Sunday, December 12, 2010

Oh, Proboscideans!




A promotional brochure I made in Adobe Illustrator. It chronicles the African elephant's bizarre history through six stages of its ancestry. From left to right:

African elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Songhua River Mammoth (Mammathus sungari)
Gomphotherium (Gomphotherium angustidens)
Platybelodon (Platybelodon danovi)
Deinotherium (Deinotherium giganteum)
Moeritherium (Moeritherium lyonsi)

Okay, so Moeritherium isn't a true elephant ancestor. I know but y'all can just shove it. The little thing is just too adorable.

Way way more to come!


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Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Broadcasting From Home
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?7588wme1t83oezx
Tags: jazz, acoustic, chamber music

Been all about this this week. My favorite element about the Penguin Cafe Orchestra is their song titles. It really provides a nice context to every song and influences you to interpret them a certain way. "In the Back of a Taxi" first comes to mind.

3 comments:

  1. I really like how Moeritherium is puttering behind and Deinotherium is looking back at it like an aggravated parent.

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  2. This is actually wrong. Deinotherium is the largest of all the above animals, in fact of all lad mammals deinotherium is only second in size to the indricotherium.

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  3. No, Mammathus sungari is bigger than Deinotherium.

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