droog

I went to see their exhibition in Amsterdam and I was very much amazed by the following:

the Lego chair

the tree-trunk bench

the chest of drawers

the heat wave electric radiator

Check the rest of the projects on their website.

Surrender to Braun

via buzzingbees. 

Where to buy your t-shirts

If you're a fan of printed tees, you must be already familiar with Threadless. Personally, I've been kind of disappointed lately with their designs (too crowded), but luckily there are plenty of other options available (with some of the shops you'll have to arrange delivery with your friends in the States, because they don't ship all over the world). Let's see what we got:

The t-shirt blogs
selekkt does a very critical selection of everything that is posted, so pleasant surprises only.
addicteed has plenty of nice things:
shirt 2 simply rocks:
the teeshirtblog is in French, but you'll only need to look at the pictures:
The shops:
limitees has some very good looking merchandise on the shelves, and it's made only by small producers, so dig deep:
for beard enthusiasts, there's a dedicated shop: moustache & friends:

if you're more into cookies, grab some colouful cupcakes from Johnny:
If you're a big color lover, chances are you're going to get your eyes popping at people like us:
For controversial characters look no further than kid robot's site:If you bought something you liked from another place, please post a comment and share the link :)

Things that caught my eye

precise mixing colour guide for coffee or tea from SUCK UK:

the very old whiskey wrinkle bottle:
the clean car concept by Konstantin Grcic:
and his french fries little forks:
the friendly medicine for when you need help:


and a cute logo made by Checkland Kindleysides:

Nokia's human Snake

One of the most entertaining websites I ever saw just got published on the web. I'm talking about Nokia's n-gage Get out and play campaign which is centered around a stop-motion film version of the most popular cell-phone game, Snake. A very likable young man walks across town gathering an impressive queue of 1000 people while trying to stay out of trouble. See & download the full lenght version here.

Make sure you don't miss the human bouncing ball game :)

How should a good motion designer reel look like

it should look like Conrad Ostwald's funny and entertaining piece of video (hi-res) which casts all the techniques an animator needs to master in a very personal way. Ostwald makes fun of the standardized way all reels are created these days in something that's clearly unrepeatable:



via Ralu.

Paper monsters, tshirts and some planes

Jean Jullien is a very talented designer that mainly works with paper that he cuts and pastes in amazing ways to create objects, characters, posters, books or movies.

Some music is magic, but most of it is not

this is the conclusion of the new Magic FM campaign made by my colleagues at BBDO, Mihai Gongu & Cristina Panaitescu. Enjoy:

Fun at the office: free the walls!

a stairwell redesign project set up by W+K. Read all about it (1 & 2).

electric wires turn into a plant

the second floor

the unofficial meeting space on the stairs

the world map made out of stamps from all countries

stamps from Africa

Listerine kills 99% of germs

this is what the rest of 1% are doing:


via adsoftheworld.

The flip-book music video

Received the link so many times this week that I can't remember who to credit :)

BBC Motion Gallery

10 000 movie clips from BBC's archive are now available for download in lo-res and, if you buy a license, also in hi-res. BBC will continue to expand its database to one million hours of video content gathered in its 70 years long history.

The gallery also provides an interesting inspiration tool: Concept search.

Snickers treadmill

click on the image to see it big.

Christoffer Hald

very colorful graphic design from Denmark.

Kristiana Parn

I wish I could draw like this.


via ibarbar.

Jeffrey Docherty

face design si art direction de exceptie.

Expozitie Aya Kato in Bucuresti

Artista japoneza de doar 25 de ani va expune in diferite locatii din Bucuresti (Universitate, Romana, Victoriei, Piata Obor, Piata Presei Libere) si la Galeria 115. Influentata de early manga si pop-art, Kato construieste imagini-povesti cu eroi si eroine fantastice de o frumusete uluitoare.


"Flower of memory" va fi deschisa timp de doua luni, incepand cu 19 aprilie.

Mai multe info: otaku & yazee.

A collection of short movies

from futureshorts.

Even more characters

from Belgian couple Eugene & Louise.

These cute guys are made out of marzipan in their own bakery:


via adhunt.

Nice set of characters

from Gaston Caba. Check out his work for Diesel/Adidas, L.A. Gear & Benetton.