Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien From the Eyes of Designers

The past couple of weeks, the media has been in a frenzy. When news that Conan O’Brien was getting the boot from NBC, there suddenly was an uproar. Everyone was defending Conan, including designers. Last week, my Twitter stream was filled with "Save Coco" or "We Love Conan." Personally, I never really watched him and I don’t really feel sorry for him (he’s making millions from this), but because of all the hoopla surrounding this debacle, I decided to look around and see what designers have done. Usually, if there’s something big in the news, you can be sure that designers have already fired up Photoshop or have taken their pens and papers and have already started designing and creating something dealing with the issue.

January 27, 2010
By: Jad Limcaco
Posted in: Inspiration
40 Comments

Today, I’d like to showcase some Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno artwork. This just shows you that if designers get passionate about something, they can get really creative about that subject. Here’s a fun post for a boring Wednesday.

Note: Please click on the images to see them in their websites and to learn more about their artists.

So which one of these illustrations did you like and why? Leave your answers in the comments below. You must also follow Design Informer on Twitter.

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My name is Jad Limcaco and I am the owner of Design Informer. I work for an email marketing company during the day and I own my own web and graphic design company called Jad Graphics. I currently live in Long Beach, CA. Go ahead and follow me on Twitter.

40 User Comments — Share Your Thoughts

DesignFellow
January 27th, 2010 |
Great fun….
love them…

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- Jad Limcaco
  January 27th, 2010 |
  Thanks mate!
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Designi1
January 27th, 2010 |
This guys Rock… btw the profile of some artist´s here are awesome! thanks for let us know. keep it up the good work Jad
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 27th, 2010 |
  No problem. You’re right, if you click through and view the artist’s other work, they do have some awesome portfolios
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Miriam Schwab
January 27th, 2010 |
Love it! Such a fun collection of great and entertaining art.
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 27th, 2010 |
  Thanks Miriam. I was entertained just looking for these images as well.
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Josh
January 27th, 2010 |
A wonderful collection of some very inspiring and rather amusing works of art.
Conan O’Brien’s broad forehead seems to work well in caricatures. Pity we don’t see much of him on Australian television. Haha…
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 27th, 2010 |
  Yeah, his forehead is huge.
  I’m not sure what you missed out on, I personally have only seen him a couple of times. Maybe that’s why their canceling him?
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Preston
January 27th, 2010 |
Nice post with a creative angle. I LOVE the illustrations. I don’t know if the title should say from the eyes of “designers” since these are more illustrations than designs. It doesn’t really matter though–nice idea. A humourous post.
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 27th, 2010 |
  You’re right Preston. I should have used “Illustrators” as most of these are illustrations, except a few.
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digibomb
January 27th, 2010 |
very cool stuff…always to nice to read fun post…
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 27th, 2010 |
  Thanks Brendan!
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I'm With Coco
January 27th, 2010 |
Enormous chin jokes never get old.
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 27th, 2010 |
  LOL! That’s true.
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Bluefaqs
January 27th, 2010 |
With Conan’s forehead and Leno’s chin, these guys are almost destined to be made into charactures. Some fun designs here. Thanks Jad!
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 27th, 2010 |
  Yes, they both have facial features that just pop out. Not worst than Leno’s chin though.
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Iwani
January 27th, 2010 |
This is an entertaining light read! Enjoyed the artworks you compiled very much
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- zanzu
  January 27th, 2010 |
  Hahaha! Really funny, made my day. Thanks Jad for the compilation of Conan’s big forehead and Leno’s protruding chin, great artists and awesome caricatures.
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  - Jad Limcaco
    January 27th, 2010 |
    You’re welcome Zanzu. I like how you describe Jay’s chin as protruding. LOL!
- Jad Limcaco
  January 27th, 2010 |
  Thanks Iwani. I didn’t want to feature a full article today as it would have gotten no exposure due to the iPad’s release. So I thought a showcase would be appropriate.
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Josh
January 27th, 2010 |
A lot of really nice work. That plush Conan doll was creepy…but I would buy it in a heartbeat.
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 27th, 2010 |
  Really? I wouldn’t. I’d probably have nightmares.
  Very creative though.
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SavageAmber
January 27th, 2010 |
This is so great! haha. Really made my morning brighter. thanks for sharing.
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 27th, 2010 |
  Hey Amber, I’m glad you enjoyed it. Cheers!
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Denny
January 27th, 2010 |
don’t go COCO!
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 31st, 2010 |
  It’s too late Denny!
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Curt D
January 27th, 2010 |
I had no idea that the Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien saga had such a large following worldwide. The payout to Conan was a TON of money, and he will go on to make millions more at his new show. I always liked Jay but he seems out of touch with young people. The search/supply demand numbers we follow from around the world at http://www.theinternettimemachine.com , seem to point to a lot of opportunity for other late night figures to move into some of the mentioned time slots. We study supply/demand curves from around the world to find new niches and hot products before anyone else. We study what people are looking for and compare it to what is out there (think “results” in Google). I am usually at work at night to comment too much more as I don’t to watch much TV at that time, plus I need more sleep anyway.
Cheers,
Curt
Here is a video on what I mean.. http://bit.ly/SupplyDemandCurves
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 31st, 2010 |
  Hey Curt, they definitely had a large following. By the way, Conan is definitely going to make a lot more money with his new show. I wonder where that will be?
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Nikhil
January 28th, 2010 |
Thats really interesting post Jad,
Exploring!!
keep it up!
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 31st, 2010 |
  Definitely check them out and the amazing artists. Thanks Nikhil.
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Tom
January 28th, 2010 |
Conan better get a new show.
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 31st, 2010 |
  I’m pretty sure he won’t have a problem getting a new one Tom!
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Raychel
January 28th, 2010 |
These are really cool! I created a one too a few days ago! http://twitpic.com/zthpc
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 31st, 2010 |
  Hi Raychel, glad you enjoyed this collection.
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Louis
January 28th, 2010 |
Very nice collection, Jad. I don’t often care too much for roundups, but I like this one, very unique stuff here.
Plus I’m a bit of a late night talk show fan — although the industry’s never been the same since Letterman moved to CBS. His old show on NBC was one of the best talk shows ever.
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 31st, 2010 |
  LOL! I think I’m too young to remember David Letterman on CBS.
  Anyway, glad you liked it and thanks for giving me the opportunity to be on Interviews by Design. I really appreciate it. Keep up the great work!
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John
January 29th, 2010 |
As an artist myself, I have to say that some of these are great. I love the Coco Unicorn zip-lining to save LaBamba from the dragon.
And the FELTED CONAN IS AWESOME. Who did that, and would she do some more??? I want one!
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- Jad Limcaco
  January 31st, 2010 |
  Hi John, thanks for dropping by. It’s a joy to hear that you enjoyed the round-up of Conan illustrations and designs.
  By the way, that felted Conan is definitely one of a kind. It would be cool to have one of those.
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Vitezslav Valka
February 3rd, 2010 |
Nice Jad! Thank you…
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- Jad Limcaco
  February 6th, 2010 |
  You’re welcome Vita. BTW, thanks again for sponsoring Design Informer. I really appreciate it.
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