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Artist: formatbrain
Curated by: the_JCW
Marcos Zerene is a 29 year old Argentinean Graphic Designer. He is also the person behind formatbrain. He was born in Mendoza and studied in the Faculty of Arts and Design of Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. At the moment Marcos is living in Mendoza.
In addition to the advantages that digital illustration can offer, formatbrain emphasizes on the importance of hand drawing. The freshness of the outline and the texture of paper, are some of the reasons he prefers to use a notebook and a pencil to give life to his characters. Most of them are inspired by daily life, with a combination of urban streets, internet, TV, cinema and the author’s imagination.
formatbrain is the change of mind that allowed him to discover, in character design, a different world inside illustration. Its work has spread on Internet thanks to the enormous Flickr community. Amongst his work, you can find 2 paper toys for 100% Loading, exposed in the Pixie Gallery in Japan and in PP@ART Taipei 2007. Formatbrain has also made collaborations to cutmilkmagazine and LeToy blog. In addition, formatbrain’s characters appear on street paste ups and graffitties in cities like Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam and Budapest.
Its sources, styles and influences are mainly illustration books and Internet. All of these create a technique that combines hand drawing with digitalization. Although some characters are worked vectorially, the majority only display digital adjustments using a graphic tablet, or programs like Photoshop or Illustrator.
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This made me giggle. And also now I want some Doritos…
Fantastic cute design and great colors :D
nice! really cute design!
Haha, this design is different. I like it. Nice job.
wow, this is great!
thanks guys!!!
thanks again to all RIPT Apparel team, you´re awesome guys!
YEAH FormatBrain! love the character
-be sure to check out the rest of this artists fun work
@fotmat Brain, no prob man! Don’t forget if you have an iPhone to grab your at for the your wallapper
Big ups great stuff…me love the pill
Oh looks great dude! congrats!!!
just ordered it. Argentinean Chombastyles worldwide. Can’t wait to represent with a FormatBrain shirt
@TJ
Hey, did you guys ship out the Vampire Boy tee’s yet?? I’m still expecting mine.
Good shirt!
Haha, just bought myself a tee. Everytime I came back to this site it became more attractive. Couldn’t help myself.
That’s cute as fuck!
This website is just growing and growing. New little things here and there almost every day!
Very creative. I’m not sure what it means but it’s fun & colorful. Good job.
thanks guys!!!, buy buy buy!!!
@ FuzzyLogic – Good to see that people are happy with the new aspects of the site as well as our showcasing unique artists.