Street View

Google Maps Street View
Seems as though you can view any major city in America at street level. Not sure how new it is, but its amazing. Hopefully they bring it over here soon, no more getting lost ever again.

I Like Drawing

I LIke Drawing - Ian Stevensons
A few of Ian Stevensons rubbish drawings.
Hes's also done some cool recent work for Happy London (Paul Smith, Tokyo).

Jans Family

Jans Family
Similar to Paddys post about Erwin Wurm's work. This photographer seems to capture the more surreal moment in life.
"Janfamily - Plans for other days, is a book published by Booth-clibbon Editors in the fall 2005. It is edited and photographed by Nina Jan Beier and Marie jan Lund."

Light Type.

sprintsweets.com
I wont say to much, just give it a go, tad better than word art.

Alex Bec

www.alexbec.com
A 3rd year Graphic Design student at Brighton Uni. He seems to be everywhere at the minute. As everyone knows brighton uni has been exploding in the graphic design world at the moment, and it seems this guy is riding that to the top. Some great work, Very Art School, Very Brighton.
ps You would have defiantly seen his "if you could" around if you have any interest in design.

STEAK!
Some brilliant hardcore illustration.
"Steak Mtn. does illustration, design, comics and good old fashioned (gallery ready) artwork."
Check him out, its summit a bit fresh.

Its Nice That

ItsNiceThat.com
Great little design blog from a couple of guys from brighton.
Will Hudson & also Alex Bec seems to be doing his thing.

Tapes

Some nice tapes,
if like me,
you like that sorta thing.
Check some more out at tapedeck.org
You Know You Want To

Michel Gondry Solves a Rubiks Cube with his Feet

Michel Gondry Solves a Rubiks Cube with his Feet. Simple and clever.
The guy in the background gives it away, if you look closely at his walk, its a bit odd, coz he was originally walking backwards. A little bit of editing and there you go, 583000 views.
Maybe someone has a new DVD coming out.

Never Hide Films

Three virals made for Ray Bands Never Hide Campaign by Fabio, costanostra.net
Broadcasting from: San Francisco, US.
Three very different ideas, but all equally as good.
The campaign idea is pretty amazing too.

Bloomin Business cards

Nice little idea. Maybe the idea is a bit stretched for a designer but for a florist, garden center, gardener or health food store the card would be wicked.

James&Joe&Prego

PREGO
We spent some time with the lovely people at prego. The only disappointment being, no lama's anywhere to be seen!
We first worked on campaign ideas for Tourism New Zealand, We where asked to come up with adcepts that could work across a selection of media, from print ads to web site banners, to online games such as HAKKEROO (bit like buckaroo but with Maurie's doing the Hakka).
We then worked on Cottages 4 You. Prego were asked for a new campaign to promote their holiday cottages. It was time to move on from theold campaign. We came up with some crazy ideas for adcepts, ambient media, print ads etc.
And finally we where asked to come up with idea's for things they could enter into the Chip Shop Awards. We came up with some wicked idea's one of which they plan to enter (some nice "toilet" humour).

Few final thoughts:
Uk's only bar with beer taps at the table, in Otley!
X84 = weird people
Prego country is pretty nice and green
New Lingo= Adcepts, Takeovers.
NO LAMAS

Technology morphing

Could be used to fake videos, photo etc,, bit scary really. Technology seems to be doing the imposible.

There's a few more videos here

Chocolate and nike

The best glorias around. Mini chocoalte nikes made by =41. Is that not the best thing you have seen all day. If any one wants to get me a gift, these,, please.

World Wildlife Fund

often it’s the simple ideas that work best in advertising. a new billboard for the World Wildlife Fund created by DraftFCB Toronto makes the point rather well…

Hann Beer Commercial

Funny ad that get across the message. On one hand i like this sort of quick shock ad, but on the other i have seen far too many. Seems maybe too easy to do this kind ad these days. They have lost the shock factor as in some ways you expect it, maybe just seems a bit cheap... what you recon??

Laws of the land.

That's Illegal! - The funniest videos clips are here

Funny little animation. I think its the things said by the police that make it.

Sanderson Bob

A small sample of work from Sanderson Bob.
I really like some of the type sanderson bob is doing, with objects abstracting or obstructing. He seems to produce great clean work, without over designing. It seems very now.. Thus could be subject to dating very fast.. What you recon??

Erwin Wurm

A few more great pics from Paddys great suggestion Erwin Wurm.
I love his work, it seems to have a certain realness about it, a playfulness and a mischievousness.
These images really remind me of mine and Joes Vote for Paddy poster. We were thinking of using the technique for a whole alternative clothing campaign, and maybe after seeing these images we could really go extreme with it..

Dual purpose sick bag.

If flying makes you a little tom dick can you still send it in??



click here for a bigger version.

I found this on a recent flight with RYAN AIR. They have crap adverts everywhere, on the over head lockers, in the announcements, and even on the sick bags. Its horrible.

Idea for card..

Made this last Xmas with Joe.
Never used it as it felt as if it was meant to be from all the guys and not to them,,
But was thinking if you like it maybe next Christmas we could work on it as a card you guys can send out..
Maybe add a blue "from" top left, or re arrange the type into some sort of tree shape..
Just thought id post it up so it doesn't just get lost on my computer..
Let me know what you think.

A few things that got me here....

Watching Tony Hart on TV as a kid I realised I wanted to "do Art".



I found Frank Auerbach at college and his images especially this paintings seemed to encapsulate the type of work I wanted to create. He inspired me to experiment and have fun with image and the medium used. His work made me look at the materials I was using to create the image, as much as the image itself.
I was addicted to thick paint for many years after, I probably still am.



I discovered Natasha Merritt after she was featured in a lad's mag. Merritt is an erotic photographer who takes all her pictures (usually self portraits) with a digital camera. She opened my eyes to the world of erotic photography, and it was great to see it from a female perspective. Her photographs are real personal moments between her and her model or just simply her and her camera. She was the first photographer I discovered that utilised the medium of digital photography, to explore her intimate life in a way that felt extremely personal.
After researching her work I felt comfortable looking at erotica in my own work. She confirmed for me that it was credible to create work about sex and nudity, without it being considered perverse.



I was looking at foot ware in some paintings on my art degree when i stumbled across a Creative Review cover in an art shop.
I was interested in the image on the front cover so bought the magazine.
I was confused about my position in the art world at that time and felt my work was missing something.
After taking the magazine back to the studio and reading it cover to cover, i realised i was in great admiration of the ideas inside.
Previously i had always been informed that graphic design and advertising was frowned upon in the art world and seen as less creative. I remember being told graphic designers where "want to be artists who needed to be told what to do". However after continually buying issue after issue of this magazine I really felt this is what i wanted to do. This is where my place in the art world could possibly be. Somewhere i could create things that i loved and that challenged me.

Complete Technique

A real nice collection of jewelry.
Complete Technique create jewelry for the hip hop scene but are anti "bling". An interesting potion to take being a Jewelers.
They claim to produce items that reference the traditional elements of hip hop.

"In the world of hip-hop, there are two planes of existence. One is the blinged out, audacious world where bigger and brighter is better. The other is the world that is more gritty and underground; a world that is often referenced as closer to the essence of the culture"

"Osa and I want to take Complete where no urban jeweler’s gone. Why stop with jewelry? The future for us is producing electronics, audio equipment, and cameras. We’ll design matchbooks and vintage lighters, custom motorcycle parts and clothing for jetsetters. Who knows."

I like the way they have challenged the usual to create a customer base, and the way they want to continually shatter the perception of a jewelry company and grow creatively.

no one belongs here more than you

I think this website is great, such a simple idea for a site but it works. It has a sort of great crapness about it. Haven't seen anything like it really,, think i want to make a web site like this. Witty comments and shot in real places with real people just give it so much more personality. Check it out.
no one belongs here more than you

SPIDER MAN

The wheel is so 1990's.
Maybe this is will be the new way to get around in 20 years time.

We do it because we can!

Ambigrams

Talking to my brother about the last post he told me these things where called Ambigrams and there are loads out there.
So thought id share a few of the best ones i've seen. Think these things are amazing......

LOVE & HATE

I saw this a while ago and haven't found anywhere to use it yet.
I really like the idea of a group of letters spelling one word one way and another in reverse. Its even better when its two complete opposites such as love and hate.


Taken from


If your into this sort of word play, check out a great book called Words Fail Me by Teresa Monachino. Its only about a fiver and full of little witty ways of using words.

The SoftLightes & The Maccabees

While on music videos thought id post these two aswell.
First The SoftLightes "Heart Made Of Sound" Dir. Kris Moyes, real nice simple sweet video.



Second a video for The Maccabees by a guy called hugh frost, from the Posikids. Also from brighton, they are doing some really nice work..

WANTED & RANT

Cool video I was linked to.



Also found this, Its maybe even better, sounds nicer anyways.

London Trip

Got back from an eventful trip to London yesterday.
Went to see the lovely people at  Bizarre magazine. Talked to Dave Kelsall (Art Director) about nipples, blood, rubber, tea and Sophie Howard. Also chatted about a possible placement next year, a feature on some of our work, and ideas for a rubber holiday shoot.


Also went to the offices of LIZ H . We showed our book to Bonnie, she was great and gave us a massive list of contacts. Some big places in London some smaller and one in Scotland. Bonnie also told us about OpenAd.net , check it out, looks like it could be pretty big.

Lastly went to see Adam Kean at Publicis . We also showed him our book and he seemed quite impressed. So we are going to get in contact soon about a possible placement there too.