Not sure what’s happening here. But it looks like it’d make for thoroughly memorable afternoon. Loose theories on a postcard please!

Ps - Got you there, RSS readers! ;)

These inky squid monsters are spiraling out of control. I can’t tell if they’re being flushed away or if they’re swarming out to get us, but i like their creepy cute personality either way. You can do a lot with a simple bold black and white. Spotted over on Anton Tramm’s blog sent in by Kevin Crepin. Cheers Kev! Nice find.

Been a bit lean on the postage recently as i’ve been hanging out with Cookie in Amsterdam. It’s very nice, if you’ve never been - but perhaps a touch too relaxing lets say! ;)

Needed to look at something soothing and nice today after a renagade weekend away with the Pokers. Broken i am! Not sure we can show our faces in Devon again. Anyway, so here’s a little something from ljudbilden with some jolly faced monsters to take the pain away.

Minilogue - Animals from ljudbilden on Vimeo.

Baker Tweet is here! After several weeks of noodling, soldering, tweeking, twiddling, posting and polishing, mad scientist Zolty from Poke has unveiled his mouth-watering machine. The ingenious contraption harnesses the power of the internets to deliver up-to-the-minute baking news flashes from across the road in the Albion kitchen. And so, as the era of the cold roll is banished forever, we usher in the glorious age of warm juicey cupcakes.

If you’re in the Shoreditch area and you want the latest cake update, checkout the @AlbionsOven Baker Tweet feed. To read the back story ( and upcoming tutorial on the very exciting make-it-yourself Arduino technology used ) visit the Poke site. Also - lots of pics here. And a glimpse of the back end here.

Ps. I chipped in the little birdie logo… Mattia’s cooked up the site, Nik Roope took the snaps, and the Flippers made the movie.

Cool isn’t he ? Looks absolutely petrified with his back to the wall there. He’s obviously not liking the look of the giant ivy forest he’s beamed into ( or maybe it’s the earthling cameraman that’s giving him the willies ? ).

Alien construction by Wilkie from Turnip Creations. More please!

We’re pretty much moved into the new place now - and loving it! Nice bit of fast internet from O2. Still some funny firewall email issues to figure out, but it’s so nice to have the internet back! ( We’ve been on the Ebays getting over excited ). Finally out of the dark ages :) You can see a couple more pics of the place in dissarray and also some shots of Sunday’s Oxford and Cambridge Goat Race over at Cookie’s blog.

Cut & Paste come to London on the 4th April. Various categories of designers battle it out live in front of an audience. Sounds like pressure!

“2D, 3D and Motion design contests against the clock, at 16 spectator events around the world.”

More on the format, rules and prizes here. If you’re about next Saturday, it’s down at The Coronet Theatre SE1. Lovely poster here by the super talented Chris at Design Friendship

Boxes boxes boxes boxes… and more boxes. Cookie will tell you more ;) It’s amazing!

Lovable Kiwi character has a mission on the go… Brings a tear to the eye ;’) He’s got a lotta personality for an ‘armless little bird. Spotted over on my new favoutire blog Vecchio Bipede - years and years of good stuff to see. Not often that you sit and go through page after page of a blog but this is a rare exception! A fair sprinkling of monsters too.

I had to look at a couple of these before i realised what was going on. And then when i did, i realised there was a genius at work.

When Cookie clapped eyes on them he said … “ If spammers hired people to make their spam look like that. Then i’d quite happily subscribe to it! ”. Do you hear that spammers? It’s not the content we object to, it’s the graphic design :) I’m pretty sure that this is the only spam on planet earth that you wouldn’t mind having framed on your wall. ( And if you’ve got any other kind of spam framed up - then you’re probably not right. Get your dirty mits off my pages! )  The artworks are hand painted by Linze - see even more here, and her behance portfolio here, and her website filled with even more here! And if you still want more you can Buy the Prints Here ( and them hang them on your wall ) ;)

Happy feet, mine would be, if they were dressed like this… Red trainers from here. Gold ones customized by Noah here. Now where did those old Forest Hills go …

A miniture herb garden shaped like a crazy owl and a wonky yellow chair are just two of the great ideas to see over at Danish design store Normann Copenhagen. Lots of kids things including an amazing wonkey go-kart called Play. ( I’d deep link to it but it’s a flash site - but a beautifully elegant one though ). Normann’s go-kart design was featured on MoCo Loco a great product, furniture and interior design blog i just stumbled across. Worth a little look see.

John’s been into movies for as long as i can remember. He has an amazing memory for the details - an almost Stephen-Fry-like encyclopedic brain but for movies especially ( as long as they’re decent ones! ). I’ve seen these beautiful images floating about the web for a while now and i had no idea that he was behind them until he dropped me a mail - doh! His adapted and abstracted classic movie posters will be available soon to buy as hand screen prints, with a very special limited edition range up-for-grabs only to the most cunning of movie buffs. You can win one by guessing correctly the movies being depicted and getting up there with the high scorers. Think you know your stuff ? Have a go over at his site Film The Blanks. The cryptic and graphic clues aren’t easy! But lots of fun google detecting. Nice work Mr.T!

Each crayon is hand cast and slotted into place. Part painting, part sculpture these pieces by Christian Faur can be admired for their indivual parts close up or for the emerging image as you stand back. I really like the side angle view. I think if i owned one i wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation of rubbing a huge sheet of paper over it though! The close-up detail of this reminds me of the Boex twin’s Pencil Bench. Very tactile. Be great to see games characters done like this. Via Gizmodo.

QuadCamera is officially awesome. These shots were taken with my iPhone. Honestly. *

Iain mailed around about this Lomo-a-like iPhone app and i couldn’t resist a play with it. Can you believe that only one of the shots above had it’s levels tweeked in photoshop ? It’s colour, contrast, and edge burning are just lush. I warn you, it’s very addictive once you get going. Download it with caution! More info on QuadCam here. My heart will always be with my Lomo, but this is a lot of fun. See more test shots on me Flickr.

* ( Although - the pic of Igor’s tshirt, taken by Mr.Lomo, is actually an iPhone picture of a Lomo ) ;)