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Let the festivities begin!

12/24/2012 by chicquero

It´s about time to get in the spirit with this playful rendition of Holiday treats in a cartoon-ish style. Delicious traditional seasonal eats are highlighted in all their glory accompanied by antic doodles illustrated by Laura Hunter. Thought up by freelance art director and designer Gonzalo Azores and senior creative at LBI London, Maria Vidal, they created this animated feast in collaboration with Barclaycard. Nutcrackers, pigs in a blanket, roasted veggies, Stilton cheese, cured ham, pies and many more favorites […]

Categories: Artsy, Design • Tags: art direction, Barclaycard, designer, festivity, Gonzalo Azores, Happy Holidays, illustration, Laura Hunter, Merry Christmas, nutcracker

Pop pop bang bang project

11/20/2012 by chicquero

Pop Pop Bang Bang is an incredible project created by a great collaboration between photographer Thomas Brown and creative director Anna Burns. The former describes it as a mix of “film, photography, and pyro”. Together, the two focused on three themes that seems to always find their way into movies: explosions, guns, and girls. With this idea they decided to create their own conceptual, visually arresting settings in three different London locations. Very eye catching! Drama is very important in […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: Anna Burns, art direction, art installation, explosion, girls, guns, london, photography, pop art, Thomas Brown, umbrella, video

Killing me softly!

12/18/2011 by chicquero

Soft Guerrilla Kyle Bean is a Brighton, UK based designer who is specialized in hand crafted models, set design and art direction. His work is outstanding and for this latest series he has chosen a relevant set of objects to put his spin on given the current state of armed conflict in the world today. Kyle created ” Soft Guerrilla” for CUT Magazine and I´ll tell you what this is about… he got some devices/weapons considered usually harmful such as grenades, knives, among others and […]

Categories: Artsy, Laugh • Tags: art direction, artwork, cool, Cut Magazine, feather, hand crafted, harmful, harmless, Jello sculptures, Kyle Bean, no war, sculptures, Soft Guerrilla, war, weapon

Let my hair be!

12/13/2011 by chicquero

Well… the hair is real, it’s the head that’s fake… I’ve always loved this quote, it’s so true! Speaking of hair, world known hairstylistPeter Gray teamed up with former assistant Masa Honda to showcase the amazing hair editorial that will delight you in a bit… full of awesome hair sculptures. Shot by Takahiro Ogawa as part of the Asia Beauty Expo, styling by Yasuhiro Takehisa, art direction by Kazuya Goan, make up Chiho Omae and manicure Kotoe. The avant garde […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: art direction, Asia Beauty Expo, Chiho Omae, editorial, hair, hair sculptures, Kazuya Goan, make-up, Masa Honda, Peter Gray, photography, Takahiro Ogawa, Yasuhiro Takehisa

I Fear You Girl

10/06/2011 by chicquero

Jthree Concepts is a Seattle-based design studio owned and operated by Jared Nickerson. The studio’s main focus is character, logo, videogame, editorial, and textile design. They also specialize in art direction and branding. Their client list includes huge names such as Nike, Adidas, Coca Cola just to mention a few… Wow (no big deal)!!! Fantastic Jared Nickerson also has a band called Dead Astronauts which he does production, vocals and songwriting. This project called“I Fear You Girl” is a collection of promo material […]

Categories: Design • Tags: Adidas, album, art direction, branding, character, Coca Cola, Dead Astronauts, editorial, fashionista, geek, geeky, hipster, illustration, Jared Nickerson, Jthree Concepts, logo, lyrics, music, nerd, nerdy, Nike, songwriting, textile design, trends, trendy, videogame

Variety is the spice of life!

10/03/2011 by chicquero

It´s so inspiring when you face different ways to express the art you have inside your heart… in particular, this project “Couples” by Nacho Rojo from Madrid, Spain. I could not find out if it´s one single artist or a group of artists working with art direction, illustration and photography. Anyways, creating characters according to the huge diversity of people in this freaking globe is something very eye-catching and really makes me wonder in which tribe I should include myself… and also it´s so cool to […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: art, art direction, art from Spain, arte, beliefs, characters, cultures, diversity, foto, fotografia, illustration, madrid, Nacho Rojo, people, photo, photo shoot, photography, variety

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