Ernest Shackleton's failed business endeavours : Prints by Thomas Boswell

I really like these prints by Thomas Boswell I spotted the link on It's Nice That, and they are! The prints are based on 'Ernest Shackleton's failed business endeavours'.
(Click the images to view large).

Walkers Clash of the Comics : Comic Relief

Walkers crisps have just recently launched these adverts for their Comic Relief campaign 'Clash of the Comics'. Even Steven Fry has made an appearance for the good cause. Check out the campaign website for more details >

3D Projections on buildings

These animated projections were created by NuFormer and are pretty cool! I love the way they use the building's features and then break the apart, or use them in specific animations, like the pin ball machine and the use of the columns in the videos below.

New Sony Bloggie™ Touch : Shape It. Shoot It. Share It

Sony have launched a new video camera called the Bloggie™ Touch. The new product allows you to get great HD quality film on a really small handset. The video below shows some fun examples of what you can do with the new camera when a little creativity is introduced!

To celebrate the launch of the Bloggie™ Touch, Sony have run a competition (still open for entries until 31st March) for the public to share film ideas, and now are showing the five best ideas to be exhibited at Somerset House in April.

Visit facebook.com/sonyuk for more information about the Bloggie™ Touch!

One Easy way to create a Twitter bot (ah ah arh)

Today I decided to try my hand at creating a twitter bot, which would automatically tweet back at a fellow tweeter based on a keyword.

What better bot to create than one for Count Von Count from Sesame Street? So now if anyone out there tweets the name 'Count Von Count' they will get a little message from the Count himself!

I was a bit inspired by the work of www.muffinlabs.com who have created one for Robocop @for_a_dollar and Betelgeuse @Betelgeuse_3

CREATE YOUR OWN TWITTER BOT:
If you want to create your own Twitter bot, check out this page from www.digeratimarketing.co.uk it's a lot easier than I expected, using next to no coding, it uses Yahoo Pipes to function and a little help from twitterfeed. Enjoy!

Part & Parcel : New York

Nice set of illustrations from Damien Correll and Garrett Morin - Part & Parcel New York. The illustrations were created for GOOD and their guide for The University of Phoenix.

And a video from their new website, partparcelny.com

Pretty cool stuff!


Parts & Parcel from Part & Parcel on Vimeo.

An Amazing Collection of Letterheads - Thanks To Letterheady

Here's just a few of my favourite letterhead designs from the blog Letterheady which catalogues letterheads from the rich and famous right down to gun manufacturers. There are some really interesting designs, some crazy, some totally understated, but they all reflect the person or company they were used for. Check out Letterheady for many many more examples, and more information on each letterhead.

Get creative with Veer.com and the Most Monstrously Inventive Activity Book!

Are you monstrously creative? Then Veer.com have a great competition, for creative folk like you living in the UK.

Veer.com have now made available - for the first time in the UK, "The Most Monstrously Inventive Activity Book For Creatives Ever" and you can get your creative mitts on a copy by simply registering with Veer.com (by registering you will also receive 10 free Veer® credits which can be used to purchase images or fonts!). The activity book itself is 96 pages long, and contains many crazy illustrations and activities to keep your brain fresh after (or during) a long day in the studio.

Although you might be thinking The Monstrously Inventive Activity Book is prize enough, the guys at Veer are offering some great goodies as prizes for taking part in the main competition.

Enter Veer.com's poster competition to win an iPad!

To get your hands on one of these prizes: Win an iPad, Wacom Intuos4 Tablet or a cult 60’s style Lomography Diana camera, all you have to do is visit the Veer.com website, download the poster design and get a bit creative! The idea is that you 'colour' in the poster with mixed media - from post-it notes to magazine cuttings. Finally you need to scan in your masterpiece, and send in your submission to Veer for the judging and get those fingers crossed!

Good luck to all who enter, I'm looking forward to getting my copy of the The Most Monstrously Inventive Activity Book For Creatives Ever!

Further information can be found here >

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American Football Pitch Painting

In honour of the recent Superbowl between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Stealers (31-25) in Texas yesterday, I was kind of impressed by the pitch artwork, the typography and sponsors logos are impressively transferred onto grass for the game and I thought I'd post a small collection of pitch images.