Design by Humans

How amazing it would be if one of your designs were sported by a Band, selling out across the globe. Here is the opportunity! Deadline: 22 March '09.

Tree Forest are you with meh?! Collaboration time!

Rebranding Abu Ghuraib

This is a designer's nightmarish challenge for a brief. Anyone up for it?

YEP! ITS REAL

I still don't think I'm completely sold. Despite the fact that its on National Geographic and there's a video to go with it. It just looks like a super photo shopped and CGI made fish.

For the Ladies!

Lookey here. If you are a designer/illustrator and a woman and want to be published, log on & send your stuff in. ENDS ON FRIDAY SO HURRY!

Btw, what is up with gmail?

One more

Last post about Threadless. I was reading about the prizes you get when you have your t-shirt printed and came across this fine piece of print:

If your design has been chosen for print; Choose a $3,000 scholarship as a form of payment towards your college fees. Open to everyone regardless of what your studying.

This is what we really need, and what a super way to encourage all the people who are struggling with loans. Brilliant.

Don't forget to vote for my tee - last few days :D - Click on the link below!

When designers come together they...

Make Monsters! Met up with BlackPepper member, Rachel to brainstorm on our bid for the Surrey 2012 Logo. As Shao was brainstorming on her stuff we got carried away started to play.

Suprisingly Yemeni

The most alien looking tropical desert (who knew those things existed) on the planet is in Yemen. P A U S E . Socotra Island is located just off the coast of Yemen and is considered of the most endangered ecological sites in the world.

This looks like something straight out of Miyazaki's animated features.

Classic

Hazy Cyan Pink with a touch of Orange.

A multi-lingual colour naming Experiment, in English, Greek, Spanish and German is being conducted by the Colour Imaging Research Group at the University of Arts. It is part of an MSc research project on colour naming and colour categorisation within different cultures, which aims to develop an online colour-naming model based on "natural" languages.

Click here to be apart of their research. 10 minutes maxxx. :D

In the Running! EEK!

Your submission is in the running!

Hey!

I submitted a tee shirt design called The Pelican to Threadless.com to be voted on and hopefully printed.

If I get enough high scores the shirt will be printed and sold from the site and I will win some prizes. Take a look at it and if you like it, sign up and give it a score.

URL: http://www.threadless.com/submission/198318/The_Pelican

Thanks!

P.S. I'm sure Threadless would be happy if you bought a tee too!

threadless.com
4043 N Ravenswood Ave #106
Chicago, IL 60613
1 (773) 878-3557


Note: This is entirely different to the previous post that had my Tee in it. This actually decides whether it gets printed or not. So go on ahead and vote :D

In This Shirt

I was lucky to come across this last night upon a visit to Shunt. "The Forgotten Circus" is a short film that features Circus Space.

Music by The Irrepressibles.

A GIANT

S A N A Y A L - Snails have officially made it into the Haute Couture World, wondering around in Selfridge's new display window ensemble right beside a Swarovski studded dress.

This is dedicated to Dribbler. x

Don't you feel like that when you do a number 2?

This is a cute vinyl wall sticky thing that Blik have done in a bathroom.

Scoring some ...

DESIGN not dope! Please score and critique my tee shirt on Threadless! All ego-bashing is welcomed, do not hesitate. And yes, it's YELLOW ;)

It's just a

Philip Tseng is an illustrator whose had his illustrations printed on threadless. If your designs are picked and printed, you get around $ 2,500 and an additional $ 500 for every reprint.

NUKE THEM ALL with pills?!

Found this on deera-chat.com :

Kuwait Purchases Nearly 6 Million Doses of Emergency Nuclear Radiation Drugs

Nukepills.com today announced the sale of 180,000 units (5.4 million doses) of ThyroShield(TM) Potassium Iodide to the Kuwait Ministry of Health. Worth approximately $1.4 million, the sale was brokered by Nukepills.com and signifies Kuwait’s proactive course in protecting its citizens during a nuclear radiation emergency.

I've been saying this for years ever since I went camping in Kuwait's Desert nearly 7 years ago now! During the 1990-1991 Gulf War, a lot of people who lived close to the borders, (Jahra and Fahaheel especially) died of radiation poisoning and cancer.

I hate sketchbooks

Alright, I didn't exactly stray away from paper, but I think plates are the way to go. Most of my sketches are now on paper plates.

GET SOME NUTS

I have personally wanted to do this at most footie matches I've been to.

Pretty Special

Park rangers are "very excited"

Completely out of context. Couldn't Help it.

The Opposite of Lamp

Genius marketing ploy. These guys sent Perez Hilton a valentine's day card via youtube with links to their Portfolio. Perez gets a total of 7 million users clicking on his site daily. Great exposure at no cost. As for the video.. well it's a video! I like their Lamps.

Celebrating Squirters

Screw dragon dancers and fireworks. A performer squirts milk through his eyes, by blowing hard against a blocked nose, during a performance to celebrate Chinese New Year at a park in Beijing.

Gagging For Sympathy

On Friday 13 February (the day before Valentine’s Day), a World Record attempt to form the longest kiss chain will start at 1pm in Spitalfields Market (near Liverpool Street Station, London).

What they need: 200 volunteers :D
Incentive: Raising awareness for premature babies and a romantic weekend getaway.

Calling all Abusive Objectiphilian's

This is for you. Panasonic has launched it's no nonsense Toughbook laptops that you can now torch, drop and immerse in water, flames, pubes and still be fully functional.
Virals to follow!

"I wish I had Ten Terry Tates"

An American Football Linebacker who "gives out the pain" to those in the office who are not obeying office policies. Seriously funny old school virals. Apparently so viral people didn't even know it was in association with Reebok, but not any less superb. WOOWOOO!

Celebrity Sell-Out Part 2

Oh my god. This is why I don't have a T.V. Johnny Rotten why why why why. I hate Country Life anyway..

Latin Mottos Part 1

Izzie submitted this cute lil motto : If all else fails, Play Dead.

WTF - in a good way

So I started this morning with that note taking up half of my screen. After my initial anger subsided, I realized that we had Hot Chip playing in the background. Seriously it's just a student video nothing to be bothered by ... unless you want the same team to work on your next video :D Hello! I'm Inji *paws screen*

HAH!

Genius.

Alcatraz to Croatia

Meet Lars Erik Bratveit. By day a super-hero I.T vigilante that whips coaxial cables into shape (wow you so know I don't know a thing about computers etc) and by night and in his spare time he traverses the planet and does a lot of photography. Check out his website here.

UBTIS! OI!

So in lieu of hanging out and networking, Tree Forest came across this super flyer promoting Gym Box. What really got me was the Esctasy pills with G & B's on the front and the fab colour system that highlight the classes where you can improve on your Chav Fighting, Boob aerobics and Bitch Boxing.

Post Secret

Once in a while, I reintroduce Post Secret. It's a blog where people send in their secrets anonymously via postcard. Some of them are brilliant, soul baring and oh-so-delicious.

The Vacuum & Anteater Coat of Arms

Thoughttsss.... just a draft. Mac Fontaine needs to figure out a very clever latin motto for me.
Feedback !

BFI Film Workshop

For all you film buffs there is weekend of free films, workshops, masterclasses and Q&As at BFI Southbank! Book your tickets here.

Putting Gas on a Burning Oil Field

Sent in by Mac Fontaine.
Like we need anything on top of our already crap rep.

Obama does Dingbats

So as I was looking through dafont.com I found Obama-freaking dingbats. Kudos to the designer for getting there first.

Skipping Work

This is what happens when people in advertising (Izzie) and a foaming snow bunny (myself) get together and make a snowman.

Brand Spanking Blue!

Okay guys, meet Norwegian graphic/web designer Kristine Taugbol. Shes pretty experimental with her identity work which I feel is more of what we should see in the future. I am bored to death of clinical logos but hey we've all been guilty of a few. ;) This one time at Band Camp...

Celebrity Sell-Out Part 1

I had a working weekend down south in Epsom. I got on the train today to see THAT.

Why Iggy? WHY !!! You put my High School nick-name to shame! This is how NOT to sponsor a product...


Whilst the Spelling Bee (I seriously can not believe I am saying this) kicked Iggy Pop's Swiftcover ad.

When I'm ready... I'll put the Swiftcover TVC.