Poked Studio. Somebody Call the Doctor!

For this morn­ing, you should bet your­self ready for bright con­trasts and adven­tur­ous smiles. As some­body said about this com­pany named Poked Studio, — ‘Your eyes will start to bleed! In a good sense.’ Unhealthy (also in a good sense) mix of anime and Super Mario Bros tem­por­ar­ily car­ries us a world of bright car­a­mel like col­ors and creepily cute characters.

This crazy stu­dio is resid­ing in an island called Great Britain and they are engaged in a lot of stuff: from graphic, web and logo design to book­lets and such. Poked Studio is another example of our new gen­er­a­tion which grew up play­ing video games. Every work is like new level in a video game. Influence form such 8-​bit or 16-​bit games as PACMAN or Mario is very clear. Personally when I’m look­ing at these works, I start to hear min­imal soundtrack of these games. Oh, those sentiments.

Of course, this is not the only stu­dio doing this kind of illus­tra­tion. Mushrooms, big eyes, bright col­ors, min­imal and at the same time express­ive char­ac­ters are very pop­u­lar nowadays. But I feel only joy, see­ing char­ac­ters that lived in 64×64 pixels square, resur­rec­ted in qual­ity, full color and vari­ous inter­pret­a­tions. I also notice a trend of this kind of style in the streets. It looks like street art caught this cheer­ful infec­tion as well.

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Aleksandr Pasevin
Aleksandr Pasevin is Art Pit’s strategist and designer, responsible for organization’s creative solutions. Aleksandr is also actively interested in new technologies, their connection with creativity and usage in cultural organizations. Aleksandr dislikes long discussions and considerations, and he mostly expresses his opinion quickly about whet... Read further >