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Greetings Zooppa community!   First of all, we want to thank you all for your creativity and hard work. None of this could happen without you. Because you guys are so awesome, it is our goal to help you get everything you want from our site, and more.     In a continuing effort to [...]

  Shepard Fairey is easily one of the most recognizable names in Contemporary American Art. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, one of the most respected art and design schools in the world, he gained popular fame not by showing the gallery circuit and climbing the ranks of the art world proper, but [...]

Zooppa Italy is hosting a competition to promote the new album from British pop sensation Mika. The album is called The Boy Who Knew Too Much, and the first single “We Are Golden” has already become a massive success. An English version of the brief is available on the Italian site for anyone interested in [...]

  Luke Bryan has certainly been a busy man lately. His music video “Do I” just landed the #1 spot on GAC’s Top 20 Chart for the third week in a row. With the song and video doing so well, it would appear that Luke’s career is continuing to look up. On the back of [...]

  I have been spending a great deal of time lately revisiting the pre-CGI Golden Age of cinema special effects. Photographers and filmmakers have been making things appear to be what they aren’t since photography and film were invented. But, a series of innovations and the coming together of a talented group of film industry [...]

The nominations for the annual Country Music Association Awards were announced yesterday and we’re proud to report that a certain country superstar we know and love was the recipient of the most nominations. We’re talking about none other than Mr. American Saturday Night, Brad Paisley. Seems like this guy is a pretty big deal. Paisley [...]

In 1919, Walter Gropius established the Bauhaus school in Weimar, Germany. On the ninetieth anniversary of its founding, it seems only appropriate to take a look at some of the lasting effects Bauhaus had on art and design. One of the first schools devoted exclusively to design, Bauhaus aimed to meld form and function to create [...]

I ran across a great article in the Seattle PI about a local film maker named Jonathan Houser, who created a story-boarding app for the iPhone. How cool is that?!!!! I think that story-boarding your film or video is the best way to improve your work. I know it’s a pain in the butt to [...]

Naïve: Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Design, the new book from Gestalten, tells the story, largely in images, of a new trend of looking back in graphic design. Contemporary designers are drawing inspiration from modernist paradigms of the 1940s-1960s, pioneers like Saul Bass, and pre-digital techniques such as silkscreen and classical typography. Outside of an [...]

Attention Zooppa Community. Cap-Sac is so excited about the entries for their competition, they have decided to waive the shipping charge for the next batch of free Cap-Sacs! The first thirty people to email their username, name, and address to zooppa@zooppa.com will be the proud recipients of a free Cap-Sac. Sorry, this offer is for U.S. [...]