The Latest on eBoy Pixal Art

October 18, 2008 in Art, Graphics
Tags: Adobe Air, eBoy, London, Pixel Art, Poster

The Berlin based Pixel Art trio Steffen, Svend  and Kai of eBoy has released an updated version of the London poster this week, to much of my pleasure.
If you haven’t heard of them before, “eBoy is an art collective founded in 1998 by Steffen Sauerteig, Svend Smital and Kai Vermehr, build their artwork pixel by [...]

Im w00t wif Emoticons

September 21, 2008 in Culture, Graphics, Language
Tags: Emoticons, Leet Speak, LolCat, Smileys, Wired

The culture analysts at Wired posted a great piece about the evolution of emoticons, a simple text expressions that existed long before the World Wide Web itself. I’d never known who exactly invented it, but it turns out that it was Scott Fahlman, an innocent computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, who first proposed using typographical [...]

Social Media as Cocktails

September 13, 2008 in Graphics, Social Media
Tags: Cocktails, Icons, Logos, Social Media

I just love looking at these new icons of social media in cocktails. The collection is called Cheers: a free set of 12 “social” glasses and it was designed by Helen Gkizi at Webtoolkit4me, and they’re all downloadable. I mean this is a funtastic way of showing your loyalities to your favourite social media tools. [...]