My Mate Dave…

Print Club london (part 2)

Following on from my post t’other day about my excitement to be attending the Print Club london workshop for screen printing in Dalston, I can now report back that I wasn’t disappointed on the day!

What a great exprience, so should’ve done it a long time ago. I learnt so much opening my eyes to a whole new world of hands on production and appreciation for works produced in this way. Can’t wait to really put into practice some of the techniques I learnt, so watch this space!

And to top it all off, i met some cracking people along the way too!

Here’s the story in pictures, enjoy!

T-Shirt wars

Great stop motion video from I love commercials

Thanks Changethethought for sharing

Very simple Google ad during the superbowl

Stayed up late last night to catch the superbowl, but unfortunately fell asleep just before half time so missed ‘The Who’ performing (booo) and the collection of crazily priced ads that run at half time for only a couple of minutes but get talked about for the rest of time (a good investment??).

Thanks to the wonder of t’interweb I inevitably stummbled across this one this morning:

Fantastically simple ad created inhouse at Google that I think really does them justice. Great little story, sweet soundtrack, reminder of the service provided.

Thanks Swissmiss for showing it off

Playful Event

A couple of weeks ago I had the privaledge of attending the Playful event in the fantastic Conway Hall, london.

There were some great great talks and speakers. Highlights for me were:
- Russell Davies (who amongst other things writes for one of my favourite magazines, Wired),
- Tassos Stevens who made cricket sound very very interesting,
- James Bridle who seems to have an imagination that I think would make most peoples heads explode!
- Robin Burkinshaw answering questions about his amazing story of Alice and Kev
- Rex who brought the Playful identity to life with his drawings but also did a fantastic talk old school style with an overhead project, asetate and pens!

Also, to boot, with the provide lunch came a raffle ticket from the guys at Playgroup with the promise of a ‘Playful’ prize being awarded to the lucky winner drawn out of the hat the following Monday…

Well would you believe it, I only went and won didn’t I!! #255 is now officially my lucky number altho I don’t think they’ll put it on my shirt at my football team! The Playgroup guys kindly sent thru a jumbo box of lego (everyone loves lego) and a book title Play by Stuart Brown which I am looking forward to getting my nose into, so thanks for that Playgroup!

Till next time…

Fantastic typographic video

Great typographic video here. I think this is simply perfect, if the amazing animation and copywriting wasn’t enough the soundtrack is the cherry on top.

This is the promotional Grasshopper launched to coincide with their rebrand (formerly GotVMai)
The amazing score is by Carly Comando with the animation by Ben White they should be very proud!

Happy New Year!

First day back in the studio and must say it was a great drive in as it had snowed overnight and was still snowing on the way in. The converted stables in Tring, Hertfordshire where our studio is located looks spectacular in the snow. Its a shame the camera on my phone doesn’t do it justice else I would have posted a photo.

This seemed very appropriate to have in my inbox, hope your getting off to a better 2009 than this poor guy!

Band of brothers

Watching the re runs of Band of Brothers on the BBC at the minute and am outstanded by everthing about it!
Not only is it amazing to watch but all the stills, posters, credits blow me away too, well deserved of their Golden Globes I think you’d have to agree!