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 – [...]

Lifetime Collective’s unexpected new video

The du jour brand for hipsters. Lifetime, started as a DIY basement outfit and have steadily progressed to creating full collections. Watching this video shows they still haven’t lost their edge. It’s nice when brands mess with clichés.

Creative Graffiti

Fresh Dates – The Worst Self Publicists In History

Fashions may come and go (and all these fashions have happily fled) but the art of self promotion is still as strong as ever. If you are considering selling yourself on match.com do the opposite of these men. Sample quote: “I’m interested in pretty much every stage of data processing.”

Why I am not rich

This is fascinating, Kyle Conroy has put together some data on how much money you would have today if, instead of spending money on an Apple product, you just bought Apple shares instead. For example if, in 1997 you blew £2,400 on Apple shares instead of a Apple Power Macintosh G3 233 Desktop, you would [...]

Monopoly Hotel Bus Shelter

When it comes to promoting the Minnesota State Lottery, Colle+McVoy got creative on their assets.

Logorama – 2010′s logotastic Oscar winner

The winner of this year’s Oscar for animated short is Logorama, a wonderful inspirational design classic… that’s also a great quiz…. can you name all the logos used in its beautiful construction*? *Actually, if you are going crazy trying to name all the logos those wonderful humans at Wikipedia listed them all in the Logorama [...]

Volkswagen Independent Cinema Sponsorship Ads

By DDB London, try and guess the films, and don’t cheat by looking at the filenames.

10 Days Palimpsest

Last May street artist and typographer RIPO took the day’s headlines and illustrated them and the next day went right over the top with a new headline, every day for ten days. The style is fresh and timeless, the idea brilliant and the video inspiring. Brilliant words – what’s a palimpsest again?

Parkour Flip Book – Extreme Animation

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

Creative use of stairs for advertising

That’ll be the decade then!

Everything noughties in one lovely table.

Learning French through great design

Caroline Fabès is a freelance graphic designer who has created a great little typographical animation for a key scene in Raging Bull… This is the actual scene. With pictures.

Letterpress stop motion

Here’s a beautiful video following the process of printing a book and binding it. Made up of over 300 photographs, it’s a fascinating insight in to the world of letterpress.

YouTube’s 100 greatest hits in 4 mins

New to the interweb (yes we’re talking to you Fogg)? Here’s what you’ve missed…

The Ident Gallery

Great site showcasing all the current TV station idents plus some nostalgia from years gone by… The Ident Gallery

‘Editors’ hack into Google Street View.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc5lD03sSKM

“Left v Right” graphic

obviously alot of this is utter rubbish but it looks nice… could work for other ‘subjects’. ie: football teams, countries, xbox v ps3, business models, markets, etc http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/leftvright_world.html

South West Creativity Farm

Apologies to London.

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.

Skateboard Neon Tetris

36 Skate boarders make neon Tetris…

Amazing Folding Bike

There are a lot of issues with this bike…. but on an initial viewing it’s amazing. Just don’t ask where the chain is or why you never see it folded back together just a shot of unfolding it played backwards. I’d have one though and if it came with panniers it could be a shopping [...]

2001 opening credits as performed by school band

Somehow a little less dramatic than the original…

I √ This

Karl Maier‘s design. Simple, brilliant.

The car in font is a Toyota

Toyota is promoting its new car, the IQ, by having it drive a new font into existence and it turns out that it’s a genius idea. Designers are emailing the video to each other, blogs are picking it up – it’s gone viral. Plus, every letter of the font (free to download) shows the car’s [...]

Fancy a skydive?

Great viral, buzz, guerilla marketing/advertising hybrid from this Swiss skydiving school. Who would have thought that a floor sticker could be so terrifying? Created by Wirz/BBDO Switzerland.