Category Archives: Graphics

City of God’s Son

By Chungaiz | Published: January 20, 2009

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video City of God’s Son is an incredible synesthesic montage and re-working of a story that never really happened, but did for anyone who’s ever listened to 90s beats, watched gangster flicks and explored a city at night. Featuring “Nas“, “Jay” and “Ghost” as [...]

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France’s NSFW logo

By Chungaiz | Published: January 14, 2009

Certainly more titilating, though no less subtle than the FedEx “arrow”, or even the previously noted Tawainese recycle logo is the NSFW France Tourism logo! Unfortunately, they’ve gone with a more normal one instead. It’s interesting to think about countries as brands, and how to market them. When you think about France, sensuality (or [...]

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Contagious 2008 RoundUp

By Chungaiz | Published: January 8, 2009

The Contagious 2008 round up PDF has been released. A fantastic resource of all the cool things that happened in digital marketing in the widest possible sense. Review Obama’s campaign tactics, Radiohead’s House of Cards video and other music marketing, games like Little Big Planet and GTA IV, films like Dark Knight and Cloverfield, [...]

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Peter Saville for Arkitip

By Chungaiz | Published: November 24, 2008

The latest Arkitip magazine issue (#49) will be about Peter Saville. Just when I thought it was safe to drop my subscription (Tommy Guerro was cool, but not one whole issue cool…) they release this gem, featuring one of two 12 x 12 prints – Contours (shown above) or Havoc. Anyone want to sort [...]

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universe of Haring

By Andy | Published: October 31, 2008

new documentary about Keith Haring. i never noticed the resemblence between Si and Haring before… btw – updated the site styles. an improvement, i hope you agree??

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Urban Spam, by Russell Davies

By Chungaiz | Published: October 17, 2008

Russell Davies has a long and interesting about Urban Spam – guerrilla marketing, advertising, cleanvertising, ambient, alternative etc etc. Part of the problem lies with the lack of permission people give to the advertiser (an ad in Corontation Street seems ok because we’ve accepted it as the price to pay for the enjoyable experience [...]

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Eine Graffiti Typography Letter-Set

By Chungaiz | Published: October 15, 2008

Lost this, then found it. So I’m now posting it! Eine’s a graffiti artist who paints beautifully rendered type across the city (mainly East London to be fair). Check is site out for a full portfolio of all the madness he paints. It’s this tool that I love most though, created through Dave Gorman’s Flickr [...]

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Augmented Reality

By Chungaiz | Published: September 12, 2008

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Iain Tait‘s got a load of really very interesting Augment Reality toys to play with. Not sure how useful most of them are, but hey it’s all interesting stuff. I mean, whilst it’s cool to have a video play on a piece of [...]

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By Chungaiz | Published: August 29, 2008

Fleshmap is a really interesting visual representation of desire – be that the number of mentions of parts of the human body in various musical genres, or “areas that liked to be touched” compared with “areas that you like to touch”. They break it down into areas of “Touch”, “Look” and “Listen”. Fleshmap is an [...]

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Animatus – Hyungkoo Lee

By Kai | Published: August 19, 2008

Animatus is an exhibition of reconstructions of 3D skeletons of classic cartoon characters, including Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry and Donald Duck. Anatomical drawings? A bit odd, but I like it. above: Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote (source: hyungkoolee.net) South Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee is exhibiting his Animatus show in the Natural History Museum [...]