Have you ever wished that someone would distill Darth Vader’s life story into a handful of crudely drawn images? Well, you’re in luck! Earlier today our friends over at Brain Pickings tipped us off to a set of clever pop culture pictogram posters by the Milan-based creative agency H-57 that tackle the histories of subjects who range from Jesus to Michael Jackson. “The pictogram history posters were born out of an art-like collaboration with the website First Floor Under, which is a creativity and photography blog, a digital publishing house,” explains a representative from H-57. “We want to create many of them to give our point of view on the most famous world stories. Unfortunately, the ones with tragic ending are the funniest and most interesting.” Click through to see what they’ve come up with so far, and stay tuned for the promised next additions to the series — Napoleon and Vlad Dracula.
Fascinated with bunnies, beauties, bees, and meat, Mark Ryden makes magical paintings and drawings inspired by pop culture, old masters, and mythical archetypes. A master draughtsman and impeccable painter, Ryden creates visual fantasies that are oddly populated by wide-eyed femme fatales, Abe Lincoln, Colonel Sanders, and Jesus. A cult figure in his own right, the California-based artist counts Stephen King, Leonardo DiCaprio, Danny Elfman, Bridget Fonda, and Jake Gyllenhaal among his celebrity collectors and has designed album covers for Ringo Starr, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Butthole Surfers, and Michael Jackson.
Every once in a while, you get an email that just, well, makes your day. Thanks to a coworker, our entire office had their days made, simultaneously. You see, we had all been given the gift of Lambuel. The creation of something called Objective Ministries, Lambuel is a playful lamb that teaches kids about the evils of coffee, and the glories of a heaven that includes dinosaurs and Lil Jon. Wait, what? Read More »
