KesselsKramer 'Royal Memorabilia'

Very funny project from KesselsKramer where they have produced their own range of Royal memorabilia for Prince William and Kate's wedding. Adding in humour whilst taking inspiration from the traditional memorabilia produced for Royal weddings.

You can even buy it here http://www.kkoutlet.com/shop/products/royal-memorabilia

Little White Lies 'The Black Swan Issue'

Very interesting little video of the making of Little White Lies' latest issue 'The Black Swan Issue'

Beautifully made, especially the hand-drawn image on the cover and type designed by David Carson, and a great insight to what it takes to make a magazine from start to finish

Found at Creative Review

Kim Jong-Il looking at things

Kim Jong-Il Looking at Things hilarious blog that is purely about Kim Jong-Il looking at things.

My particular favourite: Kim Jong-Il looking at corn

M.I.A

Amazing new set of music videos from M.I.A with Hype Williams. I love the use of old internet imagery and the effect of 'it's so bad it's good' XXXO is definitely the better one, I like how they've used the style of teenage girls myspace pages etc. plus the use of cool little gifs, maybe thats just because I love gifs.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Surreal.

Plus interesting titles. *stores away for future inspiration*

Videogrid by Ross Phillips

Here's a quick video from Decode exhibition in London, which we went to see last weekend. This piece was probably the most popular and simple thing there. As you can see people were having fun creating an animation that looked like they were passing a book to each other.

Check out Ross Phillips @ http://www.rossphillips.me
http://www.showstudio.com

I'm Not An Artist

Yet another gif post.. obsessed..... maybe

Uploaded a gif to http://www.iamnotanartist.org/index.php , which is a brilliant website of gifs people have submitted, ranging from amazing to hilarious to a little weird. Mine's a gif of me and Amy morphing into each other.

http://www.iamnotanartist.org/gif.php?id=247 See it here

Gum

Gum by Jeff Baij. An audio file of the backwards talking scene in Twin Peaks, it runs back and forth through the backwards and forwards play of the dialogue. Then the words are written above and below the audio file in the exact place they play on the timeline.

This is inspiration for my new self initiated project which I'm doing about the number 100. And also because this scene is awesome.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05xm2eN-1VA]

Lithium

Most insane version of Lithium I've ever heard. Especially used in a film like that.

Kesha X Star Wars

Funniest thing ever. Created and directed by Teddie Films and Eddie King

Code Organ

 

 

Ever wondered what your website would sound like when converted into music, well here's your chance
check out http://www.codeorgan.com/?url=www.louiselawlor.co.uk

Boss Inside

Here's the music video for Adam Green's song "Boss Inside" directed by Dima Dubson. It's a very simple concept but I think it works really well for the song.

Selleck Waterfall Sandwich

 

What could be better than the combination of Tom Selleck, a waterfall and a sandwich in one image. Well nothing, so check out this blog that only combines those three things over and over again.

http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.tumblr.com/

Dog Judo

Dog Judo

Most hilarious animation ever by 12foot6. ( http://www.12foot6.com/index.html )

Asics Stop Motion Animation

DAK Stop Motion Animation

Intervelometer from Kunal Sen on Vimeo.

This is by Team DAK, it's called Intervelometer and won Best Picture at the 2nd Annual Trick 17 Stop Motion Animation Contest.
Their final animation is quite surreal, which is what I really like about it. Especially the section where a man is drawn on a clear sheet and is animated to run through the city. The concept is really simple, using an A4 piece of paper and constantly rotating it to make an image on both sides to appear as one, and is done really well and they have put a lot of thought in to the accompanying music, which adds to the surreal atmosphere.

The Inside Light

These are from a project called 'Inside Light' which is a collaboration between Cinco and Chris Hornbecker. They photographed creative people who had to define their inspiration in one word, they then transformed the words into light boxes and then flashed so they would leave a reflection in the photos.
I really like the final photographs for this project, especially the first, which has 'thief' reflected in his eyes, its a really subtle inclusion of the text and fits with the overall look of the photo. I also think the concept is really good and makes the photos more interesting as the words reflected mean something, which is personal to those in the photos.
Also the flash website for the project is nicely designed, using a book format and illuminating the words reflected in the photos

You can see it here-- http://cincodesign.com/CO/TheInsideLight.html

I Love You, But

This is a project by artists Alex Holder and Ross Neil, which is hand drawn illustrations and messages which follow the structure "I love you, but..."

The inspiration was the moment in a relationship when you don't love someone completely.

The site is really simply designed and lets the illustrations speak for themselves, the navigation is through a small thumbnail and takes you to the full page illustration with the message. The result is a mix of funny and sad messages of the reasons they aren't completely in love any more. My personal favourite is this, "I love you but, you wear sunglasses indoors"

The illustrations look amazing and compliment the text perfectly.

This is a simple idea and kept simple in the design, which works very well and doesn't detract from the underlying message.

Look at more here-- http://www.loveyoubut.com/

Sweet Gifs

This is a really simple website, which is just pages of animated gifs. The backgrounds are tiled with the gifs and has a really simply design navigation in the top left, which doesn't detract from the gifs.
Some of them look a little rushed, but there are some really good ones if you look through the pages, especially this one on page 18.

The pages themselves would look really nice as backgrounds for websites, they'd create a bold first impression and would catch the viewers attention straight away.

More here-- http://www.sweetgifs.com/
Page 18-- http://www.sweetgifs.com/?pg=18

Questionnable Characters website

This is by Frank Chimero and Ben Barry, who set up this resource of questions they've been asked by they're students. You can also ask your own question.
This is a helpful resource and clever on the designers part.

Here is the link-- http://www.questionablecharacters.com/