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Frank Zappa And His Parents Francis And Rosemarie (1970)

The colours! No, everything! For more pics just follow the link here:

Photo © TIME LIFE: Rock Stars With Their Parents

Apropos purple:

Via F*king Good Ideas

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Design: Apple Phone Concept From The 1980s

I'm not much of an Apple fan boy but this is really cool, considering the year when the design was made. A phone/tablet prototype from 1983 by design-super-duper-star Hartmut Esslinger.

Via Design You Trust

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Ford

Epic snapshot.

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Teravolt Update

This very hero got a little Motorpunk update ;)

Photo via Amunt log

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References: Underwater Dogs

More of these beautiful photos on This is colossal...

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Blame it on Jason Kottke and the Amunt log!

Today, I'd like to post again something about how strongly my design work is shaped not only by art references but by all kinds of non-art things. Their colours, forms, textures, complexions etc. are essential parts of my initial design process. I get those inspirations or "inital sparks" from certain places on the internet, like from Jason Kottke's weblog or the Amunt log, two of my favorite sites I explore nearly every day. This very Motorbirds jet design here below is the fruit of one of those explorations and displays excellently how the inspirations determine the final design:

Photo via Amunt log

Photo via kottke.org

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Motorbirds Illustrated: Skipunk Motorsuit

This is another "semi-clean-up" design of sorts, I just coloured the rough sketch. One can see still all the scratchy lines etc. BTW, this here was a kind of warm-up thing too, I'm again on this skicat character, so I was toying around with it a little.

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Pic of the day: Undead Popeye

This sketch by Kerry Gammil made my day, today...

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Ferrari F17 Land-To-Air Motörhead

Part two of my Ferrari series: This bird controlled land-to-air Ferrari jet-skull displays the essence of my design style pretty well, I guess. Like André Franquin meets Carl Barks meets George Lucas meets Jim Henson meets Jules Verne meets Red Bull.

BTW, the photo (see end of the post) is a snapshot of one of the test flights the Ferrari F17 made from here - across the Atlantic - to the Swiss-Miss studio in NYC. Nice view Tina and her studiomates have, no? (Photo via The Brander)

Rough process pieces:

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