Platform Design

eBoy, eBoy, eBoy, eBoy, eBoy, eBoy, eBoy, eBoy, eBoy, eBoy, eBoy, eBoy, eBoy, eBoy, eBoy!!! There is nothing else to say at this point. If you don’t know who eBoy by now, then you’ve been living a cultural cave. Anyone that is interested in art, fashion, design or print has seen the wonder of a pixel in the hands of these three unassuming Berliners.

They present a socialist 9 to 4 work ethic rarely achieved by any designer today, this become all the more amazing with you see the shear quality and quality of work they produce. Since 1998 eBoy has been thee Godzilla of pixel graphics across the globe.

By far the most iconic of the work eBoy has been doing over these 9 years has to be their cityscapes that have become increasingly complex, detailed and narrative. They seem to covering all the major cultural center in the world, and few not so major. And along the way they include contemporaries of our time, hanging out in cafes or controlling robots in the background.

The work you see here is but the tip of the iceberg, their site is just endless this all forms of imaginative pixel gymnastics.

In the past few years when their fame has reached new levels they’ve been diversifying into products, platform products. It all started when eBoy announced they would be working with fame fashion designer Paul Smith on a collect. From their it just got better. Since then they have produced a platform toy called PEECOL with Kidrobot, Sneakers with DKNY, pillows, snowboards and other typically platformed products.

I would love to see eBoy take on more product design and development. You can see such humor in much of their work, I would like to see some of that humor in products.

The pixel is mighty in the hands of these three Berliners, I see the keeps of the 8-bit atari torch inspiring our world even more in the future.