How cool is this card…

Another perfectly synchronised awesome music video by Ok Go

And here is the behind scenes making…

The interface and layout of this site is pretty cool, its featured in the Communication Arts Interactive Annual.

There’s a lot of bad design out there but once in a while you come across something that can really make you weep!

I was just doing some research for an upcoming book site that we are designing and I thought I’d check out the official website of Stephenie Meyer the author of the infamous Twilight series.

I stared in disbelief at the potential that was lacking on this site. Instead of a site that grabs you in by the eye balls into a supernatural world of vampires, romance and werewolves my eyes were assaulted by disgusting tones of teal/green, tabbed navigation and worst of all appalling readability online.

When I think of the potential that this site could have, to not just promote the book and author but to build upon the humungous community and cult following that has followed this series. It makes me want to slap the person who created this hideous website. For Gods sake it’s not like they wouldn’t have had a budget on this one!

I am sooo in love with the music created by UK band Mumford & Sons at the moment. I haven’t had a band touch my soul so deeply in such a long time. Even when you take away the music, the actual lyrics are so unbelievably inspiring, heart-felt, hopeful and deep. Just what I need right now. My brushes can’t keep up with the ideas that are pouring out of me!

Melbourne designer Luci has some lovely work featured in her site. I really like the hand created quality that they have.

On Mueck is a photo realist sculptor born in Melbourne who now resides in the UK. His sculptures are incredibly detailed and are created either in a larger than life size or a smaller version that gives the artwork are creepy yet fascinating appearance. Apparently he spent 15 years working as a specialist effects artist and actually worked on one of my favourite movies ‘The labyrinth’, before running his own model making business.

We are all inclined to accept conventional forms or colours as the only correct ones. Children sometimes think that stars must be star shaped, though naturally they are not.

The people who insist that in a picture the sky must be blue, and the grass green, are not very different from these children. They get indignant if they see other colours in a picture, but if we try to forget all we have heard about green grass and blue skies, and look at the world as if we had just arrived from another planet on a voyage of discovery and were seeing it for the fist time, we may find that things are apt to have the most surprising colours.

~ Extract from The Story of Art by E.H.Gombrich PG26

I’m loving this song at the moment…

Take a look at this really cute photo shoot by Sloan Photographers. Apparently it was for an engagement photoshoot. The style has a lovely, romantic and retro feel. Beats all those tacky wedding pics that so predominate most couples albums!