Lovely poster created by Stanley Donwood for the upcoming Glastonbury festival this week. Unsurprisingly the poster has already sold out it’s 250 limited edition lithographs. However, good news for those attending the festival as Donwood has also contributed to an official festival newspaper, the Glastonbury Fire Lighter.

I just wish the Glastonbury digital side of things would sort themselves out and incorporate some of these nice graphical elements, at least for their website…

So the Cannes Lions is next week, and let’s face it, there’s of unnoticed talent which got left behind. So that’s why this year there’s the Cannt festival, to thank people who’ve worked on some great projects but didn’t make it to Cannes. It’s also running next week and includes sponsers from Wieden+Kennedy, Dare, Special Moves, Lbi, AMV, Soup and Skive.

And if you’re young enough, you can get involved with the event ‘Cannt Skinny Cubs‘, the Cannt version of the Young Lions, a 48 hour brief for young creatives to show their ideas off.
You can download brief from 7.30pm on the 22nd, and there’s a kick off event at Juno on Shoreditch High Street next Wednesday evening, and the winner will be announced at the Lbi after-party on Friday.
Get involved here.

After the recent rioting over the opening of a Tesco’s store in Stokes Croft, Bristol of which more than 30 people were arrested, Banksy has in response launched a new piece of art. The poster, of a Tesco Value petrol bomb shows a significant piece of commentary on Tesco’s overwhelming dominance and his support for the protesters. It’s also nice to see some of Banksy’s more painted style work reach the headlines. The poster is going to be sold too at the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair for £5 with the profits going to support the legal defence of for the arrested rioters.

I know Banksy seems to have quite a lot of critics these days for his work (as would anyone in the public eye), but you can’t fault his wit and social / political commentary.

Have to say this is the first HTML5 site I’ve been really impressed with. I’ll be the first to admit I have no idea what is being talked about but I love the presentation of various content with it being generated to sit neatly within the grid, and upon resizing the browser window the content easily reformats itself to fit within a new grid desirable for your browser window. All of which sits on top of some very nice background visuals which show off some HTML5 animation. The simplicity of the content comes into full effect when by viewing it, it simply brings it to an easily digestible blog format.

Definitely worth a little look over at Masukoisamu.com

Congratulations in order to interactive art director Jim Hall, who has gone and won himself a prestigious Site of the Day on TheFWA. Quite rightly so, he’s crafted together a fun and innovative site which allows users to create another sort of music ‘track’. Lay down the road tracks and then by adding houses, street lights, or trees and bushes you get different notes play out as a car drives around. He’s already got some pre-made, including classics like ‘Beat It’ by Michael Jackson.
Not only a smart piece of Flash development, but some neat design and a lovely style of illustration similar to the likes of Eboy really helps bring character to the site.

Year of the Rabbit from Frater on Vimeo.

Saw this nice little animation today in aid of the celebrations for the new Chinese year and it being Year of the Rabbit. Benji Davies & Jim Field from Frater Films designed and directed the short animation. Love the contrasting black and whites, which really helps the illustrative linear style.

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Dan Mountford has created some beautiful graphics, including this set of double exposures.
“This was created ‘In camera’ & colour was edited in photoshop & Vectors overlayed in illustrator.” He’s got a tonne more over at his Flickr page, but I’m really feeling the portrait shots combined with the landscape exposures; really gives a sense of depth of who that person is, where they may have come from, and builds on their character.

Matt JOnes aka Lunartik has been working on his worldwide ‘Custom Tea Tour’ together with 30 top notch artists, in which artists decorate a trendy little character together with a lovely cup of tea and now it’s finishing at the Kidrobot Store in London, where it will be displayed for one week from the 15th Oct (that’s tomorrow) and auctioned off for charity to help raise money for the NSPCC.

There’s a great eclectic range of style from many different artist, a few of which are below including pieces from Tado, Ian Stevenson, Jefff, Graham Powell, and Veggiesomething, though you can take a looksy through all of them at Matt Jones flickr page, or if your around the big smoke you can pop in to see them in the flesh. Head down to the Kidrobot Store, just off Shaftesbury Ave in London. Available for you to bid on ebay from the 15th October 2010 and bidding ends on the 22nd.

by Tado

by Ian Stevenson

by Jefff

Graham Powell

by Veggiesomething

Is it my obsession with anything Zombie related, or is the whole genre really taking off as of late?

Eric Powell’s The Goon, is being developed as an animated feature film to be produced by ground-breaking filmmaker David Fincher, Blur Studio, and Mike Richardson at Dark Horse Entertainment.

The Goon movie has not been funded yet (fingers crossed it will be soon) as the team is currently looking for a studio to snatch up the project and finance production. If it’s anything to go by from the above proof of concept footage, it looks set to being absolutely amazing.

Justin Quinnell pinhole of Bristol's Suspension Bridge

Just stumbled upon these amazing photographs taken a couple of years ago by Justin Quinnell, a renowned pin-hole artist from Cornwall, using a single sheet of photographic paper, a 0.25mm aperture pinhole camera (using empty drink cans), and an exposure of 6 months.

The photo’s are part of a collection of several iconic places in Bristol. The illumated lines darting across the sky represent the sun’s path over the six month, with broken gaps where the sun was blocked by clouds.

Justin Quinnell pinhole of the SS Great Britain

Justin Quinnell pinhole of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol