thiswolf: VW Polo Dad. Here is one for all the dads in the world. DDB London’s video pulls all the heart strings the father of a girl can possibly have… my wife loves this ad!
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James Hotham
I grew up with James in the small cotswold town of Malmesbury where neither of us seemed to take a huge amount of interest in photography (I could be wrong, there’s often a subterfuge darkroom in stories like these). After completing a degree and masters in psychology, James dashed off to Asia and spent the next few years painstakingly mastering the fineries of tone and composition on his beautiful manual Leica.
James’ new website has just launched with a series of stunning black and white photo essays from some of the areas that he has been living in and exploring. Do go and have a look at his work, I suspect we’ll see a lot more from James in the coming years.
How To Stay Hard, James Victore, 2009.
I love that my pal James signs his work. That is, he signs before the thing is printed as a means of crediting. Artists do this of course, but it was also common practice for graphic designers in the 50’s and 60’s. It is rare today. Most graphic designers (including myself) include an inconspicuous line of copy somewhere on our work that probably no one will ever read.
While the implications of ‘sign’ or ‘don’t sign’ are huge In terms of the nature of the work we do as designers, I am bringing this up for an different reason entirely. I think.
When James gave me a copy of this poster I asked him to sign it. The result being that I now have a poster that’s signed twice(see detail). When I pointed out the odd redundancy of this situation he just shrugged and said something like, “Why wouldn’t I sign it twice?”
Mr. Victore you are indeed Still Hard.
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Pocket-sized Metro. To promote the mobile version of the Metro newspaper in Canada, advertising agency Rethink came up with the following campaign. Their idea was to set up a mini dispenser including QR Code, once scanned you were redirected to the app of the newspaper. Dinky!
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jonheslop: Last summer we did a photo shoot for Hiut Denim. Pete and Joe made this rad film of all the fun we had.
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thiswolf: The Graph Font.
FF Chartwell is a fantastic typeface for creating simple graphs. Using OpenType ligatures, strings of numbers are automatically transformed into charts. The visualized data remains editable, allowing for hassle-free updates and styling. This video screencast explains how it works. Further information: fontfont.com/how-to-use-ff-chartwell
