The Temple
The Temple Brian Coldrick James Kirwan Christian Reeves Monster Truck Gallery July 17th – 27th Opening reception Friday 16th July, 6pm – 8pm An exhibition of new work by Brian Coldrick, James Kirwan and Christian Reeves. Taking note of the cast of characters and situations to be found in the heaving mass of subcultures, pilgrims [...]
Institute of Designers in Ireland – Ratio
Issue 2 of Ratio from the Institute of Designers in Ireland is now available for download
Ecobases
Sonia propose a new application for obsolete material from 2009 samples, a brilliant serie of coasters sets.High resistance to contrasts of temperature, 100 % recycling material, gives to this pieces a new function. Ideal complement for home that combine wood & glasses finishes. During several years Sonia is involve in the design process an endless [...]

The guys @ TBWA Italy have come up with this humdinger here, let me explain. Ever been bored off your nut in school? Well all your prayers have been answered by this baby. Simply hold this piece of cardboard up, put your fingers in the given holes to facilitate easy gripping of your PSP, and [...]
I love the power of trailers for creating hype…and man, this looks like an action junkie’s dream of a film!!! This is just a 30 second snippet, but i’m already hooked…the site is pretty cool too! Official Ironman Site

Ok ok, I get stick for posting virals, but you have to admit this is a really witty and clever execution! Wonderbra always seem to come up trumps with their ads, be it print or digital…this one is by Euro RSCG, Singapore, and the Art director is Wee Loi…keep it up guys! Via Adsoftheworld

Create and design an animated five second (:05) ID using the FOX Sports logo; You can use the supplied audio file or you can create your own original sound design, but it is required that the verbal chant “We are (pause) FOX Sports” be included; The winner will need to submit a final verson in [...]

Nice print ad from Toro Vazquez Mora / Fischer América for Pin Pops…Art Directors: Andres Mejía, Diego Kardenas…nice work guys ViaAdsOfTheWorld
HTML5 backed by Apple
As users, we demand a richer, faster online experience; one that plays video, audio, bounces, flashes, shakes, and wiggles, but without the load times and without draining our system resources and battery life. Up until recently Flash has been the flagship in bringing us our multimedia-rich content powering websites across the internet, but the world [...]

In Sudan, Nigeria, Uganda, Myanmar, Iran and Saudi Arabia children are still being executed. Join the fight at amnesty.org.tr
Advertising Agency: TBWA\Istanbul, Turkey
Executive Creative Director: Ilkay Gurpinar
Creative Director: Volkan Karakasoglu
Art Director: Burak Kunduracioglu
Copywriter: Volkan Karakasoglu
Photographer: Serhat Bayram
Account Manager: Ozlem Hanoglu

Andre Beato aka MEDIA.ONE is a graphic designer/illustrator from Lisbon, Portugal. His work is mostly illustrations, corporate identities and typefaces. He has done all sorts of graphic work from print to editorial, working with a wide array of clients including record labels, magazines and clothing companies.
2001 Movie Rental: Jurassic Park
Movies for reading
2001
The DVD rental store now also sells cinema books.
Advertising Agency: BorghiErh/Lowe, São Paulo, Brazil
Art Director: Rafael Segri
Copywriter: Gilmar Pinna
Creative Director: José Henrique Borghi, Erh Ray and Fernando Nobre
Illustration: Studio MadFX
The Dance of pixel and ink
We communicate. Searching for levels of meaning in communication in an effort to reach a clearer way of understanding others. The new wave of technological advancements aid us in our flow of information, we have embraced and built upon these methods word the spreading from person to person. Following on from the previous post on [...]
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Isn’t art dealing with the same issues, presenting a certain point of view? It should be like this. Somehow in recent times, we feel overcrowded and bombed with all the …
Algae Airships or Self Sufficient Airborne Cities
Yeah, you probably think this is only a pretty neat concept, that will never get built, but times are changing friend, and what you consider impossible today, may be accomplished tomorrow easily. So never say never to new ideas, aight?
Subbuteo Posters
I’m sure a lot of you are very excited by the World Cup coming up and to celebrate that fact, we’ve teamed up with Ryan Tym who’s very kindly donated one of his vintage Subbuteo screenprinted pitches. Hand-pulled in an ultra limited set of 20, Ryan has printed …
Mad Men Illustrated
Mad Men Illustrated – Inspired by emulating the illustrative style of the era the show is set.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nobodyssweetheart/sets/72157606178887453/
2010 thenextweb
The next web conference finished up on the 29th of April. It was quite the event according to sources who attended. But since i was not there, i cannot comment. unfortunately. These are their words: * The Next Web invites speakers and entrepreneurs to share their views on the Internet industry and the future of [...]

Don’t drink and drive
80 cars that crashed in accidents
15 tons worth of metal
20 meters tall giant bottle shaped urban construction
1 of the country’s busiest highway and intersection
3 months long project – starting today
1,000,000 people exposed to the message every day
Advertising Agency: Shalmor Avnon Amichay/ Y&R Interactive Tel Aviv, Israel
Chief Creative Officer: Gideon Amichay
Executive Creative Director: Tzur Golan
Creative Director: Amit Gal
Art Director: Ran Cory
Copywriter: Paul Paszkowski
Media: Moshe Nur – Nur Star Media
Joy Ang’s The Anthology Project
Joy Ang sent me the comics anthology she edited with Nick Thornborrow called The Anthology Project. It’s a gorgeous package, with one of Joy’s lush illustrations on the cover, and an irresisti
well done
aurora ira, currently is based in tel aviv, working in oil painting, installation, mixed media, textile and fashion design. the question of the possible dialog between (commonly regarded as confronting) the contemporary art and design stands in the focus of Ira’s systematic research. Therefore, the complex mixed media projects, a recent Ira’s work, is an [...]
Ritual Magazine: Dark Kids, Twins
The ghoulish and gloomy story of Melissa and Mircalla, who never had the chance of being sisters.
The first italian magazine of dark, gothic, electro, industrial music and culture. Ritual. Your dark side.
Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Rome, Italy
Executive Creative Director: Roberto Greco
Creative director: Elisa Pazi
Art Directors: Chiara Catalani, Elisa Pazi
Copywriter: Elisa Pazi
Photographer: Winkler+Noah
Bill Griffith’s top 40 pieces of advice for cartooning
Over at Sherm Cohen’s site he’s sharing Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith’s Top 40 List on Comics and Their Creation.
Some of my favourite of the 40 snippets of advice include:
5. Being funny isn’t really about telling jokes.
10. Cartoon characters have souls.
31. Aside from trying to communicate, don’t think of your readers when you create [...]
Pixels Q&A with Patrick JeanWith over 2,026,435 views of the official film on Dailymotion in the six days since its release, Pixels has really spread far and wide very quickly. We wanted to find out more about the film and had a chance to ask the creator Patrick Jean a few questions. Now working as a 2D and 3D [...]
Helmut Schmid
Rarely during my time posting on the Grafikcache did I ever concentrate on some of the masters of the Graphic Design world, but the work of Helmut Schmid for me was one exception. I was particularly fond of his packaging work for Otsuka Pharmaceutical,…
Saatchi & Saatchi: Green Santa
Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Creative Director / Copywriter: Matej Kodric
Art Director: Matija Kocbek
The ecstasy of escape
Quietly step into your canvas shoes and let your eyes absorb this world built just for you. Engorged colours, spiralling points, extravagant peoples and startling figures that make true colours of the universe pale in minor significance. This is what a human imagination can bring forth. The Illustrators / concept artists / visualisers that …
The Quandry of the LogoramaLogorama the Oscar winner last night in the animated short category has raised a few eyebrows. The 17 minute short edgy narrative uses prominent logos and brands in title roles and is heavily satirised and saturated throughout the entire piece which makes the distribution of the short quite tricky to enable. H5 a french …
The Iconic logo’s of Fashion
Delving into what makes a contemporary fashion style relevant (for a fashion project) I have been looking at the big fashion houses logo’s and the styles they employ. From Gucci, Versace to Armani the logos are wildly different and the styles employed sometimes jar with what I interpret as the story of the logo. The [...]
Apple design anatomisedAnatomy of Apple Design from Transparent House on Vimeo. Transparent House used its visualization capabilities to create a tribute to a company they greatly admire on the occasion of the iPad release. The idea was to show a glimpse into the history of this product giant by modelling some of the innovative products they’ve developed [...]
Fieldwork: Issue11
The blog-o-sphere allows for a dissemination of information to entertain and open our minds to other people’s mindsets and what out there excites, angers and bemuses them. A rarity is that thought invoking insight, where a logical thought is laid out and explained in such a way that the care is made to communicate. We [...]
CarneMag Issue2
CARNE is an independent digital magazine destined to promote contemporary art & design. Being a production of BESTIAL DESIGN STUDIO an PICANTE DESIGN STUDIO in Buenos Aires, this is a lovely combination of visual goodies in a simple layout with good solid design decisions. This downloads as an application that opens out and is always [...]
David Lindsey Wade
When i look at photography i always wonder how much post production was involved to get the image to its final stage. I happened on David Lindsey Wades work recently, and i loved the initial photography and where the digital touch has taken it. With photoshopping a photograph, possibilities become endless and these images create [...]
Nobody beats the Drums
Stop Motion Animation ‘Grindin” Director: Rogier van der Zwaag Music: Grindin’ by Nobody Beats The Drum (available on the EP ‘Focus’ out on Satan’s Circus (link)) check the making of! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqxjv… This sequence of 4085 photo’s was patiently created by Nobody Beats The Drum’s VJ / visual artist Rogier van der Zwaag. If you want [...]
Touchy Remix
A good Multi-touch table can only become great when it comfortably seats the users. With this thought in mind, the touchy remix was developed in collaboration with guest-designer Janis Ponisch… Based on the revolutionary design of the “VERSA” form-factor, which dramatically changes the appearance and functionallity of the multi-touch table device.The “Touchy remix” breaks away [...]
IE6: The funeral
Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc. Internet Explorer Six, known to friends and family as “IE6,” is survived by son Internet Explorer Seven, and grand-daughter [...]
Winter Olympic Games Posters
The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will begin today on February 12th in Vancouver, Canada. I thought it would be interesting to see how the design trends in Olympic posters have changed during the years. In this article you will find every official poster from the winter Olympic games from 1924 to 2010. Let the games [...]
Horror series
The Horror Series book reproduces each of 600 drawings that I did through 2003 and 2004. I think the drawings are best if viewed at face value and not when people use them to represent things. Some words I associate with my drawings are bland, simple, blank, black and scrawls. Limpbound paperback (similar to perfect [...]
How we learned to love Photoshop
Here is an article from the Guardian online by Charles Arthur. Photoshop, the ubiquitous photo manipulation program that is 20 years old, is now so popular it’s a verb in common usage You’re browsing the online catalogue for Heine, the German interiors-and-everything-else shop, when a “secretary table” catches your eye. The white one looks hideous, [...]
Gilette groin shaving
Here is something amusing and progressive adverts promoting shaving techniques from Gilette.
Amsterdam poster collection
Almost everyday I take pictures of posters that catch my eye in the city of Amsterdam. Here are most of them. They start from somewhere in 2002 till now. Some are even more beautiful than the other. And others are just plain ugly. Mostly I try to avoid those. But sometimes they are fascinating in [...]
Ratio: new publication from the Institute of Designers in Ireland
Ratio is a new publication from the IDI. In this first issue, we’ve put together a diverse range of recent stories and successes; we’re dedicating a section of Ratio to members’ work; we’ll talk about Design Week and its successful growth in the face of adversity; and our piece on 2009’s triumphant Design Awards is [...]
Typographic xray sex
Here is a campaign designed by German illustrator/designer Andrej Krahne for Durex. The idea is that the type shows the xray the inner feelings during the act of sex with Durex. Andrej Krahne
La dama y la muerta
Being the eternal sucker for animation here is a Spanish oscar nominated animation short by PUEDE GANAR called “la dama y la muerta”
Wrangler Bell Blue
Wrangler have released a blue bell collection fro spring 2010 and it has some lovely, fun interaction build in. The narrative simply follows moving a character on screen and the collection he wears. so simple so like a digital ragroll. great stuff. Parade through the collection HERE
CCTV ink
Absolutely beautiful fluid motions in details and transition capturing a wonderful sense of mood that grabs me and holds very tight. TV spot for CCTV (Central China Television) made by Troublemakers.tv Client: CCTV – Central China Television Agency: MMIA – Mass Media International Advertising Co. Ltd (China) Creative Director: Zhou Jiahong Art Director: Wu Hao [...]














