Month: March 2009
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It’s Nice That
One of my favourite graphic design, illustration, and all-things-good blogs It's Nice That is going all analogue. They're launching a bi-annual publication to document some of the best work they've featured, along with some more in depth interviews and stuff. The idea is to 'break the mould of the classic design magazine' and 'publish some…
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Earth Hour
The WWF's Earth Hour is upon us again. Tommorrow, at 8.30pm local time people, businesses and iconic buildings around the world will be switching off their lights for an hour to "make a statement to the world’s governments for more urgent and effective action on climate change". Last year, Google went black. The year before,…
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Mediocre Doesn’t Cut It Anymore
Some nice, succinct slides from Mike Arauz around 10 key digital principles which, sadly, are all too often missed. I'd like to add another, inspired by a thought from Hugh, that 'Boring is in a LOT of trouble'. The internet has made it exponentially easier to find stuff that really interests you. To secure a…
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Running The London Marathon
Kate, on the left in the picture above, is a good friend of mine. Four years ago her Father was diagnosed with Progessive Supranuclear Palsy, a degenerative disease that comes on in later life. PSP is a little known disease but its affects are devastating, involving the gradual deterioration of selected areas of the brain.…
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New Dead Fish
This is Katy. Katy has just designed a nice new logo for Only Dead Fish (there it is at the top of the page). It was about time for refresh and I think she's done a great job. So thanks to Katy. I particularly like the new dead fish:
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Powerliner Flyers
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3013257&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1powerlinerflyers from wes johnson on Vimeo.
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The Optimist Conspectus
I don't know whether it's because the sun has been shining lately or whether it's a reaction to the almost celebratory zeal with which certain sections of the news media seem to be covering the current economic malaise, but I'm feeling the need to remind myself that whilst things are bad, in amongst it all…
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LA Story
Gorgeous tilt-shift time-lapse film via Rubbishcorp who has a knack of finding great stuff. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3537180&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1the east side of Los Angeles on a sunny day (tilt-shift & time-lapse) from clark vogeler on Vimeo. If you fancy turning some of your own photos into tilt shift, try this.