Slaughterhouse Five for Kitsune Noir Poster Club (For Sale)

Frank Chimero (frankchimero) — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:22:52 -0800

Bobby over at Kitsune Noir recently got a hold of me and asked if I wanted to be a member of his super-elite Poster Club. I asked if there were membership cards. He said there were. So, I agreed. (I'm not terribly hard to win over.) Anyway, Kitsune Noir Poster Club's first project is a dream job: take one of your favorite books and redesign the cover. Sounds fun, right? It's equal parts terrifying and inspiring. I had a ton of fun working through this one, and in an interview on Kitsune Noir I'll go through a bit of the creative process of making the poster. Who knew that making an image to represent an existential, non-sensical, non-linear science fiction novel about an intergalactic colonist and prisoner of war would be difficult? Poo tee weet. Who thought that fitting space and war and four-dimensional beings into one picture would take some time? I didn't. I didn't really think my selection through whenever I chose it. But, now that I'm done and happy with the results, I'm glad I didn't. But, so many ideas died in the process. So it goes.

New Here and New for WIRED

Frank Chimero (frankchimero) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:20:37 -0800

Excuse me. I'm new around these parts. How's it going? Things are great here at Camp Chimero. Making Holiday cookies and mid-century modern gingerbread houses. Also, getting ready for some time off around the holidays, and finishing up some jobs here and there. One of the jobs I've finished recently is illustrating the How-To page for WIRED's December issue. Topics include how to not get trampled to death in a Black Friday mob, how to instantly chill your beers using canned air, and, the big guy, how to take some awesome long-exposure photography of your holiday lights by tossing your camera in the air. Better make sure you catch that camera, right?