Olly Howe, where have you been all my life?

Little did I know it, but a huge influence for me and my flyer design comes from Olly Howe. I've seen his work in flyers splashed around the web, but just didn't know where it really came from, until now. Here is some of his awesome work, plus a case study on how he works. Really, finding this just made my day!

Case Study

View more of his work on his homepage here.

A new year, a new post

Like so many others out there, I'm sure "post on my blog more" is a new years resolution meant to be broken. Alas, here is my attempt at blogging a bit more!

I found this neat piece of recycled furniture on the DesignSponge Blog (http://www.designspongeonline.com/). It's handmade, and awkwardly awesome! It makes me want to pick up a saw, some nails, and a bucket of white paint.

Full Story Here

STOP! Hammertime.

MC Hammer's new TV Series, "Hammertime" starts June 14th... SO to pump up this epic event, a flash mob was created! I think they're dancing in an H & M too, where there are only skinny hipster jeans for miles around.. no golden hammerpants for sale there, that's for sure.

Mix the Rainbow

This music maker by Agency.com is making me snack-happy. Is there a rainbow around here?

Extreme Sheep Herding

Do you have a flock of sheep with highly trained sheep dogs? Are you bored? Do you want to do something more artistic and creative with your life? Try LED sheep herding! 

Samsung Extreme Sheep LED Art
by sertanarig

Way to go Samsung on one of my favourite viral vids! 

Infatables.

GOOD street art is a rare sight in here in Edmonton. We have the "listen" bird and a couple of other genius-like taggers (who usually refer to moms, sluts, gays, 4:20, cronic or blunts). Sometimes we even have the odd shopping cart or Sun Newspaper box artistically thrown on top of bus shelter - that just takes my breath away... But what I really want to see here one day is something even remotely as awesome as this: 

Please? 

Bubblicious

This is just rad. Go Rex the Dog!

Bubblicious from Rex The Dog on Vimeo.

Make it pretty.

Allthough I am yet to be a proud owner of an iphone, I can still dream about it, right? Check out these gelskins for the iphone, your ibook and other digi-gear. 

My potential iphone skin would be.....

my girl, Tara McPherson of course!

More Gelaskins here.

Squeakytime.

Now, since most racy commercials are only in seen in Europe, and then subsequentially banned, here's a Durex ad that was straight to WWW. This newish "balloon" commercial is truley a piece of viral marketing genius! 

Outakes here!

Buraka Som Sistema!

Here's a new one for my ipod!

 

The boys of Barakas - AKA Lil' John, Riot and Conductor - have been playing in Lisbon clubs since the late 90's and are now touring the world with the release of their new Black Diamond ep. Taking the beats of Angolan Kudro music and melding it with 21st century electronics, they've created a whole new sound - complete with guest vocals from including guest vocals from Petty, M.I.A., Pongolove, Kalaf, Nolay and DJ Znobia. Their electro ghettotech take their favourite South West African music is definitely danceable in my books. Their music videos are pretty rad too.