Archive for the ‘Art & Design’ Category

Don’t shoot the blacks with cameras!

By First • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

First just got back from the United States. Took some photos and no problems, not once…



RCA Vehicle Design 2008

By First • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

Who’d have thunk it? An art school whose graduates don’t end up dead in a crackhouse!



Cox & Kings: Eiffel Tower

By First • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

Saatchi & Saatchi, Mumbai, India



The Sweet Vandals make the greatest ever car ad music

By First • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

An unlikely car, the Fiat Bravo and an even more unlikely band, the Sweet Vandals. They’re from Spain, she sings in English but…it’s just great.



Pablo Escobar’s former home now a theme park

By First • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

Hacienda Napoles in Colombia, the home of the late Pablo Escobar, lies in ruins. But now it has been reopened as a theme park, complete with its original model dinosaurs and real live hippos imported with Escobar’s cocaine billions. Classy.



Life like George Butler draws it

By First • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

George Butler does some phenomenal illustration-reportage work in his native London and here, when visiting Afghanistan…



66 drives

By First • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

Here’s something completely random. A series of ‘vector portraits’ featuring people in their cars…doing stuff. Kissing, reading, some even driving.



Pirelli’s greatest hits

By First • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

How great is the world’s most exclusive girly calendar? Pretty great if you can get goddesses like Adriana Lima to show off their good parts.



Gatorade: The drink for kids who love to fight

By First • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

Brazilian ad agency Almapbbdo got a Gatorade campaign and did this. Featuring Little Pele, Jordan and Ali.



World’s Greatest Photographer Weegee the Famous

By First • Jun 24th, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

There’s pretty much two kinds of pictures taken by Jamaican photographers: people posing up at parties and others lying dead in the road. The latter was what Weegee aka Arthur Fellig excelled at in 1930s New York City.