Friday 30 November 2012

“Play is the highest form of research.”

Albert Einstein

Ursus Wehrli

The Art of Cleanup, features before and after images of disorder put into various degrees of order—rows of objects and items categorized by type, size, color, shape and structure.

Thursday 29 November 2012

UCAS Points for Foundation

For those of you who have been asking :

UCAS Tariff points	Distinction Merit Pass	285 225 165

Stefan Sagmeister

Things I have learned in my life so far.

Have a look at the book in the library.

http://thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com/sentence/film/worrying-solves-nothing

http://thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com/sentence/motion-graphics/keeping-diary-supports-personal-development

Tuesday 27 November 2012

If you are having difficulty writing your Personal Statement, have a look at some Manifestos. You should be able to find one related to your discipline.

http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/first-things-first-manifesto-2000

Monday 26 November 2012

One Letter is all it takes...

Mobile phone company Claro produced these eye-catching ads in Brazil warning people not to text and drive.

Agency: Ogilvy, São Paulo, Brazil

Lego - Builders of Sound

This is incredible.

H A N D M A D E T Y P E a typography experiment by Tien-Men Liao

Tien-Men Liao

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Handmade-Type/3235741

Viktor Hertz Honest Logos

Ji Lee - Word as Image

Word as Image (by Ji Lee) from jilee on Vimeo.

http://pleaseenjoy.com/projects/personal/word-as-image/#image753

Mrs Eaves

http://fortheloveoftype.blogspot.com.au/

Thursday 22 November 2012

Pencil to Pixel

The forthcoming exhibition by Monotype brings together the past, present and future of a unique typographic institution.

Exhibition runs 16th, 19th - 23rd Nov

http://www.penciltopixel.org/

Chris Floyd Photographer/ White Cloth Gallery

Chris Floyd is a award winning portrait photographer who is soon to be exhibiting a new series of photos at the White Cloth Gallery in Leeds.

He keeps an excellent blog that would be really useful for those interested in studio photography. It details his working process and approach to commercial photography

http://chrisfloyduk.wordpress.com/

All photography students should endeavor to visit the specialist photography White Cloth Gallery in Leeds. Go check it out!

http://www.whiteclothgallery.com/

Tuesday 20 November 2012

Olly Moss at White Cloth Gallery

ON NOW UNTIL DECEMBER 2ND 2012.

http://www.whiteclothgallery.com/archive/catalogue/olly-moss/

Leeds Alternative Comic Fair

Monday 19 November 2012

John Lewis Christmas Advert 2012 - The Journey

We particularly like the animation that you see with the snowman even though he is constantly still.

Personal statement

This was a UCAS personal statement from last year.

It was submitted as a link in the personal statement box of their online application....

Saturday 17 November 2012

Jon Rafman - nine eyes

Jon Rafman, a Montreal-based artist, started 9-eyes.com in 2009 and since then he’s been adding candid snapshots of everyday life on the roads to his Google Street View collection.

http://9-eyes.com/

Doctor Dolittle Title Sequence 1967

Doctor Dolittle Title Sequence 1967 titles by PACIFIC TITLE designed by DON RECORD

Friday 16 November 2012

"So was it worth it? Well, of course not. It turns out it was just advertising."

"So was it worth it? Well, of course not. It turns out it was just advertising. There was no higher calling. No ultimate prize."

That's one conclusion drawn by Linds Redding in "A Short Lesson in Perspective," a 3,000-word essay the longtime creative executive wrote on his blog earlier this year, republished by the San Francisco Egotist. Redding was diagnosed with esophageal cancer last year. He died last month at age 52. The piece finds Redding—an art director, designer and animator—taking serious stock of his personal and professional life. He opens with "The Overnight Test," recounting how, in the early 1980s when his career began, he'd spend the day pinning campaign ideas to the office wall, returning the next morning with invaluable fresh perspective allowing him to gauge the true merit of his efforts and renewed enthusiasm for the projects at hand. Redding laments the subsequent technologically driven homogenization of creativity, arguing that creatives became—or more accurately, in his estimation, allowed themselves to become—abused by a system that exploited their propensity for putting in endless hours to generate and refine ideas, while receiving progressively fewer rewards in return.

- Taken from AdFreak here.

Sharp Suits

Ad creatives, designers, animators, directors, illustrators and more took time out to dress up their favourite worst feedback from clients, transforming quotes that would normally give you a twitch, into a diverse collection of posters.

http://sharpsuits.net/

Dumb Ways To Die

Animated Public Safety Announcement from McCann Australia for the Melbourne Metro train system.

BAF 2012 Best Commercial Award

Directed by Shy the Sun.

Directed by Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet.

Directed by Ken Lidster.

See all Nominated videos here.

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Films/BAF/O/OfficialSelectionCommercials.aspx

Animated Music Video Awards at BAF

Easy Way Out ties in with the depressive elements of repetition; we see our protagonist unable to break free of his own routine.

Directed by Darcy Prendergast.

A multitude of organisms dance, sing and mutate to the song The Living Things by The Spinto Band.

Directed by Phil Davis.

Have a look at the other videos in the Best Animated Music Video Category here:

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Films/BAF/O/OfficialSelectionMusicVideos.aspx