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Brand New offers up a look at the most relevant identity work of the decade. Not simply a best-of list, this look at the last ten years of corporate branding includes the good, the bad, and the ugly. I’m looking at you, Pepsi.

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Many thanks to Tom Richmond for alerting us that Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids artist Tom Bunk has a blog. He’s using the blog to showcase all sorts of things from his varied artistic output, including illustration work, and fine art. But it’s the work for an unpublished Topps trading card series called Loco-Motion that I’m loving.

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Tags: garbage pail kids, gross, Illustration, tom bunk, wacky packages

Here’s Wes Anderson’s acceptance speech at the National Board of Review on January 11, 2010. I found this highly entertaining. The same goes for the film itself. Loved it.

UPDATE: Someone had their cellphone ready and shot the speech as it played at the event:

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Tags: Animation, Fantastic Mr. Fox, film, stop motion, Wes Anderson

Eric Daigh creates portraits with pushpins. Here’s a close-up view of “Meghan IV”. I usually don’t care for flash based portfolio sites, but in this case the zoom-in feature is essential.

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Yes. Please. Thank you. Letterheady is a blog for interesting letterheads. Star Wars. Albert Einstein. Winston Churchill. More.

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Tags: Design, letterheads, stationery

I don’t always agree with John K’s views on animation. He’s a formalist, and values a certain kind of drawing ability over style and ideas, which I think are just as important. But I can’t help but admire the guy for this — Letters of Note has posted a hand-written letter that the Ren and Stimpy creator sent to a young cartoonist in 1998. Then 14, Amir Avni is now finishing up his final year at Sheridan Animation.

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The Morae River is a project by Brynn Metheney wherein she is illustrating the wildlife and ecosystem of a fictional landscape. It's a wonderful fusion of fantasy and science. Says Brynn:

I conceived the Morae River Project in spring 2008 when I realized I wanted to organize my creature work the way biologists do.  I needed to put them into a context where they could evolve and shape their environment as real animals do, to try to make them as seem real as possible.

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Tags: biology, Brynn Metheney, fantasy, science, scientific illustration

You may have noticed Ellsworth’s ornate and otherworldly illustrations last year when he released his first graphic novel, Capacity. Now he’s out with his second book, Sleeper Car – which also looks great.
Check out his blog here and his Flickr stuff here.

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Tags: Blogs, Illustration, theo ellsworth

Melbourne illustrator Melanie Matthews has given herself quite the challenge for the year: 365 cartoons – 1 a day for the entire year. She kicked things off with this awesome tiger, presumably because it is the year of the tiger on the Chinese calendar.

Although, it is quite possible that she just loves tigers, as her portfolio is full of them! And that’s a good great thing.

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Portland’s Curiosity Group has posted a gorgeous stop-motion video, plus a printable PDF so you can recreate the main character at home. Nice.
(via Curiosity Group former intern, Corey Thompson)

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Tags: Curiosity Group, papercraft, stop motion, video

Loving the offbeat woodcuts of Roman Klonek.
(via Illustration Mundo)

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Tags: Illustration, Roman Klonek, woodcuts

Several years ago, animation historian John Canemaker did an exhaustive and very informative two-part article on the life and career of John Parr Miller, aka J. P. Miller for the ASIFA magazine, “Cartoons”. I’ve had the great pleasure of owning the two issues that featured this article and for a long time had the notion of sharing it somehow with others. Well, no need to now. NY animator Michael Sporn beat me to it and now you guys can see both parts of the article on his blog:
Part One
Part Two
There’s some wonderful early work of Miller’s that Canemaker was able to show us, including this portrait of Mary Blair, whom J.P. traveled with (along with other artists) to South America during Disney’s “Good Neighbor” Tour of 1941.

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Tags: Animation, children's books, disney, J.P. Miller