Measuring the Universe is a terrific visual bite of knowledge created by Hohokum/Wild Rumpus/Frobisher Says artist extraordinaire Richard Hogg for the Royal Observatory Greenwich, delivering a succinct graphical explanation for how we are able to calculate the distance between us and the expanding universe around us. Truly wonderful.
via Brain Pickings
If you’re a sales hound, today is the day for you! Over 400 games are available at sale price thanks to the Because We May sale, initiated by World of Goo’s Ron Carmel and a handful of our favorite Indie devs. Discounted games include many of my personal favorites! Such as…
- World of Goo
- Eliss
- Osmos
- Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
- Waking Mars
- Rebuild
- Bit.Trip Runner
- Psychonauts
And so many more! In addition to iPhone/iPad/Apple games, there are plenty of games across Android, Steam, PC and more. Just check out the site!
Oh, and I also did the logo and pattern illustration. So that’s pretty cool too. *toots a horn that belongs to me*
Adventure Game legend Ron Gilbert (aka the Grumpy Gamer) has given us a sneak peek at the motley crew of playable characters featured in his upcoming adventure game atDouble Fine. In addition to The Scientist (my favorite!) featured here, there are The Twins, The Knight, The Adventurer, The Time Traveler, The Hillbilly and The Monk.
A great set of of characters, and lo and behold four out of eight are female! That’s 50% of the playable characters! Pretty neat.
via Ron Gilbert
I honestly don’t know what to think about the album art for the Touch My Katamari OST…
It’s…different!
via mlkshk
One of my favorite comic artists/internet buddy Andreas Schuster has some really wonderful Skyrim fan art up on the tumblog Skueruem, which looks to be a really decent collection of cool Skyrim illustrations. It’s a small batch for now, but definitely worth checking out! See Andreas’ other Skryim piece “Spriggan in the Morning” below!
This illustration by Glenn Thomas for Pocket Next’s interview with Adam Saltsman is really great, and such a snazzy start to a great interview! This is the first time I’ve visited Pocket Next, and it looks like they have a whole team of graphic artists to supply super pretty banners for their posts. Will visit more often!
P.S. If anyone knows the specific artist of this header, that would be great. I love his/her style!
Update: The artist is Glenn Thomas!
Mildred’s New Year’s resolution is a good one.
(via Fecal Face)
Artist Yassine de Vos is doing some really fun and interesting things with pixel art, utlizing perler beads, graph paper and mosaic tiles to compose his works. I love this wacky personified alphabet, but his graph paper totems are also a colorful sight!
Yassine de Vos via Okimi
Mattias Adolfsson’s “Night Flight” is just overflowing with delightful detail (click the photo to zoom in). If you look closely you might spot a Space Invader or two, but there is plenty more stuff to see too!
Here it is, my drawing from memory of Melee Island from The Secret of Monkey Island, one of my favorite games of all time. My brain did a pretty decent job marking out the locations on this blue post-it (especially the elusive Sword Master’s spot), but I got the shape of the island all messed up and totally misplaced Stan’s Used Ship Emporium (for shame!). I remembered the island looking kind of like a pirate face (if you turn your head a little), so I drew the bay near the town with some kind-of sort-of profile features, but I was all wrong! The face is actually angled in the opposite direction. Pretty close, though.
Submitted my drawing to Mapstalgia, but since they’re all famous now who knows if it’ll show up! Figured I might as well post it here too.
