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8 bit Colour cycling in HTML 5 http://j.mp/cUCZaH

It was only a matter of time http://j.mp/b3WYzA

http://9gag.com/gag/22682 Genius.

eBoy FixPix [iPhone] - CreativeApplications.Net from CreativeApplications.Net on Vimeo. Via

UP THERE from Jon on Vimeo. Via

Copenhagen City Style Guide App, originally uploaded by chomoi. Digging through the archives and found this. Proposed iPhone app for the Denmark Tourist Board.

http://recollection.com.au Shell posters, 1964, Frank Eidlitz

The Incredible San Fancisco Artists’ Soapbox Derby, 1975. from Mike Haeg on Vimeo. The bread car is clearly the best (5m 32s in). Via

Old-school polaroid BMX fun http://bit.ly/1pDcFd

RT @nambucom After a long few months in the Nambu cave, we are putting the final touches on another huge update. http://twitpic.com/14t55t

Great for visualising campaign and brand work http://www.livesurface.com

I love this: fun on a grey/wet morning. Instantly recognisable blue & yellow Chiquita banana stickers played about with http://bit.ly/bapOgs

It’s always nice to see someone giving away such useful assets for free: clean interface icons http://somerandomdude.com/projects/iconic/

Impressive stop motion work by John Kelly using a range of techniques and with making of video http://j.mp/97fQCi

Facts About Projection from Studiocanoe on Vimeo. I love this. Very Wez Anderson’s The Life Aquatic. Via

Beautiful, informative, immersive http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/

OmmWriter is possibly the most positive software experience you’ll ever have http://www.ommwriter.com

Pushing against a creative block? A few minutes clicking through http://stumbleupon.com works wonders http://bit.ly/3wHyxd

Pinch, zoom, grab using your fingers - here to stay and getting more sophisticated in the next generation user interfaces. Having used a trackpad for years and ditched my mouse for a tablet/stylus more recently, we like 10/GUI. A lot. Via 10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

Ahhh. Adobe interface justice at last. Just hope they are listening http://bit.ly/1Fxswl

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Helvetica vs. Arial. 20/20. How do you score? http://bit.ly/mnq1z

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street tests from Najork on Vimeo. Via

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A lot of Lego building going on, this Star Wars chess is pretty amazing http://bit.ly/kGGTg

Demo Courier User Interface sélectionné dans Reportage / Docu / ITW

The Man Who Walked Around The World, dissarming ad from BBH http://bit.ly/38caz

Is this the end of Apple’s dominance within the smartphone market? Thanks Rich for putting me on to this.

Goolery is a collection of Google applications/mashups from around the world http://goollery.org

Dieter Rams hits the Design Museum from 18 Nov through till 14 Mar. See more here http://tinyurl.com/kkznnj and http://tinyurl.com/l8c6o4

This is how. Spend half the budget of your next project filming the previous one. Swisscom – Re-brand film from Moving Brands on Vimeo. Via

American graphic designer Lester Beall Flickr set: bold, sensitive typography, clean, fun: http://tinyurl.com/5qzbzs

What is… What is twitter? what is my ip? what is my ip address? what is love? what is a good credit score? what is g? Google searches now

http://threeframes.net

Behance have a GTD style iPhone app called http://www.actionmethod.com/

Loving how easy it looks to share music with http://soundcloud.com/

Interview with Alex Trouchut http://tinyurl.com/qt7jd5

Most days, http://chesleyandrews.com documents her view of the East River http://tinyurl.com/m2zqsd

Illustrations by Nazario Graziano http://tinyurl.com/py4wen

Rolls Royce 200CX Auto Adujsting Purse Rack from Jean Aw on Vimeo. Via

I’m an un-ashamed fan of FFFFound, a lookbook for oddball and beautiful images. I want more. And now we have it in the form of Buamai. It has a slightly different curatorial flavour (which is great). If you want more: JJJJound, and for the type head in you typographyserved, and a massive list here. Update: And [...]

Product and industrial designers are shaping graphic design practices of the future. Will current graphic designers have the brain power to keep up?

Have been playing around with whether this display lettering could form the basis of a full blown type family.

It’s live. After not being able to talk about it for weeks, we’ve launched a new brand and a new company for Virgin Media. Thanks all for your hard work. It was pretty rushed but watch this space for further developments at Future Entertainment. We’re excited!

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It’s been a while, PixelRes is back. After Denmark / Sweden, Iggy, Madagascar, there’s a bit more time to consider, research, write and blog. You know the feeling. More posts to come on everything design, advertising and type related.

Designers beware. You are not good enough and you will be spotted. Fresh in my inbox today, a designer CV from yet another desperate deluded recruitment consultant who “feels his candidate is strong” and who is “available immediately”. Of course he’s available. He hasn’t been able to get any work because he’s anything but strong. [...]

Gunnersbury, London: stencil, aerosol heart. Made me stop and look.

From illustrator Olly Moss, and along the same lines as Men versus Women

Great, sensitive illustrations - almost haunting - from Cristiana Couceiro

Just had my first brief of 2009 where it specifically states that no budget will be spent through traditional ATL, TV, outdoor etc, but everything will go online. Pretty big stuff for this major UK brand. Have been wondering for a while whether this would happen in reality, and now it has. More to come [...]

Editorial graphics are hard to get right. Make them too good and they easily look like adverts. That’s why I’ve always thought the illustrator has it easier than the designer. Take a look at the sensitivity of these lively, bold illustrations from Raymond Biesinger out of Canada.

Just in my inbox from MyFonts, top 10 fonts of 2008. Usually sceptical about emailshots that list a bunch of products, typically to promote poor sellers, I’m however inclined to agree with them about Museo. The 700 weight is so dissarming, and clearly useful if you want to capture the dreaded web 2.0 zeitgeist.

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A few of my favourites from yesterday’s Glug bash: Camelia Dobrin, 4th place

I’ve been looking for a way to delete photos off my iPhone and haven’t found a way until now. Why don’t you select “Delete originals” on import into iPhoto I hear you ask? When importing in iPhoto, I prefer check that all the photos have arrived safely before deleting images, so I never select “Delete [...]

Quality slab by Dino dos Santos. Buy it here.

Loving this site. It’s new. Hours of fun.(Via).

Don’t ever show work you are not happy with. Show no one. Ever. You’ve been told “three creative routes” but you only mustered two aces. Waddddyado?

A sure way to repeat business or that internal promotion: Treat each client like they are the only one on earth. A piece of advice not easily forgotten.

Tapes rock We recently had an argument with a client over the relative merits of cassette tape imagery. Is it because I am old that I love them so much? (I was a serious pause pusher in my youth). All I can say is that the brief was digital music and they wanted artwork with edge. [...]

A major flaw of the iPhone is that you can’t see Flash in Safari. I’ve wondered about this for a long time now, ever since I got my iPhone 3g. I just didn’t get it. Never thought of investigating it. You might wrongly assume that because of QuickTime and movie trailers, Apple would not want a [...]

Forgot how good Art of the Title is. Check it out. Elegent tech from Les Chevaliers du Ciel (Sky Fighters). Sequence put together by Sabotage Studio, Paris.

Bit late on this one, (they launched this app and others 3 weeks ago), but useful nevertheless.

If there’s one thing that’s just revolutionised my world, it’s Screengrab.

Original (World is my canvas) by Far Far Rip? (Max Kerning)

Following on from Sort it out here’s a free tip for your online portfolio: Say what you did on that project. Spell it out. Simple.

Via Eli Horne. More here.

I’ve interviewed lots of designers, art directors and developers. It can be tiring to see great people not honing their communication skills. There are some things I think you should know: Answer the question. Listen: When the CD cuts you short as you are going on and on about a piece of work, stop. He/she’s got it already. [...]

Beautiful illustrations by Katie Kirk, via sfgirlbybay. More here.

A few design tweaks here and there around PixelRes today. More to come for the rest of the week.

I saw this recently and was surprised but intrigued. This Facebooker has in excess of 900 friends. What if an advertiser such as “Get Them In” approached him/her and asked for an endorsement in exchange for remuneration? This could be a link or simply written out in their “status”. In fact, I’ve realised that I [...]

Am currently looking (interviewing) for a digital art director to join my team. It’s exciting stuff. The Role When do you ever get an outstanding benefits package coupled with an amazing job?! Not everyday, only today. My team at Virgin Media is doing innovative and brave advertising whilst collaborating with some of the words most sought after [...]

Spotted the other evening on my way home. They work way too hard…

It's been a long time, and in the meantime, I've launched loads of online projects for great brands including Living, Starbucks, Nike, Virgin Mobile to name but a few...

I stumbled up on this recently: The World Book of Logotypes from the 70s. Beautiful. Particularly interesting source for graphic designers, including perhaps the designers over at Landor Associates who rebranded British Midland in 2001. Then again, it’s a pretty obvious shape to make out of those three letters.

Band logos: a selection of 25 logo designs. You'll no doubt recognise many, others are a little more dubious.

With the recent rise of online applications there’s great online software out there, but on further investigation, does FontStruct match up to the hype?

Hands and hands. There are a few of them about recently. Specifically, many hands grouped to form a larger, recognisable form. Nice idea, but what about execution?

Chocoloate photographs well, burgers and slop obviously don’t... and other ethical retouching dillemas facing creatives today.

A timeline based piece of work that aims to explain, reveal or guide the user through new concepts with examples including: Skype, TFL and Adobe.

You could very easily go through life and not remember any watches you've ever had, but forgetting a Nooka may prove more difficult. Matthew Waldman's been creating mini master time-pieces for sometime now.

Film title sequences influence graphics designers on a daily basis. Seldom does a scrappy, hand drawn, poorly animated sequence for a much-loved British sitcom influence a top British brand. Until now...

Visually stimulating album cover art grouped over at Sleevage

If only I'd had these when I was a kid.

We are asked to come up with ideas like this all the time. I'm liking Stavros. He's mildly amusing.

It just keeps getting better: Easily share information, files, and a calendar across your company

Small mention in NMA for our work with Motorola

If you install Google Analytics, you might need to exclude your own visits from skewing your stat reports. Here's how.

His drawing skills are obvious, and inspiring: A single, energetic line to describe the human form.

Blogging has changed since the arrival of applications like Twitter. How will this affect user consumption and what place does the blog have in the future publishing landscape?

A collection of exhibitions in London during February

Sleek, technical, cold. Just right. Keep all your cables organised once and for all. Sheer engineering beauty.

Naked and Angry: Innovative thinking from Skinny Corp. Visitors submit and vote on fabric designs. The winner each week gets their design manufactured. Nice. nakedandangry.com

With upcoming developments like Android on mobile, Google will soon know where you are, who you are calling, what your voice sounds like.

Virgin Mobile have appointed the in-house design team who run virginmedia.com to design and execute the Road to V site in 2008.

Chopping heads in east London, Decapitator does it with style.

What do you do when you have thousands of photos, screenshots, desktop images, stock photography, icons, and more sitting around in various folders, partly in iPhoto, partly on your hard drive? You need a high-powered, serious application and storage solution to get organised. And then, of course, if you are going to invest lots of time organising and categorising, what do you do about space, backing up and access to the images themselves? In my search for the perfect product, I've reviewed several options that might just be the answer - and none of them are iPhoto.

We like the beautiful photos obviously, but here in the office it's the interface that excites us the most.

You move your hands around and monsters appear. One of my highlights of last year.

"I need to install Macintosh on my computer." Sheer brilliance. One of those sites from back in the day that's still around!

Virgin Media have chosen the in-house online design team, lead by art director Chomoi Picho-Owiny to redesign the Living TV website.

From Backpack, to Viktor Sheepskin: Particularly interesting things that you should know in 2008 to get you organised, inspired and chaff free.

Not exactly the most prestigious award in the world, but hey... they liked it.

Speaking at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California on Facebook

9 key points to run through before making your first ad

Steven Heller interviews the corporate identity guru

You wouldn't see this in London, or would you? Controversial ad shows that Eurostar can get away with a cheekier approach in Belgium than here.

MTV online re-invented itself this year, and went one further than Google's 'custom logo at holiday time' treatment with MTV Hats.

Make your CSS class names act like a public API to your website

When we realise that the user journey is in fact made up of connections to nodes which are at times smaller than pages, designers and clients might actually wake up to the challenge

Yahoo! offers a 12 step plan that if you follow, you'll get your pages 25% to 50% faster, no matter what site you have

Some nuggets taken from my notes at the conference... From faster pages to microformats: useful tips for the seasoned designer.

It sounds like a reasonable suggestion and it is. If you don't know how to do this and want to, it's simple.