Star Wars Episode VII Day of the Dead Prints: The Force Unawakens

Posted on 04/05/2016 by Lambert Varias

Back in 2011 we checked out artist John Karpinsky’s Star Wars character portraits that had awesome Day of the Dead-themed twists. He recently reached out to us to share the latest additions to his series, featuring some of the heroes of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

John calls this batch the Force Four. It consists of Diablo Hilatura (Spinning Devil), Guerrero Alado (Winged Warrior), Rayo de Luz (Ray of Light), and El Traidor (Traitor!!!!).

I figured John didn’t make a Han Solo skull because it would just bring us down. You can get all four prints as a set from John’s Etsy shop starting at $40 (USD).

Deal: Save 23% on This Awesome Deadpool Mercenary Poster

Posted on 29/03/2016 by Paul Strauss

Deadpool fans will most definitely want to add this cool work of art to their wall. It features a dry brush silhouette of The Merc with a Mouth, in his trademark red and black color scheme, along with a smaller image of our hero in dual-wielding action inside.

The poster measures 18″ x 24″ and is printed on 100lb archival quality paper. Head on over to the Technabob Shop now and grab the Deadpool Mercenary Poster for just $19.

Cosmic Exploration Poster Shows Man’s Efforts in One Graphic

Posted on 14/03/2016 by Shane McGlaun

You might want to cue up that sappy music from the short-lived Star Trek: Enterprise show for this story. This poster is a giant graphic that shows some of the myriad spacecraft humans have sent into space from 1959 through 2015. In all there are over 100 craft from orbiters to rovers and landers.

Pop Chart Lab’s Chart of Cosmic Explorartion has all the spacecraft color-coded and then shows a graphic of the solar system and which spacecraft have orbited or explored the planets. The poster shows moons, planets, asteroids, and dwarf planets like Pluto. It’s not an all-encompassing graphic with craft from some nations missing, but it’s still really cool.

The poster measures 39″ x 27″ and is printed on 100lb. archival stock with vegetable-based inks. It’s just $38(USD) and needs to be on the wall of any fan of space exploration.

[via Mental Floss]

Deal: Save 23% on this Star Wars Snowy Walker Attack Poster

Posted on 21/12/2015 by Paul Strauss

Star Wars fans, relive the epic battle on Hoth from The Empire Strikes Back with this awesome piece of art for your wall. The scene features two snow speeders taking on a duo of AT-ATs in a bold, graphical style. The only thing missing is a tow cable wrapped around the walker’s legs.

This Snowy Walker Attack poster measures 18″ x 24″, so it fits easily into standard poster frames, and is printed on 100 lb. archival quality polar white paper. It’s available for just $19(USD) in the Technabob Shop.

Videogames World Map: Smash Kingdom Project X Taisen of the Storm vs. Capcom

Posted on 01/07/2015 by Lambert Varias

Artist Edison Yan mashed up over 50 video games in a massive digital illustration of a gamer-centric world. Edison first showcased his Videogames World Map at the 2015 DICE Awards, but it’s now on sale on iam8bit’s store as a 36″x 24″ print.

The map has over 100 references from games in different eras and systems, including Mappy, Ecco, Half-Life and this year’s Bloodborne.

You can order the full size map from iam8bit for $25 (USD). Edison and iam8bit will donate 10% of the proceeds to the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Foundation Scholarships. Check out Shacknews’ interview with Edison to learn more about how he made the map.

[via YouBentMyWookie]

NASA Travel Posters for Exoplanets it Discovered: Vacation in Space

Posted on 09/01/2015 by Shane McGlaun

NASA certainly has a lot of scientists and space geeks working for it that do very serious work, but most of these guys and gals always seem to keep a sense of humor about the work they do. Take for instance the science of discovering exoplanets. One of these planets could even hold life, which would be the greatest discovery ever.

While the science of space exploration can be very serious, NASA has also made up these cool travel posters that make me actually want to visit these places. I’ll have to wait until they can freeze me though considering the massive distances these planets lie from Earth.

There are three posters for different actual exoplanets including HD 40307g, Kepler-186f, and Kepler-16b. Each of the posters highlights something cool about the planet including the super gravity of HD 40307g, the red surface of kepler-186f, and the two suns of Kepler-16b.

If you’d like to print them out, you can grab the full hi-res images over on the NASA JPL website.

[via Gizmodo]

Space Invaders Mandala: Arcade Nirvana

Posted on 25/09/2014 by Lambert Varias

Screen print artist and 3D animator Olivier Marchand pays tribute to one of video gaming’s first hits by turning its 8-bit characters into parts of a mandala, a pattern often used to describe the wholeness of the universe or the impermanence of life. Stare into its concentric circles and imagine a world where aliens, laser cannons and bonus spaceships are one.

The print measures 18″ x 24″ and has been signed and numbered. I say the print because as of this writing there’s just one left on Olivier’s store as of this writing, so best head there now if you want it.

[via GeekTyrant]

The Simplicity Of Framing In A Classy Way

Posted on 08/09/2014 by Radhika Seth

Right from the ones picked up at concert gigs to the motivational ones found in the office cubicle, there is a poster for every occasion, and admit it … who doesn’t love putting up posters. STiiCKs Frames are the simplest, most well crafted frame ever and are infinitely reusable. They are the sorts that take care of your posters and allow you to hang them without damaging the precious picture.

STiiCKs uses real wood strong magnets and is crafted using four thin strips of solid American hardwood, the frames are embedded with super-strong neodymium magnets. One of the main purposes of using neodymium magnets to sandwich your artwork between the wooden sticks, is to ensure that it doesn’t get damaged. To seal the deal, furniture-grade lacquer or paint lends the frame an acid-free finish. Moreover, each set is crafted by hand in Chicago.

We spoke with Brandon Knowlden, the designer and this is what he said, “I’ve been an artist all my life and have been collecting gig posters for years now. They’re handmade, beautiful – and inexpensive. But 3 prints turned into 10, which turned into 20 and so on. Framing can turn into a massive expense very quickly, but it’s also not very flexible with different sizes or easy to swap your art. Coming up with STiiCKs was our way to change that conversation. We looked at the traditional frame and were very calculated to remove everything we could. Magnets don’t wear out, not having glass means it can’t break – that sort of thing. We’re very proud of the STiiCKs magnetic framing kit and think you will be too.”

Elaborating further on the idea behind the project, Brandon says, “STiiCKs are a response to a new way of thinking. That “smarter” is the new “harder”, that simpler is most often better and that the things we make should last. A size-agnostic floating magnetic frame was simply a response to how we see the world. Framing just happened to be our first target.”

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Black STiiCks – Flat-Black STiiCKs are made from solid American Maple finished with furniture-grade paint and a matte lacquer top-coat.
Oak STiiCKs – Oak STiiCKs are made from solid American Oak finished with furniture-grade matte lacquer.

Designer: Brandon Knowlden [ Buy it Here ]

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Geeky Woodcut Prints: Protocomics

Posted on 07/05/2014 by Lambert Varias

Etsy seller Brian Reedy makes woodcut prints with geeky subjects, including Star Wars, Adventure Time as well as Marvel and DC characters. His work is not as detailed as Jed Henry and David Bull’s Ukiyo-e Heroes, but they still cast familiar characters in a new, er, old light.

Most of Brian’s prints are monochrome, but as you can see he occasionally uses gold leaf and red ink as well. All of his prints are done on rice paper.

Carve a browser block and order Brian’s prints on his Etsy shop Woodcut Emporium. They cost $30 to $50 (USD) each.

[via GeekTyrant]

This Poster Plays Music With Every Touch

Posted on 05/05/2014 by Hazel Chua

If you’re thinking that this doesn’t look like your typical poster, then you’re spot on, because it isn’t. Beck’s playable poster is different in the sense that plays music when you touch it. It may look like a mere image of a speaker, but touch a couple of knobs and buttons and tunes from selected bands will begin to play.

The posters were commissioned by Beck’s to promote New Zealand’s local musicians, and this is truly an innovative way of doing that. Beck’s playable posters use conductive ink, with parts of the surface linked to an embedded flat panel speaker at the back, which in effect, makes the poster a speaker in itself.

Beck’s playable poster comes pre-loaded with 10 tracks from local artists and is currently showcased at various locations in NZ.

VIA [ Damn Geeky ]

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