Female Genital Mutilation Awareness...

A Swedish ad firm, Publicis Stockholm, came up with a three ad campaign for Amnesty International against female genital mutilation.
They appear beautifully illustrated and yet at the same time very clear in its symbolism, however nasty the topic is.

WOOF.

A Swedish telecom company called Tele2 use a hound dog as their company symbol, and have a website where you can make it beatbox to sounds. A little bit of interactive fun.

www.beatbox.tele2.se

Night Tennis Anyone?

I must've completely missed this brilliant idea by Sony Ericsson when it came out in Madrid, as i've only just stubbled across it. Consisting of ultra-violet tennis court, a club, a top DJ, and when the tennis ends it becomes a dance floor.

It looks like so much fun; lets bring it to England! Night Tennis Anyone?

Design Briefs?

A good link for info on the basis behind writing a design brief by Peter Phillips...

Could Come in handy!

http://www.designcouncil.org.uk

BOB LONDON

Illustrations from Bob London. He's particularly good at capturing people, and picking up on individual characteristics and bringing them to life in his work. I like his line drawing approach to his technique, a hand-done kind of style.

Marcus Walters

Marcus Walters is a UK illustrator and designer, who works with a variety of different media including collage to help create a unique effect. His work really appeals to me, the choice of alternative media, the vibrancy, the flat perspective along with its clever simpleness. Definitely worth checking out.

Illustrations by David Sparshott

Liking the style of these illustrations by David Sparshott. Nice simple line drawing style, complements a clean page layout well. Have a rough earthy feel to them.

Paul Willoughby

A nice selection of stuff by Paul Willoughby

The work of Frank Chimero

An example piece of work by Chimero called "Silhouettes", a small book comparing his silhouette to a bunch famous ones. However i chose this piece more so for the style and layout design used, which i thought was clean and precise yet interesting and carefully thought out too.

And an inspirational design poster printed by Chimero:

Frank Chimero is a graphic designer and illustrator from the USA, inspired by the mid-century aesthetic. I enjoy his playfulness style he manages to successfully incorporate into his work.

Chris Jordan

Skull With Cigarette, 2007 [based on a painting by Van Gogh] 72x98"
Depicts 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every six months.

Just one part of a project titled Running The Numbers, An American Self Portrait, by Chris Jordan.
It aims to visually examine the vast and bizarre measures of American society, through statistics. Each image porttrays a specific quantity of something, in the case above its, cigarette boxes, which then created a larger image through the numerous smaller photographs.
This style of work creates a 'double-take' effect where viewers have to have a second look at the work in order to understand the full picture and the true meaning behind it.
He explores lots of other materials too, quite interesting really.

Car park Wayfinding System

Came across the works of designer Axel Peemöller

This particular wayfinding project based in a carpark in Melbourne caught my attention. The distorted letters shown, display directions when standing or viewing from a specific direction. It comes across as quite a funky unique idea, definitley adds more interests to the car park. However you would wonder how efficient the signage is. As what happens to those who go the wrong way then can't make out where to go because they can't return to that one location where the word is visible?

#1 Foam Hand

Variations of the universal "we're number one" symbol made by Geral Fauss. The foam hand is one of the most popular pieces of US sports merchandising today.

House Decor

I stumbled across this incredible building whilst walking around in Sans Francisco.

Upon some research i discovered that it has been there since 1997 produced by an artist called Brian Goggin. The art itself consists of a range of furniture hanging off the side of the building, the concept behind it being 'defenestration’ (a word meaning to throw out of a window).
This kind of art really interests and inspires me, it's unexpected carrying an element of surprise which i think makes you appreciate the sculptural art even more. Overall this left a huge impression on me, and of Sans Francisco itself as a city. Along side this building there were many other sculptures and artistic points of interests scattered around the city, which made it such a great place to wander round. I'd definitely recommend a visit there to anyone.

You can see other interesting and strange works by Goggin at his website www.metaphorm.org/

Two Pairs In One

A new German designed sandal/shoe spotted in the Daily Mail newspaper, with aims to combat this summer's unpredictable weather!