Anti-Super Mario propaganda posters from the Mushroom Kingdom

Show your support for Bowser and hate for Super Mario with these propaganda posters on sale at Fro Design.

Pro-Bowser propaganda poster

Gallery 1988's video game-themed show is now available for purchase.


Super Mario World by Fernando Reza.



Ghost n' Goblins by Matt Pringle.

smARTpower

smART power:

U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Bronx Museum of the Arts launched smARTpowerSM., a new initiative that sends 15 American artists and collaborative artist teams to 15 countries worldwide to engage in people-to-people diplomacy through the visual arts.

smARTpower builds on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s vision of “smart power diplomacy,” which embraces the use of a full range of diplomatic tools – in this case the visual arts – to bring people together and foster greater understanding.

For up to 45 days during the next year, the following American artists will travel to all corners of the globe, where they will partner with local arts organizations to engage with underserved youth and create community-based projects. The first smARTpower artist, Kabir Carter of Brooklyn, New York, will depart October 24 for Istanbul, Turkey. Other artists will follow throughout 2012 with travel to China, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Venezuela.

The artists participating in smARTpower [and] the countries to which they will travel . . . are:

Duke Riley ("artist + patriot") – Shanghai, China

Chris "Daze" Ellis – Quito, Ecuador

Arturo Lindsay – Cairo, Egypt

Rochelle Feinstein– Accra, Ghana

Caroline Woolard – New Delhi, India

Miguel Luciano– Nairobi and Dadaab Province, Kenya

Samuel Gould – Pristina, Kosovo

Ghana Think Tank – Beirut, Lebanon

Pepón Osorio - Kathmandu, Nepal

Brett Cook – Lagos, Nigeria

Art Jones – Karachi, Pakistan

Mary Mattingly – Manila, Philippines

Xaviera Simmons – Colombo, Sri Lanka

Kabir Carter – Istanbul, Turkey

Seth Augustine and Rachel Shachar – Caracas, Venezuela

Pro-girl propaganda

"Fast Company asked several of the most creative ad agencies in the world to rebrand baby girls. Their mock campaigns recast girls as the No. 1 choice for consumers from China to the U.S." Below are just a few:


You Are by AKQA.



Born to Rule by Everybody Shout.



Accidental Daughters by Leo Burnett.



Hope It's a Girl by Cramer-Krasselt.

*Buy propaganda posters at Amazon.

Food Will Win This War - - WW2 propaganda from Disney

Five-minute-long animated propaganda film by Disney showing that the Axis is no match for the USA's potatoes, tomatoes . . . bowling balls . . . and fat Americans. Via.

*Buy Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel at Amazon.

Soviet anti-alcohol posters

Huge gallery of Soviet anti-alcohol posters. Via.

*Buy propaganda poster collections at Amazon.

Illustration roundup

Cover to the upcoming Batman: Death by Design by Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor. You can read an interview with Kidd, and see a bit more art here.



JH Williams III announced an upcoming sale of some original Batwoman pages. I cropped a wallpaper-sized image of Batwoman and Batman.



One more from the Batman-family: Medieval Two-Face by Igor Kieryluk.



Conan by Alex Toth. Via. (There are various Alex Toth collections on sale at Amazon.)



Bioshock Infinite propaganda poster by Dan Lebl.




Kraven and Green Lantern-inspired designs by Erica Henderson.

*Buy Kraven toys at eBay.

I Am Made of Robots by Alex Varanese

Robot propaganda-style posters by Alex Varanese, who has art on sale here. Via.

Illustration roundup

Hunger Games propaganda t-shirt by zerobriant on sale today at Tee Fury.



Eric White for a show at Copro.




Gomez and Morticia masks by SuperSecretPowWow, who has art on sale here.



The Joker's trophy wall by Brian Bolland. Via.





Three by Kilian Eng, who has posters on sale here. Via.

*Buy Cover Story: The DC Comics Art of Brian Bolland at Amazon.

Occupy Wall Street propaganda posters

Occupy Wall Street propaganda posters by Fro Design on sale here.

Link roundup

1. Interesting article on the history of China's Bayi Rockets, the military-sponsored basketball team that got into the big fight with Georgetown. Once dominant, the team couldn't adapt to changing rules:

From its outset, the CBA had allowed teams to import two foreign players, including retreads from the NBA, as a way to expose Chinese players to better competition. The exception was Bayi, which remained all-Chinese. It would have been embarrassing for the army team to import foreign mercenaries. Yet as better foreigners began arriving, Bayi began to struggle, which was more embarrassing. The league tried to give it special protection: Any team playing Bayi had to limit the playing time for foreign stars.

2. I enjoyed Brian Lam's ridiculous article about Steve Jobs. Its subtitle is "Regrets of An Asshole", but he: (1) timed the publishing of the article to benefit from Jobs's death; (2) goes to great pains to brag that Steve Jobs thought he was really talented; and (3) blames much of the iPhone 4 fiasco on coworkers, especially the people still at Gawker media ("I probably should have quit right after the first story was published for several different reasons. I didn't know how to say that without throwing my team under the bus, so I didn't.").

3. And speaking of articles on Steve Jobs, here's Robin Hanson discussing Jobs and signaling.