Nerdfilms have just opened up a wonderful digital office.

Not just any other desktop view website, this one has some great touches to it as well as being all stop-motion to add real character. Absolutely love the enter the office animation, as well as the peculiar cat answer machine video…

Looks like this will be make a good addition.

Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design, a new book from Under Consideration co-founders Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit.

It splits the book into four main ideas: principles (design, typography, & print), knowledge (on paper, online, halls & classrooms), representatives (of designers, typography, copy & design), and practice (design on walls, shelves, newstands, identity & letterforms).

Buy from Amazon UK.

Loving these soda cans for Jones Soda as a limited edition to go with the Halloween season, designs by Superbig Creative

Fantastic little Czech based independant game studio Aminata has developed this rather beautiful point and click adventure game.
Amazing illustrative graphic art from Adolf Lachman combined with the character animation from Vaclav Blin it really puts this game in a league of it’s own.

Play it right here

Cheers to the Sweaty Yetti for the link up.

I feel like I’m going to need a new category set up for Augmented Reality soon with the sudden increase of work getting featured on thegraphical.

Here’s the new Burger King banners by Crispin Porter and Bogusky which feature the AR as a new tool to interact with the banner. Take any note (doesn’t have to be a dollar) and hold it up to a webcam where you can see all the offers available for $1 in AR. There’s a nice Easter Egg once you flipped your note 3 times…

Ok, so it’s not the most functional piece of AR out there, but it’s a fun new way to engage with users, and engaging with the audience has got to be one of the top priorities when it comes to online banner advertising. Only criticisim would be to offer an alternative ‘don’t have a webcam?’ button, so everyone else would get an experience from it.

With the potential of more banners using Flash 9, hopefully we’ll see some really exciting augmented reality with rich 3D devices being used, the proper stuff of AR.

Exciting times ahead…

Have a proper play at bannerblog here.

New advertising campaign for Amnesty International, in which they’ve called upon the illustration styles of Eboy to say “Poverty is a human rights violation. Demand dignity on www.1millionclicksagainstpoverty.org”.

The advertising leads you to the website 1millionclicksagainstpoverty.org, an interactive version of Eboy’s illustration where you can click on some of the 1 million pixels available to help reveal the poster from it’s tinted out state.

More fine work from Ogilvy & Mather with this new advertising campaign for Unicef, highlighting how “Pedophiles hide the truth. Help us find it”. Simple image with strong copy really sends the message home.

Have a proper read by hitting the link to view this poster larger.

Wow. Here’s some more fine use of augmented reality technology.

A new online experience by Dassault Systemes around the new movie Arthur and the revenge of Maltazard. Transform your cereal box into a 3D augmented reality videogame.

Love these. Nice to see an alternate use of crayons to create nice pictures.

Ghostpatrol has a great style of illustration, much more can be found on their site

Wow, loving this augmented reality music promotion from Lost Valentinos.

As you can see from the vid, the idea is that you print out the indivdual band members icons and use with your webcam to bring to life their latest track.

This is one of the better uses of AR for promotional content. It shows a really rich level of interactivity, encouraging you to be creative and have fun with the band members on multiple levels.

Have a go yourself at their site here.

All credit goes to the great SoSticky for this awesome find.