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Meet Gizmodo’s Guest Artist: Nook

8:20AM June 23, 2011 | Casey Chan

If you’re an eagle-eyed reader, you’ve probably noticed our new guest artist for the month: Nook. He specialises in illustrations and motion design and if you’ve seen his work, you’ll know how eye popping his stuff can be. More »

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Flying Fire Fighters (And Other Things That Didn’t Come To Pass)

5:40AM March 8, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

Flying firemen. Radium-heated homes. Robot-assisted architects, tailors and barbers (eek!). These are the technologies of the year 2000, as envisioned by French illustrator Villemard in a series of beautiful drawings produced in 1910. They are pretty wacky…except when they aren’t. More »

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Meet Gizmodo’s Latest Guest Artist: Shannon May

10:00AM December 22, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Shannon May has already created illustrations for several Gizmodo posts, so we figure it’s about time we formally introduced her to you: She’s our current guest artist and she’s rather amazing. Here’s a little bit of info about her. More »

Here’s The Bizarro Sam Spratt Illustration You Asked For

11:00AM November 6, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Earlier today the US site asked readers to come up with something really really strange for illustrator extraordinaire Sam Spratt to draw. Well, here it is: “Chewbacca breast-feeding Macaulay Culkin… in Space.” A masterpiece. More »

The Secret Guts Of DSLR Cameras And Turntables

11:20PM September 13, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

This is how the Canon 5D Mark II looks inside after eating your cereal with chocolate milk and LSD. At least that’s what I think Mads Peitersen does to create his stupendously freaky gadget anatomy illustrations. He sent us another: More »

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Meet Our Contributing Illustrator: Sam Spratt

10:00AM August 25, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

You might’ve noticed some of Sam Spratt’s Photoshops, drawings and illustrations on recent posts already, but we wanted to take a moment to officially introduce him to you. He’s our contributing illustrator and will be sticking around for a while. More »

The Rest Of The Numbered Pencil Family

5:40AM August 21, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

We all know and love the No.2 Pencil, but what about Messrs. No.1 – No.12? Artist Nathan W. Pyle has dutifully catalogued those lesser-known writing implements, which you can buy as a T-shirt on Woot. [Laughing Squid]

Science

NASA Concept Illustrators Turn Raw Data Into Art

8:40AM August 19, 2010 | Clay Dillow - PopSci

We talked to the Spitzer Space Telescope’s visualisation team about the challenges and rewards of rendering the mission’s reams of non-visual data into something that catches the public eye. More »

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Win! A Limited Edition Kick Ass Canvas Print

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4:10PM August 12, 2010 | Nick Broughall

Every time we run a competition here on Giz, I generally feel a sense of disappointment about not being able to win the prize myself. But this comp is by far the worst – I REALLY want to take home the A1 sized Kick Ass canvas illustrated by John Romita Jr. Damn you, terms and conditions! More »

Robot Takes The Guesswork Out Of Long Exposure Paintings

12:00AM December 26, 2009 | Kyle VanHemert

Not everyone’s a Picasso when it comes to long exposure art – though some of you guys aren’t too far off – but even Pablo himself couldn’t replicate the precise, geometric light illustrations created by Nils Voelker’s Lightdrawing robot. More »