Department of Eagles: No One Does it like You

Patrick Daughters' last two music videos for Feist are among my favorites in recent memory. His newest music video for Department of Eagles song “No One Does it like You”, co-directed with Marcel Dzama, is an eerie green screen montage of colonial desert warfare, choreographed dancers and spooky singing ghosts. Great video.

View large quality version here.

Nike Presents Onwards by James Jarvis

Starts off slow but wow. This wonderful animation from illustrator James Jarvis makes my day.

Click here to watch the large version.

Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit

I really liked Gary Hustwitt's previous film Helvetica and am excited about his new film, Objectified, coming out soon. I have a huge interest in industrial and product design and am very curious to see what insights to the creative process he can shoehorn into the documentary. Plus it features a lot of my more recent design heroes.

Description from the site:
Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability.

Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?

TEACLOUD: UH Graphic Communications Senior Exhibition

I look forward to checking out the senior exhibition of my alma mater next month. Congratulations to Senior Block!

TEACLOUD
UH Graphic Communications Senior Exhibition
http://www.design.uh.edu/shows/2009

May 8th, Friday
Winter Street Studio
2101 Winter Street,
Houston, TX 77007

For more info on the exhibit.

Winter Street Studio

Godiex { - } / Diego Gravinese

Paintings and photos by Diego Gravinese a.k.a Godiex {-}. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out these first three images. Startling work.

Honda Let It Shine Commercial

Awesome spot from Wieden + Kennedy's Amsterdam Office.

Cool looking Gaming PC Design Concept from BMW Group Designworks USA

Awesome looking design concept for gaming tower prototype, the Level 10, from BMW Group Designworks USA designed for Thermaltake.

AIGA Presents ::CRONAN:: Elegant Questions/Simple Answers Thursday April 2nd

Looking forward to the CRONAN event this Thursday at Bering & James Art Gallery. Please do check it out. More info below.

Elegant Questions/Simple Answers

Thursday, April 2, 2009


AIGA Houston Presents
Speaker – Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma
view website: www.cronan.com

Yes / No IGNITE
“One of the time saving tricks we learned during 20 years of teaching was the Yes/No answer. To avoid endless email writing and phone time, answering student questions, we requested that students frame their questions so we could answer with a simple ‘yes or no.’ We saved time and also noticed that the students’ questions became much more interesting and at times, elegant. From that realization and a number of others we began to realize that the questions in Design are far more important than the answers. It was a major Ah-Ha for us.

Since then our design practice has switched from looking for the right answers to looking for the right questions to ask.”

Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma will share thirty-five years of their Ah-Ha’s (and some Ha-Ha’s) with you and will offer some thoughts on the future of design.

CRONAN :: designs and creates internationally known, innovative, successful names, identities and brands for companies, products and organizations.

Led by partners Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma, :: CRONAN :: has a wide spectrum of engagements, from developing business concepts thru start-ups and new product launches to re-energizing well-established companies and brands. ::CRONAN :: creates world-class names and visual brands for game-changers, like TiVo and Amazon Kindle.

Michael and Karin invite you to visit FORA.tv one of their latest projects.

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE

Date & Time
Thursday, April 2, 2009
6:00 pm - social
7:00 pm - presentation

Location
Bering & James Art Gallery
805 Rhode Place #500
Houston, Tx 77019
view map

Pre-registration pricing
closes at 5pm, April 1
$10 AIGA Members
$20 Non-Members
$5 AIGA Student Members
$10 Student Non-Members

Pricing at the door:
$15 AIGA Members
$30 Non-Members
$10 AIGA Student Members
$20 Student Non-Members

Where the Wild Things Are Movie Trailer

I've waited my whole life for this.

Grab the 1080p version of the trailer here.

Sophie Madeleine: Love. Life. Ukulele

Looking for the perfect spring album for 2009? Check out Sophie Madeleine's Love. Life. Ukulele. It's the dreamy blend of charming female vocals, knowing lyrics about love & life and laid back ukulele arrangements.

Also check out her single The Stars.

Price: $5

Cool Time Lapse of Photo Weaving

Fascinating time-lapsed video of Todd M. Duym weaving to photographs together. The clip shows 20 hours of prep with 14 hours of weaving.

Röyksopp: Happy Up Here

What do you get when you combine Röyksopp and Space Invaders? Total nerdgasm.

Interact: Watch 24 Brilliant Hours of U.S. Flights

Using FlightView and Google Maps, visual artist, Aaron Koblin, creates a haunting and beautiful interactive map displaying all U.S. air flights over a period of 24 hours.

Also be sure to check out the quicktime video of the same data set.

Cool Helvetica Trade Ad from the 1960's

Cool retro ad post from IwasFramed.

GMUNK 2009

GMUNK's latest demo reel is awesome. Lot's of inspiration.

TAD Gear Titanium Skeleton Key

Not sure if the TAD Gear Titanium Skeleton Key belongs in my other blog since it is a quasi every day carry item but it's a pretty cool looking work of art in it's own right. Machined out of 6AL-4V titanium billet and rocking a laser engraved TAD Gear Terminator Skull graphic the Skeleton Key features the following goodies; flathead screwdriver tip, pry tip with nail puller, bottle opener, and a spanner wrench tip that fits all regular Strider Folding Knives. This would be a cool addition to any key ring.

Tip of My Tongue

Tip of My Tongue is a cool useful web application that has helped me guess words that were on the tip of my tongue. While not the be-all-and-end-all to the phenomenon it's a pretty handy tool.

Quality Goods Inc.

My old college buddy, Brian Michael Gossett, just launched his new online boutique Quality Goods Inc. Check it out if you're looking for some unique posters and t-shirts.

WhatTheFont for iPhone

WhatTheFont is the perfect iPhone app for designers. You can use the camera or browser to submit any graphic of a font you would like to identify by submitting via WiFi or 3G to MyFont's identification database. Never be stumped or get caught tearing off a piece of print again.

Lily Allen: It's Not Me, It's You

Just downloaded the new Lily Allen album from Amazon. It's a great album although I really wish Amazon would state the fact that the album available was the edited clean version. There was no mention on the product page and it took me wondering past the first few songs why the lyrics were getting bleeped. I'm going to have to repurchase the album later on today at Soundwaves. Tisk tisk.