The ‘Dulux Walls’ film (part of their latest advertising campaign) has to be one of the most beautiful commercials of the last few years.

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If you’ve got a spare 20 minutes watch David McCandless‘ talk about data visualisation at the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference.

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More photos from Aimee Fairman’s work at at Craft Cubed here in Melbourne.

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Wonderful rolling time-lapse video of Japan by American Director Brad Kemer using the Canon 5D MarkII.

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A very talented friend of mine working for DT Digital here in Melbourne has just released a series of online shorts for Honda promoting the Honda Jazz.

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K-Swiss recently hired Keith Schofield to put together a fairly awesome commercial with the tag line ‘Have an Awesome Day. Which is timely, because 2010 has turned out to be the year of the word Awesome. Personally I’m hoping the word ’splendid’ makes a revival in 2011.

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I was lucky enough to be invited along to the opening of a couple of exhibitions at Craft Victoria including the work of Melbourne installation artist Aimee Fairman.

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I came across this conceptual art piece by British artist Fiona Banner which is currently on display at the Tate in London.

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Some labour-intensive identity work from Dutch designer Roald van der Meer using forced-perspective to bring the MTV logo to life.

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In keeping with the last few updates on branding and Identity design I’ve scanned in some excerpts from this book of Japanese family crests and heraldry.

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I earmarked Ptarmak design studio in Austin a while back to do a post on because, aside from having solid portfolio of branding projects, they have a real flair for presenting their work and an excellent HTML site to top it all off.

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The first post on this blog is more than a year old now and it was a link to the ‘World of Logotypes’ book published in 1976 and re-discovered and scanned by designer Eric Carl.

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Dave and I here at the Riddip headquarters in Northcote have spent the last couple of months putting together a memorial website for the wonderful musician and raconteur John Rasmussen.

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Europe is filled with Cathedrals built centuries ago that were designed to inspire awe and show off the wealth of the church and the city-states that helped finance them.

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Tomorrow is the last day of the Peace of Wall exhibition being held at Until Never gallery in Melbourne.

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NotJones.com is the web portfolio of UK Graphic designer Aled Williams and he’s also not half bad.

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I’m having trouble keeping up with all the web aggregates and feeds and enewsletters and cryptic notes I’ve written to myself.   I’m digging up and stumbling upon things while stuff is buzzing and tweeting so I can’t be sure how I came across Magpie Studios but I’m glad I did.

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I think most people are a little suspicious of the high price tag attached to large commercial re-branding and logo design projects. They look at something like this three letter wordmark for Nokia’s ‘Nex’ division and wonder why something so simple cost so much to develop. Surely an experienced graphic designer could knock that out in an afternoon.

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I came across this motion graphics piece on iso50.

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Thought I’d put in a plug for a local design studio for a change.

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