One of my favorite design blogs, Notcot.org, had a featured post on one of my favorite illustrators, Andrew Bannecker, this week. I stumbled upon his work a few years ago and came oh-so-close to having the opportunity to work with him on a project, and my heart sank when there was a last minute change in direction. I love love love his work, so in honor of the upcoming “holiday,” here are a few of my favorites…
It brought me Happy Joy to see that a selection of his prints are now available in his online shop.
I’ve been noticing a trend in the wonderful world of the design blog as of late… Science and math collage design??!!??! Diagramatic info graphics overlayed on large retro-style colored shapes overlayed onto photos from space masked out of heads from vintage advertisements. Visual overload?? Perhaps. But I’m on board. It even made an appearance while guest critquing a graphic design class at California College of the Arts, when a student created an epic 6-disc compilation cd package design for the music genre “Spacerock.” If I can get my hands on some photos of it, I’ll post as well. The student knocked it out of the park. (Pardon the baseball reference, I must still be under the influence of my previous post.)
A few examples from Michael Paukner, Mark Weaver, and Laura Mujico (click on any image to enlarge).
