I don’t know about you but I have always possessed a keen desire to see just how San Francisco would look if it were to be moulded out of Jelly…. (or Jell-O as our Transatlantic friends call it…) My prayers have been answers! No longer the stuff of my imagination, it is in fact reality…thanks to artist Liz Hickok
She creates scale models of architectural elements, out of which she makes the moulds for the jelly, adds backdrops and dramatically lights the scenes from the back or underneath. Unfortunatly, given the nature of jelly, Liz’s hard work doesn’t last very long…Just click on the photo to see more fab photos… moulding a city out of jelly is one mean feat….

City view from Jelly-catraz..."The Rock" not as we know it

or Park bench or Dustbin or even Stairwell….

Seemingly there’s some degree of creativity when it comes to discarding a banana skin (be it purposely or accidental…)
….So much so that S. Astrid Bin has created a gallery website, London Bananas, that is completely dedicated to documenting where those pesky skins find themselves in our capital metropolis….

Slippy little sucker....

I know Manchester & London are 2 very different cities but I wonder if our fair city has the same volume of rogue fruit remains….? …I’ll keep an eye out.

This place is insane!!! Somehow the wall senses when people are walking by, and the wall of lights reacts. A cool idea in principle, unless, of course, the place is for those naughty ladies of the night…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xriYUzJ9Ls

I’m all for animated GIFs. ALL FOR THEM. Forget that Flash is a million times better in every way… those in the know choose GIF.

Chew.

The Sochi 2014 embelm for the Winter Olympic Games has been unveiled today

I personally prefer it to the (slight) dog dinner that is London 2012…”Simple” and “Basic” it may be and whether it’s the typographer in me shouting it’s corner or not, I really like the elegant typographic symmetry, and the coloured prominence of the 5 Olympic Rings leaves no doubt as to what exactly we’re looking at (unlike London!). The mirror of “Sochi” and “2014″ (apparantly) also reflects that Sochi is the meeting point between the sea and the mountains, but what makes it quite clever though and somewhat unique to all it’s predecessors is the inclusion of the official URL….

The blurb tells us that Sochi 2014 began the brand development process by surveying people from Russia and several countries around the world. In that, they gathered thousands of ideas and insights that have been used as building blocks for Sochi 2014’s new brand. That said, I wonder whether the Russians love their logo as much as we Brits love ours…?

As with all London 2012 Olympics creative, the newly released pictograms have received a bevy of mixed reviews…

I am in the postive camp and think they’re a refreshing change from the ‘usual’ pictograms that have seemingly become an expectation since the Munich Games of 72.

Beat me for using such a word but… the design boffins responsible for them say they’re pretty dynamic (agggghhhh!!! did I use that word?!?!?!) and I’m inclined to agree…. they’re a nice flip-side to the some-what questionable logo…

Your opinion?

Next month (November) see’s the 1st and 3rd birthdays of my 2 children. There’s only 6 days apart between the dates so it’ll be a hectic few weekends of cake, fruit shoots and general hyper-active chaos.

For the last few years I’ve been meaning to get a homemade birthday card read out on the TV  but one thing or another (ie a new child last year!) let it slip down my list of priorities.

This year though I’ve been super organised and today posted off 2 homemade birthday cards to Cbeebies (BBC) and Milkshake (Channel 5). They recommend 1 month in advance and there’s no guarantee that they’ll get shown so it’s a bit of a gamble.

Below is the artwork for Abbie’s. This ‘concept’ is based on the lovable fun that is ‘In the night garden’. As you can see, Abbie’s photo is inside the Ninky-Nonk with Iggle Piggle and Upsy Daisy waving from above but I guess that was obvious to you all!

Hopefully revealed in a months time on Cbeebies

Next up is Joe’s card. Sent to Channel 5’s pre-school rival to Beebies… Milkshake.

Hopefully revealed in a months time on Milkshake

‘My thinking’ behind this piece of artwork shows Joe as Fireman Sam, in the company of Peppa Pig and that ol’ favorite Thomas.

So all I have to do now is wait a month with my V+ poised to record and hopefully this will go national. If not I vow to only ever be watch ITV and Channel 4 for the rest of my life!

Given the recent wind, rain and less than warm weather, it seems to me that the summer is well & truly over…which in turn, surely means giving the house a bit of a clean in preparation for the winter months….? yes???

Well, that said, let me pose this question to you…. “what are you supposed to do with all the dead flies that have collected in the corners of the kitchen/lounge/bedroom/bathroom window sills over the course of those hazy months but you have neglected to deliver to their timely dustbin/chuck out the backdoor grave???”

You’re in luck!

I have the answer: create some dead fly art!!! (click the picture to see more…)

Waste not, want not some might say…

It seems that Cuckoo isn’t the only one to join in the tache-love…Ryan Dixon is indulging in a some tache appreciation too, albeit in ‘typographic’ way rather than in the ‘growing the real thing’ kind of way…

Just click here to see…

If you’ve always wanted to know how to build a car watch this small animation.

Click the link below:

http://www.ratemydrawings.com/drawings/animation/240701.html