Remembering Ralph McQuarrie
George Lucas’s statement on the death of Star Wars artist Ralph McQuarrie. It also features a slideshow of his work.
Also check out a collection of his work at Concept Ships, courtesy of Daring Fireball.
The golden ratio at work. This is the what Apple means when they say their products are at the intersection of technology and creative arts.
Check out more examples on gold3nratio.tumblr.com, including this analysis of Apple’s logo:
This is in the wake of the discovery of the golden ratio in the iCloud logo, which John Gruber tracked back to Naoki Takahashi:
Wired: Re-imagined Star Wars posters for Mondo
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/12/olly-moss-star-wars-mondo/
I’ve seen a bunch of these floating around before, but here they all are together with a detailed write-up.
The art is from various artists, available through Mondo. One of my favourite sets is the Bounty Hunters set by Australian-based Ken Taylor.
A selection of art people have made on the iPad in the first three days
(Click through to see the originals)
This is for those people who only think the iPad is for consuming content, not creating it.
Back to the Future II concept drawings
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/32416/concept-drawings-back-to-the-future
(via electricdoors)
I found the original source for the image, www.vladstudio.com. There are lots of other great images there.
