Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog » environment http://drawn.ca llustration, Comics, Animation, and Cartoon Art Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:43:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 If Global Warming is Real… http://drawn.ca/2010/01/21/if-global-warming-is-real/ http://drawn.ca/2010/01/21/if-global-warming-is-real/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:40:49 +0000 Adam Koford http://drawn.ca/?p=10401

No matter where you stand on the climate change issue, hopefully this blog will convince you once and for all that someone really needs to come up with a better joke about it.

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Nice. Faucet Face is offering glass tap water bottles designed by some of my favourite illustrators/designers: Ray Fenwick, Anneka Tran, and Seb Lester. The bottles are currently available for pre-order.

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Enjoy this short promo for yesterday’s Challenge Your World event in Montreal. Created by Yann Benedi and Céline Desrumaux, I like the combination of 2D and 3D techniques, and the nod to An Inconvenient Truth.

Check out Céline’s blog for some process drawings.

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]]> http://drawn.ca/2009/11/20/challenge-your-world/feed/ 0 They Might Be Giants – Electric Car http://drawn.ca/2009/09/03/they-might-be-giants-electric-car/ http://drawn.ca/2009/09/03/they-might-be-giants-electric-car/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:50:18 +0000 John Martz http://drawn.ca/?p=8588

Husband and wife team Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata of Tiny Inventions created this music video for They Might Be Giants. It will be included on their Here Comes Science DVD.

TMBG have made a fantastic transition from unlikely weirdo indie popsters into a successful children’s act, and I couldn’t be more pleased, especially in how they’ve embraced animation and puppetry in their work.

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Over at Illustration Friday, artist Rama Hughes writes about a found art project he does with his students called Beautiful Trash:

At the beginning of the school year, I invited my students to contribute to my Collection of Beautiful Trash. I promised to use it for an end of the year surprise. Over the course of the year, they got really excited about the quality of their trash. As soon as the school year ended, I browsed through the detritus, selected the most compelling items, and bound the beautiful trash into these three volumes.

My own collection of beautiful trash starts now!

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The Agronaut (clever title!) is a charming animated short by Polish studio GS Animation. The tale of a colonist trying to sustain human life on another planet is told without dialogue, and with a great sense of timing and style.

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]]> http://drawn.ca/2009/04/20/the-agonaut/feed/ 2 The Battery Menace http://drawn.ca/2009/02/09/the-battery-menace/ http://drawn.ca/2009/02/09/the-battery-menace/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:16:47 +0000 John Martz http://drawn.ca/?p=6689

I enjoyed this collage-type animation The Battery Menace by Mysh and Mashko.

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]]> http://drawn.ca/2009/02/09/the-battery-menace/feed/ 1 Ecofont uses 20% less ink http://drawn.ca/2009/02/06/ecofont/ http://drawn.ca/2009/02/06/ecofont/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:09:42 +0000 Matt Forsythe http://drawn.ca/?p=6678 “Eco Sans” is a new font by the Dutch communications firm, Spranq.

How much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? Apparently punching little circles out of each letter is the answer, resulting in a font that uses up to 20 percent less ink.

Also of interest:
More about art and the Environment
10 Ways Design Can Fight Climate Change
Save the Planet while Brushing your Teeth
Disturbing animation against global warming

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Artist Josh Keyes looks at the themes of environmental awareness and humanity’s influence on the planet with his unique paintings of surreal cross-sections featuring animals and manmade artefacts.

(Thanks, Jeroen)

Related posts:
Save the Planet While Brushing Your Teeth
Suicycle: Environmental Indigestion
10 Ways Design Can Fight Climate Change

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]]> http://drawn.ca/2008/07/30/josh-keyes/feed/ 0 Save the planet while brushing your teeth http://drawn.ca/2008/03/06/save-the-planet-while-brushing-your-teeth/ http://drawn.ca/2008/03/06/save-the-planet-while-brushing-your-teeth/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:30:05 +0000 John Martz http://drawn.ca/2008/03/06/save-the-planet-while-brushing-your-teeth/ brushteeth.jpg

Justin Young’s short animated film The Journey illustrates how something as simple as turning off the tap while you brush your teeth can help the fight against global climate change.

Related socially-conscious animated films:
Food Fight: The History of War in Food
Suicycle: Environmental Indigestion
Drawing from New Sources

Also:
10 Ways Design Can Fight Climate Change

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