Tour this giant moasic poster produced by the Los Angeles Times. (Click to zoom and hold to scroll.)
Mosaic by Charis Tsevi, Los Angeles Times
This is the Tribune’s “Summer of Redesign” and all eyes will soon be on the Los Angeles Times to see what they will accomplish in their makeover. I am expecting groundbreaking things - talent runs deep there as evidenced by this digital illustration produced on deadline by Charis.
From his Flickr entry:
Last Thursday I received a mail from Derek Simmons, Deputy Design Director of Los Angeles Times. Derek proposed to me an exciting as well as very honoring job. He wanted me to produce a portrait of the incredible Michael Phelps for the Monday’s Edition of The Times.
Let’s hope he is going to make it, wrote to me.
The whole last week, Derek and I exchanged rough sketches, photos, ideas while Michael was beating one record after the other. We had so little time, as Michael was racing almost every day and we had to keep the portrait updated.
Finally, he did it in the already known incredible way.
So, this is our tribute to him and his incredible record. It’s published in today’s (Aug 18th, 2008) edition of the Los Angeles Times.
Yes, it is done with software (Synthetik Studio Artist) but good luck getting a piece to look this good using the drag and drop menu items. The artist also used Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime Pro and some secret sauce - custom developed scripts and techniques.
Charis adds that you can download this page including this portrait here. (Located on the bottom right of the page in the “Download Olympic Posters.”
Will this ever be made into a poster and sold?