Belgian illustrator and designer Kristof Saelen has a way with pixels. I wrote about him on my blog a while ago, when he did a very nice Tintin and Snowy for a colleague of mine. On his Very Important Pixels blog he regularly adds new effegies of famous, important or funny people. So far, he’s done some 80′s TV heroes (including Mr T), The Different Stages of Michael Jackson, four heroes of the Tour de France and a very cool (and complete) set of James Bonds.
(a cool set of wee pixel-art James Bonds – in chronological order from left to right – by and (c) Kristof Saelen)
The images are not as highly elaborated as the eBoy cityscapes , or as minimized as the portraits Craig Robinson still occasionally creates for Flip Flop Flyin’, but they are very consistent and, what’s more important, very recognisable. Even with only a few dots of colour at his disposal, Kristof gets his subjects ever time.
He’s becoming all the rage with the kids on Twitter, and is slowly but surely reaching stardom in Brazil. Jump on the wagon now before there’s a new fad !
Wed, Sep 2, 2009
Comics and cartoons, From our Continental Correspondent