Earlier today, doing my daily browse of news stories, I came across a curious story on BBC News online, about an artist who manipulates chewing gum on street pavements into miniature paintings. It is a strange way of making art, but at the same time a rather curious one.
For the full article see : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11677462
After further exploring this i discovered video’s of the ‘chewing gum man’ on YouTube:
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Im often doodling, drawing random pictures and images or letters faces, anything… Well I applied one of my better doodles to the Swatch watch face, just for fun, and I am quite pleased with the result, hence my post. see what you think…
Posted in work in progress
Create a unique watch design – express your creativity using the online design tool and a classic Swatch as your canvas. You could win an art-filled trip to Shanghai and VIP tickets to the China World Expo 2010.
I got to say I was a bit disappointed that I would be restricted to their own design tool. I thought I could create some kind of illustration on place that on the watch for the competition. So anyways I created my own simple, but smart looking patterned design for the Swatch watch.
Found a really cool typeface, that is free, and its hard to find a free typeface that is worthy a download, I found it by chance while looking for other things, Its not a brand new typeface created in 2009, and there are similar ones out there like it, but I just liked the feel of it, quite a creative curvy fun type, which is good for graphic t-shirts and logos etc. and is free from fontfabric A bit about Fontfabric, it is an independent type foundry , which was launched at the end of 2008 by designer Svetoslav Simov who is based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Font details: Format: Opentype (.otf) Compatible: PC & Mac Details: 215 Character Set, Manual Kerning, Tracking / Pairs Price: Free
Actually I have recently added it to my own logo type and feel it works well.
Posted in Inspiring
Everything is gearing up for the world cup in South Africa, It seams most think England will get past the first stages of the world cup, lets hope so, and alot of brands are in support of them, some ad’s for england are pretty good like the KitKat TV Ad : ‘Cross Your Fingers’ a nice play on words. And some are not as successful like the Carlsberg TV ad, which has been labeled as probably ‘Not’ the best team talk ever, and personally in my opinion lacks the inspiration and determination that could evoke the spirit of England, and the desire to win the world cup. Unlike previous Carlsberg Ad’s, the best of which featured the best players England has had, some of the greats, managed by the late Bobby Robson, another great manager.
KitKat Ad
Carlsberg Best Team Talk , Not?
Carlsberg Best Pub Team
On another note Nike have a nice ad Nike : Write the Future, featuring Wayne Rooney as a bloated has been, posing the question of what might have been…
Nike : Write the Future
I also spotted a cool link from another blog, referring to world cup wall posters by DJ DSL . It’s a nice cartoon illustration, take a look…
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D&AD Channel, which showcases ideas, and inspiration from the creative world, using the YouTube medium. The channel, is said to be a good source for ideas, ‘real eye openers’ and inspirational stuff. I know I rarely browse YouTube, but with something like this its definitely worth a look…
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Theres alot of news recently about the icelandic volcano and the thousands of flights cancelled in the last week. I Just recently saw a cool piece of visualized data on what is better planes or Volcano?
- taken from Information is beautiful (its a nice site and worth a look)
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still working at changing my current website and adding new work to it, this is just an idea of how it could look…
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Two posts in one day, not what i usually do, but heres a little happy easter banner for Sunday 4th April, have a good one.
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Seams on the 1st of April the world online went 3D – Some believe it could be an April fools Joke, but I guess we will have to see. If it is i guess I have fallen for it. But like sites Formfiftyfive and even google maps street view are some of them that seams to have gone 3D , Its just a shame I have no 3D glasses…
google maps street view in 3D
