fear and loathing in steadmanvision.

at the moment i'm looking at gonzo journalism for critical studies, and i've been meaning to upload some of this fellow's stuff for a while so it only seems fitting to do it now.

ralph steadman is a british illustrator who is most known for the work he did with the good dr. hunter s. thompson. his artwork is (for me) the illustrative equivalent of hunter's writings, and himself as eccentric as thompson too - there was an apparent noted change in steadman's personality and work after befriending the dr. and engaging in his more influencing pastimes.

check his website out or head over to the britishcartoonarchive where they have over 100 of his scanned images up.

raise them on squash!

evidently it seems the big wigs at robinsons' have decided it's time for a makeover, and i'm sure with a campaign like this they've turned some heads over anyways.















pleasing, soft use of colour in both the print and tv ads makes these really appealing to me and i guess to their target audience (mothers/children). i really like the hand, print-made aesthetic too.

there's a nice enough website aswell, with a community/post images section too. kinda cool idea for the sort of product. some random shameless self-promotion by microsoft aswell. strange. link.