The Little Apple – New York as Toytown in The Sandpit

We first showed a tilt shift movie with the video Little Big Berlin and this film, which makes shots of New York seem like a toy town is also a must-see. Surely it’s only a matter of time before this technique is brought to wider public attention in a music video, advertisement or film – [...]

Pimp my pressie!

Yo! Wanna be the flyest gift-giving brother/sister on your block? D’ya feel me? Thought not. Loving this Rapping Paper though. A pun/typo mixed with famous rap lyrics and you have yourself an instant Paperchase classic! See more here.

Genius retro gaming wall stickers!

Now this might just be a boy thing, but how good are theses Atari wall stickers? Available for single nerds to buy here.

Zimbardo – The Secret Powers of Time

There are three things worth noting about this short film. 1 There’s an innovative theory on how different people and cultures view the world. 2 It’s really well animated. 3 This Zimbardo man is the famous chap behind the Stanford Prison Experiment

Ski Williams — extreme hand-lettering and illustration

In this age of digital derring-do, it’s easy for bands to put together great-looking gig flyers, posters and artwork for their releases. However, sometimes, there’s no substitute for extreme hand-lettering and illustration. With the prices of original 1960s rock posters by such artists as Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse and Wes Wilson still rising in value [...]

The Oil Spill Disaster Facts – at a glance

The thing about infographics, such as this one from Infographic World is that, when they’re done right they deliver information at breakneck speed. Even if this isn’t information you enjoy reading – such as this instant analysis of the current oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Re-Skinned Buldings

Messing with people’s perspective by projecting images over buildings is all the rage in 2010, it’s still new enough to be impressive though.

Alice For The iPad

“Just how,” people inquire, earnestly and with furrowed brows, “just how will the iPad make reading different?” If you get an earnest, brow-furrowed inquiry simply thrust this in their phiz, it’s brilliant! There’s a making of interview on the just-launched The Literary Platform.

The Book Cover Archive

If you like design and books and typefaces and imagery and reading then the Book Cover Archive is a great place to spend a little time. In the meantime here are a few of our favourites.

Parkour Flip Book – Extreme Animation

This works brilliantly, it’s fresh, captures the dynamism of the pastime and it’s just about torn paper…

The history of Google in two lovely minutes

It’s The Perpetual Pin Badge Fridge Magnet Calendar

This is another one of those amazingly/annoyingly simple ideas that just work. Pin badge sized fridge magnets that act as a calendar. This won a graphic design award at the Kiev International Advertising Festival and should, hope fully be hitting the shops soonish.

Yorkshire Saucery. Trickery.

This new work for Yorkshire Saucery  by Shark! sums up everything I love about the smoke and mirrors you can create with packaging. The yellowing paper and hand written font says ‘home made’. The quote  and signature from the ‘chef’ tells you this was lovingly created by one man just for you, hell there’s even a [...]

Secret Santa Suggestions #1

What more could you want from your secret santa this year than Photoshop fridge magnets… I know it’s on my list (though I’d prefer a pack of type trumps, and those line art tea towels are lovely too. Do let me know if I’m abusing the blog).

Psycho-typo.

Kinetic typography is a wonderful thing, but sometimes it’s immense power can be used for the dark side. Watch this speeck from Psycho…. if you DARE!!! Mwa ha ha ha… etc.

syfy ident

We saw this, and thought of you…. ahhh… nice.

MTV Awards 2009 opening sequence

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Vintage Oil cans…

Colby Thueson has photogaphed his dads collection of vintage oil cans. There’s some lovely typography and illustration here. You can view them all here on Flickr… http://www.flickr.com/photos/colbythueson/sets/72157621480667943/

Kinetic Typography

Network won an Oscar, thanks to this brilliant speech, now someone’s gone and illustrated it in type.

The movie title stills collection

Someone very geeky is collecting opening and closing title stills from classic movies. This is shaping up to be a great resource for movie logos and motion graphics. They are gathered here for your pleasure

Mattias Adolfsson

  This is how Swedish artist Mattias Adolfsson fills his Moleskin sketchbooks. There’s literally thousands of amazing illustrations like these on his blog site… http://www.behance.net/MattiasA   and digital Moleskin sketchbooks to flick through here, Ceros style… http://mattiasa.blogspot.com/2009/07/moleskine-sketchbook-12.html

A different way to look at copy

Word clouds are nothing new, but  wordle is an easy, fun way to create them. You can play with the number of ‘hot words’ used, the colour set, orientation of the words… there are also a funky set of fonts on offer. But the real reason for my post is this: have you ever thought [...]

Space Shuttle Infographic

A BBC Ceefax infographic from 1981, beautiful for its simplicity, and the limitations of the medium. 

Roller babies

Is this brilliantly or shabbily done? I can’t decide, but I like it…

You wash, I’ll dry

Designer tea towel site, To Dry For, flew around the office on various emails this week. The consensus is that tea towels are a great way to display brilliant illustration while drying the pots. Plus it’s a welcome relief from the many t-shirt, screen printing collectives that pop up online straight after graduation. Also Trellick [...]