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..

Drowning in a digital sea?

new Thrice video for Digital Sea. Nothing groundbreaking but a cool video for a very chilled track, nice work!

Thrice - Digital Sea

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Complimentary

Mr Fabien Barral.
Spotted this amazing guys work on Guis blog today and he kindly suggested it reminded him of my work... check it out - he's awesome!

Aids Awareness

machine girl...

WARNING: GORE to the max!



err..drill bra?

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."

Mentor

Bryan Clark. Giant. Heavyweight. Superstar. All accurate when describing my former mentor. Now Grafik agree..

When i wrote to the Bryman about his most recent accolade he responded "rather pleased that Paul Rand is finally
getting off my patch!" genius. legend. hero.

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

Ideas Shelved

Covers is dedicated to the appreciation of book cover design. They update several times a week and i visit daily, to have my say.. Save for the occasional guest editor, the blog there is updated and maintained by Fwis, a design firm based out of Brooklyn, NY and Portland, OR.

They have an annual post on the current state of bookshelves - quite apt really for a book cover design blog - and this years is a real treat. Tell me you don't want a Quad? "Asymmetry in perfect balance!"


while checking out some of these shelves my attention was grabbed by this little beautie - Heat Wave Radiator Designer: Joris Laarman, Price: US$11,119.00 (!) yeah i think that price is correct... ahem.. well its good to have dreams!

FORT MAJOR

FORT DUNLOP is an interesting building with a great story behind it.. I drive past it to and from my girlfriends house on the M6 and my eye always is caught by the beautifully spaced lettering (illuminated at night) that was added to the building in 2006. Since Urban Splash got hold of the place its become quite the living space, before which it seems its primary function was to be the largest advertisement hoarding in the world. more info here.

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!

RDI

RDInsights is a series of lively and informal interviews conducted by Mike Dempsey RDI with fellow Royal Designers.
They span a wide range of fascinating design disciplines.
The latest in this series of monthly RDInsights features Design Engineer and incoming Master of the Faculty Chris Wise RDI in conversation with Mike Dempsey RDI.
Next in the series features Ivan Chermayeff RDI, the Graphic Designer, available in December.

Download them all here...

The Banner

The Banner is a musical group from New Jersey with influences that range from late '80s hardcore punk and punk rock to heavy metal and "NYHC"-style metalcore...and they just put up most of their back catalogue for free download! sweeet.

ok heres the link... just click on it and then youll upload the zip file, then open that and take the folder out and all the songs are in there. If you dont have a program for opening zip files > www.download.com has free programs for it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?b3vnyyqxg0d

Icelandic back alley happenings..

Buck 65 - Live spoken word in an Icelandic back alley...

Free Saul Williams!

Saul Williams, the slam-poet/experimental hip hop artist has released his latest album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggytardust. The record is a collaboration with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and has been released independently in the donation-suggested format popularized by Radiohead.

Unlike Radiohead however, Saul's album is being made available in very high quality formats from 192kbps-encoded MP3 to CD quality FLAC "lossless" format files.

You can get a free download or donate right here.

Rise & Fall

Its that time of year again...to me the most romantic of seasons. Cold noses and cold toes. Amazing colours. Dragons breath. Scarves. Hot Chocolate. Cold lips. Crunchy leaves. Conkers. Mist. Low Sun. See what i'm on about here...

The Fest

Those of us not fortunate enough to be in Gainesville, FL (at THE FEST) this weekend can now enjoy some of the bearded sounds of some of the finest bands to be gracing its stages - for free!
Tomorrow punknews.org will be posting a compilation cd for download - currently streaming here

The album features some of the bands performing at this year's event, with many of the tracks being new or unreleased. Included are bands such as Radon, Dead to Me, Banner Pilot, Small Brown Bike, The Gaslight Anthem, The Falcon, Sundowner, Fake Problems, No Trigger, The Swellers, Shook Ones, The Menzingers and more. Unreleased cuts have been provided by O Pioneers!!!, The Riot Before, Landmines and Nakatomi Plaza.

Artwork for the cd is by Mitch Clem, the internet cartoonist responsible for the cult favorite Nothing Nice To Say

Watch!

Go West...

Pretty excited about this...


Its turning out to be a good year for the Western in my opinion, what with the engaging Seraphim Falls and the excellent 3:10 To Yuma remake. I think TAOJJBTCRF will top them both.

Hot Water

Ok so after seeing the mighty Chuck Ragan last week in Leeds i'm more than stoked to see that the legendary Hot Water Music are definatly reuniting!!

These guys are some of the most important and consistent people in punk.

Share the Wealth..

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