Archive for January, 2008
Yeah, I know - it has been a bit quiet lately, and with good reason.
The new year has pretty much started with a bang: a lot of new work has come Kleber’s way, Ben Wise (who freelanced for us on the kylie.com site) has joined our tribe full time and last but certainly not least: I’m getting married in a little over 2 weeks (yay!) and final preparations take up some time. February and March will be a fun and hectic mix of wedding bells and work in London and Malaysia.
So what is next? Well, without revealing anything I can say that something really interesting is afoot with Mam Tor, which if all goes as planned will rear its head in March. I’m not too involved with it, aside from supplying some logo designs; but this is one of those things that can put Mam Tor on a bigger playing field. March should also see the official announcement of a really cool project for the summer of 08 that Liz and myself are involved with . So stay tuned for news the coming weeks/months.
Back in my college days I was (and actually still am) really into my comics. So much so that I was planning since I was a teenager to become a *real* comic book artist. Back then I didn’t have a computer yet (that would only happen in 1998) so I was hunched over my drawing table drawing comics if I wasn’t reading them.
In 1996 I was in my 2nd year of graphic design at college when my old high school teacher (and fellow comic lover) got in touch with a bunch of us to put together a one-off indie comic featuring all his students past & present who were involved in one shape or another with the indie comic scene in Antwerp at the time. Too cool to decline of course. So I set about to cram as much of the things I loved into the 3 pages you see below: cyborgs, silly tech, aliens,.. anything with textures. Old school fans will probably recognize that I wore my influences on my sleeve - and I spend a couple of sleepless nights rendering the hell out of my drawings (remember, these were the 90s).
Of course, by the time I graduated graphic design had completely taken over. And although I still read comics as much as I did back then, I’m not drawing them… but have been lucky enough to design a couple of them.
A big thanks to my old high school teach Peter Coen to send me scans of my pages!
comcore-tom-96-01, originally uploaded by helloMuller.
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I spotted this article 2 days ago: in 20 to 40 million years a gas cloud will collide with our galaxy and is promising to be a stellar (see what I did there) event even visible on our planet (if there’s people left to see it that is).
What struck me was the false-color radio telescope image of the cloud that accompanies the article. The cloud is made of cold gas, and emits only in radio wavelengths. It does not generate any visible light:
Image: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
And it reminded me of an image I made around 2 years ago for my SF story Oneironaut:
I can see just like everyone else that both images aren’t similar… but there was just something… I don’t know - maybe its the atmosphere of the cloud image that struck a cord… One image is of something that exists somewhere out there, the other one is something I made up. I find that eerie (and also pretty cool that I made up something that actually exists!).
I didn’t think this would be the subject of my first post of 2008, but this guy really steals the cake.
Meet Eric Albers, a Dutch Communication and Multimedia (keep this in mind for later) student who thinks its okay to blatantly copy the design from this site for his own as you can see here.
I spotted his site by pure coincidence a few days ago going through my site stats. Its not the first time someone has tried to copy my work and get away with it, but after a friend of mine left a comment on his blog and Eric replied to it I thought it was time to put this guy on the spot and call him out for the lazy schmuck he is.