OLYMPIC MEGA POST
I missed covering any of the design that took place during the London 2012 Olympics. Rather than post lots of things you’ve no doubt already seen I thought I’d put together just one post with a collection of things that caught my eye whilst the games were happening.

Above: The Olympic London 2012 Typegace by Michael Ives 7 Gareth Hague

The Boston Big Picture on photographic coverage.

17 Days of Summer by Jordan Chung

Jamie McGregor Smith’s photography series of Athens after the 2004 Olympics.

New York Times infographic showing the individual positions of each and every Olympic medalist in the men’s 100m sprint, dating right back to Athens in 1886.

Specsavers quick advertisement response to the flag error made early on in the games.

MedalCount.com put together a simple and effective site design to track the medal victories of each countries during the games.

The Walls Have Ears by Bread Collective. Collaborating with the local community, Bread, a creative collective based in East London, has just completed a 100 metre long typographic mural along a street that leads to London’s Olympic Park…

There were plenty of other design highlights, but these were the ones that happened to get bookmarked. If there are any other great examples feel free to submit links.

Jack Chambers, (1931-1970) - Unfinished Business, (1970-x)

Read about the unfinished painting here.

Mario Corea runs a Barcelona based architecture firm called Mario Corea Arquitectura, but also creates is own fine art collage work.

See more at his website here.

Mike Bayne is not a photographer, he is a fine art painter. Specialising in images of the everyday and mundane, the very selection of his medium to present such images reveals detail in places that would otherwise be overlooked.

Take a look at more of his work here.

What may look like to copies of the same digital painting alongside one another, is actually an ‘analogue’ stereoscopic 3D image. Cross your eyes and merge the two pictures to see it in action.

Digitally creating the paintings in a multi-layered photoshop document allows artist Theo Prins to then slightly adjust the angle and positioning of the picture and create the second view that merges with the former to create the 3D image when the viewer crosses their eyes and aligns them.

Take a look at more exampes on Theo’s website here.

There’s a much more coherent write-up here.

Prewarning: Puts a fair strain on your eyes first time you attempt it…

Sean Phillips is the artist behind the fantastic cover design for Criterion Collection’s new release of heated classic ‘12 Angry Men’.

Check out his blog here.

Purchase the film here.

Nutmegger Workshop is the vintage sign art enterprise created and manned by artist Peter Vogel.

Taking inspiration and reference from vintage type in history, all the signs are created from scratch before then being sold.

Check out more pieces here.

Max Ferguson has a real talent for photorealistic oil paintings.

See more at his website.

I’ve posted Graham Robinson’s work before and I just came across his blog again. He gives a real aesthetic of adventure in his paintings/illustrations that really appeals.

He has a show coming up (not in the UK unfortunately). Find out more info and see more of his work here.

Kate Alizadeh has just started the Illustration BA(Hons) in Falmouth, but she already has a good looking portfolio and a great approach to colour, which can be seen here.

The Swing, by French painter and print maker Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

I sense a love triangle of sorts…

Nathan Manire is an illustrator based in New York.

This pixel portrait watercolour of Hunter S. Thompson is part of a series that can be seen here.