creativecheaters

FontStruct

2008-07-05T15:22:00.001+03:00

easily build & share your own fonts online.

droog

2008-07-04T11:24:00.004+03:00

I went to see their exhibition in Amsterdam and I was very much amazed by the following:

the Lego chair

the tree-trunk bench

the chest of drawers

the heat wave electric radiator

Check the rest of the projects on their website.

green ashtray

2008-06-25T12:42:00.004+03:00

by vitamin, via leblogdeco.

Surrender to Braun

2008-06-23T13:23:00.002+03:00

via buzzingbees.

Difficult is worth doing

2008-06-04T13:06:00.003+03:00

Honda's live skydiving commercial:

& the other story:

Congratulations to all skydivers, pilots, riggers and copywriters :)

Where to buy your t-shirts

2008-05-28T13:52:00.019+03:00

If you're a fan of printed tees, you must be already familiar with Threadless. Personally, I've been kind of disappointed lately with their designs (too crowded), but luckily there are plenty of other options available (with some of the shops you'll have to arrange delivery with your friends in the States, because they don't ship all over the world). Let's see what we got:

The t-shirt blogs
selekkt does a very critical selection of everything that is posted, so pleasant surprises only.
addicteed has plenty of nice things:
shirt 2 simply rocks:
the teeshirtblog is in French, but you'll only need to look at the pictures:
The shops:
limitees has some very good looking merchandise on the shelves, and it's made only by small producers, so dig deep:
for beard enthusiasts, there's a dedicated shop: moustache & friends:

if you're more into cookies, grab some colouful cupcakes from Johnny:
If you're a big color lover, chances are you're going to get your eyes popping at people like us:
For controversial characters look no further than kid robot's site:If you bought something you liked from another place, please post a comment and share the link :)

Once in 3,5 years special offer

2008-05-27T15:37:00.009+03:00

I'm putting up for sale my position at BBDO for a very good price to whoever possesses a wish-I-had-done-that portfolio and a nice convincing smile. In return you will receive my very faithful copywriter & precious friend, Adina, a couple of successful brands, a 20" iMac plus some snacks I've been saving in the drawer since Christmas.
Bonus: teddy bear mug, suitable for drinking coffee, tea or whatever keeps you hydrated.

Oh, the reason I'm giving everything away: starting the 1st of July I'm gonna be famous.

Zgomot urban 4

2008-05-27T15:03:00.004+03:00

campaign by the nephews, beautifully illustrated by saddo and translated by Irina Nistor.

Smart packaging for tea

2008-05-27T14:55:00.001+03:00

via the dieline.

BBDO cauta copy si art

2008-05-20T17:49:00.003+03:00

Care sa fie multumiti ca au ales sa faca treaba asta, care cred ca pot mai mult si-si doresc sa faca repede o demonstratie de maiestrie.

Care sunt posesori de neliniste creativa, bun simt, cultura publicitara, proiecte misto in sertar care s-au oprit din tot felul de motive, campanii despre care vorbeste "consumatorul", curiozitate, dorinta de a fi mai buni ca ieri.

Sa nu-si bata capul: vanatorii de megaupgrade-uri salariale prin transfer,
buricul pamantului indragostit de a saptea propunere de leaflet si toti ceilalti lipsiti de curiozitate pentru cum isi cheltuie banii coafeza din colt.

Mailuri la Ema.

P.S. for my English readers: we're hiring people who can read Romanian :)

Things that caught my eye

2008-05-20T17:21:00.005+03:00

precise mixing colour guide for coffee or tea from SUCK UK:

the very old whiskey wrinkle bottle:
the clean car concept by Konstantin Grcic:
and his french fries little forks:
the friendly medicine for when you need help:

and a cute logo made by Checkland Kindleysides:

Nokia's human Snake

2008-05-20T13:07:00.005+03:00

One of the most entertaining websites I ever saw just got published on the web. I'm talking about Nokia's n-gage Get out and play campaign which is centered around a stop-motion film version of the most popular cell-phone game, Snake. A very likable young man walks across town gathering an impressive queue of 1000 people while trying to stay out of trouble. See & download the full lenght version here.

Make sure you don't miss the human bouncing ball game :)

How should a good motion designer reel look like

2008-05-19T11:52:00.003+03:00

it should look like Conrad Ostwald's funny and entertaining piece of video (hi-res) which casts all the techniques an animator needs to master in a very personal way. Ostwald makes fun of the standardized way all reels are created these days in something that's clearly unrepeatable:

via Ralu.

MUTO

2008-05-16T11:41:00.001+03:00

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Levi's backflip into jeans

2008-05-13T12:45:00.002+03:00

Very similar to the already famous sunglasses catch video:

But still very impressive.

The Art-Eggcident

2008-05-09T19:00:00.005+03:00

Several huge poached eggs made their apparition in the central square of Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands. The author is artist Henk Hofstra who is not at his first try to make his artwork very visible. His other project involved painting 1000 meters of road with blue paint. Hofstra was hoping his Blue Road would eventually show on Google Earth.

the Blue Road:via wooster collective & artsjournal.

Paper monsters, tshirts and some planes

2008-05-09T18:24:00.006+03:00

Jean Jullien is a very talented designer that mainly works with paper that he cuts and pastes in amazing ways to create objects, characters, posters, books or movies.

Some music is magic, but most of it is not

2008-05-09T15:32:00.002+03:00

this is the conclusion of the new Magic FM campaign made by my colleagues at BBDO, Mihai Gongu & Cristina Panaitescu. Enjoy:

Fun at the office: free the walls!

2008-05-09T10:24:00.005+03:00

a stairwell redesign project set up by W+K. Read all about it (1 & 2).

electric wires turn into a plant

the second floor

the unofficial meeting space on the stairs

the world map made out of stamps from all countries

stamps from Africa

Listerine kills 99% of germs

2008-05-09T10:15:00.002+03:00

this is what the rest of 1% are doing:

via adsoftheworld.

The flip-book music video

2008-05-09T10:12:00.003+03:00

Received the link so many times this week that I can't remember who to credit :)

Designing movement

2008-05-05T16:51:00.005+03:00

Artist and designer Ben Hopson realized that designers tend to be exclusively interested in form when they create a new product and that innovations in the way products move (for example, the opening of a case) are sadly not their priorities. Aesthetic principles seem to apply only to static objects and kinetics are always left in engineers' hands.

Hopson believes that a more beautiful or surprising movement can add value to new products and improve functions of existing objects.

So he started to explore and experiment on the aesthetics of movement using playing cards and foam models. See his recordings here and read his conclusions.

via stanescoo.

BBC Motion Gallery

2008-04-25T23:19:00.004+03:00

10 000 movie clips from BBC's archive are now available for download in lo-res and, if you buy a license, also in hi-res. BBC will continue to expand its database to one million hours of video content gathered in its 70 years long history.

The gallery also provides an interesting inspiration tool: Concept search.

How to build the best good looking pinhole camera

2008-04-25T12:43:00.006+03:00

download it as a pdf, print it and start taking pictures.

The cameras were designed by readymech using stock photography & illustrations. Courtesy of Corbis Images.

Snickers treadmill

2008-04-23T11:31:00.002+03:00

click on the image to see it big.