Lovely photography

Courtesy of Jeremy Cowart.

http://jeremycowart.com/client/221-africa

Lennon + Bed in 1968 + 14 year old sneaking in fr an interview...

...and forty years later, making it into an amazing animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk

Lennon was a genius. You wouldn't get stars of today giving this sort of insightful diatribe. I would go into a rant here, but am too tired/have severe lack of linguistic skills to go on. Oh, and no-one's reading this, are they? So why bother? Really, why?

A great motion graphics company, based in Copenhagan

http://thankyou.dk/

High quality stuff, all round methinks.

Some nice packaging.

Ripped of from another blog site (where else?)

Nice coin action

Not one to be an avid collector of coins (but a pretty good spender of 'em), I've never really seen many coin or note designs that's impressed me much (aside from the Meta designed Dutch notes a few years back).

The new designs revealed by the Royal Mint however, are truly impressive: modern yet still a connection to the historical past. 

The new designs were chosen via an open competition which was widely publicised in the national media in August 2005 and attracted 4,000 entries. The winning designer is 26-year-old Matthew Dent, originally from Bangor who now lives and works in London as a graphic designer.

I do hope they're sorted that rather bloated portrait of the Queen however. Or used that portrait from the 60's, as she looked quite nice then...

We won a Webby!

Fantastics news, the www.tfl.gov.uk site which I Art Directed has won a People's Voice Webby Award! The whole project has had the input of some of the best designers, strategists and IA's, both within Detica and on the client side, and it is thanks to them that we've delivered such a successful web site (I'd like to think I had something to do with it too..)

This award comes on the back of the Design Week Commendation we got for Tfl, pipped to the post by something called the iPhone (any ideas??).

Here's an excerpt from the official Detica press release: 500,000 votes cast for international honour
The specialist business and technology consultancy, and Transport for London (TfL) have won the People's Choice award in the 2008 Webby Awards, the leading international award honouring excellence in interactive design, creativity, usability and functionality on the Internet.

The TfL website, redesigned by Detica and TfL's new media team, was one of 10,000 entries from more than 60 countries considered by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities.

"Nearly 500,000 votes were cast in the Webby People's Voice Awards and the people have spoken. This is a tremendous honour — your work truly represents the best of the Web," said David-Michel Davies, Executive Director of The Webby Awards. "The Transport for London website is a testament to the skill, ingenuity and vision of its creators."

This award follows hot on the heels of a special commendation for the Detica and TfL team in the recent Design Week Awards, in which the innovative design of the TfL website came second only to Apple's iPhone.

A must have plug-in for Firefox or Safari (or indeed Explorer)

I love this - it makes viewing images so much more engaging and interactive. Basically, it's an image viewer that uses your 3D card in your computer to display images from internet pages. Flickr, Google, Facebook are some of the site that are compatible. The name is Piclens, and it's good... so try it:

http://www.piclens.com/

I would stick an image up to show you, but I'm on a 3G card and it's ripping the images to shreds!

Oh, on a Mac, it works best in Firefox - Safari isn't half as well implemented.

A couple of things that caught my eye over the weekend

Nothing too stunning, just a interesting film poster and seventies style bit of typography at a new eatery in Derby. Apologies for the quality of the shots btw - getting to grips with the Nokia N95 (more about that later).

Cool glasses advert

Isn't it always the case that the best ideas are the simplest - the wheel, the staple, the internal combustion engine. Well maybe not, but these set of print adverts for glasses really does it for me - simplicity, humour, getting the message accross. Pity I don't wear glasses though