Disruptive Innovation for Brands

Just picked up Frog Designs Luke Williams book ‘Disrupt’ . Some interesting insights on how brands disrupt the marketplace. Tweet

Secrets of the Boardwalk Empire Main Titles

Imaginary Forces, created the opening titles for HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. The show’s deceptively simple opening-titles sequence was created in Maxon Cinema 4D and After Effects. Film and Video have an article on how they made it the sequencce. Also another interesting article on shooting on Super 35 Tweet

HBO Redesign by Viewpoint Creative

HBO redesign by Viewpoint Creative, really simple elegant design allowing the range of beautifully shot clips from show like Treme, Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos to really stand out. Tweet

Milton Glaser on The Fear of Failure

Students from Berghs School of Communication asked leading figures in the creative world to discuss their ‘fear of failure’. Speaking to Creative Review, Berghs student Louise Ljungberg explains: ” We students (including me) are constantly flanked by the biggest creativity blocker of them all – the fear of failure. Therefore we’ve decided that this year’s […]

Mr Smith’s Letterpress Workshop

Creative Review in collaboration with Order posted this film about Mr Smith’s Letterpress Workshop in South London. Great to see a designer working organically with ‘old technology’. His work has a great sensibility about it. Take me back a few years when I did lots of letterpress at college. Tweet

Ben Eine

Abbie Brandon directs and edits this short film about Ben Eine as he embarks on painting at the London Graphic Centre. Ben’s come a long way since playing cat and mouse with the British Transport Police for at least 20 years. Visit Abbie website here Tweet

Martin Lambie-Nairn

I attended the Meeting of Minds talk at the British Museum and had the opportunity to talk to Creative Director Martin Lambie-Nairn. Having left Lambie-Nairn last year to set-up his new venture Heavenly, Martin has over 3 decades created some of the most iconic branding including Channel 4, O2 and the BBC. Tweet

Y-3 NYC Billboard

The Colossal Media Group painted Y-3’s billboard in New York City’s Soho on the corner of Broadway and Houston. Thanks to Style Canteen for this. Tweet

Phunkstudio: Shadow Installation

Phunk Studio commissioned by DDB to design a Shadow Installation for the Health Promotion Board (HPB) for their ‘Be Positive’ campaign. 2 different messages will be cast at 2 different time of the day at 2 different directions. Tweet