Poor Bitch

I shit you not, this is a real dog.


Someone should call the god damn RSPCA or whatever the equivalent is in this monster's country.

Look at the poor little thing


It's a dog, not a camel or Ninja shitting turtle!

Poor, poor Cindy (snigger, snigger, finnar)

I'm not a designer

But this made me laugh.

And similarly when you tell someone you're a copywriter they generally think you're some sort of lawyer.

inflatr

Blow up is a excellent site using the flickr api. Just add your flickr user name and see all your photos in full-screen glory.

Ha!

Honestly nicked from A Cup of Joe.

Kip Flip

Straight to the top of my 'i want' list. Many more skate inspired designs here

Characters for an epic tale

I love this from the Cabanon Press - reminds me of Grayson Perry's Print for a Politician (below) i saw at the Tate St Ives a month or so ago, part of the Hugh Stoneman exhibition (i know, high brow or what?) - which is excellent.



You can't really see why it's so good here, but trust me it is.

Grafty Pilate Radio

Some nice work from the obviously very clever Yuri Suzuki - particularly the above (click on the image and then the quicktime) and the Lemon Light.

And if Yuri, or any of Yuri's friends are reading this, apologies for taking the piss out of your accent - your English is much better than my Japanese.

Nice site, shame about the song

Don't like the music but the video/site is nicely done and reet interactive

I want you to want me

More completely awesome work from Jonathon Harris and Sep Kamver - those of We Feel Fine, etc.

Can be seen at MOMA in NYC (I think)

Big Ideas (don't get any)

As the man says...

"Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their album - "In Rainbows" This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that's played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It's pretty difficult to seamlessly mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.

This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from "Nude" thrown in so that they qualified for the contest.

Thom Yorke joked at the ridiculousness of it in an interview for NPR radio, hinting that they set the competition to find out how people would approach such a challenging task.

I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit.

Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.

It doesn't sound great, as it's not supposed to."


Insanely creative.

May the coarse be with you*

Like many men my age i grew up in a world of Wampas, Tauntauns & All Terrain Armored Transports. I'd rejoice at the arrival of a new TV or washing machine so i could plunder the polystyrene packaging and continue the construction of my Hothesque rebel base in the spare room, and I'd wait anxiously for the postman to deliver my limited edition weapons pack that i'd ordered in return for 6 names from the action figure blister packs.

Happy, happy days.

Then, sometime around the age of 12 or so, i sold everything to a friend of my Auntie Joyce for fifty notes. 60 odd figures, ATATs, Scout Walkers, The Falcon, Snow Speeder, Slave 1, Death Star, Tie Fighter, crazy little vehicles that never even appeared in the films, the list goes on and on.

The Lot - £50!

The reason i sold it all however was to fund a developing passion that i've retained to this day. The best part of that cash went towards the purchase of my first proper fishing rod, an 11' 4'' Abu Garcia ledger rod that i still have.

I wonder how my angling career would have differed if this had been around then.


*sorry!

Pimp my Breakfast

This is apparently, in the words of Westwood, for real!

I love the guy with the gang tattoos sporting a stylish Corn Flakes T.

Nina Braun

Really lovely work from Nina Braun, mainly in wool n stuff - more here

Colour Flip

Flippin sweet

Skate TV

Lovely site from DC Shoes - full of skatiggery and such. It doesn't want to be the official site of skateboarding on my blog though, unlike Nathan's, from whence it came.

Design imitating life...

The design below is the new 14k logo for the Office of Government Commerce.



All well and good until someone pointed out that when it's on its side it looks like a man having a crafty shuffle.


Couldn't be more appropriate for a government organisation if you ask me.


Here's the story

Lawnemower

Teenagers, or anyone else for that matter, that self-harm is in no way something to laugh about.

That said, comedy is comedy and this made me piss myself.

Look at this.

I want to take you back to an age of innocence. An age of scrumping for apples, not stabbing for iPods. An age of being able to walk to school without any pedophilia phobias. An age of ladybirds, not ladyboys (well i hadn't heard of such a thing back then anyway).

Yes Ladybird have put all their books online, you can't read them but you can buy prints of the artwork - excellent stuff.


This was my favourite book as a child.

RoboCopperplate Gothic Bold

Excellent work from Jonathon Yule. His Font Bots series is a bunch of robots made out of sans serif fonts. Futura looks well hard.

More here

The Madness of Al Jaffee

I wasn't into Mad much when i was a boy - i think it was getting a bit old hat by the early 70's. We were very much a Whizzer & Chips family.



I do remember the fold-ins though. And the New York Times have digitized some of them.