As technology advances and the video game industry continues to grow, the immersive worlds that developers create become more ambitious and expansive with each release. In an effort to celebrate the ‘passion and talent behind the world’s most exciting video games’, Dead End Thrills was born. What started as a Flickr group (that boats…
Yakushev Grigory is an artist and graphic designer based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In a parody series entitled Angry Brands, Grigory reimagines famous logos as different angry birds from the popular game. For more creative design projects and artwork, be sure to check out Yakushev’s portfolio on Behance. 1. Angry Pringles Artwork by…
Fighting games have always been a mainstay in video game culture. From the earliest arcade and console games, the typically 2-dimensional format has endured through the years. Following up from a popular 4chan thread a few months back (on /v/ and /vr/), Redditor RudeBootie (who was the same person that originally posted them to…
Makaon is a Japanese artist that specializes in making sculptures using only aluminum cans. You’ll undoubtedly recognize many of the characters from comics, cartoons and video games. First spotted on Reddit, a commentor suggests that the artist likely uses papercraft templates and aluminum happens to be his medium of choice. Regardless, the results are…
Joaquin Baldwin is a director, animator and layout artist living in Los Angeles, California (born in Paraguay). He currently works for Walt Disney Animation Studios doing CG layouts. He’s also won over 130 awards for his short films which you can find on his personal website Pixel Nitrate. In this fun little pet project,…
In his ongoing series of pop culture Pac-Man mods, artist Jonah Nigro has created dozens of humorous Pac-Man variations, replacing the famous character with other famous characters from movies, video games, comics and cartoons. You can see all of his creations on Pac-Mods.com. You can also find him on deviantART as Slim-Hazard, where he…
Toronto-based freelance graphic designer Ron Guyatt recently experienced some Internet love, making the front page (and subsequently the top spot) on Reddit (thx to user crudelegend). It was his series of amazing video game inspired artwork, which has the look and feel of a movie poster, that garnered such a positive reaction. Since then…
We all know about the popular game Angry Birds and what got them so peeved. But what do we know about actual real-life angry birds? Why are they upset? Maybe it’s because we’re invading their privacy when photographing them? Perhaps they just look angry but are probably the nicest birds you’ll ever meet if…
Artwork by BLOOP – Tumblr | deviantART Graphic designer Andres Romero aka bloOp, created this wonderful series of superheroes and villains as minimalist art posters. Posted a couple weeks ago on Reddit, bloOp explains his initial inspiration came from fellow designer Marko Manev and his own minimalist superheroes poster series. You can find…