Life & Fate TVC from devilfish on Vimeo.

I’m a sucker for all things Saul Bass inspired, and this TV ad for BBC4’s dramatisation of Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate is particularly good. Illustrations were by Ben Newman, the ad was produced by Wonky Films.

BBC4, Life and Fate, Saul Bass, TV, Vasily Grossman

Punctuation is not just a great friend of the copywriter and author. Designers and typographers have long valued the punctuation mark for its succinctness and beauty of form, bringing simplicity, clarity, homour and intelligence to design. This charming Print.Magazine gallery showcases a history of the question mark and exclamation mark in design through the years.

Art, Book design, Copy, Copywriting, Grammar, Illustration, Typography

WOW. All 3D modelled. Same guy as The Third and the Seventh. The new benchmark, but how LONG does this take to produce?!!

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..to the world in as many languages as possible.

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Nice little video for a Rotating billboard (in NYC, Soho) designed by Sagmeister Inc. for Levi’s.

Advertising, Billboard, Sagmeister, video

New ad for the electric Nissan Leaf. Who would like to hug a Polar Bear?

Car, Eco, Electric, Nissan, Polar Bear

Fast Company magazine are on the hunt to find out who the most influential people on the internet are. In a week where Old Spice have received much praise for their campaign this grass roots approach also has a strong incentive for users to be sharing branded content. With an interesting interface to check out and the chance to be featured in the magazine maybe its time you found out how influential you really are…

Fast Company, Influence, Interface

Times Square Billboard by Space150 from Cliff Kuang on Vimeo. Pretty crazy comments too…

Augmented reality, new york, time square

Some of you probably remember the video of Snoop, Stars, and Adidas taking over the streets of New York. Here a new related viral video, featuring a few more big names, such as Daft Punk and David Beckham. It’s certainly got our studio talking and with over 2 million hits to date it seems to be doing something right. Does it do it for you?

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Adidas, Star Wars, Viral

Jean Malek’s website shows that great visual impact doesn’t have to be at the expense of simple usability. In fact I think the useability vs design debate is really a bit old hat now, they should just go hand in hand. (Designers and developers unite, it’s a love in!) Anyway, we really like the way they collide on this site. It’s a striking way for him to display his work and the way the menu icon follows your cursor round the screen means you never get lost.

There is also the thoughtful inclusion of quick links to get directly to the previous/next piece of work. Very nice…

Photography, Website