Have a wonder over to the Media Molecule blog for more behind the scenes action. I believe Rex is involved with this bunch on the development of Little Big Planet, which looks like it’s going to be one of my favourite games of all time. Animation sketch vid of SackBoy the main character. Watch the work in progress trailer below. It’s pretty good! Kind of excited about this lil fella. Action packed and busting with fun stuff. I own a Wii but i might even get a Playstation for this one.  SackBoy wallpapers available from the Little Big Planet developers Media Molecule.  

Some famous faces get the money shot treatment over at Fubiz. Original photoshop competition on at Freaking News including Al Pachino and Mel Gibson. The Charlton Heston one is a great shot, but Queen and The Queen is all together inspired

Leave me a message if you fly over, say hello!

Have a go with this cute little number. It works in a way i’ve never seen done.
There’s an interesting subversion of regular ad space, to make part of the game - the game that’s really an ad that is … Where’s the line between selling you fun so you’ll buy a product, or selling you a product so you can have fun .. ? The idea spans multi urls but in a super simple way. I’m into that idea at the moment as you can probably tell by all these balloons floating around!

 

A beautiful Japanese style French animation. Some lovely lovely detail. I love it. Le ballon. Link Via GlogLog

Lots of people have asked for tips on how to get going with their own exciting monster creations. So here’s a 1-2-3 ‘How To’ poster to download that i made for the Workshop at Shunt. It’s A3 format so you can see the details. Most important tip is to remember to leave a hole in his arse to stuff him through! If you do make anything, i’d love to see photos - mail them over Monster Makers.

 
Really nice. The video was projected onto his tshirt for an interview. Brilliant idea, especially as there’s a bit where he comments in the video about actions he’s making in reality. Nice interaction. Via SwissMiss

I’m not usually a big fan of 3D rendered stuff. They don’t normally have much warmth to them. But i just really like this image. It feels like it’s been hand drawn/painted, and has a real sense of rickety clickety hap hazard motion and softness considering the sharp nature of cubes. Nice contrast. The texture especially has something Esher about it. Rendered in POVRay ( Persistence of Vision Raytracer - that’s a free app too! ). This image is from Syntopia’s Structure Synth set on Flickr.

Buy companies, fill them with people and new servers. I like the 404 jail, and the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ chance spot ;)Design and concept by Phil. Read more and get hi-res files to play, here.  ps. Someone sent me the Porn version! haha. The jail spot says ‘Free Lesbians’ … : )

Avant Gandhi. Genius.

Nice sentiment. A big idea conveyed in a simple humble way. Very nice.

Massive crow killing spree crime scene … More tiling bird patterns. I guess this one’s a wallpaper. Via ffffound.

I just love this image. I’d been wanting to do something for ages with these colours, and then i spotted this. Textural black and white photography with stark yellow shapes multiplied over. The contrast between the form underneath and the sharpness of the geometric shape does something to the image that makes it so much stronger. And here the use of type is spot on. Looks like a music, design and culture magazine. I can’t read german, but if you read it let me know what you think ?

More Black White and Yellow below and new typeface Myld, which looks to be an adaptation of Avant Garde. More typographic sexiness over at TypeNeu blog.

Eric Carl has this amazing collection of old school logos on his flickr. I’m not sure which book they are from, but i’ve seen similar books around from the 70’s. No-one ever wants to sell them though! Interesting how new some of them look. Millions more to gorge yourself on, in A-Z order here. He’s also collected some vintage book covers and advertising - and there’d Eric own illustration work to see to.

I’ve got this tea towel at home. I wish i hadn’t used it, and had made a bag out of it or a pillow case. If you don’t know London too well i could imagine it might be a handy bag to have on you There’s so much detail in the hand drawn type, it’s great. I love this green table cloth as it reminds me of sticker sheets with all the stickers missing. There’s something quite satisfying about that for some reason…