The Donut Project

Fantastically bright and strikingly beautiful posters from Tavis Coburn for the BAFTA’s, or the British Academy Film & Television Awards. I love how much color and drama they have and immediately catch my attention online; I can only imagine how great they’d be in person. Tavis’s other work is also just as equally striking and you can see more of it here. I’m really hoping he puts one of these up in his shop soon!

See more posters after the jump!

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A very inspiring video from Ji Lee, Creative Director for Google Creative Lab, about personal projects and how they can transform your ideas and even your career. His idea to put word bubbles on advertising turned viral and became an interaction and unforgettable idea, called The Bubble Project. Enjoy!

You can also see more great videos and design information at the 99% site, here. Highly recommend a visit, especially when you’re feeling blue!

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Wired magazine has always been my favorite non-design magazine about design. They push the boundaries of publication design and they are always pushing the boundaries of their magazine and their online presence. Well, now they are doing it again. Wired is teaming up with Adobe to bring their magazine to tablet devices and it looks delicious. Even the advertisements are interesting. I can’t wait for this to come to the market. It looks fantastic.

More info can be found at Wired.

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Seeing as every time I go to the gym I’m untangling my headphone cords, I found this Do Knot Forget ad really funny.

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I highly recommend reading this article from Newsweek about the Most Controversial Retouching Scandals of the Decade. The Madonna picture was definitely the most shocking to me, but to see all the pictures next to each other really blows me away more than I expected. I know retouching happens, but to see that the actual celebrities photographed say they’re ridiculous was the most shocking. I assumed they would know about it or would be the ones demanding it! Read the full article about the celebrity’s reactions and the controversy here.

Michael Bay, the director and/or producer of some of Hollywood’s biggest action movies including: Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and Transformers… has created a 90 second spot for Victoria’s Secret. I honestly can’t tell if it’s meant to be a serious thing, or if he’s poking fun at his over-the-top style.

Either way – enjoy the lingerie, gratuitous military vehicles, shiny things, swooping camera angles, heavy music and the huge explosion at the end.

Challenge: Let people know how the new Coca-Cola Grip Bottle has a better grip for holding.

Solution: Posters printed on Velcro were placed in bus shelters in Paris to make people interact with the grip.

Results: People literally hooked to the campaign. On the whole, a 3.8% brand volume growth in France compared to 2007.

Excellent idea, well executed. By Marcel Paris.

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I’ve come across a few of ISO50’s work already, but when stumbling onto his blog, then his portfolio site, my jaw dropped. Not only is Scott Hansen’s (ISO50) portfolio site gorgeous, but his vintage work and use of saturated color had me captivated all last night as I looked through his print works, photography, web, clothing; the list goes on. You can also purchase his prints and posters and even some apparel on his site here. And don’t forget about his blog! Scott, you’re a busy, busy man, but it sure is paying off. View his portfolio and other amazing work here.

I don’t know about you, but Lorem Ipsum and I were very close throughout college, and we still hang out now on certain projects. After seeing the Blind Text Generator, however, I think Lorem and I may have to part ways.

The Blind Text Generator introduced my to Kafka, Pangram and Far Far Away. This site generates bodies of text based on the amount you need, but instead of using the garbled language of Lorem Ipsum, Kafka and other forms actually generate words so that it looks a little more believable. Here is a chunk of Kafka in paragraph form:

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. “What’s happened to me? ” he thought. It wasn’t a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table – Samsa was a travelling salesman – and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather.

Even though I have many great memories with Lorem, I think I may have to try these other options. Plus it’s just a fun change from seeing the same text again and again. Try out the generator, Kafka and others here.

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@Issue posted this visual aid by Marty Neumeier, author of Zag: The No. 1 Strategy of High-Performance Brands, and I find it so SO helpful in trying to explain in a very simple way what I do daily. I’m not trained in telemarketing, PR or whatever else friends or family members I haven’t seen in 5 years believe that I do daily and I can easily print this out and bring this around with me to illustrate fully what I do for a living. Ok, maybe not, but it’s still great. Read the full article here.