Lifted

A short animation from Pixar with great animation and attention to detail.

Oh dear...

This is what can happen to you if you don't get an education.

Graphic Design - David Carson

David Carson is the creator of the "grunge style" graphic design. If your interested in his work here's the link.

Nicebunny

A great resource for conceptual artwork for characters and craft making skills.

ColdPlay - Viva la Vida -- APPLE STYLE!

CGUNIT - Artists portfolio

A great reference for a mass audience of
'traditional and digital' designers

Radiohead - Nude

This movie was made for the Radiohead music video competition. Unfortunately James Houston missed the deadline. The guys from Radiohead put out a statement saying he probably would have won if it had been submitted on time. A great idea turned into a cleverly manufactured original video.

As frustrating as it may get!!

Ghost Trees

Cubeecraft

Nice site this one. Sent to me by former student David Baker. Cut out your own toys and put them on your desktop or where ever you like.

Cubeecraft

Gurl!

Former BTEC ND Multimedia student Kris Francie's entry for a Dorito's competition to make a video advert.

Toki Doki

Toki Doki

Toki Doki is a website created by Italian designer Simone Legno in 2005. I first came across this site in 2005 and he has steadily built up a large following and it seems to be getting bigger. The designs he created became so popular that he started to produce merchandise and since then it's gone from strength to strength.

Cardboard Cut-Outs

Luke Skywalker

What a great site, life size cardboard cut outs of your favourite movie stars and you can get custom ones.

Web Design - Food Fight

I'm not sure who gave me this link, one of the 2nd Years. What a really cool and inventive site.

RoboCop Design Archive

Check out the great conceptual artwork of the famous classic - 'ROBOCOP'

http://www.robocoparchive.com/info/making1-ed209.htm

Web Design Rap ?????

I hate rap as it is but this isn't even funny or mildly amusing just very very wrong....

GTA IV

Grand Theft Auto 4

For those of you who are into gaming (hello Lewis!) you will probably know that GTA4 is being released in the UK this Tuesday. For those of you interested here is the Official Rock Star site.

GTA IV Flash Site

Marketing Gone Wrong...

I was a fan of the clothing label Zoo York but not any more and It's thanks to this little clip. I had to watch this ad through my fingers and not because I hate cockroaches but because of the poor attempt by these middle class homeboys to be "down with the kids". YO YO YO! Just incredibly tacky! I would like to hear your views on this....

Design - Photoshop

Egghead

I love this bit of Photoshop work but theres something quite disturbing about this photo.

Design - Banksy's spanish cousin....

Fantastic work from Banksy's spanish counterpart "SpY". Gallery of images available by clicking the pencil, full website of work here.
(The stuff in braille on hand railings for the blind is genius...)

Design - Make Your Own T-Shirt

A handy resource for those of you who want to get T-shirts printed with your own designs.

Design/Fashion - T-Shirts....

Good examples of illustration and design in general....not to mention great t-shirts.

Design - Transparent Macs....

Great examples of clever uses of Photoshop & photography...Take an image of the area behind your computer, use it as a wallpaper on your desktop and line up the camera so it looks like a transparent mac...

Design - Sebastian Kruger

De Niro

Sebastian Kruger is a German artist who paints caricatures of famous people like Elvis, John Lennon, Robert De Niro etc...

Design - Photoshop Disasters...

Fun website documenting awful examples of Photoshop work. Clumsy manipulations, senseless comping, lazy cloning, etc...Amazing to think that most of these ads, posters, etc are actually signed off by Art Directors (highly paid Art Directors I might add...) The Spiderman one for example is pretty poor if you look at it. Kirsten Dunst's left arm would either have to be 5 feet long or she's got 2 elbows....

Design - Amazing Application...

Just found this amazing website/application for creating fonts and font families. Using an outstanding interface, the application allows you to create, save, share and download your uniquely designed font, to use as a TrueType font in your own font library...

Highly recommended...

Design - Pixeloo...

If Mario & Homer Simpson were real.......created using Photoshop CS2.

Via Pixeloo...

The 11th Hour - Global situation!

Check out how we can all save the planet for our future generations!

http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/

Paul Price

Paul Price is a great designer/ Illustrator. Check him out!

www.paulprice.org.uk

Kraak and Smaak

Design - Business Cards

So you have designed a nice business card. Here's a fun way of giving it out. You could look a bit of a prat if it goes wrong so beware.

Video - Guess The Song?

There is a lot of creative people out there. Yet another good short video.

Video - Ping Pong

Wow this isn't as easy as it looks, trust me I have tried. Another good idea for a short film.

Video - Google Maps

Well as you know I am off ill today sat in bed covered in snot with a sore throat, so I may as well do something useful like posting a few tit bits. This is a great idea for a short film and I like that they do not show you where the red light is coming from.

Design - The Neighbourhood

More good web design, nice way of navigating through the site. I'm quickly running out of things to say about this website. Just take a look...

Gadgets - Beamz...world's greatest gadget, played by the world's coolest men.

This is the top level of geekiness.....a sound device that when you break the beam plays whatever sound you designate. Unfortunately we may not look as cool as the guys who play this...check out the awesome 'high-five' at the start of the video.

Who 'high-five's' anymore?

Gadgets - Finger Massager

The solution to all that exercise that our fingers are getting....if you buy one let me know what it's like as I wouldn't want to be seen with one...

Design - 2880 x 900 Curved Monitor...

Pure indulgence....a 2880 x 900 curved monitor. Is this affordable?........I don't know but I think I want one anyway...

Gadgets - Kaossilator

If your a creative type you will probably love gadgets. The Korg Kaossilator retails for around £100. I have to get one of these and I can guarantee in no time at all I will be turning out tunes like Moby.

Design - Laura Racero

Laura Racero's Portfolio

Some lovely Photoshop and Illustrator work from designer/illustrator Laura Racero, excellent stuff.

Design - Advertising

For some reason this advert from the 1980's stuck in my head I love the idea. For those of you who have seen it before enjoy for those of you who were alive in the 80's this should bring back a few memories.

Video - Do The Test....

Design - Vectors of Cars

Vauxhall Corsa

A collection of free vectors of cars for you to download and use at your pleasure.

Design - Vexels

Oh yes this really is a vector of Carmen Electra

For those of you who are into creating stuff using vectors this site shows you what you can really do with vectors. Some outstanding work.

3D Modelling - Blueprints

Star Wars (AT-ST)

A very useful site for all you 3D nerds. A wide variety of blueprints that can be used as a template to model in 3D.

Design - Bring Bad Design to Justice....

The design police web site has a visual enforcement kit that you can use to highlight poor, cheesy and careless creative decisions!

http://www.design-police.org

Design - Hello Kitty

Death can be cute when it's commemorated with a Hello Kitty gravestone.

Video - Processing

Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

I don't really understand this but it's good all the same. The animation reads the sound waves and reacts accordingly. (or something like that) Anyway it looks good.

Design - Public Information Films

An interesting site this one. A collection of public information films dating from the 1940's. They could be used in videos and animation projects. Interesting stuff all the same.

Video - 3 Designers at Omaha...

This is an amazing example of three designers who tried to create a seemingly impossible task.

To recreate the opening beach scene of Saving Private Ryan, (a scene that utilized a cast of thousands) except they would do it using just the three of them, a video camera and post production software.

Essential viewing.

Design - Stefan Nadelman

Stefan Nadelman Showreel 2007

Food Fight, Anyone?

The cool video was created using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. The creator took 3 months to complete the sequence and used digital stop motion techniques within After Effects to create the movement.

For more videos check out: http://www.touristpictures.com

Design - Lloyd Farrell

Lloyd Farrell (nose picker)

Congratulations to Lloyd Farrell who got a place in Falmouth the most prestigious university in Britain. Falmouths Graphic Design students won 21 major awards in 2005 alone. Then there are the Royal Society of Arts Design Awards, International Society of Typographic Designers’ Student Assessment Awards, and Macmillan Children’s Book Awards that Falmouth students/graduates have won. Last year, Graphic Design students, Tom White and Jonathan Clements, won two out of the four Young Creatives Network Best of Year awards nationwide. Current Graphic Design student, Rose Hall, recently scooped Best in Show at the hotly-contested Future Talent awards and is about to enjoy a year-long work placement in Paris, London, Milan and Hamburg as part of her prize. Falmouth Graphic Design students have also won prestigious Design & Art Direction (D&AD) awards(the Oscars of the design world) and the list of accolades goes on and on. It's an extremely hard course to get into and we hope Lloyd does well. We look forward to seeing him appearing in a future edition of Computer Arts.

Design - Cool Business Cards

A great collection of various business card designs via inspiredology.com and a Flickr group......you've got to admire the obsessive quality it takes to photograph and document all of these cards.....

Design - Milk

Just Perfect for an '8 Core' MacPro

This gorgeous desk (called MILK) has been designed (by Soren Kjaer) specifically for Macs. Just look at the clean lines, the geometry, the symmetry - as you can see it appeals to my eighties lineage. Unfortunately it retails for £2500.

Learn more a about MILK...

Design - Consumer Heaven

An image supplied by lecturer Craig Hughes. Don't really know why this image is so fascinating, it just is.

Animation - Radiohead

Radiohead are running a competition to produce an animated music video for their new album "In Rainbows". Those of you who are interested have until 17th March to get your animations submitted.

Web Design - 1861united

Design doesn't mean you have to bevel and emboss everything you put on a page. Sometimes less is more as illustrated by this very clean and simple website.

Design - Debut Art

Established in 1985 Début Art specialises
in the worldwide representation and marketing of ninety-four of the world's best new media and traditional media illustrators.

Design - Tapes

Remember the days before MP3's? This site celebrates the joy of analogue tape design and it's a nostalgic trip down memory lane.

Multimedia - Find Sounds

A handy search engine that searches the web for audio to use in video production and Flash.

Design - Making A Good Logo

Some good rules when designing a company or product logo.

Flash - Flash TV

Some excellent Flash animations from around the world.

Illustration - Will Murai

Various illustrations from Brazilian born illustrator Will Murai.

Design - Adobe Kuler

A handy utility from Adobe that helps you decide colour themes for design projects.

Multimedia - Helios

Helios is a multi-disciplinary studio founded 1990 in Toronto by Alix and Felix Wittholz.

Flash - Jonathan Yuen

A beautiful Flash website from graphic designer Jonathan Yuen.

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