Links for the weekend

Some links to tide you over the weekend:

Christopher Silas Neal on the books that influenced, inspired or helped him in his career. (Via)

Vintage children’s book covers from Korea in the 60s (via)

An interview with Micah Lindberg (featured previously)

Looking for a private Pinterest? Look no more.

Ever watched Inception and got muddled? Here’s a an interactive website that hopefully explains it (be prepared to dig out that old DVD!)

Juxtaposed compositions on OLOW’s shirts.

Help fund Light Grey Art Lab’s new computer room (It’s a learning center and gallery, started by the Paper Bicycle team (previously).

Have a great weekend folks, and I’ll see you on Monday with a new desktop wallpaper for April!

Building blocks

The below images have been floating around the internet and I couldn’t resist adding them here for today! If you haven’t seen them and are struggling to decipher what these are, here’s a clue: Cartoon characters.

Produced by German advertising agency Jung von Matt, this was a print advertisement for Lego and I think they did a smashing job.

I love how the agency reduced the form of each cartoon family and stripped it down to a column of color. It’s interesting to see how much our brain needs to go on before we instinctively know who those characters are. And once we’re hit with that a-ha moment, our eyes and senses adjust themselves; dredging up memories of long forgotten characters.

Yes, it’s true – we’re inexplicably bound by pop culture.

Did you manage to guess the characters behind each image? I can imagine these lot would be more easily identified by those who were born in the early 80s, like I am! If not here’s your answer:

{From top to bottom: South Park, The Smurfs, The Simpsons , Lucky Luke and the Daltons, Asterix and Obelix, Donald Duck and Nephews, Bert and Ernie, and Ninja Turtles!}

Via Minimalissimo