Vodka brand Absolute, famous for their iconic bottle campaign have commissioned 12 Brazilian artists and designers to design special edition bottles. Brazilian graphic designers are world renowned for their great use of vectors and colour, and these designs are reflective proof of this.
Visit the nicely put together site with neat navigation and strong visual impact. [...]
To help us all get started I have included a few links to explain how to get posting your own blogs. These have been taken directly from the wordpress FAQ section, which is very helpful should you require any other information and tips about blogging.
Here’s an explanation as to what the icons mean in your [...]
If the regular crop of social networks for your real life has got you looking for more, then perhaps a network catering to your virtual world would be more to your taste. Koinup specializes in virtual spaces, games, and metaverses such as Second Life, World of Warcraft, and The Sims. Users are encouraged to upload [...]
September 14th 2007 will long be remembered in the annals of 23red history as the first Sports Day to be played for a bright, beautiful, loud, yet tasteful trophy. Next year the trophy will be contested again, but it will doubtless struggle to reach the dizzying highs of the 2007 contest.
On a truly athletic diet [...]
Los Angeles Pop Art takes the words in film scripts or song lyrics, and writes them out to create images that represent the subject, such as the film poster or album cover. All the tones of light and shade in this Godfather poster are made up from the entire film script written in different weights. [...]
As we gather ever more statistics to study, and gain more insight into genetic implications, organisations are getting more confident about predicting how long we’ll live. This online calculator asks you questions about your lifestyle, and adds or subtracts years from your real age based on your answers. What you end up with is your [...]
General Mills serve America an educational website encouraging the nation to eat healthier. EatBetterAmerica.com presents an entertaining game where the viewer gets to have a ‘good food fight’ and learn how to eat better at the same time. Go head to head with ‘Ruthless Ruth’, ‘Sake Tuya’ or ‘Chuck Frank’ and select your weapon of [...]
This is wonderfully nostalgic…..I started on the LC 475 at Stellenbosch University way back when. I recall the excitement working on a new Quadra 650 at my first job, crammed with a ‘33 MHz 68040 processor, 8 MB of RAM, and a 230 MB or 500 MB hard drive in a high-profile desktop case’. WOW. [...]
The winner of the August IAB Creative showcase is Lean Mean Fighting Machine for their Virgin Bets online banners.
They say: “Virgin Bets is a betting site for people who get put off by the complexity and seriousness of the high street bookies. We had to get people to bet on Big Brother. The idea was [...]
Here’s a collection of some great typography in music videos….makes for a cool coffebreak moment…
Many of you will have visited Magma ( 8, Earlham street, Covent Garden) and will know they are the dogs when it comes to design, illustration and advertising books and other creative material….well they’ve opened a new shop and it sounds very interesting indeed….
What they say….”we’ve launced a new product shop, or design shop, or [...]
HypoSurface is the World’s first display system where the screen surface physically moves! The surface behaves like a precisely controlled liquid: waves, patterns, logos, even text emerge and fade continually within its dynamic surface. There has to be a way we can commision one of these for one of our clients……any ideas??!
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A great initiative from Philips – commit to switch to energy saving lightbulbs and witness a demo of how it imapcts your local and global environment. Visit asimpleswitch today and make a difference. Nicely designed site – simple and to the point with features such as “fact or fiction?” which dispells misconceptions about the bulbs; [...]
Videoclip for “Cuarteto de Nos”, a rock band from Uruguay – really great use of animated typography and vectorised video imagery.
Song’s in Spanish and a little pants!
Any takers for going to watch Cut&Paste London 2007? Hitting eleven cities worldwide this a digital design tournament spectacular! Watch eight designers go head to head for the crown – they’ll have to spin an idea with their own style in three, 15-minute rounds as projectors stream their living designs across the venue….they say: “We’re [...]
Visit Visuals of the World and browse 25628.22 (and counting!) cm of inspirational images and designs, or make your mark and upload your own (300 pixelsX700 pixels 72dpi) masterpiece…
