Greetings vinyl toy fans.Jon-Paul-Kaiser is a designer that seems to always make me sit up and take notice. Whilst clicking through my Flickrcontacts page I was absolutely stunned to see his latest custom job on Munnys called The Seven Samurai.
Ok seriously just look at the insane detail on these bad boys. Not only are they super intricate but the black & white colour job really brings them to life…and keeps them true to their old school history.
For those of you who don’t know, Seven Samurai is a classic film by Akira Kurosawa about a village that hires 7ronin samurai to protect their village from a group of marauding bandits that will return after the harvest to steal their crops…and of course kill and rape as they please. This is an iconic Japanese film that was undoubtedly one of the driving forces that got me into this form of film to begin with.
This is obviously why I reacted so strongly to Jon-Paul-Kaiser’s wicked awesome new custom set.
Hiya all you designfans out there.CHUCKY is a very well respected designer who has won many competitions with us here at Springleap.com
Mega-designer CHUCKY beat out a boat load of competitors to scoop the Advanced Photoshop theme competition, with his stunningly dark Quarantinedesign.
This was no easy win. CHUCKY had to pip some seriously hardcore designs to take the win this time around…but he did so with mind blowing finesse.
We find that it is always a good idea to send through some questions to the winning designers to get a better idea about the thinking behind not only their designs, but the win itself.
Here is the rather interesting Quarantine design interview!
1. What were you thinking when you first started the design?
I decided to give the “Advanced Photoshop theme” a shot a few days before deadline. I knew I wanted something futuristic and/or Sci-fi. And I realised to follow the theme closely that I would have to stick to a very digital look, and therefore my design would have to be done in Photoshop entirely from scratch!
