Last year I was contracted by VH1 Latin America to develop some style boards for their upcoming network rebrand. MTV really wanted to push a retro/modern theme using bright colors inspired by those network ids from the 1970s, so I had a great time developing some artwork for them to use throughout the campaign.

The video above is a compilation of all the motion work created by the talented folks at Laundrymat in Los Angeles. The static elements I contributed were really brought to life by these guys, you can see my linework in the beginning and end portions of the video. They even used one of my designs for the background of their website :)

I was also blown away by the other talent VH1 recruited to provide styles and illustration for the campaign. If anyone knows who contributed to this project I’d love to get some links posted to their work.

Here is a new image I was playing with last week, simply entitled Pastel Triangles. This was a little study I created to look at shape overlays using a color palette I’m not overly familiar with. I started with one triangle and proceeded to duplicate it over and over to see how much interest I could get in there.

I’ve been digging the work of Matt W. Moore lately, and his ‘vector funk’ influence is certainly in this piece.

This PSD file will be part of the Signalnoise Source release once the project is ready to roll out.

Big thanks to Stratos Agianoglou and the mighty Sci-Fi-O-Rama for bringing the work of Chris Foss to my attention. I had seen his Elite design floating around Ffffound for a little while now but never knew who created it, or when.

Not only is Foss incredibly talented at creating epic space scenes with planets and ships, but the logo design he rendered for the Elite cover is stunning. Check out the posts on Sci-Fi-O-Rama for more by Chris Foss, as well as his official website.

Last weekend I was rummaging around my parents basement looking for old toys or comic books left over from my childhood (I’m a nostalgic guy) and I stumbled upon quite the time capsule, my childhood sticker book. Sorry about the quality of the scans, it was difficult to get the coil-bound book to sit properly on the scanner.

As with many kids, my sticker book became a dumping ground for anything colorful that would stick to a page. So many awesome and obscure stuff at work here . . . Star Wars, A-Team, Gremlins, Michael Jackson, WWF stars, rockstars, M.u.s.c.l.e. characters, the list goes on. There’s a lot of hearts in there for some reason, I must have raided some leftover Valentines Day stickers :)

This isn’t art or inspiration by any means, but a pretty hilarious and adorable look back at the early to mid 1980s in sticker form. Enjoy.

PS. I went by Jimmy back then, hence the Jim stickers all over the place.

Here are a few images plucked from the blog of Lou Romano*, one of the head concept artists at the mighty Pixar. I managed to go see Up a few nights ago and, once again, Pixar managed to 1-up (pun!) themselves again, following Wall-e with a very simplistic, sentimental and beautiful film.

Aside from the movies themselves, I’ve always been blown away by the behind-the-scenes documentaries the Pixar folks put together showing the amount of conceptual that goes into everything they do. This is where Lou truly shines. He has a knack for creating extremely simplistic and colorful images that truly nail the scene at hand. After seeing Up then looking through his artwork, it’s truly incredible how the essence of his 2D concepts are carried through to the final 3D product.

If you haven’t seen Up, I highly recommend it. You can also check out more of Lou’s work on his blog*.

*If you haven’t seen the movie yet, be warned that some of Lou’s images might be scene spoilers.