Hamster as metaphor
A great short for nef by Leo Murray. That hamster really is impossible.
Poetic, melancholic and insightful.
Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip
A animated film by Leo Murray of Plane Stupid, explaining the science of climate change and what you can do about it.
Fizz on metalic peacock
I'm assuming designer had been watching Miami Vice videos and wound up thinking that yellow script with *hand-drawn* stripes and a drop shadow on metalic peacock blue was a good idea. It may have been just that in Florida circa 1986 but 25 years later in a south London housing estate car park it comes across as a bit shit.
- Posted from Camberwell, United Kingdom
We let the dogs out
The haute dogs served at the market by Cooper at The Dogfather Diner on North Cross Road in East Dulwich are a brilliant re-invention of the traditional hot dog - great beef dogs on fresh buns topped with "own recipe sauces in innovative original combinations".
My designs are rooted in familiar visual territory for a diner, strong monochromatic graphics and a retro type combinination are at this brand's heart. But these diner graphics are a little twisted, a 21st century reworking of 1950's americana. The crest holding the diner's name is gently decorated with aztec pyramids and rolling pointed wave shapes, cultural nods to the diner's central american and Indian influenced dog recipes - promoting the idea that this is multi-cultural hot dog dining.
The simple truth of the The Dogfather Diner is that the food is obsessive, Cooper's customers often become fans - which is where the idea for the smiling 1950's lady originated. Sporting haute dog sunglasses because, like many others, she loves The Dogfather Diner's dogs a bit too much. So much in fact that she's fashioned them into sunglasses. This may seem odd to you, it does to me too, but that's the kind of behaviour one can find perfectly normal having tasted the dogs.
If you'd like to find out what's cooking this weekend, want to know more about the diner or need to contact Cooper go have a look at The Dogfather Diner's blog.
Woof Woof Energy
The WWF Energy Report is a hefty, intelligent and beautifully designed look at the future of energy, how it can be generated and delivered sustainibly. The editorial design, photography are great, the world view redefinging maps are a thing to behold, visually challenging. I am a little bit green with envy. Hats off, good work.
Amazed at industrial logging
A preliminary sketch for an animated film I'm working on. The potty mouthed aspect may not make it into the final film.
A campaign in 2 minutes
I designed this animation for Greenpeace's forests campaign against Sinar Mas and APP and their destruction of the Indonsian rainforests.
Boring. The new interesting
Either a deeply ironic comment on the state of counter-cultures and/or the alternative music scene in the UK. Or just a simple statement of fact. As this was a builder's van I'm guess the latter is true but how I'd like it to be the former.
- Posted from London, United Kingdom
