Biggest Drawing In The World
Graphic Design is. . .
Last Month Veerle announced a "What is Graphic Design?" Poster competition (with some cool prices to win too, yip). Loads of entries followed, and well, some are really really nice. It just picked two different approaches, one because I am a sucker for hand drawn fonts, the other cause squirrels are just plain cool.
But hey, check it out yourself, more of those graphic gems are posted in this Flickr pool.
edit: the winners are here.
Feet Want Out
Mondays can be a bit drab so here the world by a dreamy foot, a colorful animation by The Three Legged Legs (cool name). Not only did the Legs animate one of three fantastical spots, but they also directed all of the live action counterparts for the BBDO + Havaianas campaign. So yeah, big deal, it's a commercial, but a good one, a happy one.
Gosh, how I miss summer.
Design Police
Should I be alarmed?
I mean Bring bad design to justice sounds a lot like a personal attack, not?
And of course they are right, a better visual attractive world, I am all in for that. Nothing wrong with to want push things further (while looking at my site, nodding with shame). So a big hurrah for the Design Police who tries to accomplish the destruction of poor quality and irritatting grapic design. And for us mortals and consumers, they have a neat Visual Enforcement Kit.
Be part of this sweet graphic crusade, sticker.
Explodingdog
'all my friends are dead' by Explodingdog
It's already been awhile since i found Explodingdog, rarely visited cause sometimes it's good to take in things in small doses, but hey the drawings are still quite good, really catchy at times, or as often leave you with that sweet and wry smile of instant recognition (bla bla bla).
Robots & Monsters
Neaopoleviathan (the icecreammonster)
Jesus gone to heaven (tuned by the Pixies) and yeah its raining again, another public holiday imprisoned to the living room - well i am, not a fan of raincoats and gusty winds, sorry - watching old dvd's, reading yesterdays papers, eating apple pie for breakfast. Anyway, a perfect day to work on something of me own but also realizing, consumed by leisure, I only come up with other ones idea. Pitiful, uhu.
So yeah, I don't believe in charity but this time an exception. Good cause, good monsters (Neaopoleviathan: chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, my least favorite tastes so it does the trick really well), ok, yeah, the monster bit did it for me.
"RobotsAndMonsters.org is a charitable art project which matches goodwill and charitable giving with custom-made commissioned cartoon and pop art. Giving just a little bit gets an original drawing of a robot or a monster of your specification sent to your door - and in the process, you get to sleep better at night, because you know you've just helped out a great cause. C'mon in, and wipe your feet, stranger."
Heat Island April
© CZ 2007
Happiness equals consumption divided by desire. So yes, here i sit once again in shorts and shirt enjoying another perfect sunny April day. The weather is both foreign and familiar, tropical climates still in my system as the imprint of a hat just put off. Also i realize this is The Netherlands, that this is april, not late july or august. It hasn't rained since 23 march, thats more then a month... temps are at least 10 degrees celsius higher then normal (14c˚), for weeks. Still, sipping my icy cool aid, i, as all too many, prefer to indulge a few more minutes of denial before slowly acknowledging the possibility, and finally the undeniability of that this juicy orange may be filled with razor-blades. Not now, but in the end.
Fade To Grey
Anyway, for whatever reason then to be, Gingerbread Man is falling (flying for the optimistic ones), the background color remains 3b3b3b, at least for a while, and while i was cutting webshapes, I enhanced the visual comfortzone, yes i still love to please, so pictures with a border of 3px are expandable (it looks neat, not?), the 1px ones do not.
Further, well its obvious, all changes do not guarantee anything for the future. Ok? Ok.
Symmetry/Nightswimming
*the Dutch best prepared for climate change
According to a recent study by the Universities of Princeton and Munich, The Dutch are the longest people in the world, at an average of 4,7 cm more then The Americans. This week the UN (IPCC) also published his rapport on global warming, saying sealevels may rise by 28-43cm this century. Gorilla saw the symmetry in all this.
Its makes you think, wondering how I get in the sum of things, only 1.78 tall. Its the small that fall first. Another inconvenient truth....?
Crossing Borders
So far this year bout 25.000 (illegal) migrants from North Africa have tried to reach Europe by boat. Many died doing so. Yesterday, in the Street of Gibraltar, three of those refugees were picked up by Spanish authorities. They tried to reach the mainland by waterbike. Dunno about you, but hey lets welcome those cool heroes, give them a hat and medal. Clap clap.
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