Cupcake Cannon

Here is a cupcake Cannon in slow-mo.


Made by Kamp Grizzly.


found on nxfresh.com


Thanks.

Election

This election is brought to life by the general public that have a chance to become there own graphic designers, to express there emotions and view points, either towards or against a particular party.

This poster here attempts to link David Cameron to the social unrest and unemployment 

Posters like these have been made by the general public bringing comedy into the vote. 

With the election creeping upon us design is playing its roll in society creating hundreds of poster for Labour, Liberal Democrats, and Conservative. These are normally simple posters with strong messages. Resurrecting the old Propaganda techniques used in the past making sure we don't make the wrong discussions. With the use of facebook as well, mock up posters are easily made up and virally past around the world to sway people views. 

Society does care about what happens to the country and the way we life, work and survive as Brits. We do need a change, many changes. This country is becoming to expensive to live in! The first flight I can take to get out of here, the better. Bring on Canada! 

Don Norman's Inspiring Talk

Don Norman on 3 ways good design makes you happy.


This is a talk I just watched presented by Don Norman about how good design make you happy, through three ways. They are Cognitive (beauty), visceral (subconscious), and reflective. He talks about how cognition is about understanding the world, emotion is about interpreting it and reflective is the super ego that looks over what's going on. Don comes out with some really interesting theories in this talk, which I have reflected on in my current project. This is an inspiring presentation and I recommend watching this.

Fontstaches

This is an ingenious idea, found on an ingenious website Beardrevue.com. hope you like it as much as I do. Best fontstache has got to be the Mexican-esk Mr. Cooper Black... 

Current Project

At the moment I am currently working my final project of university (Graphic Communication) called The Big Idea. I have to create, through any media, a piece of design, which communicates the word PREJUDICE in an new light, visually. Through research I have become very interested in the psychological side of design, which is a key part in communicating a message.  I have learnt this over the 3 years I have been studying Graphic Communication.

What I have become fascinated with is how incredibly fast human brains can form an opinion. Looking into material such as 'Blink' by Malcom Gladwell, which is the study of cognitive thinking and how we judge people within the first seconds of seeing or meeting someone 'thought with out thinking'. Rapid cognition is a key part in Prejudice. I am interested portraying the way that prejudice can be a useful technique to use because looking at why it is bad for society has been done over and over. I want to prove to my audience that prejudice can work in your favour. I will post my final outcome in 2 weeks...

This worlds first sound system... IN A SHELF

Finite Elements has come out with the new Hohrizontal 51 an ipod docking sound system built into a shelf. Simple yet effective...     

The making of Ephemicropolis from Peter Root on Vimeo.

Peter Root created this metal city using nothing but staples, he calls it 'Ephemicropolis'. I just found this on the designboom blog and thought you might like it.

Stamp it and move on

Wax sealing has been around for decades. It involves heating up the wax and stamping an already engrained emblem or figure on top in order to seal a letter. I have always thought since I saw this the first time that it was an incredible way of communicating a personal message and a final statement. This technique has brilliant connotations of using your own personal symbol to seal the bounding envelope. The wax also leaves a really nice, smooth imperfect surrounding, around the perfectly hand made shape or symbol imprinted into it. It is such an old technique but just using that stamp, thrives passion of a graphical design representation. 

With my graduation creeping up on me this stamp represents another stage in my life that I will hopefully have completed and put my personal mark of achievement on. This is not an end though, this is just the beginning of the next adventure!

Picked Spider

Mr Scruff Vs Kirsty Almeida 'Pickled Spider' by Mr Scruff


Here is another music post! Mr. Scruff has been one of my favorite DJs for I good while now. He is still coming out with some lovely TUNES. You will know him by the songs Spandex Man and Fish, very popular tunes in his live sets. Good work again Mr. SCRUFF!!

It is Art

See I have always thought that splattering paint erratically onto a blank canvas is not art. But these pieces done by the Norwegian artist Jørund Aase Falkenberg is taking it to a new level, to actually have a possible meaning, as if there was another piece of work hanging there etc. I love the contrast between the clinically clean rectangles made of from careless splattering of paint.   

Johan Thornqvist

Here is some really creative pieces done by Johan Thornqvist. This use of Photography and illustration just goes hand in hand and work brilliantly. The combining reality and fantasy gets you imagination a crazy idyllic world.

Trail of Procrastination

Clutchy Hopkins - Verbal Headlock from Ubiquity Records on Vimeo.

On my trail through the world of procrastination I came across this awesome stopmotion animation for created for the song Verbal Headlock - by Clutchy Hopkins. Yet another way of playing with Stop motion to alter normal actions you would expect to see in a band, and transformaing the way you look at them or just making it alot more interesting. This was diected by Christian Borstlap.

Conek 4 - Chasing the Lotus

Chasing The Lotus (FM) by Conek4

Here a BIG tune composed by CONEK 4 also known as John Barr. I have mentioned him in a previous post. He is a Cardiff based DJ that is becoming well known for his technical abilities on the turntables and his affluent music collection and taste. Expect big things from this man and don't forget the name! Listen to more of Conek 4 here

Sick work, keep it up man!

Vinny Minton's new edit

Pre BitterCold - By Vinny Minton from Imperial Productions on Vimeo.

Vinny Minton a pro skater has just shot a new edit for the Bittercold Michigaon skatepark. Being a pro skater he has embrace the motions and flow of the essence of skating. Having the camera flow from person to person intertwining runs work amazingly. So a big shout out to Minton's new shot!!  

The Cat Came Back

This is a mad animation from the created by Cordell Barker, 1988. You can probably guess what this is about basically a devoted loner is constantly pestered by the same yelllow cat over and over again. Every time he tries to get ride of it, he always comes out worse, sort of 'coyote and the road runner' story. It is extremely well animated and the sound affects are brilliant. It has inspired me to not only use appropriate sound effects but to experiment with the distance they you could hear them at. So playing around with muffling, volume, distortions, and also memorable noises that play a part in everyday life to be used for scene that represent similar actions or scenes (closing blinds for the moon coming up). This has won a Genie award, 1989 for best animated short film. 

Inspirational Animation!

Droolart Vid

Tales from the Heart (An animated exquisite corpse, perfect for Valentines Day.) from Droolart on Vimeo.

Amazing use of all levels of media!! watch it! Thank you Droolart for this video

An Easter Spirit

Its nice to see the explicit side of the internet entering into the Easter spirit. 

DON'T ASK HOW I FOUND THIS!

A monkey ERROR message?

"A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with the situation"

This is the error message Youtube.com came up with yesterday when trying to enter the website! Youtube you do surprise me with your witty humor!

Great scott, what is that?

I'll tell you what this is, it's the UK pavilion for the 2010 World expo. Based in Shanghai, this extravagant piece of architecture is the British pavilion called the Seed Cathedral. This is expressing the British creativity and environmental engagement which explores the relationship between nature and city. This is being created by the work of Thomas Heatherwick. 

An unusual but extremely powerful pavilion to express our British creativity.  

Gino and The Garlic Myth

Rookshow from Gino Bud Hoiting on Vimeo.

This is a collaboration of Gino and The Garlic Myth's work also known as dutch artists Gino Hoiting and Daniel Roozendaal. They are have done some really inspiring illustration work, animations and installations. check them out here

Stop motion Fancy

Just a little stop motion animation I found, done by THOMAS SHEA. Superb illustrations!!

Advertising On Stairs

I know what your all thinking, its been done before, but I am really intrigued at what forms you can make out of the letters or objects that are displayed on the edges of any set of stairs. Could there be a new outdoor market for distorted adverts that come together as you move, 'Channel 4 ads'. Just in this example I love how the letters are distorted from there original form and become more shape like, depending on where you are where looking from. The connotations of completeness and becoming one as you physically move are really nice also. Thank you Scott Reinhard for creating this advert for the Museum of contemporary art, Chicago.

I am considering using this technique for my final project on the word 'OPTIMISM' 

Punk?

I came across this on the Paper Donut blog and it reminded me of the metal studs punk rockers wear, maybe this is a new way of representing it them how knows? A really intreaging piece of work all the same... Justine Ricaud - Pyramidal Dress

Julien Vallee

Julien is an incredibley talented individual creating concepts that play with reality and supernatural. His main skills lie in his precise hand making of paper models and creating motion graphics through these attributes. I have been a fan of his work since the start of Uni after seeing the first piece for MTV One 'featured below' in a D&AD book. He has done loads of amazing creative motion and still graphics since then. Check him out...

DanseDance from Julien Vallée on Vimeo.

This is one of Vallee's newest animations for Danse Dance. Have a look and see just how his mind works.

This is only a few of the creative pieces Julien has created but to see more of his work why don't you visit his website:

http://www.jvallee.com/index_jvallee.html

Thanks a lot for your crazy inventive solutions, much respect. 

Globo Logos from Julien Vallée on Vimeo.

Dominos Pizza and the Saracens

Work Experience

I recently had the oppertunity to experience the world and life of an advertising photographer. After a recent meeting with Matt Cant (an experienced Advertising Photographer)  he took me to the Saracens Rugby Training ground in North London. He had a shoot photographing the previous winner of the cross bar challenge and a few Saracens having a go at this years obstical (Domino's sign above). This was a great oppertunity for me to get a real feel of how everything runs and how quick the place is in the proper photographer industry. I came out of this with a much greater understanding of what 'the real world' is like in the creative industry and  what it has to offer. I found this experience to be of a great interest to me and discoverd that I do want to go into the extreme sports side of the creative industry.

I want to give a big shout out for Matt Cant an extremely talanted Photographer who has been in the creative industry for over 20 years. Recently moving from London (after 19 years) to a town just outside Cardiff to get stuck in to the evolving design scene picking up here, where he has been working for UWIC, BBC and many other companies.

I am going down with Matt to Wembly to assist in capturing the event at half time, which is the new cross bar challenge sponsered by domino's (images above), which should be an exhilerating experience. I will really get into the roll of what beening a photographer is like under pressure.

To take a look at who Matt Cant has worked for and the projects he has been commitions to, follow this link to his website.

http://www.mattcant.com/ 

Many thanks for this oppertunuity Matt.

Image captured by Matt Cant at Saracent training ground

of the previous crossbar challenge winner Stuart Tinner.