Before, During and After

British photographer, journalist and film maker. Lalage. Spent 8 months in Afganistan with the soldiers at camp bastion, taking pictures of them before during and after their tours. What his photographs say speaks louder than any words. The pictures show how the war has changed the men, making them harder but yet destroying them at the same time. The pictures also show the changes to them caused by the stress for example all of the soldiers show a dramatic loss of weight in their faces. I think these pictures tell a very powerful story of the affects of war on the people who fight them.

Rocky Mountains

In 2015 the Rocky Mountains national park will be celebrating it 100th anniversary and so they have created a new logo made up of different creatures and geographical features around the park. The new logo and poster design definitely differs a lot from the past designs that where very famous and started a whole new style of poster design for that era.

Kater Book

http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Hangover-Book/6120385
 Here I found some illustration work done by DXTR for a book of world famous hangovers and strange hangover cures. The book uses DXTR's famous cartoon cat character because the German word for a hangover is Kater which also means cat! I love the illustrations because they are so simple yet very dark and entertaining and remind me of old cartoon violence like Tom & Jerry.

Un-naturally Natural

Here we have more picture of animals but this time with a difference! I came across this collection of designs recently that show many different animals such as leopards, owls and the ones I have posted above. I think the prints are great as it has something that is very raw and natural for example a lion, and has turned it into something very un natural, cold and geometric. The pictures give the animals a cold, lifeless look with the use of the blank eyes. Images not usually seen of animals in this manner.

My Kind of Crazy

Here we have some postcards designed by an art collection named "Le Gun" with contibuting artists such as Alex Wright, Hannah Bays and Dr.D. I really like some of the designs that have been put forth for the postcards as they are a special kind of insanity that only a few people (myself included) understand and appreiciate

Here's more anti-festivity!

Following on from my last post, here are some great pieces of art print that I found based on Christmas and or Father Christmas. The pictures are very interesting as they give a darker and more comical look at the festive holiday and for some probably just ruin it for them. But ah well, enjoy!

Well theres Christmas ruined!

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/santa
Here we have a video by Beyond Design. The video takes a very cynical but yet correct description of how Father Christmas would make his Christmas run each year using incredible facts, figures and statistics to pretty much quell the myth of Father Christmas once and for all! Whatever you do don't show this to your children.