June 09, 2008

Monday Illustrations: In Cars

• Frank Chimero renders the various United States as objects with similar shapes.  (Florida has been scrupulously omitted.) [Via]
• The cover of a recent Vice magazine featured a glowing, ghosted BMW illustration.
• Vehicular cruelty?:
  • "Flower Power" isn’t just for aging first-gen iMacs anymore.  Check out this drawn-upon Bentley Continental.
  • "Pimped" doesn’t begin to capture the illustrated, bejewelled craziness of these Pakistani custom vehicles.
• Game theories:
  • The Playstation blog talks about using Photoshop to Make Your Own PS3 Themes. [Via]
  • Not to be outdone, an Xbox blog talks about paint customization features in the NASCAR ’09 game.  "The online connectivity of Paint Booth allows players to download a car template from easports.com and import it into editing programs, such as Photoshop, giving users a multitude of design options."