Laurie Rosenworld

I‘m loving the crudely cut paper collage and sketchy drawings of Laurie Rosenworld, very reminiscent of the 50’s sort of style. She’s got 3 new books out which look amazing.

Bio-bak

The portfolio site of Dutch flash artist Coen Grift is huge, awesome and insane. I love it, reminds me of the good old days before the internet grew up. Clear your schedule and take a bit time to check out Bio-Bak.

Via Analogue.

Defender of the Favicon

Iget quite a lot of people asking me how I made my animated Favicon next to the URL in the browser. Piece of piss, just make an animated gif 16×16 pixels, rename it favicon.ico and upload it to your root directory. But check out Defender of the Favicon, I shit you not they’ve made a playable 16×16 pixel version of the retro shooter! This really has just blown my mind.

Via Tak! blog: Flim flam.

Spiffing Motors!

Tally ho chaps, photographer Christian Powell (a self confessed vintage car nut) has taken some really awesome shots of classic British motors like this Bentley.

Le le – Breakfast

I‘ve blogged about Parra’s Illustration and Rockwell T-Shirts before, but just came across some animated work he did for his own band Le le. Check out the video for Breakfast it made me piss myself :) Found it on Big Active’s site, just realised that they’re just down the road in Shoreditch and represent some seriously talented illustrators.

Real world Photoshop

This is quite interesting, a mock-up of the real world tools synthesized in good old Photoshop. Check out the making of photos to get an idea of the scale of the installation. Funny thing is though, some elements still look a bit photoshopped?

Cheers for the link John.

Return to Tastebuddyland

The campaign site for Robinsons Squash – Return to Tastebuddyland caught my eye while looking through B-Reel’s portfolio of work. Love the uber-rich photograhy mixed with the colourful illustrations. The characters were designed by Aardman Animations, but not quite as nice as Adrian Johnson’s original work on the campaign, although they have kept his type treatment which was a good move. I admit, probably more suited to the young age of the target audience though.

.ly domain names

Me & Nicky just bought www.vague.ly, after seeing a post about .ly domain names on 90 Percent of Everything. They aren’t particularly cheap, cost $75 for each year over at Libyan Spider, but I quite like them :) There’s a load of cool ones still available, had to restrain myself, others we considered were: jel.ly, amazing.ly, graphical.ly, diagonal.ly, ethical.ly Not quite sure what we’re going to use it for yet, I’m sure it’ll come in handy though!

The Journey of Innovation

Achingly good looking site for Toshia – The Journey of Innovation. Interact with the little woodland creatures and explore Toshiba’s innovations by the power of mouse gestures, good stuff. Made by Unit 9.

Wavish Industries

I‘ve just spent most of my morning trawling through the back catalogue of posts on the blog Wavish Industries, written by Nick Wavish an Interactive Director at Unit 9. Couldn’t help myself cherry picking some of my favourites to post here. Above is the hilarious Message from Batman, this clever Mario ad, the well spotted volume dial up to 11 on BBC iPlayer, Wallace & Gromit start male modeling, the awesome typograhic work of Craig Ward and this clever google images game. Anyhow, added to my list of blogs I regularly read :)