A magic marker, a camera and some snappy editing combine to brilliant effect in this clever promo for Field Music‘s “In Context” directed by Dan Lowe. This is a great example of how pure creativity can cut through the bullshit and achieve over two million YouTube views.

Picked up at the always excellent Make: Blog...

Last night I went to Dialogue, the LCC (London College of Communications) Graphic and Media Design degree show. The work of two graduates particularly caught my eye.

Look What You’ve Got, is described by designers Shaz Madani and Billy Woods as “a celebration of everyday objects we have falled out of love with”. The project featured a collection of household items which had seen better days, and a series of beautifully made posters encouraging the viewer to take a second look at these items in a new light. Unlike many of the show’s exhibits the project was accompanied by a helpful booklet allowing outsiders such as myself with no knowledge of the brief to understand what was actually going on.

I also saw some excellent typographic posters by Niccy Kemp. Unfortunately Niccy’s site is all Flash so I can’t deep link to the posters (or extract a decent image to post here), so you’ll have to visit her site and click on My Work > Monsoon Trust to check out the goods.

Tonight’s random surfing turned up this excellent poster for Philadelphia based band Audible by Philadelphia based illustrator extraordinaire Tim Gough. You can see lots more of his posters at GigPosters.com.



Tim also produces Cut and Paste, a beautiful hand-crafted zine he describes as “a collection of abandoned ideas, random doodles, and half finished leftovers” – you can order a copy from his shop.

After finding piece of work I liked, it was once again well worth while digging around the studio responsible’s website – in this case One Fine Day. James Joyce's (great name) work is simple, fun and refreshingly direct in nature. I particularly love this "dials" image from the contact page:



You can buy one of James’ limited edition screenprints in the One Fine Day shop.