Poster from cover of Moby Dick by Herman Melville, art by Tony Millionaire

Poster from cover of White Noise by Don Delillo, art by Michael Cho, design by Paul Buckley

Then the very delightful design blog Kitsune Noir has begun the Kitsune Noir Poster Club by asking five artists to produce a poster based on a book they love. The results of which include another take on Moby Dick:

Poster inspired by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, by Mark Weaver

But I think my two favourites are these, coming from opposite ends of the austerity scale:

Poster inspired by David Foster Wallace’s Infinte Jest, by Cody Hoyt

Poster inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, by Jez Burrows

The other two titles are Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

And then there’s Penguin designer and, more importantly, ≥ regular Stefanie Posavec, who has a print at 20x200. It’s based on Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, and uses the same technique to visualize the text as she’s used before for On the Road.

Walter Benjamin: A Literary Organism Analysis print, by Stefanie Posavec

I am wishing I had more money right now.

Guys.

Send me money.

But I think there’s more to Valerie Hegarty’s work than just the welcome, sadistic satisfaction of seeing bad things find Rothko.

They’re beautiful in their own right and tense with an appealing antagonism. And  I love how that last image, in the context of the other work, neatly suggests two contradictory thoughts: tracing a visual similarity between the growth of roots and the destruction of tattered remains, and placing conventional art as itself the destruction of something prior.

See more at Guild & Greyshkul and The Saatchi Gallery.

(via Coudal)

It made me think of the photographer Robbie Cooper’s Immersion project. He filmed children playing video games. The level of involvement’s similar, but the concentration is something else. I don’t know exactly what that says about video games.

You can see more images on Robbie Cooper’s own website (just click ‘Simulations’ and then ‘Immersion’), and you really should go and watch this video of the players at the New York Times, from which the stills are taken.

More recently he applied the same technique to adults watching pornography, and the result is almost upsetting it’s so personal. I don’t know where you work, but I think they’d probably appreciated if you were at home before watching this 18 minute video of interviews and watching porn-watching.

UPDATE

Serendipity! Suddenly this becomes another instalment of Advertising Will Eat Us All.

About an hour after I posted this I was flicking through the ol’ feed reader and came across this post on the Creative Review Blog about a new Japanese advertising campaign for the slim PS3 called Playface. As with Immersion, they’re filming people as they game.

Take a look at the website, or the advert:

I don’t know if it’s the context or the people they’ve chosen, but it seems stagier.

And someone in the comments to the Creative Review post also points out this photo series by Phillip Toledano (who feels as if the Playface campaign ‘happily ripped me off’):

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