Most of Mexico's advertising in the small towns and villages is street graphcs, typography and images painted onto the walls of shops and buildings. I found these more interesting than advertising found in the cities because they illustate the culture and artisitic qualities of individuals rather than multinational advertising companies. The artisits who made these were not instructed in the conventions of visual arts or the latest design trends, but their work belongs to a tradition that has been passed down through the years and across the country.
I think that the reason that enjoy and find so alluring mexican street graphics is that they are not perfect. the high-tech world of graphic design at the moment allows artisit to create 'perfect' design. These hand painted designs emitt the soul and personality of the person who created it. A crooked line, a mistake often has more fervor and sincerity.
To a foreign visitor from a western country where functional advertsising uses primarily photographs, some of the images seem a little absurd, immature perhaps. Even the content of some images are confusing and contradictory e.g. a roman ceaser eating a mexican torta. However it is this fantastic juxtaposition that goves mexican graphics their own distinctive identity and dynamic.
Many of the images shown here have been created on one fell swoop, without preliminary drawings or plans. This is difficult for me as a student in britain to comprehend because planning to me is of utmost importance. For me to create a piece of graphics or art, i find it necessary to create different preliminay versions before creating my final image, and even then changing it, often dramatically. It could be seen however that the mexican's casual creative procedure as either being original or impassive.
Finally i was most attracted initally by the usage of colours. Mexico is a bright, colourful country in the face of poverty and depression. People go about their everyday lives with more vigor and get-up-and-go than the citizens of our inifinitly more comfortable, weathly country. And this si think is refelected in the colours of their clothing, their houses and their street graphics.
I was also interested by his use of 3D in the image above. The stigmata wound on her hands actually protrudes from the painting with rather crude, papier-mache. This i think could have been created more successfully but the disbursions and spraying of blood crete the impression that this is not her blood but the blood of the painting. It is an exciting effect that makes you delve into the possible meanigs in and behind the painting.
Most of Mexico's advertising in the small towns and villages is street graphcs, typography and images painted onto the walls of shops and buildings. I found these more interesting than advertising found in the cities because they illustate the culture and artisitic qualities of individuals rather than multinational advertising companies. The artisits who made these were not instructed in the conventions of visual arts or the latest design trends, but their work belongs to a tradition that has been passed down through the years and across the country.
Another flashsite that i really enjoyed was this one for 3D animator and illustrator Toshiyuki Kuwabara. It is simple and easy to use, but manages to showcase his work at its best. The links flow quickly and smoothly, with the different aspects of each page popping up or sliding across in a predictable yet decided way. There are no unexpected, confusing pop-ups. Even the typography has been chosen for its readability and duality with geometric, graphic shapes. The colours he has used work incredibly well together, and harmonize with the crisp, graphic detail ofthe 3D designs and animation clips.
This website aims to sell and exhibit its whares in an innovative and interactive way. The home page shows 12 boxes with video clips of a model wearing the t-shirts of the Cicatriz company. In turn each of the video clips shows the model actively doing something, for example in box 2 the model appears the unstick the logo from his t-shirt and hold it out to the viewer. In box 3 the model is thrown a t-shirt and passes it to himself in box 4, who in turn drops itt o the floor for himself in box 5 to catch from the sky. 
