Chameleons, commandos, Transformers, and high school freshmen all blend in with their surroundings for survival. In Germany the idea of Urban Camouflage deals with our relationship to urban space. Inspired by the ghillie suit -- the military camouflage that makes…
Continue Reading →Nike's latest outreach to action sports aficionados comes in the form of take-home video, slow motion shots, and the elements. In conjunction with the marketing agency Nemo Design and director Jared Eberhardt, Slow-Mo spots captured surfers Dusty Payne and Casey…
Continue Reading →There's no better price than free with the current economic climate, especially when it comes with a laugh. Two recent animated spots for the video chat service TokBox feature relationship phone follies that could use some visual interaction (including one…
Continue Reading →The new Friendly Fires tune "Skeleton Boy" is one that's upbeat enough to be on repeat for the next week (it's already on its fourth playback in the duration of the writing of this post). But the real beauty is…
Continue Reading →We're very familiar with the fanciful patchwork style of Steven Harrington, and now we have a lot more to see with more than 20 new pieces (many from his 'Our Mountain' travelling show) and a suped-up website to showcase them.…
Continue Reading →Nearly three years ago, Ian Silverstein, one of my dear friends and guest contributors to this site was simply minding his own business, asleep, when his home and everything in it was destroyed by Britain's largest peacetime explosion. His life…
Continue Reading →We blog about bikes quite a bit, but sometimes you have to be a nut to get through high speed urban traffic. In an effort to improve cyclist visibility the Transportation of London has put forth an ad campaign to…
Continue Reading →Where would you be without Adobe? Since they launched Photoshop in 1989, the technologically ubiquitous software company has been vital in transferring your imagination onto your computer screen. By creating programs like Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and After Effects (among others) you…
Continue Reading →Alert to all the animation nerds in the audience: The wow-worthy trailer for Virgin Comics' new online animation series MBX, written by real-life superman Grant Morrison and superbly animated by Brazilian motion graphics talent Guilherme Marcondes, is up for giddy…
Continue Reading →After Oprah endorsed açai -- the Amazonian berry that's making a sensation on the grocery aisles and likely in your tummies in your part of the world right now -- it was only inevitable that cachaça, the Brazilian rum made…
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