Vintage Ad Browser

I was recently asked by a client to come up with a “vintage” ad for their business – “something with a  70′s feel,” they said.  Seeing as how I grew up in the 1980s, I needed a little visual inspiration to get my creative juices flowing.  That’s when I came across VintageAdBrowser.com which is basically [...]

Charlie White – Surrealist

I love all forms of art.  Well not all, I’m not really into interpretive dance.  I do however love a good surrealist when I find one.   But this guy’s different.  Charlie White is a bit of an anomaly.  While much of his work tends to focus on various aspects of the human condition, he manages [...]

A Tribute to Patrick Nagel

John Hughes flicks, smoking in the mall, my first pair of Wayfarers…just a handful of things I loved about the 80′s.  You know what else I loved about the 80′s?  Patrick Nagel.  If you were around in the 80′s then you’ll definitely remember some of the coolest visual interpretations of the fairer sex ever to [...]

Threadless – Brilliant Graphic Tees

Threadless is a community-centered online apparel store run by skinnyCorp of Chicago, Illinois, since the year 2000. Co-founders Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart started the company with a measly $1,000 and in the last 10 years it has grown into a multi-million dollar empire.  They basically invented a new way of doing business online and [...]

Terry Richardson Rocks

Ok, I hope this post is completely redundant because if you’re reading this and you aren’t already familiar with the legend that is Terry Richardson, there’s definitely something wrong with you. That said, it’s impossible for us to maintain a site called “Dirty Creative” without talking about one of the worlds most prolific dirty photographers. [...]

Cool Custom Wallpaper

As I near the end of a six-month-long process of renovating my place, one of the few things I have left to do is a wallpaper accent wall. In the interest of avoiding the run-of-the-mill product that the big box stores are pushing, I took to the web to find something a little cooler. That’s [...]

Retro Horror Movie Posters

Everything old is new again…well at least as far as Hollywood’s concerned. It’s not news at this point that they’ve gone ahead and re-made George A. Romero’s 1973 cult classic The Crazies, but seeing all the ads around town leading up to the film’s February 26 release got me feeling nostalgic. As a bonafide horror [...]

Banksy: Exit Through the Gift Shop

After nearly 10 years of giving the globe a fourth dimension with his socially satirical street art, Briton Bansky (or Robin Banks as he may or may not be called), has made a movie.  Billed as “the world’s first street art disaster movie”, Exit Through the Gift Shop made its debut at the 2010 Sundance [...]

Nikki Farquharson – All Mixed-Up

…in a really, really good way.

She’s young. She’s talented. She’s British…and she’s bloody brilliant. At 24 years old, Nikki has already stacked up some pretty mean credits – her resume boasts gigs with Benefit Cosmetics, Fujifilm and Missbehave Magazine, to name a few.

43 Quotes by Andy Warhol

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have. Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching [...]