There was a time when I hated pixel art. It was around 2000 when there wasn’t any need for creating websites with pixel graphics. It mostly felt stupid and took for ages to create something that looked stunning. Some years later adidas used the pixel art above created by Eboy (the Yoda of Pixel art) as their advertisement. Other brands tagged along. For example Coca Cola with the Dublin poster below…
…or Swedish milk company Arla.
Today, pixel art is vintage. I Love it. Seeing a great pixel art piece brings back positive memories, it makes me remember the times back then basically.
adidas Originals, always on top has understood this when they had the same Eboy making an adidas Originals shoe for them.
A side effect of this pixel art thing is that the Internet isn’t fast only in terms of technology. But since technology evolves like a rocket on it’s way to Mars, our way of life do too. I don’t know how old something needs to be before you can officially call it a vintage. A car for example, at least 20 or 30 years? A converse sneaker? 30 years?
Now thanks to the net, there is something called vintage internet technology. Pixel art can definitely be classed vintage. I would like to ad VRML, WAP, Animated GIF’s, Cobalt, IRC chat etc. Feel free to comment if you have ideas about more vintage technologies.
For more pixel art. Have a look at the post over at PSDTuts that made me write this piece.
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The picture in the top is from a Fortune magazine a couple of years ago, right? I remember seeing that picture somewhere before…
One more thing, som Jobs skulle ha sagt. J, jag tycker att det börjar bli dags för dig att komma över till Google Reader snart (så att jag kan lägga till dig på share). Du kommer inte ångra dig!
Ja ja!
Har faktiskt ett google reader konto liggande sedan en tid tillbaka. Men jag tycker så hemskt mycket om 4 kolumn layouten och färgkodningen på Netvibes. Importerade om allt igen till Reader idag, men har inte låtit mig övertalas än…bakåtsträvare som jag är
Angående bilden högst upp så har du rätt. Jag gjorde i ordningen en LA bild från adidas kampanjen, men importerade tydligen in fel bild
Får åtgärda snarast! Thankx,
Amazing.
I use to doodle up pixel art, but it’s NOTHING compared to this. Does it take forever, like it seems it would?
Good job!
Sharing is very sexy…
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