“10 Chaises” by Dominique Erhard is a small pop-up book originally made for kids highlighting 10 iconic chairs from the past century. Originally released in 2016 and re-published in 2022.
If I knew then what I know now, I might have said: “It’s simple. Freedom is a length of rope. God wants you to hang yourself with it.”
Supernatural on VHS (3/?): 6x20 - The Man Who Would Be King
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Happy one year anniversary to my Over the Garden Wall VHS tape project!
I made it in both orange and black. I like black more, but orange really feels more in the spirit of the season. I used the shell from a VHS copy of the Rugrats movie.
I made the box art using various screenshots from the show, as well as some promo art. The description was taken from the DVD release, and the description title “will you take a peek?” was the tagline during the promotion of the show.
The back also has a fun little easter egg: the barcode is for candy corn!
What’s more is the tape has a special cut of the series that I made myself. I cropped every single scene in every single episode to make sure it naturally fit in a 4:3 aspect ratio, and I edited the episodes together to flow as if it were one movie (the pacing is a little like Babe). Additionally, I added trailers for movies that give me the same nostalgic vibes (The Last Unicorn, Princess Mononoke, Steven Universe: The Movie, and The Iron Giant). I also added the Warner Brothers and Cartoon Network title cards.
I printed this cut into the tape by integrating a VCR into my PC setup. If you want to see more about this project, I have a few videos about it on my TikTok @MooseGBT, or you can check out the main one right here!
The video has an earlier version of the tape, which is why the actual tape doesn’t have a real label (it’s kind of just a piece of paper slapped on upside down with tape). The content on the tape, however, is the same.
This was a really fun project, and I’ve already started working on a VHS cut of Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Steven Universe: The Movie, the Star Wars Sequel trilogy (I have 1-6 on VHS, and I also want 7-9), and the other Star Wars movies (the Christmas Special, the Clone Wars, Solo, Kenobi, and Rogue One). I also have plans to begin editing and printing the FNAF movie, the spiderverse trilogy (once ATSV pt 2 comes out), and Don’t Hug me I’m Scared.
A Couple Niche Award Wins for IWTV and IWTV Typography
Just found out IWTV (or at least the marketing agencies) won a couple of awards from Promax North America Awards, an award ceremony by Broadcast Design Association.
This trailer:
For the logo design, I stumbled upon this article about the behind the scenes of designing the Immortal Universe font, called Immortal Gothic.
Some highlights:
Read full article:
when spn shows the “HELL IS REAL” side of America 👌🔥
Susan Kare, the Artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM, 1980′s
So Greg Smallwood posted a really nice thread to twitter about referencing and tracing and just in general making things easier for yourself as an artist- things that are sometimes considered cheating, I think it's neat and informative, enjoy :)
Neil Gaiman’s covers novels illustrated by Robert McGinnis
I do actually think tumblr is winning at Icons. Nobody is doing it like them. I’m gonna keep a collection of these dudes cuz it’s super cool.
USPS extended postal bird universe
New The Umbrella Academy Season 3 poster
via Netflix
One of the best (and saddest) parts of Zagreus’ story in Hades is his Sisyphean quest to get answers from people — to get anyone in his family to fucking communicate clearly — all while simply trying to escape to freedom/a world where he is not stuck down below the surface. It’s incredible how this part of the game’s mechanic is so emotionally resonant, because even when he does succeed, what little joy he achieves is so fleeting and he’s sent back to where he started from and has to do it all over again.
And yeah this could get repetitive and boring, and we could see Zagreus change and grow “harder” and “tougher” by everything he’s been through, but he remains kind and polite through everything is such a nice touch that is then supported by all these side quests that allow players to also get invested in the denizens of the underworld and help them achieve their own happy endings.