Eboy

I headed over to Arch drafting supply the other day to get some pads of Rhodia paper, and bought a sheet of decorated paper that caught my eye. It's a pixellated futuristic and rather silly cityscape, populated by workers on horseback, sunbathers, a puffy cloud-monster drifting overhead, and lots of buildings that look as though they were made with Legos. The image above is their poster "Venice" - not the one I bought, though it's similar. Click the picture to see it in greater detail.

Some later research revealed that this is an Eboy design. Eboy is a group of graphic designers in Berlin who do a lot of this kind of stuff. They've worked with a huge list of top-name clients, like Adidas, Monster.com, Nestle, Nike, and Microsoft. That lessened the excitement for me - you know, finding something you think you just discovered, only to find the whole world knew about it before you did. Still, their site is worth looking at! There's something about those Lego-like pixel images that appeals to people my age; it's a nostalgia thing, I think. We remember when computer images really were pixellated, like the Atari games we loved - Pac Man, Spacer Invaders, and Dig Doug - and we learned how to "word process" on those little tiny IBM computers whose screens were only black and amber...And dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and trilobites filled the primordial seas...