Stalking Venus

These two… er… things are named Wenlock and Mandeville, and they are the two official mascots for the London Olympics in 2012. Thank God, the Mayans and Roland Emmerich we’ll all be dead by then! The story goes that some steel worker was putting the final beam in place for the Olympic stadium, when some [...]

Nice T-Shirt design from Threadless (via BoingBoing).

Awesome un-tooned version of Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV by Pixeloo.

The Desktopography 2008 exhibition is up! Integrating design, typography, art and illustration, the Desktopography series is always worth a visit. Not a year has gone by that I don’t have one of these designs set as my desktop background for at least a few weeks. Check out this year’s additions as well as the arcives [...]

A collection of interesting and innovative ideas for new twists on old products.

This is an amazing series of ads by the DDB agency in Paris for French television network for kids, Tiji. The idea is that Tiji TV is as creative as kids are themselves. Frankly, these ads make me believe it.

Every object that is modelled in 3D basically consists of a latticework that is then shaded and lit. This is all very well for normal objects like cubes or spheres or Jar-Jar-the-irritating-little-f__khead-Binks, but when it comes to disigning something impossible (or at least illusory) in 3D, it’s actually quite tricky.