The best job in the world

Two D&AD black pencils were awarded to Sapient Nitro in Brisbane for its Best Job in the World campaign for Tourism Queensland, which turned a classified ad into an elaborate and hugely successful PR campaign for the region. ~ via Creative Review.

Crab crazy & a starfish

 The lovely weather is back in Falmouth, and after I was done with uni this morning - putting together presentation slides for tomorrows final presentation, I went off to explore rock pools. The water was mildy warm, and in some places I waded in up to my knees.

I randomly found a starfish without looking. One which a little girl (who was looking for starfish herself, with her mum) told me was quite big, and apparently they're hard to find. Haha.

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Some hermit crabs too.

I saw two pretty big crabs but they were too quick and tricky to catch. About the size of my hand (although I have small hands...) Although, we did manage to catch some others as well.

I feel like my blog needs some graphic design now. Meanwhile, I'm watching the last few episodes of Lost. I hope the finale lives up to the hype.

Signs of a design geek

23 Signs you are becoming a design geek
I especially like the typography ones.

Whenever you see fog on a forested hillside, you think, nature is making a gaussian blur.

You're sitting in the movie theater watching the movie titles, shaking your head at how badly they're kerned.

Your biggest fear is Papyrus becoming the new Comic Sans.

You know that, by default, if three designs are shown to a client, your least favorite will be chosen – or any combination of worst components of each.  

You have an uncanny ability to automatically see when something is lined up properly without the need for tools or devices, for instance if a shelf is straight, and where the center of the wall is to hang a picture.

Ben Javens

A lovely new illustration discovery for me. Ben Javens.

Welcome to London

This seems quite appropriate as I'm using road signs and road sign
lettering for my Smile campaign.

London inspired artwork for an exhibition in a pop up store,

Creative Review. Anthony Burrill in this case (above).

And James Jarvis (below).

Rorshach

Definitely one of my most favourite graphic novel characters.
Quoteskine

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http://graphiceverywhere.tumblr.com/

It was very tempting to go in the sea today. But I went to the beach straight from uni, after a very successful learning team*, and therefore had unsuitable attire, plus no towel. I will make it in past my knees before the end of term.

*a learning team consists of one tutor and eight students. We discuss our own projects, recieve feedback and ideas. It's useful to reassure you that you're doing the right thing and that your work is good enough.

Summer type

These posters from the Typography Cocktail series, here, sum up the weather at the moment. It's beautiful in Falmouth. But the sun is deadly, I have extremely burnt feet from sitting at the beach yesterday afternoon.

I was also writing in the sand with the handle end of my fishing net (meant for catching crabs, but the tide was in so far that there were no rock pools), which reminds me of this:

When I carved 'freedom' in the sand near St Micheal's Mount,

about two years ago, and watched as the sea washed it away.