I’ve been a big fan of the work of Guilherme Marconi for quite some time, and have seen is works appear in many issues of Computer Arts and other magazines. The intricacies of his work are amazing, rendering such smooth vector illustrations into complex symmetrical and scattered collages. Great sense of bright color composition as well.

His new piece (shown above, click them for larger versions) is astounding, looks almost like a math-generated fractal piece.

To check out more of Guilherme’s work, see his Flickr stream as well as his personal website, My Schizophrenic Brain.

I’ve had a few people ask me about the typeface used on my Awesome poster, so I decided to post a few different versions I created as I built the 3D chrome effect. The type was 100% handmade in Illustrator CS4, no fonts involved. I’ve only attempted this a few times in the past and took this opportunity to really push the vectors. The inspiration comes from Judas Priest and Metallica’s Ride the Lightning.

So, I’ll let the images above do the talking. Nothing really advanced here, just a few shapes, skews and gradients. Enjoy!

Here is the second new Signalnoise poster to be launched today, simply entitled Awesome. This poster represents all things metal: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Metallica’s Ride the Lightning. I developed the handmade typography a few weeks back and finally found it a suitable home, on a poster 7 year-old James would have lost his mind over back in the 80s. Here is a larger version.

Yes, the guitar is huge as it fell to earth from the hands of god. Insert Maiden solo here.

Other then being the first Signalnoise poster designed in landscape format, it also stands at 40″ x 27″, far bigger then my other prints available in the store. This will be sent to proof next week to see how all the photography looks, and will hopefully land in the Signalnoise Store soon afterward.

Stay heavy.

I’ve been very wrapped up with freelance work lately over the past few weeks, which has left very little time for me to work on my own designs. But I recently had a small window open to follow through with this new piece, entitled Liquid Gold 77. I really wanted to push a metallic style with this one, something I briefly experimented with on the Smashing Magazine poster I created last year. The 77 design actually stemmed from the freelance I am currently working on, but shifted over to the Signalnoise side.

Once again, the inspiration for this comes directly from old network promo animations from the late 70s and early 80s with over the top reflections and flares. Can’t get enough of that stuff.

This poster has already been sent to proof at the print shop, and will be landing in the Signalnoise Store in the coming week.

I’ve been following the work of Robert Hodgin since way back in 2001 when he was known only as Flight404. He was part of the Flash art movement, creating wonderful moving and interactive Flash pieces generated with programming.

He has since moved to other languages, including Processing, and I wanted to showcase a few of his newer excellent Flickr uploads. Here is what he says about the images above:

“What you see are 20,000 particles being pulled by a combination of gravitational forces and orbital forces. Spread throughout are a dozen or so orbital fields which cause the particles to travel in curves throughout the space. All of the fields are placed manually with mouse clicks. Runs in realtime.”

Yep, these pieces were made with 100% code, I’ve always been fascinated and bewildered by his work. If you want to see more of Robert’s work check out his Flickr stream as well as his website, Flight404.

PS. You know the super-cool new Visualizer packed with iTunes? Robert made that too :)