I’m currently working on a new itteration of my online presences, bringing my portfolio & blog under one roof. I thought I would share a video that has/is really inspiring my processes — Vanishing Point. Beautifully executed and with all the right ingredients… juxtaposition / form / colour.

Some of you may know that this isn’t the first time i’ve posted a video of Gary Vaynerchuck. I’m a big fan of his, he talks a lot of sense and this talk from FOWA09 is no exception.

Twittigami are 3 free twitter icons, designed in an origami style. They are currently available in 256px & 128px versions.

It’s the result of feeling inspired & having a few hours free at the weekend. I don’t mind how you use them so long as I get a mention (Creative Commons Attribution).

Download Twittigami (1st Draft). Also, don’t forget to shout out if you like it!

Thought I would share this selection of fantastic adverts I have collated over the past few months while browsing the web. Some real gems here, I’m particularly drawn to the Crisis guerrilla street ad – a great example of thinking on your feet.

On Friday I received a copy of the It’s Nice That Publication, Issue 1 of their bi-annual blog review. The content is as you would expect, fantastic. Lot’s of really great work from the past 6 months as well as some really interesting (& different) articles.

If your not convinced by my snaps you can see even more, including shots of it coming off the press (awesome!) on the It’s Nice That Flickr. The first issue is £10, and you can buy it direct from INT via Paypal for £10

Magnus Engsfors directed and animated this short movie illustrating the moment of total mental collapse.

It was shot with only one Canon Eos 5D and a single external ProFoto flash while Magnus was suspended on two stretched ropes. The scene was then masked and retouched in Photoshop and layered up in After Effects to add distressing/movement/particle effects etc.

I think the video really captures the mood, it’s emotive and the animation works really well. What captured my imagination however, was the budget. Creating something like this with only one camera, Adobe Creative Suite and a bit of elbow grease is impressive (and as most of you probably know, i’m a big fan for doing things on a shoestring)…

I appreciate that the Camera and Creative Suite is expensive but these are all things available to University Students (in the UK at least) and really demonstrates what’s possible on a shoestring.

Excellent promotional video from Adidas to showcase 60 years of Soles and Stripes. Featuring more celebs than you can shake a stick at (David Beckham, Katy Perry, Missy Elliott, DMC (as in run), Mark Gonzales the list goes on…)

I hope you enjoy this holiday crumbs (Issue No. 4), a selection of things i’ve been inspired by: Pepsi, Behance & Postbox to name a few…

Thought I would kick it off with a classic, the Dylan video for Subterranean Homesick Blues. I was having a conversation with my dad about music videos etc and this came up. Filmed in ’65, it’s most probably the first music video of all time?

This cracking self promotion material from the Behance Network aimed at visualising networks. It’s a really nice piece of design & a nice use of spot UV. It’s also well worth checking out the rest of Jason Rubinos Behance portfolio.

Another great portfolio, this time from illustrator lapin he has a jam packed portfolio & blog full of illustrations “somewhere between vintage and modernity”.

I found this pillow on Flickr, it’s made by the guys over at Ser-vice. They did a brilliant range of colour (+ Helvetica) related goods & clothes but they all seem to be out of stock now sadly – worth checking out though.

Postbox is a new e-mail application for OSX, it’s still in beta but looking very promising. Features of note include Conversation View and a very advanced search feature. If like me you use two different applications for your mail (work/home) finally we may have found a contender for mail.

The Periodic Table of Typefaces – a genius idea! Determined by statistically sorting and combining lists/opinions from a selection of sites, it features the top 100 most popular, influential and notorious typefaces (via @555)

The Pepsi rebrand has been subject to mixed (largely negative) reviews. However after seeing the natural range press shots I am preparing to possibly eat my words. The packaging is simple and executed well – certainly two fingers to the Coca-Cola corporation moreover it looks like a mainstream drinks product that I may actually buy! Whether it will work/sell when sat next to it’s competitors is a different question but certainly a refreshing image.

For those who aren’t enjoying the miserable weather at the moment, I hope you can find some comfort in this video, Spring is on the way!

The Buchhstabenmuseum (Museum of Letters, Characters and Typefaces) is dedicated to the preservation and documentation of letters, regardless of culture, language and font systems.

The museum stands to preserve the ever disappearing, quality, crafted letters and signs from our landscape; as a result it is repurposing old media, giving it a new home, recycling it. Furthermore anyone (museum or not) that is trying to raise public awareness of good type and brings interest to typography as a medium I’m backing!

The museum is based in Berlin and currently visits are by appointment only (you need to contact them to arrange a viewing)… If you can’t afford to go (and speak a bit of German) then check out their website Buchstabenmuseum.de