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 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]

Links of the Day

1. Wiedan + Kennedy Got a New Website
2. Fontshop turns 20
3. So did the beautiful FF Scala (Martin Majoor) by the same foundry

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]

Academia vs. Business

Applicable to most other professions including design.

Immediate Attention

Ah Lady Gaga. You will continue to shine as long as you keep up with all those masonic allegories and those A Space Odyssey: 2001 references. The little girls had some attention for a while and now the woman is back. I am glad.

Links of the Day

1. Mr. Beaks chats with 2012's Chin Han [Ain't It Cool]
2. Growing penis tissue in the lab (I wish I have an image to show.) [BoingBoing]
3. Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit and Run With an Old Lady On a Bike [Gizmodo]
4. Starbucks, but not as we know it [Moving Brand]
5. 21 Writing Prompts for Design Students [AIGA]

CMYK 3.0: The Redesign Story

CMYK Magazine is where aspiring creatives showcase their talents to an industry driven by inspiration and new ways of creative problem solving.

CMYK magazine is getting ready to launch its redesign issue. Check out a preview. And, hey look! Another Christoph Niemann article.

Links of the Day

1. 'Ora' Concept Watch by Alexandros Stasinopoulos. [Designboom]
2. Starbucks Marketing Push for Via Begins With Taste Tests. [Adage]
3. Nice old book cover found flickr. [Via We Love Typography]

Links of the Day

1. The Week In Type. [ilt]
2. Tomasz Opasinski Interview. [Psdtut]
3. How I Got 294 Comments With One Blog Post. [Copyblogger]

2009 Weekly Cool Videos Release Week 39

[Via +Kitsune Noir.]

Five excellent videos for Week 39 including a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis.

Links of the Day

1. Urban Planning Integrated Into a Volcano. [Archdaily]
2. An Oldie But Goodie: 9 Ways to Improve An Ad. [welcome to optimism]
3. Seven Lies About Lying Part 1 & 2. [nytimes's Zoom via kottke]

Lies are effective because we are insecure about many of our beliefs and are quite vulnerable to the suggestion that those beliefs might be false.

4. Blood Powered Lamp by Mike Thompson. [Apartment Theraphy NY]
5. Hilton Trades Beverly Hills for Beveled Hills. [Brand New]

Free

Free by xkcd. Reminds me of an episode of Mad Men season one. The one about marketing cigarettes as being toasted.

Singapore's New Censorship Committee

The Singapore government has just appointed 17 people they think qualifies to discern contents which are suitable for Singaporeans and which are not. And, as usual, they will try to provide salvation for young ones from the unholy internet:

To study whether there is a need to introduce additional content standards and guidelines that would be relevant to the emergence of new technologies and new media platforms;

Looking at the list, a sense of shame came over me as a Singaporean, for I only know one Ms Chua Lee Hoong, the great Political Editor of, you guessed it, the unbiased Straits Times. And, going further down the list, there is a young violinist called Ms Min Lee, a student in Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, who will be probably representing the youths of Singapore.

Yeah, representing the youths. That is nice.

Anyway, check out the full list here.