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..

Dining in 2015

‘This spoon makes us softly feel that we live to be given the blessings of nature. It is designed with the wish that we think a great regards of dining more and more as human’s essential workings in the future’ - Shuhei Senda


Above is Leaf Spoon, designed by Shuhei Senda from Japan, one of the 3 first-prize winners of Dining in 2015. This contest, organized by designboom and macef, challenged designers to design a food-related product that would be useful in 2015 at work, in travel, or at home. No less than 4843 creative individuals and institutions from 98 countries have participated.

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.

Immaculate Renovations

Thanks to the Coolhunter for this one.. check out the article here some amazing examples of renovated church buildings for residential and private use.

Telegrammtastic

Bobby and Chris, aka Telegramme, are my favourite image makers bar none. I had the pleasure of Bobby's friendship while at uni and have since worked with him on a couple of things. They produce piece after piece of excruciatingly beautiful work and I am always uber jealous of their skills. BIG things will happen for them, especially seeing as they've just moved to a space next to the old Big Breakfast house - a peanut factory! World domination is one step closer. IF you're clueless to who im on about please go and explore every single part of their lovely website and maybe order something from their webstore - i know as soon as i get paid i will be! Here is a small selection of their recent work that particularly caught my eye..

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...