http://blog.signalnoise.com The art of James White Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:37:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Like most people, I grew up seeing the fun cartoon portrayals of the Beatles in their Yellow Submarine garb. We all know the addictive chorus to the lead track, and I'm sure you will now be humming it for the remainder of the day. Heh heh, sorry. I was fishing around ... http://blog.signalnoise.com/2010/03/12/the-art-of-heinz-edelmann/ If you are following me on Twitter, you might have caught a bit of the process behind this new poster design last night, which I've dubbed 'Elle'. I decided to show various stages of the design while I was working on it, something I'm not accustomed to and found challenging, ... http://blog.signalnoise.com/2010/03/08/the-process-behind-elle/ If you missed the Signalnoise Broadcast 4 last night, here is the recorded version of me and the crowd exchanging dialogue about design, inspiration, processes and advice. A big thanks to everyone who dropped by to say hello. As I said, I really enjoy doing these broadcasts because it offers a ... http://blog.signalnoise.com/2010/03/05/signalnoise-broadcast-4/ Way too much time has passed since I held the last Signalnoise Broadcast. I've been way too caught up in work since the holidays came and went, but I miss everyone so enough is enough :) Tomorrow, Thursday, March 4th at 8pm EST I will be holding Signalnoise Broadcast no.4. It's ... http://blog.signalnoise.com/2010/03/03/signalnoise-broadcast-4-march-4-8pm-est/ A few days ago I posted some choice designs by the talented Alex Varanese. After leafing through his work for a few days, I reached out to Alex to see if he might be interested in writing an outline of the process behind one of his recent works. I was ... http://blog.signalnoise.com/2010/03/03/signalnoise-exclusive-alex-varanese-process/ Alex Varanese is a beast. His work started showing up on Ffffound over the past two days and I literally had a "whoa" moment when I hit his website. Alex has a beautiful blend of retro greatness mixed with urban grittiness and typography, certainly not an easy style to hit. But ... http://blog.signalnoise.com/2010/02/28/the-art-of-alex-varanese/ Here are some screen shots and poster from the film Moon starring Sam Rockwell that came out last year. I had seen the poster kicking around Ffffound for the past few months but my trip to New York finally afforded me some airplane time to watch a movie. Moon was ... http://blog.signalnoise.com/2010/02/27/moon/ The Signalnoise Studio has a new mascot, thanks to a birthday gift from my sister. Standing at 4.5 inches long, Emperoth is small but mighty. He enjoys black metal, fish flakes and taking long swims in the tank. I asked him to be a guest writer on the blog, but he ... http://blog.signalnoise.com/2010/02/26/all-hail-emperoth/ It's been a little while since I gave a bit of an update on what's going on around these parts. I like having a more frequent update schedule on Signalnoise with work and inspiration stuff, but sometimes client and preparation work steps in and must be done. It's all fun, ... http://blog.signalnoise.com/2010/02/26/signalnoise-studio-update/ We are in the midst of Olympic mayhem here in Canada, considering Vancouver is the host and our country invented winter. Since the games officially kicked off, the crack team over at The Canadian Design Resource have been posting a lot of wonderful Olympic material from the past. Lovely stuff, ... http://blog.signalnoise.com/2010/02/18/vintage-olympic-design/