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L S Lowry exhibition at Lakeside, Nottingham

Gary Davison — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:56:01 +0000

The Lowry exhibition opened at Nottingham’s Lakeside last week – great paintings and drawings, very atmospheric portraits and a reminder of Manchester and Salford landscapes that have largely disappeared. It’s also free!

The catalogue was very well received and is a perfect example of the importance of correctly separating RGB to CMYK, according to the aim printing process. The press run was helped by use of neutral grey patches, enabling quick and visual checks to be made on colour balance. Combined with careful, measured control of TVI – tone value increase (or dot gain for those working with Imperial), the result was an excellent printed job.

World leader pretend*

Damon Parkin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:45:15 +0000

Global fashion brand Benetton has a track record of provocative publicity campaigns featuring striking images unrelated to its products. Remember the shot of the unwashed newborn baby still attached to its umbilical cord that features in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most controversial ad campaign of all time?

Well, it appears Benetton has lost none of its appetite for edginess. Its new campaign features images of world leaders engaged in forging closer diplomatic relationships – such as this (above) of President Obama snogging with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.

The series of images is available here and it’s all part of Benetton’s Unhate campaign.

Is it possible to be edgy – perhaps even offensive in some eyes – while protecting your brand? Is this a cynical ploy for profile from a brand that’s out of fashion?

*This is the title of an album track from REM’s 1989 release Green. My favourite REM song but not well known enough for me to use it as a headline without this explanation. That is all.

Yamaha and Ben Spies

Michael Fisher — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:14:22 +0000

This year Linney have been working closely with Yamaha and Ben Spies from MotoGP to create images and a film made in Spain. Targeted at hard riding Supersports riders the marketing collateral was created and edited this summer.

View the website

Long Exposure Airports

Andy Columbine — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:04:03 +0000

The light trails of cars have long been a stock library stalwart, but these long exposure images of busy airports are a lovely twist on the tried and tested. I love how the trails ‘hang’ from the sky like threads of string. The collection of 16 photos were taken between July 2008 and April 2010 by photographer Terence Chang.

See all the pictures on Terence’s Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/exxonvaldez/sets/72157606064555806/

This is not Photography

Andy Columbine — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:14:59 +0000

Believe it or not, this image has been created, from scratch, using only Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Bert Monroy took over 2,000 hours to create this hyper-real rendering of Damen Station in Chicago (measuring 120 inches wide x 40 inches high and weighing in at just over 1.7 gigabytes), using almost 50 separate Photoshop files containing over 15,000 layers, 500 alpha channels and over 250,000 vector paths. While this undoubtedly demonstrates Bert’s astounding digital skills, someone should really buy the poor guy a decent camera.

You can see more of his work at BertMonroy.com

It’s Better In The Wind

Andy Columbine — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:57:13 +0000

It’s Better In The Wind – 2011 Trailer 2 from Scott Toepfer on Vimeo.

It’s Better In The Wind is a photography, film and book project by Scott Toepfer which sets out across the west of America on’vehicles without windows to restrict the scenery’, reflecting on past and future journeys. There’s some beautiful photography, and some wonderfully evocative and stylish film trailers for the forthcoming movie.

More pictures at ItsBetterInTheWind.com

See the movie trailers at ItsBetterInTheWind.com

Glass Beach, California

Andy Columbine — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:23:06 +0000

This beach in Fort Bragg, California, has for decades been a dumping ground for local residents disposing of everything from household appliances to cars. In the 60’s the North Coast Water Quality Board closed the area for a series of clean-ups to reverse years of pollution. Large objects were easily taken away, however millions of tiny shards of glass proved too costly to remove. I’m amazed at how nature has found its own way of restoring ‘Glass Beach‘ to its natural beauty, shaping and smoothing the glass into a bed of sparkling gems.

More images at ThisColossal.com (http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/08/glass-beach/)

Split Family Portraits

Andy Columbine — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:17:04 +0000

Ulric Colette’s seamlessy merged portraits explore the differences and similarities between family members. I also find this a really interesting insight into how much our faces and bone structures change with age, and just how different we all are when you look really closely – even twins.

See more examples on Ulric Colette’s website.