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(2 frames from)
Drum Painting 2007, DV PAL, 14′ 07”
Hugo Canoilas / João Ferro Martins

WashYourHands.tv won’t tell you anything you haven’t heard a thousand times from your mother, but maybe this time it’ll get through.
Slapping life sized decals over the door on the way out of men’s bathrooms, JWT Toronto is drawing attention to hands and germs and things that spread.

Small stickers close to the doorknobs read “You washed. This guy didn’t.” or “92% of guys say they washed. 34% were lying.” with the website name.

At washyourhands.tv, there are virable videos that should put hand sanitizers on men’s must-have lists.

Created by Sean Gallagher & Steve Turnbull, JWT Toronto

Tommy has been in the advertising industry for the last 25 years, but secretly has been drawing and painting during his free-time. He has decided to put together these works online giving more emphasis to what (I believe) he loves more to do : Sketchbooks, Illustrations, paintings and drawings. You can also have a sneak into his print ads and commercials, also really dope. I’ve seen those photo treated girl-dolls before…

Check Out:

• Tommykane.com - Awesome “journals”
• Tommy Kane’s Blog
• Illustration
• Myspace.com/tommykane

Circusmuseum.nl - A huge collection of circus posters. nearly 8,000 dating from 1880 to 1930 from all around the world, compiled by Jaap Best.

The ultimate image bank with posters, photos and prints from the collection of Jaap Best, the Netherlands’ largest collection of circus memorabilia. For your enjoyment, our online show, now has nearly eight thousand circus posters from 1880 to the present, from the Netherlands to America, from A2 format to several square meters. At the heart of the collection, and dating from 1880-1930, are nearly 3,500 color lithographs by the Hamburg printer Adolph Friedländer. This year alone we have added 7,000 circus photos and picture postcards. Our sophisticated search engine has hundreds of headwords – not just for acts and artistes, and for owners and individual circuses, but also for fairs, variety shows and the theater.

A fast track guide for the city traveler.

• A new concept in city guides
• Pocket-sized, easy-to-use and discreet so that you don’t feel like a tourist
• 20 City Guides are out now and a further
• 40 will be available in 2007

Wallpaper City Guides - Phaidon Press

Edel Rodriguez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1971 and promptly began dreaming of becoming a baseball player. He left for America with his parents on a boat when he was eight years old and became a moderately known artist instead. His work is published in a bunch of fancy places but he still dreams of playing ball with all his buddies in his dirty little hometown.

EDEL RODRIGUEZ

Uganda Payphone

Payphone on Lake Victoria in Uganda using GSM Technology and Solar Power. Photo sent in by Craig Wheeler, Remkor Technologies South Africa.

A surprising number of people seem to think this photo is a fake. It is not fake. It shows a Ugandan fisherman using a solar powered GSM phone. Solar powered + GSM enabled = no wires.

In other words, it’s a cell phone. Like any cell phone, it can be used virtually anywhere, even from top of a post in the middle of a lake.

It is a *pay* cell phone and that’s why you see it on this web site, but it’s a cell phone nonetheless. As far as I know there are no limits on using cell phones on boats.

The photo may have been staged for publicity use, but that would not make it fake.

Cleverness aside, I think Remkor’s success in bringing phone service to water-based communities represents a pretty brilliant adaptive use of technology.

More on this great project: Payphone

Joe Kral’s Collection of Penguin Books. Click the image to access his collection, starting from this great cover.

Pelican - Islam by joe_kral_tpc on Flickr.

Off topic: We are also in process of compiling and archiving a collection of our acquired retro magazines, books, postcards and pamphlets… Must remember to scan before cutting into pieces for our assemblages.

A collection of antique and vintage Tv’s

MARCELS TV MUSEUM

This funny video tells you how much your future Iphone can do… a lot more than what you imagine.

Painter and installation artist Tomokazu Matsuyama, just 30, has already lived through more years of cultural confusion than most of us will ever see. The oft-transplanted Matsuyama, now in New York, makes the accidental multiculturalism that doesn’t show on his face the primary subject of all of his work. “When I considered what is uniquely mine,” explains the artist, “I realized I wanted to take everything I was raised with and mix it all up and make something completely new.”

In keeping with his global upbringing, Matsuyama exhibits his contemporary art around the world, in addition to working with multinationals like Levi’s and Nike to bring them into line with “the now, today, in all of its cultural complexity.” He strives to portray this global melee through a conscious “appropriation” of all of his influences: cultural, artistic, and personal. Matsuyama’s unconflicted and positively ebullient works do not ask, “What am I?,” but assert, “I am everybody.”
Via Theme Mag

TOMOKAZU MATSUYAMA

“3-Horse” 2006 / acrylic on paper / 24 X 36in

“Kirin” 2006 / acrylic on canvas / 60 X 60in

“Collabotal” 2006 / acrylic on paper / 18 X 35in

A good resource for Printed patterns and decoration tips. Fabric, wallpapers, gift wraps, stationery, ceramics… suggestions and trends for a better living. maintained by Bowie Style, United Kingdom, who’s a designer and trend forecaster with a passion for pattern in all its forms.

Print & Pattern

ROJO® presents three new titles of the very special limited edition artist book collection. Monographic books by Dalek, Sosaku Miyazaki and Andrew James Jones. Pre-order your copies now in ROJO® online shop at a very special price!

New Album from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Some Loud Thunder, will be available January 30th 2007. Here are 2 tracks they made available for download on their website: “Love Song No.7″ and “Underwater (You and Me)”.

Album Tracklisting:

1. Some Loud Thunder
2. Emily Jean Stock
3. Mama, Won’t You Keep Them Castles in the Air and Burning?
4. Love Song No. 7
5. Satan Said Dance
6. Upon Encountering the Crippled Elephant
7. Goodbye to Mother and the Cove
8. Arm and Hammer
9. Yankee Go Home
10. Underwater (You and Me)
11. Five Easy Pieces

Check their myspace for more stuff.

The wait is over. 54 Yellow Pencils and 2 Black Pencils have been awarded from over 24,500 pieces of work. These winners can truly be said to represent the very best in design and advertising from around the world in 2006.

D&AD Awards 2006

Images courtesy D&AD

Pietari was born in Helsinki, Finland in the late 70’s. When other kids were asking him to play, he preferred to stay in and draw. Later they stopped asking. Nowadays he spends his days and nights illustrating both the traditional way, and by computer, and more often using both.

Today Pietari is working as a freelance illustrator in Barcelona since 2005.
P I E T A R I * P O S T I

Subscribing to t-post is a lot like having a magazine subscription, but instead of receiving magazines in your mailbox, you will receive t-shirts.
Every six weeks they design a unique t-shirt based on a current news item and print the shirt’s topic inside. You may not hear always about T-post’s story from your traditional news media but in our opinion you should have. It’s more than a cool looking shirt, it’s something to talk about. Sound Interesting?

T-post.se

Clip by BBC2.

Stumbled upon this great Blue Note Covers archive. Over 1000 covers (mentioned) some of them graphically awesome.
Click on the images to see more at Amazon.com

This is a very uncommon way to have a Web presence. The agency Mother knows how to make a difference and in their website, a quicktime VR tour shows and informs about every single detail as if a monastery guide to the dullest tourist should be. I couldn’t find pieces of their work, company info or client stuff - (…maybe it’s there somewhere, maybe they have it somewhere else) but everything and more about their awarded studio physical architecture, people, decor, etc… even the windows are documented and explained to the scientific detail… A tour to appreciate on your spare time along with a very well executed and detailed 4D views…. Tell me it’s humor or not. I like it (company, site and sight) for being different and I hope it’s just temporary because I’m damn curious about what they do. Anyone?

EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MOTHER BUT WERE TOO AFRAID TO ASK

Polar Inertia has been making constant and solid issues loaded with photo essays and issues about nomadic and urban themes. They are online since 2002 and still doing great articles like this collection of Hong Kong skyscrapers by Michael Wolf.

A great video assemblage for U2’s new music video, Windows in the Skies, built by Modernista (Gary Koepke directed) and Mill. Features some of the most memorable music moments of the last decades, synchronized to the slightest details with the song metrics plus some neat cg effects.

Check it out at Beam.tv (QT movie)

A very nice collection of vintage electronics. I’m getting more and more addicted to flickr each time I find something so “Yummy” like this!

Bulova AMFM 9 Transistor Radio, 1960’s by Roadsidepictures on Flickr.

UK Guerrilla Artist Banksy launches his free shop. Everything in the shop is free. All the images can be downloaded to print or use as a desktop. Banksy free Shop

Serving suggestion:
Prints look best when done on gloss paper using the company printer ink when everyone else is at lunch.

ahah!