Need some handy little tips on ideas generating? Check out this rather superb little animated video for the 2010 Rethink Scholarship competition.

In which you’re asked to create a sketchbook, pile it full of ideas, and in return those judged best will be given a scholarship to Langara’s Communication and Ideation Design program as well as an internship with Rethink.

Recently pitched to a client for an idea to use imagery which could be projected through a digital screen, and allow the public to interact with it. Then just recently came across this amazing LED video wall in Montreal which interacts with the public, causing different visual lighting patterns according to movement. I love the vibrancy captured here in the video as well as all the bright visual formations created simply by movement, resulting in giving people a real relationship with the urban area.

Moment Factory developed the interactive system and designed the interactive content which uses 35,000 LED light bulbs to help create this unique urban experience.

Cheeky little print campaign for Nikon and the Euro RSCG Singapore which recently picked up a win at the Cresta Awards.
The campaign promotes the Nikon Coolpix S60 Camera, with apparently one of the bests face-recognition-technologies, as seen from the ads…

“I’m here – A love story in an Absolut world”, a 30 minute short film in which see’s more cutesy Spike Jonze direction, this time for Absolut.

It’s been described as a ‘robot love story’, or perhaps better called, a rob-rom… It also premiered at the Sundance.

It nice to see a company giving creative freedom and funding towards the arts with a no strings attached (or maybe I mean in this case bottles of Vodka) attitude, as Jonze explains “They didn’t give me any requirements to make a movie that had anything to do with vodka. They just wanted me to make something that was important to me, and let my imagination take me wherever I wanted. And it wasn’t like working with some huge corporation where I had to meet with committees of people. It was just a small group, and it seemed like creativity and making something that affected them emotionally was the only thing that really mattered to them. I got to make my first love story. It’s about the relationship between two robots living in Los Angeles.”

Banksy artwork/graffiti has been popping up across Utah ahead of the Sundance Film Festival at which he is due to premiere his documentary film ‘Exit through the Gift Shop‘ where it will be shown as the Spotlight Suprise. Should be interesting.

Here’s some ‘Love to start the week off to the view of inspirational illustrations’ time.

Found myself at the Robert Samuel Hanson site a few days ago and love his style for turning city views or office/mundane objects, striping them down to a minimal presence and yet applying a fun and charming style to give them a sense of optimistic character.

Apart from the images I pinched off his site here, be sure to check out his ‘Abc…’ work. Awesome.

For more regular updates, head over for to his tumblr, for some tumbling action by the illustration.

Experiencing alot of this from the last couple of days. Help me!

I’ll try to leave the title of this post as the only stupid pun in this post…

Interesting new campaign coming from the Diesel camp which seems to be splitting the advertising industry in half.

Be Stupid. centres a new look for Diesel with a classic manifesto aiming to get people to be, well, just stupid. In their 2 minute typographic ad they which they suggest that smart is stuffy and boring, so to get creative, exciting and brave you need to be stupid. I’m not sure if that’s quite true strictly speaking. It also seems they are now targeting their £75+ jeans towards a more young, student demographic…

The campaign by Anonamly see’s the design being fully integrated into social, digital, and print. There’s a nice energetic spirit to it all, and I really like the graphic and photographic treatment given, but it seems the message is somewhat lost among itself, somewhat incoherent, perhaps a little …hmm.

Apparently I am Archer Hairline – “…straight forward appearance, but one that has tiny outbreaks of elegance and tiny dots of emotion, only apparent on closer inspection.”

Quite gutted I was some way off from being a Baskerville, but neverless really enjoyed this piece of late season greetings from Pentagram.
Head over for to the ‘what type are you’ website where you’ll be greeted by your psychiatrist. Enter your details and the generic password ‘character’ then find out just what type you really are.

Some shameless promotion time, hope you like.