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This years D&AD Awards has had many strong submissions. I was delighted to see one of my favorite coin designs ever being featured among them.
These coins are absolutely stunning, and I love how they can be puzzled together. These coins can be enjoyed both as a means of payment AND as a beautiful collectors item. Well deserved award!
UK Coins by Matt Dent for Royal Mail. Awarded D&AD Black Pencil.
You can see more award winners at Creative Review.
Today I’ve had this video mentioned from @dagthomas, @smashingmag and @Agent_M. That’s only one of the many reasons as to why this video is awesome.
The video is a student work by Bang-yao Liu, who used Röyksopp for his soundtrack. Enjoy some post-it pixel-animation!
I guess I’m not the only one hating deadlines and being prone to procastrinating?
As some of you might know, I’m a graphic designer. This flyer is one I originally made for the company I work for, and then I reworked it a bit to work as a separate poster.
Ironically, everything went wrong while trying to post this. Yay!
photo credit: hiperkarma
For people who’ve had a peak in my music library, it might not come as a surprise that I’m fascinated by weird band and song names. The latter as evidenced in my last post featuring the Lonely Island song Jizz In My Pants. While I could write an entirely new post on songs I love by the Lonely Island, I think I’ll stay away from them this time, and rather talk about a band I discovered while living in England:
The Bondage Fairies.
They are weird, they are Swedish, and I’ve heard them described as Nintendo Death Punk, and they are weird. Did I mention that they’re weird?
They share name with a Hentai, but they have strangely few songs touching on the subject of sex. They do have a song about He-Man, though.
Their new album is a bit more serious than the previous one, but it’s still got that fun nintendo-ish tune that makes me happy. And, hey, it’s got song titles like I Eat Children. Who wouldn’t want to check it out?
I’ve had another music revelation. Found their video for Jizz In My Pants a while back, and laughed my arse off at Justin Timberlake doing a cameo and the lyrics and the everything. Some days are for cheesy music.
So, I decided it’s time to show them here as well. If you’re on Spotify, here’s a link for you.
Video: Lonely Island – Jizz In My Pants
Sushi! This one is a handroll bought at a Sushi place that used to be in Carl Berners in Oslo. Unfortunately, the place seems to be no more, but this epic handroll will be remembered.
I’ve had Spotify for a bit now. After a while of “trendy shit for wannabe’s”-whining, curiosity came over me and I got myself an invite.
I love it.
I enjoy buying the music I actually listen to, and with just about enough money for food and housing, this doesn’t allow for much music. This results in me being more critical before buying stuff. I always try on clothes before buying them in the store, and I always listen to the CD before I buy it. And I don’t trust samples. Unless they’re food samples, that is.
This is where Spotify comes in. I can actually listen to a whole album of an artist I just heard about without leaving my home! And with the compatibility most record stores now has to my taste in music, this is awesome! I knew Puscifer were going somewhere when they streamed V is for Vagina on their website before the release. Thanks to the streaming, I bought the CD as soon as it was available. This will probably happen again and again and again. And again.
Spotify has opened my access to music by far. And for students having parties, this is even better. Have you ever woken up with your harddrive full of crap tunes you don’t even want? And no will to remove it all? See where I’m going?
Now, this is all turning into a huge ad for Spotify, which it shouldn’t be. But thruth is, I’m a happy customer. When money comes in for anything that’s not food or rent, I’ll probably upgrade to premium. Not to save myself from the ads I hear every now and then, but rather to show my support to an idea I enjoy. Well, if I throw a party and want my guests to listen to virtually whatever they want without making me a pirate, i could just by the day pass. NOK 9 for 24hrs of music without ads? I can surely afford that.
Music should be brought back to the fans. We want to be willing to throw money at you. We want to wish to go to your concerts. We want freedom to realise how loveable you are.
This post was written under the influence of I am X after having realised how awesome the music is through Spotify.
“How do you know if you’re happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?” – Valentine from MirrorMask.
I had this dessert at Bagatelle in Oslo some time before christmas. It was delicious.
I was going to say a couple words about the Zeromancer concert I went to the other day, but I fell ill. Gonna wait until Thursday to publish those words, then.
Some days, alcohol packaging is the way to go to ensure my happiness.
This one’s from my dads collection of miniature bottles: Yumyum, spunk with vodka. Sounds delicious.
The next two are from the beer department at Centra Colosseum in Oslo:
In Amsterdam, a fitness studio decided to make people really want to go to their studio, so what do they do? They do some nice guerilla advertising and install a weight on the seating of the bus stop shelter. The weight is displayed in large, red letters in the ad space. Clever. The campaign is done by N=5. Well done, guys! Here’s a photo (found via coolhunter):
Bus shelter advertising are often boring posters showing some beautiful girl wearing some clothes or a coke bottle with some illustrations round it or some other thing you’ve seen “a thousand times before”. That’s why it’s so great every time someone does something out of the ordinary.
I live in the middle of Oslo. Somewhere not too far from my house, there’s a stop where they keep having interesting ads. A couple weeks ago, a Norwegian film called “Appelsinpiken” (the Orange Girl) had its grand opening. The days before the opening night, this was seen on this particular tram stop:
I should perhaps mention that they also had a booth close to it where they handed out free oranges. Great initiative! I hope this will be a trend in the future. (You hear that, ad designers out there? Innovation is awesome!)
After a couple weeks, I went by this stop again, and here’s an interesting Beatles spoof:
The text says “Alle har vikeplikt for trikken, også i fotgjengerfeltet” (everyone must give way to the tram, even in the zebra crossings). This is shown by a nice spoof on the famous Abbey Road image of the Beatles. Here we see the tram in the distance, and one of the “Beatles” guys stops to let the tram past him. This is not a lecturing ad, although it tells you to stop when you see the tram coming. It does not really scare you into stopping, but rather serves as a gentle reminder. The placement of this one in particular is very clever. This is one of the few spots in Oslo where you see tramlines going absolutely everywhere.
I’m looking forward to seeing more of what JCDecaux puts up around the buses, trams and subways in Oslo in the future.
