[ ACDC ] - Black Ice Cover Art
This is the recently revealed cover art to AC/DC’s new studio album. The mirror image art and the grey and black aesthetic give off the hard rock vibe that the band has become known for. The band name in red with what looks like white clouds wafting over the lettering add a brilliant contrast to the cover.
Black Ice is the band’s fifteenth studio album; they’re first since 2000’s Stiff Upper Lip. It is scheduled to be released October 20th and will be store sold exclusively at Wal-Mart for the price of $11.88.
Typography Humor: Get with the Times, New Roman
Funny typographic movie from CHTV. If you’re a designer, which you probably are since you’re reading this blog. Have a good chuckle and take your field of expertise a little less seriously.
The Imagination of Studiospooky
While searching for something to write about, few things caught my eye. It was important to find something first-post worthy. Rummaging through a sea of vectors, product design, and typography, it was basically the same thing over and over again. Helvetica everywhere. When all hope was lost I was linked to Studiospooky’s automatic drawings, a breath of fresh air after emerging from the chaotic funhouse of “design trends”.
The artist, whose name is unknown, creates detailed large (and small) scale automatic drawings. All of it or at least what I’ve seen, is done by hand, and from looking at the result, the process of creating a large scale illustration of this kind must be painstaking. Whatever the amount of time and patience put into each piece, the result is definitely, for a lack of a better word at the moment, “awesome”.
Among his own creations, he has commissioned work as well, and I should mention that not all his work is automatic drawings. He does have digital work too, and work that combines the digital and traditional, the the Diamond of Drury Lane book cover. To explore more amazing work you go to Studiospooky.
Blue Vinyl: Free Typeface - “Synthetique”
I stumbled across the Blue Vinyl website and found a plethora of custom designed ( and well) fonts. The majority of the fonts were pay-for-use, however BV had a few free typefaces and today we’re taking a look at their newest one: Synthetique.
Synthetique Font by Blue Vinyl
Maybe it’s just me, but I can never get enough of the pixel/dot based typefaces. I haven’t had the chance to try printing the font, but it makes an excellent screen typeface. Since it’s free you can just head over directly to Blue Vinyl and get the font and other freebies, and don’t remember to check our download section for creativefluff exclusive items.
