Issue 02.10 // Nice. Web. Comics.

Founded in 2009 by Jordan Crane, What Things Do is a web comic site featuring comic artists such as Steven Weissman, Sammy Harkham and Jordan Crane himself. Weissman's This Already Happened is definitely my favourite comic on any medium right now!


Hark! A Vagrant is an extremely funny web comic by Kate Beaton. If you want to learn about western history, literature and Canadians in a light-hearted way, this is the best place to be.

Variations on a Theme

Beautiful series of vases, called Variations on a Theme, by Piero and Barnaba fornasetti. Via designboom.

Issue 03.10 // Nice. Random. Links. Wk9

Yummo Yogurt + Smoothies by Tad Carpenter via design work life. Why are yogurts so fun?

Issue 02.10 // Nice. Weekly. Videos. Wk 7

New Old Spice television commercial by Wieden+Kennedy.


[Via Kitsune Noir]


Behind the scene of The New Yorker cover. [Via Drawn and Quarterly]




A series of video by Wieden+Kennedy Entertainment about creative (and facial hair) people and their love for skateboarding.

Issue 02.10 // Nice. Weekly. Videos. Wk 6

Tom Gauld x W+K x Coke.
Via Ads of the World

Issue 02.10 // Nice. Weekly. Videos. Wk 5.

This a beautiful short animation film that is too short. Garuda by students of Gobelins: Nicolas Athane, Meryl Franck, Alexis Liddell, Andres Salaff, Maïlys Vallade, students at Gobelins. [Via Kitsune Noir]


Nice animated illustrations by Andy Rementer. [Via Drawn!]


Interview with Saul Bass. Not sure if I totally agree with on a few of those points but its nice to know even the best face everyday problem everyday designer face.


The Lego craze continues well into 2010. In fact, I got tons of Lego news starred in my GReader that I, initially, wanted to post. [Via Kitune Noir]


[Via BoingBoing]

Nebojsa Cvetkovic

Illustrations by Serbia based Nebojsa Cvetkovic. See more of his juicy illustrations over at Behance. Also, he maintains an excellent sketchblog and his website is here. It seems that he hates Celine Dion. On that admission alone, I like him already.

Links of the Day

1. Hellen Jo’s Lady Gaga [Via The Beat]
2.You Are Not A Gadget cover by Olly Moss [CR]
3. Interview: Universal Everything [Unit Edition]
4. Ayamari Bijin – Beautiful Girls Apologize Online [Via Japan Trends]

Harry Clarke, Illustrations for Edgar Allen Poe

I always judge a book by its cover and, at Page One, one book illustrated by Harry Clarke, for Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe, caught my eyes this time. Harry Clarke's art are really something sublime. A Journey Round My Skull via But Does It Float

Frank Chimero on Process

One of my favourite illustrators Frank Chimero share a bit of his creative process with us:

Fooling around is serious stuff, whether it’s for the sake of our work or for the sake of our sanity. Don’t get me wrong: design can be serious stuff, and every professional has the right to take their craft seriously. But, somewhere in the myriad of analysis and tight deadlines, we’ve revoked our permission to play around with ideas and experiment.

I think being serious (or being "professional and business-like") is a way to sell the creative business. Especially in Singapore where most people do not understand, and even fear, design.

However, a solution has become a problem as most client are not aware of a good visual communication. Most of the time we are treated like tools. Where does this leave some of the designers in Singapore? Jaded. Therefore, no play. Very unfortunate.

Christoph Niemann 99% interview

"The problem is when people have too much time on their hands. Because then at some point everybody’s going to question, “Why did you make it red, not green?” and “Could we try it upside-down, or left to right?” and then at some point it becomes arbitrary."

Christoph Niemann is an illustration god. Blogs for the New York Times in his free time when he is not illustrating for them and others such as The New Yorker. Via 99%.

Links of the Day

1. La Charcuterie Business Cards and Stationary [Kitsune Noir]
2. Atheist Damien Hirst to display oil paintings in St Paul's [Times Online]
3. What Space Invaders Really Look Like (T-Shirt) [Gizmodo]
4. Denver to Singapore (and back) in 5 minutes (technically, a cool video but what the hey) [Kottke]
5. Neither Fish Nor Fowl interview [Grainedit]
6. Porter for Monocle [SLAMXHYPE]

Adrian Riemann's Masters of the Universe

Very nice modern update of the characters from The Masters of the Universe illustrated and dressed by Adrian Riemann. These here are Tri-Klops and Teela. As I grew older, I realised that the villains in MotU are extremely scary and dark.