I love:

I just downloaded and installed all of his sticker icons on my computer at work. A very productive use of my time.

His work is really great though, an interesting use of vectors. They are safe to use as wallpapers no matter who will see your monitor and get way more attention than say, a photo of a sunset. I also like the simple and consistent look of his brand/site.

Etsy.com

A friend of mine sells goodies for babies here and there are heaps of other awesome things you can get here. Every day they have a colour themed selection of items on their home page and a featured seller. I’ve ordered everything from earrings to reusable produce bags and always been happy with what I’ve received. It is a great place to find unique gifts.

Check out ‘Colors’ under Ways to Shop. It is pretty neat!

Kerning

Ack, they are using tables! But it has good content - I am trying to learn more about type so I can become even snobbier about design.

Arjo Wiggins Poster

Portfolio of typography artist and illustrator, Alex Trochut. He has a really great style, sticks to one strong theme for each illustration, go check it out and you will see what I mean. Excellent details and line work.

A video by Michael Levy done in Maya to the music of John Coltrane. Flawless timing and a brilliant idea.

There really is a grace to classical animation that hasn’t yet been achieved with digital. Something funny I learnt in college is that in digital animation, the minute something stops moving, it doesn’t look alive anymore - like it’s breaking character. This is funny because one of the things I really love about anime is that it is so dynamic, and they achieve so much with frozen characters. Here are my top five classically animated movies:

• The Triplets of BellevilleSo great, one of my favourite scenes is when they are crossing the ocean, the music is also incredible.
• MetropolisObviously not the 1927 original - this was created from the manga version of the story by Osamu Tezuka, who created Astro Boy
• Grave of the Fireflies Get ready to cry - it’s about a boy struggeling to take care of his little sister in Japan after WWII.
• Iron GiantReally nice story and animation that is kid friendly without the song and dance sequences or formulaic story line.
• Okay, this last one is hard. I love all of Hayao Miyazaki’s films. All of them. They are sweet and random and brilliant and have amazing characters. The four that I could watch a million times and never get tired of are:
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Laputa: Castle in the Sky
  • Nausicaä
  • Spirited Away

P.S. Use your effing subtitles. There is nothing worse than a dubbed movie. Except maybe Nausicaä because Captain Piccard does one of the voices… that one is okay dubbed.

Neat train graphic

The very lovely and very interesting photo blog of someone near and dear to my heart. All taken with his iPhone, the photo’s create a romantic, hipster world.

Red and Green

Sweet story and really nice shaders in this short 3d animation. I have a thing for toon shaders but this hand drawn thing surpasses all of them that I’ve seen before.

Really cute games from one guy in Japan (I think). If you get stuck there are lots of cheats you can google for, but come on, we all know how much more satisfying it is to win on your own.

They were such a mess! More ’symbolism’ than should properly fit into 3.5 minutes of video, a nauseating amount of camera effects, spectacular green screen work and Doc Martins. What more could you want?

Here are some for your viewing pleasure (try to watch them at home rather than work):

• Garbage - Push It
• The Cranberries - Salvation
• Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
• Radiohead - Paranoid Android
• Bush - Glycerine
• A surprise!