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Where do they make creatives?

A bit of fun for a Friday. If you've ever wondered where creatives come from, find out in this little video.

Adi

The visual feast that is Ghost School pointed me in the direction of this lovely stop motion film for Adidas. By lovely, I really mean that it's lovely looking. It's not especially clever or anything.

It tells a little tale about Mr Dassler and the shoes he made.

There's a nice mix of stop motion and live footage.

And an odd, but intriguing mix of old and new.

Is Paul McCartney's banjo killing YouTube?

Being the cutting edge hipster that I am, I was looking at the official Paul McCartney website the other day. The website informed me that Paul recently performed with Kylie on Jools Holland's Hootewhatever. The official site then invited me to watch a video of the performance on the popular online video website YouTube.

So I followed the link and was greeted with this.

Now I know the copyright was possibly the BBC's and not McCartney's. But still. Digital eh, some people just don't seem to get it.

The digital world is your friend

That is a picture of me, watching a video I downloaded from the internet of my brother giving a talk at a conference in Las Vegas, on my iPod, on a train journey to Maidenhead.

That's good isn't it? The digital world, my friends, is your friend.

(I'm also reading a horrendous supplement about design that I shall hopefully write about later.)

Maybe I'm cool now?

I've never really been into MTV. I never watched it as a kid, in fact I don't think I've ever 'watched' it. It's been on a few times when I've been round other peoples houses.

The other night Marcus twittered that he was watching "probably the best MTV EMA ever" so I thought I'd have a look and see if it was streamed live online.

And blow me down it was.



So I watched it for a bit. Streaming. Big. Good quality. And I got to see Amy Winehouse sing 'Rehab' which was good because I'd actually quite fancied watching that bit.



And the graphics were pretty good too.



Ahhhhhh... the internet.

Original Design Grouch

You've probably seen this, but I hadn't so here we go.

Original Design Gangsta is a pretty funny video which you watch on YouTube. Found via Armin at Speak Up who doesn't like it. He's got a point.

Armin, for what it's worth I think it's OK. Funny. Ephemeral. But has design got too serious? Hell yeah. Have you turned into the ultimate design grouch? Erm... yeah. Probably.

Discuss. Please.

"I took a stand, paid half a grand and got an iiiiiiiiiiPhone"

The brilliant David Pogue sings a musical ode to the iPhone. 'I Want An iPhone' to the tune of 'I Did It My Way'. Fantastic. Make sure you watch it here.

Did Bill copy Jonathan?

Is Vista a copy of OSX? Errr, yes.

You've probably already seen this, but if you haven't then you must watch this hilarious video by David Pogue of the New York Times.

Identity 2.0

Another thing I've had kicking around for ages and forgotten to write about.

It's a video of a presentation by a chap called Dick Hardt which he terms Identity 2.0. Don't let that put you off.


It's all about the concept of digital identity. It's really good. Clever. A refreshing presentation style. As it says on the blurb, "I watched it twice, and greatly enjoyed it both times.". 

A little work for a Friday

Seeing as it's Friday. Seeing as we've just uploaded this. Seeing as this blog is about graphic design. Seeing as it features a bit of Dolly.

Here's some work. Enjoy.

Laser cutting machine

Here's a cool thing. It's a laser cutting machine.

Laser cutting is like die cutting but more accurate, for the delicate cut. This particular machine belongs to Marcus and his buddies over at Peschke Druck.

Laser cutting is still pretty new technology, Marcus informs me there are only 3 of the machine shown above in existence. I first heard of it when Creative Review did a laser cut cover back in 2004 (I think it was a pinky colour and I think it was the peer review thing they do). We used laser cutting for these letterheads in 2005.

Die cutting just couldn't cut that fine.

One draw back of laser cutting is that the laser leaves a teeny weeny brown burn mark around the cut edge. Personally I think that looks cool, but I can understand if others don't.

But forget all that, just take a look at that video. Most of the machinery around graphic design just isn't very sexy. That machine is. Enjoy, my fellow designers, enjoy.

Alan Fletcher on TV

Channel 4 did a piece on Alan Fletcher on Sunday night. Click here to watch the video (I've no idea who did the bloody awful animations).

SoftLightes typographic video

There is a band called the SoftLightes and together with Kris Moyes they have made a lovely, gorgeous, typographic video. Song's decent as well.





It's one of those things that you'll wish you made. Watch the video here.




Found via Design Observer which is peaking at the moment.

Spiderman on You Tube

I'm not a huge You Tube freak, but check this out. It's a home video* of the making of Spiderman 3.

How can you fail to be impressed by that?

*home video - is that a relevant term any more?