Bandwagon!

I'm migrating my online activity of the blogging nature to TUMBLR! its where all the cool kids seem to have been for ages, so it seems right that i finally join them and make a mess of things over there... check it out it may even get updated once in a while.. see you on the flipside!

My advice...

Advice to Sink in Slowly has had an amazing year..
Featured in American design magazine SNAP

In a special Creative Review supplement..

& on various blogs including Its Nice That...

Well another year has passed and its almost time for us to share our advice again with another year of budding young students... here's a sneak peak of my first offering to the cause -

Stolen!

For those of you who saw my show in Falmouth you'll get this blatent thievery..

Popup

Popup by Marion Bataille. Crazy good. Thanks to Aaron for the tip x

Result!

I often used to wonder who read blogs, let alone who wrote them.. now i find myself doing both i love it, constantly inspired and up to date with the goings on of the creative world (well at least that that makes it online) Here is a graph showing the traffic of this modest blog... Ive never had lofty expectations for it, infact the idea that someone wants to see what ive posted is quite odd - but very heartwarming. To those who've stopped by, and especially to those who check back often - big thanks.


Biggest blogging related success so far has to be the feeling i got the other day when exploring one of my long-held design heros (Brian Ewing) site and behold there in his 'them' list appeared my very own blog! stoked 100%.

Mo Money Celebrities?

Fun times. Money well spent!

Sweet

Go check out this awesome piece of transitory type Marian Bantjes produced for Stefan Sagmeister. Explore more cool work on her site.

Her cover for the Guardian magazine is wonderful..

Creature Comforts

Invisible Creature is the bomb. Seriously people, they have consistently kicked out some of my favourite design work for years - under various guises and in varied places (Asterisk Studio etc) Ryan and Don Clark (brothers, not lovers) who form the 'Creature also play in a band called Demon Hunter. More info on the band here Ryan somehow also manages to squeeze in Art Directing the Tooth & Nail family. Busy busy boys.

You can check out lots of their work and thoughts on The Creature Speaks, their blog.

I'm in the process of ordering some signed screenprints from them. Excited much? YOU BET. What follows is a varied selection of some of their beautiful output (click to make it BIG)

Rules

Thanks to Gui for this one..old news to some but a classic site well worth wasting hours on once you've exhausted Wikipedia and Dictionary.com

Global reach

The guy above is Bobby. Bobby lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Today he blogged about some work i did last year that took his fancy. It really is a small world.

Go check out his piece! to see what he had to say about Advice To Sink In Slowly.

His blog on the project was featured on NOTCOT.org, a web portal of sorts where people can post finds of visual interest - its awesome and i now check it daily. If you're not onboard - get with it people. Click the image below to go looksee for yourself.

Slime

Famous Stars and Straps (of awesome belt buckle fame) Limited Ed 2007 BOH slime pillow...how i would totally blow $60 if i had it spare right now! Reminds me of all the gruesome things House Industries come up with and also Gui's gnarly surf-board graphics..

Finds!

check out the promo spot for the Olympics, pretty cool.

also, awesome architects 'hackenbroich architekten'

and maybe even pix studio - i'm SO getting a roller buggy! (i dont care i dont have a child yet..)

technological find of the day has to be this awesome glow-in-the-dark product Litroenergy" -

"The Litrospheres™ are not affected by heat or cold, and are 5,000-pound crush resistant. They can be injection molded or added to paint. The fill rate of Litroenergy micro particles in plastic injection molding material or paint is about 20%. The constant light gives off no U.V. rays, and can be designed to emit almost any color of light desired."



cooool

Alert!!

Bad Design???

the Design Police will be on your (my?) ass in an instant!

we have been warned..

Getting Creative

Thanks to CR for this one.. check their posting to read more.

Cooked

This is epic and stolen from Gui.. thanks!

"Croatian creative agency Bruketa & Zinić have designed an annual report for food company Podravka that has to be baked in an oven before it can be read.

Called Well Done, the report features blank pages printed with thermo-reactive ink that, after being wrapped in foil and cooked for 25 minutes, reveal text and images.

If you are not precise, the booklet will burn, just as any overcooked meal. If you have successfully baked your sample of the annual report, the empty pages will become filled with text, and the illustrations with empty plates filled with food."

Balls!

Father Guido Sarducci lays down some quality advice that would've come in handy during my happy years spent 'tossing the orb' on the beach in Falmouth. Skits on the HBMS album are h i l a r i o u s.

Tangled?

Along with accidentally pulling out my headphones (which is my biggest pet hate) untangling the spaghetti mess i usually find in my pocket is a daily annoyance i often think i could do without.. seems like it might be a thing of the past! thankyouyoutube x

This Sucks!

Suck UK is an awesome online shop, crammed full of some wonderful products at expectedly high prices... even so, i REALLY want this chair for christmas... quite the bargain at only £3600!


and i think this re-working of the mix-tape is actually pretty cool!

Share the Wealth..

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