I grew up on games. While I’m always excited for what modern consoles are capable of, I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for the colorful 2D sprites of the 8-bit and 16-bit generations. Early Playstation games are often too muddy and horrible looking to play these days, even with the nostalgia factor, but it’s easy to go back to the creativity and color of games like The Legend of Zelda on NES, Sonic and Gunstar Heroes for Genesis, and Mario World and Megaman X for SNES.

That said, I can’t help but wonder what it would be like to play all of my favorite old-school games after a facelift from deviantART’s Orioto. He’s taken a bunch of classics and repainted them with a twist. These new directions seem like great angles to take for value-priced downloadable releases for PlaystationNetwork or XBOX Live. Heck, if you gave me a rehash of Castlevania X with a fresh, hand-done coat of oil-paint on it I’d pay full price!
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For a career that really only spanned seven years or so, the range of styles and sounds The Beatles produced was incredibly varied. From their Brit-rock bubblegum origins to their experimental, transcendent Maharishi days, The Beatles seemed almost like an entirely new – yet equally awe-inspiring – band with each album they released.

Which makes it that much more impressive that this Pete Candeland directed video manages to cover it all in only two minutes and thirty five seconds.
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Design-by-committee, I’m sorry to say, is just part of working with large clients. It’s uncanny how quickly a marketing team can rain shit all over a quality design.

That’s exactly what Dustin Curtis was told by a gentleman from the American Airlines web team.
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It seems like the iPhone can do just about anything. With the right app you can fart on cue, you can flip a girl’s clothes right off, or you can put the reigns on your finances. When they say “there’s an app for that,” they really mean “there’s an app for that.”

Apparently, if you’re Jorge Colombo, you can even paint the cover of the New Yorker using nothing but an iPhone and the Brushes app. And some fingers.
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Denver-based designer/art director Anthony Cozzi is a talented dude.

I first met him during his stint at tda as our interactive AD a few years ago. Since then his site has been refreshed a few times and the most current indexhibit-based collection features some of his highly stylized (think ISO50 meets Spacesick meets aeiko) giclée prints and his latest screenprint, Drop Sequence.
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