LOVE

Whilst on placement at Love I was given one of their Love bags. The copy is great and definately the best out of the three. They are available over at the Love shop, something you don't find on many design studios website. But then again the Love website is quite unique compared to others within the field. Take the Who? part for example, where some of the likenesses are just uncanny!

Trevor Jackson

I have been a big fan of Trevor Jackson for a long time (I say a long time, I mean since the start of 1st year ate uni, prior to that I had no clue as to what actual graphic design was). I read an interview with him in one of my first computer arts projects magazines and liked him more for his career path than actual work, designer/ dj/ producer. Then when I was aware of what was good design and what wasn't, I liked him even more. This copy for a club tote bag makes me smile everytime.

Soulwax

After looking through his work, it seems Richard Robinson has quite a few clients in the music industry. One piece that did catch my eye were these soulwax sleeves. Something I saw a while back but thought that Trevor Jackson was the sole designer on them. It seems I was mistaken though and it was though a collaboration with Richard Robinson he designed them.

An obvious statement to the sometimes over designed music artwork currently out there, these sleeves create interaction with the audience, a two way conversation where the meaning is not instantly recognisable but requires a certain level of input from the viewer and doesn't treat them like an idiot who has to have it spelled out to them.

Rankin

Rankin has recently launched his new site with a huge archive of his work. Great site design and the ability to browse through images using the keypad is especially nice.

Le Mans Classic

I'm amazed with Laurent Nivalle's photographs of Le Mans Classic. Some perfect crops and loving the soft colours which make you uncertain as to how recent these photographs were actually taken. His passion for cars is obvious after a look through the rest of his stunning portfolio.

Volkswagen literature 1936-2005

A huge selection of Volkswagen product literature, with some dating back to 1936. An amazing archive and well worth setting some time aside for a good look.

Fresh

Whilst writing my last post I spent longer than initially intended looking through Rands work. One piece which stood out particularly was the abc logo designed in 1962 yet still looks as fresh as ever and still being used on print ads for the American Broadcasting Company.

Paul Rand

Whilst were on the subject of headstones, the Swiss modernist Fred Troller's memorial for the influential Paul Rand is quite an unusual piece. The headstone is made up of two cubes with his name and life dates chiseled on the top cube, and the bottom cube inscribed with Hebrew (unsure as to what that says).

Anthony H Wilson

For many people Anthony Wilson will be remembered mostly as the founder and manager of  The Hacienda nightclub and one of the founding members of Factory Records. Since his death in 2007, it has been three years but that doesn't seem too late for Peter Saville and Ben Kelly to pay tribute to their friend and collaborator.

Via Creative Review

Iraq War Logs

The leaked Irag war logs provide a shocking account of Civilian casualties, US authorised tortures and murders by the Iraq police mapped using Google Fusion tables.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/interactive/2010/oct/23/wikileaks-iraq-deaths-map

Willy Vergineer

Willy Verigineer is an Italian sculpture who creates amazing human figure sculptures which have a real sense of character for an inanimate object, brought to life by the added colour.

Glass Microbiology

Some amazing sculptures being used to broaden our knowledge about disease. Beautiful but when you know what they represent, quite chilling.

"These transparent glass sculptures were created to contemplate the global impact of each disease and to consider how the artificial colouring of scientific imagery affects our understanding of phenomena. Jerram is exploring the tension between the artworks' beauty, what they represent and their impact on humanity".

More at http://www.lukejerram.com/projects/glass_microbiology

Just one glass

This strangle looking red wine glass was featured at the Korean Design Week 2009. The device consists of a bulb shaped container with the glass below. When the amount in the glass decreases, a constant amount is poured from the tank into the glass, never overflowing from the glass because of air pressure and water pressure.

Some other pretty kool things over at Kyouei Design

O.Ont

For a spacecraft it's a little bit different, but that perfect once in a lifetime photo rarely comes for most people. Maybe you've had it but missed it because you left your camera at home, or maybe you were just too slow. I'm talking about the kind of photo that you can look at all day and never get bored of it. Maybe its the shot that will make you a small fortune one day.

The iconic photo of O.Ont as she runs naked down the road after being severely burned on her back after a napalm attack is a prime example. The Pulitzer Prize winning photograph taken in 1972 by Nick Ut, it shows the horrific civilian casualties suffered as a result of the Vietnam war, a scene rarely seen by the rest of the world.

Cassini

Some unbelievable photographs taken by the Cassini spacecraft of Saturn and its moons. Amazingly abstract shots which look more like the paintings of a geometric modern art fanatic than of the solar system.

Click here to see more

Timothy Saccenti

Timothy Saccenti has new site up and running, designed by Build. He has an amazing portfolio with some surreal pieces and others which are just weird! The shots of women with bizarre alien head pieces on are possibly the strangest photographs I have ever seen! Yet for some reason I can't stop looking at them.

Ian Crawford

Some amazing photographs by Ian Crawford

Mum, I want a pet mouse...

Ever thought what it would be like to live in a Rococo style world with a giant mouse?

Marc Da Cunha Lopes via the Behance

Polanski

No more than a sexist depiction of women or a celebration of the female form?

The creators of Polanski describe it as "A project designed to provide a commentary on, celebrate and show up the shameless pillaging of the internet and disgraceful disregard of artists’ ownership in the world of blogging, taking the form of a minimalist library of fashion photography".

Whether you believe in this approach or not, the site received 75,000 page views within 2 weeks of its birth and within a month, Polanski rose to be inside the top 150 tumblogs.

So quite a few people obviously agree.