Feb/100
Cadbury Picnic chocolate bar: No picnic
"A Picnic chocolate bar is chewy, nutty and difficult to eat. GPY&R Melbourne challenged its audience to eat a Picnic in the space of a :30 commercial break. People filmed themselves using mobile phones, webcams and handycams and then created their own TV ads using the website, http://www.itsnopicnic.tv. In an Australian first, every single ad that went to air on television (200+) was unique, and created using the website" Ads of the world
Great idea to get people envolved!
I want them to hurry up with a British one.. thinking 5-6 Jaffa cakes in a minute would be a good shout 
Jan/102
Paper-StopMotion Animation
Just finished my first term of my final year and came across this little piece of animation!
could have done with finding this before i handed my final piece in. its such a simple concept but im sure it took hours to do.
the result is a nice and rough animation which i really like and would have wanted to experiment with it for my own work.
oh well
videogioco-loop experiment from donato sansone on Vimeo.
Donato Sanson's other works a bit... out there but its this piece which is pretty cool (more for the techique than the content)
Nov/090
Kasabian Football Hero
Haha pretty sick stuff. The fact that they got 76% after only a few games is well good! it would have made a great third year project if someone was doing user interaction or somthing like that.
Oct/090
HR Giger (+18 years only)
HR Giger was braught up in a lecture today. It was a good lecture but i did disagree with one comment about the inspiration of the Alien Queen. I did some study on HR Giger a few years ago and loved his work, mainly because it was ALL porn and i was in high school
The alien queens head
was said to have been inspired from:
Amy winehoues's big hair (not neccessarly her hair but similar) + A three pronged crown.
I think its a massive vagina. I see how it looks similar to the hair and crown but i still belive the main influence is the vagina
Espcially if you look at the Alien Male head.
or the alien hatch lings
i wonder where that idea came from? lets have alook at how the hatchlings attack in the film..
ah i see.
and this one's just amazing, i think the whole image was part of a building or structure and some one has cropped this out but still amazing how hes worked it in.
Oct/090
Typophile Film Fest
The Typophile Film Fest 5 is a one hour selection of typographic films hailing from all over the world including Argentina, The Netherlands, Russia and the United States. The films vary in subject matter and style; creating a dynamic presentation of motion design, typographic animation, short stories, documentaries and interviews. Typophile
Film fest 5 open sequence
Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.
I've never heard of this before so it will be good to see the entries and winners they show. I think the opening sequence has loads of great tepography and kenetic typodgraphy already and from what I can see on the reviews and blogs about Typophile film fest the opening sequence is one of the things people look forward to most, so here are the perivous Typophile opening seqences
Film fest 1
Film Fest 2
Film fest 3
Film fest 4
Oct/090
Parallex
I was introduced to the parallax a few months ago and thought that it was just a nice little bit of css but that as good as it was, it wouldn't really be anything amazing. It was just a nice touch which makes backgrounds and other elements look more interactive.
(I think the first person to use parrallax on a website was Silverback If they wern't the first they are definitly the people who made it mainstream.)
My opion of the css parallex techique changed after I went to future of web design because one of the creators of the silverback site was telling us how people have taken that idea and now moved it on a bit and made the CSS Parallax: The Horse in Motion effect.
The idea simply combines the css parrallax techinque with a zoetrope, producing a stunning animation using only css and html and two .pngs.
I think limitations of this is that long and complex animation can't be reproduced and even some simple animations will be quite complicated to make.
Oct/090
Different animation styles
Had my first animation practive lecture Thursday and the presentation Darren Wall did contained some really nice experimental animation styles.
The first was some standard stop motion, using human pixels.
The nice thing about the music is its made up of human voices as well. I would say its amazingly directed but wait till you see the next one which is human picles but this thim in one shot.
We come back to stop time animation for "Roofsex" which is created by PES and what makes it special is how he is showing us how good animation can really make any inanimate object come to life. Just the simplicity of the male chair being bigger and the girl chair having a skirt all help give the feeling that this really is two chairs having sex
We moved on to some stunning time lapses looking at the Northern lights
next is Strata - cut which is very new to me. From what I can tell it is basically a tube or block of play dough, clay or wax (originally used by Oskar Fischinger)
with all the frames made inside the tube and they take away the top layerand so on
And the last and most impressive is Strata stenci, the example is by Javan Ivey and is just really nice. All of thi si made from card cut outs so it must have taken ages but it's probably well worth it. The effect can be made on the computer but im sure it feels a lot more rewarding when done by hand.
Oct/090
Liu Bolin
Liu has come up on my rss a few times and I think made a few appearnces on an optical illusion site a few times but I never really thought of posting about it becuase the images I seen were all pretty standard but here's a collection of some of his best work.
there's more here
Sep/090
FOWD ‘09
This is a post about the “Future of Web Design” conference I attended on the 16th September. The speakers were Paul Annett, Mike Tautly, Simon Collison, Dean Vipond and Brendan Dawes.
In this post I’ll just go over what really stood out for me starting with Paul Annett’s “Oooh, That’s Clever! (Un-natural Experiments in Web Design).”
Paul from Clearleft talked to us mainly about “Easter eggs” and why they are used. He discussed he parallax effect found on silverback and revealed a few other “Easter eggs” including the mighty mouse image. (I don’t care what Gez says it’s meant to be there and it’s cool!)
The point of it all was that “Easter eggs”, when used correctly are like secrets, designed to be spread. We all know how fun it is to know something, someone else doesn’t and we love to feel clever by telling people what they don’t know or haven’t noticed. Well that is the sole purpose of “Easter eggs” to hope people find it and want to tell it to the world. His presentation can be found on his website at http://paulannett.co.uk/
I think that Brendan Dawes’ presentation was just genius. I’ve seen some of his Magnetic North stuff before and was just blown away then. To be able to listen to him talk about the thought process and how he views his work was just great.
I think what really helps is that he is great at getting his message across to the audience and im sure that's really usefull when it comes to clients.
He told us how he thought that the best part of an iPhone was the ability to pull the screen down to reveal the grey space (a do nothing machine) and it makes me think of:
"We've invented most of the stuff that we need and now we're just messing about" - Karl Pilkington
I think sometimes it’s important to remember the play factor and less of the logical work part.
Dean Vipond was another speaker who stood out for me. His talk was about adding personality and a sense of identity to your work. I think this could be vital in near future because it is the personal touches which set works apart. I think we would all rather recieve emails saying howdy sam, instead of Dear mr luk.
Sep/090
“Surfing’s the source man… “
Mate of mine was watching Point Break last night hense the title but it was fitting becasue I came across these amazing surf images.
More of these at smashandpeas
Sep/090
Minimalists Photography
Here's a selection of minimalist photography which are nice.
Never really thought of minialist photography before, you get in it traditional art and digital art but just never come across minimalist photography much, or just not thought that's what it is. Theres more at smashandpeas
Sep/090
Cube Dudes
Pixar animator and BURN-E director Angus MacLane's most famous works may be computer-generated, but in his spare time he works in the more physical medium of plastic bricks, rendering his favorite characters in Lego. - i09
More ">cube dudes
Sep/090
OwaikeO
This is a blog post on Ahmed Alrefaie aka OwaikeO's work.
I came across his work when he was doing a tutorial for abduzeedo.com and i instantly thought WOW. He has a way of making his work look so simple and clean yet if you look closly it is riddles with details and little bits which could stand out as great work on its own.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity - Charles Mingus
I'd advise every one to go have a look at his tutorial on his site to fully appreciate how much work he puts into an image and to be able to just see the minor details you just over look when look at the image.
Sep/090
Creative Knitting
After speaking to a friend and realising she did a course in knitting I found myself wondering the web in search of creative knitting and came across a few really nice pieces of work in Sessionmagazine.com
It just goes to show that creativity can be any where.
Sep/092
Beer ads
A nice collection of beer ads by GisMullr on the Abduzeedo site
I've just picked a few which I thought were really creative or created really well.
Sep/090
God’s eye view
I came across this article by Creative Review back in December and thought i'd post it on here
God's eye view is a project consisting of four images which depict four biblical scenes in a Google map style created by The Glue Society
Not to take anything away from the level of impressive detail but I think we are so used to looking at the world through images like Google maps that it makes the images even more belivable and it is this unique idea which makes the work even more impressive.
Aug/090
Nicest Fuck i’ve seen
In my never ending seach for nice typography (because there's so much not because there isn't any) and how to do it I came across an image people have been saying is the best fuck they'd ever seen. It was by a designer called Sebastian Lester. and I have to say it is quite nice. Do check out his portfolio to see some of his other work.
Aug/090
Ready to run?
Came across this image when browsing the web and thought it was well good. Not sure how old it is or what campaign it was for but the initial message which hits me is "shes ready to run!"
Correct me if i'm wrong.
Aug/090
8-bit trip
Some amazing work here. said to have taken 1500 hours and im not surprised. There are one or two bits which look cgi'd but that could just be becasue of the fluidness and qualtiy of the shots.
Aug/090
Typography!!!
Forgot to blog about this blog post yesterday.
It's just a collection of random posters with really nice typography. As much as i have looked over the web for nice typograpghy and tips on how to do it i can't seem to produce work remotely as good as some of the posters shown here.
Aug/090
Interactive McDonald’s Advert
I LOVE DOING THIS!!
Found it just after a trip to london aswell and didnt notice it when i walked past 
but i did spend 1hour trying to jump at the right time to look like i was running in the London eye. unfortunatly my lil sisters camera broke and i couldn't get the image.
o well maybe next time.
Aug/090
Design 101?
Found this blog post by @minxlj about the new designs of the UK coins and how they are wonderfully designed and everything but are missing a numeric value.
I wonder if this problem was even considered or spotted by the Royal Mint because i'm sure a lot of people must have missed it, i know i did.
After reading the post i did notice the problem when i was in London and some tourists were trying to work out how to pay for stuff in a shop.
Aug/090
Megan fox is evil.. not just high school evil
A nice way of promoting her new film Jennifer's Body, and I know all guys are watching and weighing out the odds and wondering if 15 minutes of Megan Fox is to die for?
I'm not sure about you guys but my coffins arriving tomorrow!
The ad reminds me alot of the True blood campaigns which was done very well in promoting the show. they launched websites such as Trubeverage and AmericanVampireLeague which are all taking the idea that this is real life and that vampires (trueblood) and demon possesed cheerleaders who like a mouth full of boys (in a bad way) is real and happens in society.
Aug/090
i like this..
nice video which looks simple and flows well created by Fairly Painless Advertising
Aug/090
RedBull soapbox
Found this at Creative Review today, not had much time to play on it but looks really nice. its made by a company called Lessrain for Redbull and its just looks like a really nice and simple game done well.
it looks like you can compete against other people and build and save your own vehicle. it might even take into account of your building abilities so it means it wont just be you agains another person with the exact same car but different colours.
the ideas similar to the other Lessrain/Redbull game Redbull FlightLab
Aug/090
Fix Outlook
This is a two in one really. the website is about the lack of progress with Microsoft Outlook:
Microsoft has confirmed they plan on using the Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010.
This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position, no background images and lots more. Want proof? Here’s the same email in Outlook 2000 & 2010.
Don't really know much about Microsoft and their reasons for the changes and i doubt it will affect me much because i normally build emails that have to "work" in lotus notes which means tables all the way!!
it seems that MS are generally havng problems with what they do on the web, such as this email render, not keeping up with people like Mozilla and Webkit and the news about losing the ability to keep IE as a standard default in windows 7... (begining of the end for IE?) i just think they cba 
But the main reason for this post was the design of the website and the way they have used the twitter avatars, to effectly show how many followers they have and with the backgound constantly uploading new avatars you really get a feel for the number of followers they have.
Aug/090
simply green
simply green
Originally uploaded by sam_luk
Nice and simple. Made 4 www.ourcityyourplanet.org.uk
Aug/090
Disney Template
Found this clip which highlights the similarities in Disney films on which i think is quite interesiting,
anyone ever noticed it?