For illustrators, the Inkling by Wacom is the missing puzzle piece. You can now draw on paper and transfer all of your drawings to the computer and they will be editable as vector drawings in Adobe Illustrator. Amazing!

It will retail for $199.00.

All of the sayings featured on the Goodbye shirt:
See you later alligator – Keep it real, Spotted Seal – In few Cockatoo – Adieu Caribou – Take care Black Bear – Bye bye Fruit Fly – Good luck, silly Duck – See you soon, big Baboon – Another time, Porcupine – Best wishes, little Fishes – Peace out, river Trout – Gotta go, Buffalo – Have a good day, Sting Ray.

A fantastic ever changing infographic by The RSA.

Check out the rest of the amazing box art at boxdoodle.com.

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Alcohol enemy of production

Alcohol

Without words

Socially dangerous

Prisoner

It's not yet too late — Stop

Have mercy on your future child

Alcohol — active criminal accomplice

Via tululuka.net

]]> http://www.mindtoss.com/2009/12/27/anti-alcohol-posters-from-soviet-propaganda-era/feed/ 0 http://www.mindtoss.com/2009/12/22/the-top-ten-google-logos-of-2009/ http://www.mindtoss.com/2009/12/22/the-top-ten-google-logos-of-2009/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:32:24 +0000 stephen chip http://www.mindtoss.com/?p=692 So here are the top ten Google logos of 2009 in random order (According to me!)

01 – Mar 02, 2009
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Courtesy of Dr. Seuss Enterprises

02 – Feb 10, 2009
Israeli Election Day – (Israel)

03 – May 22, 2009
Mary Cassatt’s Birthday – (Global)

04 – May 07, 2009
Alexander Popov’s Invention of the Radio – (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus)

05 – Apr 27, 2009
Samuel Morse’s Birthday – (Global)

06 – Sep 21, 2009
H.G. Wells’ Birthday – (Selected Countries)

07 – Sep 15, 2009
Crop Circles – (Selected Countries)

08 – Jul 23, 2009
Comic-Con® 2009 – Design and pencil Jim Lee, ink by Scott Williams, and color by Alex Sinclair, © DC Comics – (US)

09 – Dec 17, 2009
Discovery of the Aztec Sun Stone – (Mexico)

10 – Nov 17, 2009
Isamu Noguchi’s Birthday – (Japan)

11 – Nov 09, 2009
20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall – (Germany)

12 – Nov 04, 2009
20th Anniversary of the Wallace and Gromit Characters – (Selected Global)

13 – Nov 02, 2009
Loy Krathong – (Thailand)

14 – Dec 18, 2009
Jan Evangelista Purkyne’s Birthday – (Czech Republic)

I tossed a few bonus logos in there because it was tough picking only 10! See all the Google logos from 2009 here.

The first periodic table was published in 1869. One hundred and forty years later, the Periodic Table Printmaking Project was born. The idea is to promote both science and the arts by creating 118 prints in any medium; woodcut, linocut, monotype, etching, lithograph, silkscreen, or any combination. Each of the participating artists retain the rights to their images.

Periodic Table Printmaking ProjectBasic Rules & Guidelines
Contributing Artists
Project Blog
Official Flickr Group

Banksy is a anonymous graffiti artist from the UK. His work is quite extraordinary and has a social commentary angle. According to Wikipedia:

He is believed to be a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, near Bristol^[2] and to have been born in 1974,^[5] but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and biographical details.^[6] According to Tristan Manco, Banksy “was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s.”^[7] His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass who maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His art has appeared in cities around the world.^[8] Banksy’s work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.

One of the most impressive things about Banksy is that he doesn’t sell photos or merchandising of his work. Instead, he posts high resolution images on his Web site and encourages people to make their own stuff. He only asks that it is for non-commercial use. Very generous and true to the intention of the art work.

These lovely manimal creations are from UK based illustrator Kevin Cornell. They are funky and whimsical with a tad bit of sarcasm added for good measure. Even though this series is varied, there is a commonality which runs through and grabs you head on.

You can see Cornell’s other works and purchase the prints above at BearSkinRug. I recommend following @BearSkinRug on Twitter as well. Good stuff!