Jacques d'Azur, King of Cannes, remembered by Stella Artois

Stella Artois are respectfully remembering Jacques d'Azur with a rather nice advertising campaign. But who is this mysterious man, Jacques d'Azur?

Jacques d'Azur is missing
- Presumed dead!

Last seen while holidaying in the South Pacific on his private yacht the “Bridgette et Anna”. He was (hopefully is) a man of many talents, particularly skilled on the backgammon board so I hear. His talents knew no end; he was a waterskiing pioneer, tennis player, film producer, director and marvelous actor all of which earned him the title ‘King of Cannes’.

Add your name to the will
The competition, run by Stella Artois, is to 'inherit' his place at the Cannes Film Festival 2010. All you have to do to enter is visit the Stella Artois website and register your details (It's worth it just to see their amazing typewriter at work - really cool!).

The sweep stake competition ends at 9pm on the 25th April (2010). Good luck!

Illustrations by Jon Turner

I found some of these illustrations a while back when searching on Threadless, check out Jon Turner's website for more!

Balloon German Panther Tank by Hans Hemmert

German panther, 2007
960 x370 x 300cm

Im Rahmen der Ausstellung:"diese vorbereitung der bereitschaft des sich-offen-haltens für die ankunft oder das ausbleiben des gottes", städtische galerie nordhorn 2007

Roughly translated by Google to...

As part of the exhibition: "This preparation is the willingness of the keep-open, or the inevitable arrival of the god", urban gallery nordhorn 2007

See more of Hans Hemmert's work at www.ingesidee.de

Virgin Media - ‘Speed of Light’ installation

This spring, an immersive, light-based art installation commissioned by Virgin Media to celebrate 10 years of broadband in the UK will open to the public on London’s South Bank.

Created by UK art and design practice United Visual Artists ‘Speed of Light’ explores the themes of communication and modernity. The responsive work puts the public firmly at the heart of the experience, with a series of experimental light works flowing through the labyrinthine spaces of the Bargehouse, a four-storey industrial space situated on the South Bank.

The installation will be located at the Barge house, Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House Street, Southbank, London, SE1 9PH. From 9 – 19 April (online preview from 31 March) open to the public Mon-Sunday- 11:00am - 7.00pm (last entry 6:30pm). Cost: FREE

About ‘Speed of Light’

‘Speed of Light’ is a series of installations that invoke in the viewer a sense of the “magic” involved in fibre optic communication. Stripped back to its materials, fibre optic is a thin strand of glass, with nothing more than a flickering beam of light. UVA have used this beam as the starting point for their work. The installations dramatize the experience of using fibre-optic communication, re-imagining it as an immersive environment.


[Photographs by Tom Oldham]

Mischlicht RGB Lamp

Just found this amazing RGB lamp on Death by Kerning.
'mischlichtRGB' by Fabian Nehne und Martin Meier

Marmite shower gel? Tempting...

These are just a few of Marmite's campaign posters advertising their new cereal bars, they're certainly going to turn a few heads on the underground at the moment.

I'm not sure about the shower gel, but who could resist a woman smelling of vegetable extract?!? Those brown streaks are sure to do the trick.

That may be too far,
but how about this?

On a similar topic, those crazy cats in the Marmarati have joined together in the social sphere and have developed a new Marmite flavour - XO! Take a look at the Marmarati here >

Marmite is a product of Unilever.