Ooh, I love these type of posters! Subscribers to Edge (gaming magazine) each received a poster with their latest issue, portraying a city rendered in pixels. Created by illustrator Gary Lucken, it contains tons of references to videogames. Unlike the movie Cryptic Canvas from yesterday though, the references are pretty straightforward (not cryptic). Still there are a lot of references that I don’t get.
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It reminds me a lot of the eBoy posters (we’ve got the FooBar poster, although we haven’t found a frame to hang it in our new place), it’s a poster you can stare for at ages and still not have found all the things hidden in it. I wish there was a higher resolution online version available though; there are some references I think I get, but it just too tiny to be sure.
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June 14th, 2009 at 23:13
Dit soort tekeningen vind ik ook altijd zo leuk.
Vooral bij de tandarts …lol
June 15th, 2009 at 22:13
I’ve always loved this type of art, too. When I was a kid, the Dallas Yellow Pages phone book would have a new one every year on the cover. At first glance, it was just a realistic drawing of downtown Dallas, but on closer inspection, you would see things like longhorn cattle grazing on a skyscraper roof and things like that. This is actually an art genre. Google “cartoon map” to see a few online. The style is most often used on amusement park maps. I’ve still got a collection of great Six Flags Over Texas cartoon maps from long ago.