Category Archives: Design
New Twitter Logo = Awesome New Art!
Soon after Twitter unvieled the newest rendition of their official trademark logo, it didn’t take too long for some people to reinterpret the new logo into an artistic work. Take illustrator Ape Lad, who used the outlines of the new Twitter logo to produce images of Link from the Zelda games, Wolverine, Phillip J. Fry from Futurama, Linus Van Pelt from Peanuts, Yoda, Bugs Bunny, Woody and Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story, etc. Here’s a link to the rest of his Twitter logo-inspired graphics on his Flickr account. Check out some extra images after the break in this post. Read the rest of this entry
Artsy, Beautiful Stained-Plexiglas Watertower Lights Up the Brooklyn Skyline
Check out this lovely watertower by Brooklyn artist Tom Fruin called, surprise-surprise, Watertower. This 25′ by 10′ patchwork watertower structure stands at 14-foot-tall, and is made from 1,000 pieces of salvaged plexiglas from New York and steel from Pennsylvania. It currently rests on top of a building that houses the artist’s studios at 120 Jay Street in DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), Brooklyn.
Starting on June 7th (that’s tomorrow), the tower will be lit from within by digitally-controlled light sequences playing from dusk until the morning everyday for an entire year. During the day (or course), the natural light beaming from the sun will be shining through the structure, illuminating Brooklyn with the various and lovely colors of the stained plexiglas. Watertower will be visible from Lower Manhattan, FDR Drive, and both the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges during the night.
[Thanks Tom Fruin & AnimalNewYork]
