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The race is on! Help me People!  :D  Click here to visit my balloon ( where ever it is on the internet ) and give me a buddy boost! Thank you thank you Nicky xx

Intrepid balloonists are gearing up as we speak to take part in the first ever internet balloon race! Balloons will race across real websites spread across the globe ( yours too if you’d like a bit of traffic! ), collecting tokens and teleporting through rainbows. Extra boosts are hidden around the course to speed you and your buddies on your way to victory and 20 grands worth of luxury holiday action in a villa in Ibiza. Preparations are underway, but there’s still time to grab a balloon, or even attach your very own website to the track. We’ve been feverishly drawing clouds and balloons for weeks, so if you think it sounds intriguing have a butchers at this… there’s some sweet audio touches in there too. And Coming Soon: the Balloon-Cam embeddable widget, so you can follow your balloon’s progress from the comfort of your own blog. It’s the follow up to our last adventure for Orange, Good Things Should Never End. You can never have enough rainbows in your life, i say

Also: Today coincidently happens to be the anniversary of another balloon first - the first ever public demonstration of a passenger carrying hot air balloon … aha! Or so it says on the Google homepage

PS. Igor has a good run down of the epic team involved in thrashing this beast into existence!

I’ve been beavering away for a while now on some new stuff for Kate Moss and her new Topshop collection. It’s quite simply a visual blog featuring the lovely Moss herself, scantily clad, on the beach … rolling around in the sea - well, it is the summer collection. Visually rich as a fashion showcase should be, it’s emphasis is on eclectic typography, and super close-up photography so you can get right in and see the details of the clothing. Some nice full width video in there too. Check it out and tell me what you reckon. More info here on the Poke site too. Also, the old site is did is gone now, but you can see a bit about it here.

I’ve missed a couple of posts this week. Mainly do to with having the Poke Plague + celebratory hangover combo! But on Tuesday night one of my projects was lucky enough to win a Commendation at the Design Week Awards - Whoop! So i’m well chuffed ; )

While i’m on the subject am i allowed to say ( ? ) that it’s also on display at the Design Museum at the moment as part of the Designs of the Year competition… stay tuned for the results on that one, but i’m not holding my breath as apparently we’re up against the Wii and the new Fiat. Which is pretty darn mental for a website about dancing monkeys, doodle machines, infinite birds, mutating monsters ( of course my favourite ) and much more ‘Unlimited Stuff’. Yeh!

I worked with literally swathes of people worked on pulling this mammoth together including the mighty Rex, Knotty, Julie, Roope, Dezza, Caroline, RichDee, Marrius, Alex, Karen, Will, Marc. It’s a Monster for sure …

During the day i work with the lovely boys and girls at Poke. I’ve been there since the dawn of time, and in the misty time before that i spent my days virtually living in the studio at Deepend London.I thought i’d show you some of my Graphics. This is something i did for Kate Moss to promote her Topshop collections. I like this one because of it’s ad-hoc layout and layering of textures. But of course you can’t really go far wrong with images of a supermodel as content! Check out the flash collection pages as you can get right right down to the detail of the fabrics. Also, we just launched the new Topshop Video Podcast Library. So if you feel the urge for a fashion fix it’s all there.

Big thanks to Mattias for his super shit hot coding! And also to Dom for his pen and ink skills.