SimpleDesktops.com

Found a site with beautiful and clean desktop backgrounds on SimpleDesktops. My favorite is the Dr. Who Police Box by Thomas Quicksell. Overall most backgrounds on the site have some great color treatments.

Pictionary Photo Booth

I'm a sucker for photo booths in general, especially the fancy japanese photo booths that let you change borders, backgrounds, add stickers and create elaborate and unnecessary effects. This Pictionary Photo booth that was the brainchild of Ogilvy & Mather (Columbia) is clever.

Pictionary Photo Booth Ogilvy & Mather Colombia from ogilvycolombia on Vimeo.

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Nike: Laura Hadar

Impressive combination of compositing, time lapse photography and tilt shift imagery. Directed by Brad Kremer.


Nike: Hadar from Brad Kremer on Vimeo.

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Quotes on Design

Found a fantastic resource, quotesondesign.com, with inspirational, quirky, and fun quotes related to art and design. They even have a token Gary Busey-ism related to creativity: "Your imagination is the hood ornament on the car of creativity."

Keith Haring 1978-1982

Checked out the Keith Haring exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. I have never seen any of his earlier work that he had first developed while studying at SVA in the late 70s/early 80s. Cut up collages, performance/video art, systematic drawings and ciphers...its a retrospective of the very work that constructed the foundation behind his his iconic visual language of abstracted shapes and sexually driven characters. I was inspired and compelled to re-ignite the creative fire within.

Magnum Pleasure Hunt

To promote the introduction of Magnum Chocolate desserts to the US, Lowe + Partners developed Magnum Pleasure Hunt, an interactive (advertisement) game that tracks a model catching chocolate drops all over the webscape, jumping through e-commerce sites, youtube videos, car ads. Very addictive and fun!

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Should I post this image?

Fantastic flowchart diagraming the importance of getting permission to post copyright images online. Created and designed by Pia Bijkerk, Erin Loechner and Yvette van Boven.

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