8-Bit Animation Mapping Nuclear Explosions: A Video by Isao Hashimoto

"2053 - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe."

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto rendered this 14-minute long animation that maps out all nuclear explosions around the world from 1045-1998.  It starts out slow, but after 3 minutes the amount of nuclear explosions per country per year starts sounding like experimental electronic music -- which sounds cool, but is definitely the sign of something bigger and scarier.  I had no idea that this many nuclear explosions have taken place, and who knows what the lingering effects are of such nuclear disasters.

In the artists own words:

"This piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second.  No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier.  The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted.  I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world."

Vintage Public Health Service Posters (1940-1975)

The National Library of Medicine has a very nice collection of U.S. Public Health Service Posters on their website, in an exhibit called the Iconography of a Contagion.  There's a bunch of cool posters from the 20th Century, definitely fun to click through.

Poster credits go to Leonard Karsakov who designed this photomechanical print for the United States Public Health Service in 1945.

Thanks to StanleyMoons for the tip.

New Poster: Obey + Atrak Collaboration

OBEY and ATRAK collaborated recently to create this rad poster.  Who can contest a well-styled, blinged-out chicken burning a cabin on fire with his cigar?

You can purchase the poster set or the cd from 80sPurple here.

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This beautiful canvas screenprint by OBEY goes on sale today for $45 as part of a limited edition of 450.
More details in the original post on the OBEY website here.

"Keep Calm and Carry On" Poster - Graphic Design from WWII 1939

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Obey + Shepard Fairey - new posters and April designs

Exhibition Poster for Shepard Fairey's upcoming solo show in New York's Deitch Projects in May.

Exhibition Poster for Shepard Fairey's upcoming solo show in New York's Deitch Projects in May.

Fairey's new Smokey Robinson print, signed by both of them.

Fairey's new Smokey Robinson print, signed by both of them.

These Parties Disgust Me print, sold out pretty quickly.

Lotus print from the recent Make It Right Auction.

Shepard's Compassion print as a tribute to the 75th birthday to His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Monk print on canvas from the recent Art of Elysium, “Pieces of Heaven” Art Auction

For some older stuff by Shepard Fairey, check out our previous post on Flyer Goodness here.

Obey Giant - New Stuff

Poster for show in Cincinnati only available there.

Definitely good for a a comic tour poster, like Tyler Stout's Flight of the Conchords work.
Sold out here 

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Collaboration with Shepard Fairey, Cleon Peterson and Casey Ryder.
For Artists for Peace and Justice.  All proceeds go to Haiti.

If you're a Steven Colbert fan, download the printable pdf here.

Collaboration with Ernesto Yerena, available here.

Shepard Fairey of Obey Giant seems to be doing work for not-so-typical clients lately; the Henry Rollins and Stephen Colbert prints definitely surprised me.  I can't say much about how much Goodness is in those posters (I doubt that the colbert one was actually touched by Shepard's hand...looks like something you could draft up in Illustrator...while forgetting completely about the type).  However, the typography and geometry is VERY appealing in the first one, and I hope that's not arguable.  See more OBEY in our previous posts.

Obey Giant

Some newer and older posters from Obey.
Some say Shepard is losing his touch with his newer work after his image really got bigger after the establishment of obey and his print work for the Obama campaign.

Either way, he's still laying it down on the government with his art direction that represents a voice much larger than his own, offering inspiration and affecting others to do work.

>>More on the "Let Fury Have the Hour" Documentary

>>Shepard's most recent poster done in response to the disappointing efforts in health reform.