That sounds very similar to what our brains do to make sense of why we exist on this planet. Our brains have a innate need to understand our purpose on earth. Many choose to fill in the blanks with a god that helps them deal with their own mortality. Kind of like seeing the world through Magenta colored glasses.
