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- section_0140
Hydro fucking owns. Get with it. I love my samurai shirt!
- erikjonsson0
long time fan of h74 but how can his raster be so different from the vectors in quality? =)
- mg330
Is Hydro74 what used to be Holodeck 74? Remember that site, around 2000-2001? I believe it was h74.com back then.
- I always thought the same, but thought h73 had upgraded.mikotondria3
- Hoax0
While we're at it, what do you guys think about Chuck Anderson?
hahaa
- gabe0
haha, no that was matt mejia and it was holodeck 73
- mg330
I'll tell you what I think about Chuck Anderson...
I want his house/office
http://www.formatmag.com/blogs/a…- Fair play, that's nice.Hoax
- What the fuck, does he live in a converted fire escape?Horp
- I'm curious too. It looks like three floors. Can't remember where he lives, I thought Chicago.mg33
- I can't wait to have a house and basement.mg33
- very nice.dibec
- "What the fuck, does he live in a converted fire escape?"
LOLfate_ - NiiiceJaline
- magnificent_ruin0
do you guys like it on the level of tongue-in-cheek bad taste, or do you actually like it?
- or is there no difference?magnificent_ruin
- I'm not sure the target audience think its tongue in cheek any more than Marilyn Manson fans do.Horp
- no one remembers anythingnilsnihil
- kult0
I dig him, mostly because of his work ethic and business savvy. There's no doubt he's a technically gifted illustrator. His portfolio of work sells itself to a specific market.
I have much more respect for someone who puts a great amount of skill and technique behind a superficial/flat idea, then a multi-million dollar branding agency who charges a shitton for a swirl and 40 pages of copywritten "value" bs to support it.
- Meeklo0
I'm still a fan of his vector work, he has this quality to it that makes him stand out, he is one of those that found solid unique path to develop and explore, and got so good that other artists started, hmm I don't want to say copying or imitating.. but maybe inspired to follow a similar path.
That being said..
his raster work (like someone called it before), just looks like it was done by one of the multiple kdu members that "follows" no pattern work.
This has to be the first time that I see a talented artist falling back into the bag where we (or most of us) belong. I hope it's temporary, he really has something unique going, Josh if you are reading, I love your vector work, your type treatments are inspiring, I think you are better making your own path, rather than following someone else's.
my 2 cents!
- panacea0
great update and fonties
- Horp0
^ I'd agree with Meeklo there. I admire his craft skills and my negative comment on page one is aimed specifically at that frankly unoriginal pixel based triangle/space/smoke/skull thing. I would guess that like lots of people Josh is searching for a new direction, maybe he's seeing demand begin to fall off. It has been a long long time for some of the motifs he's been working with. But I too would say keep the technique you have refined to the xth degree and just look for new colour palettes, new composition styles, new motifs to work with. Don't do what Vault49 were doing four years ago.
I'm not into the genre of this work, but I do admire his skill as an illustrator.
- 74LEO0
SUP?
- neverscared0
fantastic portfolio
- 23kon0
Design for Hire?
I'd say his work was more 'Illusrtration', no?
His work is really nice, some amount of time and detail that goes into those illustrations. Props for that.
But really .... Once you have seen one balloon ....
.... You've seen them all!
- Justin0
Wow. This shit sells. Not much more I can say about it. Judging by how many different brands they do shirts for, you can see why a lot of tee brands look the same. Sheesh.
- Horp0
^ I made my transition from design to illustration via graphic tees. I did about three years as a graphics and print designer for street and denim brands in Europe and in the end I just wanted to kill myself. Every brand I ever got called in to always had the exact same reference pictures on their mood board, year after year.
Basically whatever Abercrombie & Fitch and Hollister are doing, everyone else copies it.