
Who knew you could do so much with paper?

Who knew you could do so much with paper?

I love lamps. They’re great aren’t they? You need light…hey presto! there it is at the press of a button or flick of switch. Marvellous I’m sure you’ll all agree. You know what else I love? Ducks. Love em’, the little feathery bundles of joy. Especially when they’re served with pancakes, hoisin sauce and those strips of cucumber and spring onion. Delicious. I’ve often sat alone in the dark wishing I had my two loves smashed together into some horrendous Frankenstein’s monster; a terrifying conglomeration of feathers and shadow-casting light.
Well…thank God for artist Sebastian E then. Thanks Sebastian, my world is now complete.
Check out more marvels from Sebastian after the break…

A beautifully shot and (in a couple of the executions) beautifully post-produced campaign for Mammadaba Latvia State Forests by MOOZ. Simple and direct but the lush photography and the 3D / Photoshop work really sell the idea. Some are better than others (the RUSH one is my favourite) but even so, the headline is a winner…top stuff. See all after the break…

So Coca-Cola is bad for you, is it? Well, there’s always a positive for every negative, now isn’t there? So some people may moan that it’s bad for your insides and rots your teeth…but on the flip side of the coin it is really good for ‘actually’ cleaning coins and it does marvels for getting rid of stains in your toilet as well. So, the prospect of legions of toothless kidz running amok on the streets with foul breath and bad digestion has definitely been wrapped in a comfy blanket with a tasteful silver lining there I think we’d all agree.
However, Coke isn’t resting on it’s laurels as purely a head-on competitor to Domestos, oh no…now they’re taking on the insidious and evil bits of chipboard and laquered steel all shoppers fear…that’s right, The Display Stand.
Read on to see some real environmental good being put into action by a company that most people would believe didn’t give a toss about the environment. Oh how they’ll all be regretting that belief…
Heroku now supports the Logo programming language, a pretty exciting development for all the techies amongst us, but mastering Japanese cranes is harder than it looks…
This is absolutely ASTOUNDING. it’s a long video (4:12) so if you have the attention span of a 6yrd old after drinking a Mountain Dew, then skip to 1:04 and watch the world of tech get one step closer to Minority Report.
LINK to write-up on project.

Hot Wheels…we all remember them, and if we don’t…then, umm…well, we don’t. We were probably doing something a lot more interesting with our day. I’d hazard a few guesses but one likes to keep things family friendly don’tcha’know? Anyway, here’s a little bit of loveliness from Oglivy & Mather on a Bogota motor-way in Colombia. How they did it and other installations from Hot Wheels inside the break…
Imagine life if all the drab and dreary grey buildings and structures were brought to life in vibrant colour. What a different journey to work we would all have. Surely it would be a better start to the day, being surrounded by colour rather than boring grey.
Well that’s the idea behind Dulux’s ‘Let’s Colour Project’…
Mysterious black cubes appeared in Paris recently. Dubbed “Escape machines”, these formed part of a brilliantly fun campaign by DDB Paris to promote French travel company Voyages-SNFC…

Just came across this neat little bit of sculptural squidgyness. We all remember messing around with Play-Doh as kidz; hours spent amongst open tubs of various coloured (flavoured?) nonsense trying in vain to make a dinosaur but always ending up with something phallic instead of prehistoric. Well, General Motors have decided to go all touchy-feely for the marketing of their all new Chevrolet Orlando, and have opted to use 1.5 tons of Play-Doh to make us think of those Halcyon days when our parents screamed from the open bedroom doorway at the sight of our Triceratops that resembled something more usually found in the window of Ann Summers…

Is there any better way to feel warmed on a blisteringly cold early morning, than to be confronted by the sight of some hot buns huddled in a bus shelter? Of course there isn’t…it was a rhetorical question…

Designed to reflect the ‘heart-stopping’ content in James Patterson’s new series of novels, “Maximum Ride,” strategically placed floor stickers make up an installation launched to promote the recently released works…
Chevron’s new “We Agree” campaign was criticized as greenwashing before it even got off the ground. Protestors leapt into action to highlight the company’s responsibilities with its very own spoof campaign.
It’s the only Latin I know, and it’s been a common enough theme in my career if not in every designers… or maybe it’s just me.
Freebies for the good of the public have always had their place in my portfolio, you never know where it may lead. Perhaps a mention on some BBC documentary in 50 years time when Akira Records reflects back on it’s journey to the top of the music industry? More likely, a sorely visited blog hidden in the recesses of Oi’s website, but it’s a start.
Akira, meaning bright or intelligent, reflects the strap-line, which in turn defines the companies intent on exposing the best new talents and the most exciting music it can find.
A fun little personal project, I now sit back and await my turn to be interviewed on the original brand design of the multi-billion dollar record label in said future documentary.
Not to be confused with wetting your whistle on the award winning local brew above, or with island drinking culture for that matter. This is simply a collection of New Zealand’s finery in design.