2012 Reviewed in An Animated Infographic by Yiying Lu for Visual.ly

Artist Yiying Lu created this fun animated infographic for the San Francisco based data visualization company Visual.ly

Included after the infographic are some of her good 'old school' hand drawn ink sketches for the project.








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CONSTRVCT Interactive Fashion Collection Reaches Its Funding Goal. Time to Design!

above: a dress and t-shirt made by designing digitally online and then printed and sewn for you by CONSTRVCT.

Having successfully reached their funding goal on kickstarter ($11,250 were pledged of their $10,000 goal), you're bound to hear more about this unique idea by Mary Huang & Jenna Fizel.



CONSTRVCT is an interactive fashion collection. You can design your own wearables that are then printed and manufactured for you. Custom designed art and images are uploaded to your choice from various classic garment silhouettes, digitally printed on jersey fabric and then sewn in your size and packaged by CONSTRVCT.



It is a new system of digital bespoke, where the web and computer driven design and production mediate the creation of unique designs. The name "Constrvct" refers to this act of creation. The collective goal is to create a social fashion label that reflects the creativity of the people who wear the clothes.

How it works:
Starting with a few classic silhouettes, everyone is invited to create their own designs by uploading photos or images that are turned into digitally printed clothing on double knit cotton jersey like simple dresses and t-shirts.

The example shown below is using a photo that Jenna took of stained glass in Barcelona:


When a design is ordered, the artwork and the cutting pattern are printed onto fabric with inkjet textile printing (this allows them to create production runs of 1 in a streamlined manner):


Voila! - Mary wears a dress made from Jenna's photo of the stained glass:


For the Jersey dresses, sizes US 0-16 available, in standard, petite, and tall. They can also do custom sizing.

The clothing can be custom sized, and your name printed right into a tagless "label" on the garment. Plus, custom packaging with your fabric swatch and initials:


Their larger vision is to be able to achieve truly crowd-sourced fashion design, where anyone can publish their own fashion collection, with full production and retail ready to go.



The team, shown above, is Mary Huang and Jenna Fizel. Mary in NYC and Jenna in Boston, they have backgrounds in building cutting edge interactive experiences and have a history of creating exciting ideas in experimental fashion design.


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Django Unchained: The Official Teaser Poster, 20 Great Fan Posters and a look at the 1966 Django Movie Posters.

The official teaser movie artwork and poster designed by BLT Communications for Quentin Tarantino's "Southern" (don't call it a Western), Django Unchained, has been released.



The stylized graphic poster resembles those by the magnificent Saul Bass (whose West Side Story, Anatomy of A Murder and Vertigo movie posters are shown below) with its minimal color ink and flat two dimensional imagery.



The movie has inspired many designers and artists to create some of their own. I have compiled a large gallery of fan posters by scouring some of the best-known artist portfolio sites on the web, such as Society6, Deviant Art and Behance and other individual sites to share them with you. I've even included credits and links to purchase them as art prints, where available, for you.

by Joel Amat Guell:

by Deep Search (Society6):

by Luis Fernando Cruz (Society6):

By John Houzer Smith:

Three beautiful versions by Italian graphic designer Federico Mancuso:



by John Patten:

by Dcomp (Deviant Art):

by Fluidzen (DeviantArt):

by Shokxone-Stdios (DeviantArt):

by DazTibbles(DeviantArt):

by Crusty Dog (DeviantArt):

by BaoThao (DeviantArt):

by Ninjaiworks (DeviantArt) and on Behance:

by herbertroy (DeviantArt):

by N8MA (DeviantArt):

by Daniel of the UK's Screenhopping site:

by Jamie:



Here was an older poster design by an unknown artist made prior to actor Joseph Gordon Levitt having to pull out of the film:


While Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (scheduled for release on December 25, 2012) isn't a remake of the 1966 Django Western starring Franco Nero, it is in the "shoot-em-up" genre of Spaghetti Westerns and comparing the new posters to the 1966 movie posters is very interesting - especially given the 'retro' Saul Bass-like design of the official 2012 movie poster.

1966 International Movie Posters for Django and some subsequent sequels:
German:

French:

Japanese:


Italian (left) and Yugoslavian (right):

Spanish:

German DVD version:

A special thanks to all posters and the movie poster shop for the vintage poster images

Since the movie isn't scheduled for release until about six months from now, I'm sure we'll be seeing many more fabulous non-official posters for Django Unchained - and I intend to keep you updated.

The Official Django Unchained Movie Site

See all Int'l versions of the official teaser poster here.