Refresh illustration competition

The AOI are running a competition for students and graduates, if you have some illustration you feel you would like to enter, then check it out.

The Smalls

If your interested in short film then this could be interesting to you. The smalls is an organisation dedicated to discovering and promoting new talent in the area of short film, they occasionally run events and call for work to showcase.

If this sounds interesting to you then I would highly recommend you keep an eye on their site from time to time.

Photography Annual 2007 - Last chance to enter!

Today the 22 June is the last chance to enter photographic work for consideration in Creative Review's Photography Annual 2007.

The categories are;
Personal/non-published
Advertising
Design
Editorial
Conceptual

You have to pay £40 for the privilege of entering a single piece of work and £60 for a series of works.

http://www.photographyannual.co.uk/

RED BEE MEDIA

THIS SITE HAS LOTS OF INFORMATION ABOUT DIRECTORS/INTERACTIVE/MEDIA/ETC

'CUBS' by Tom Harper

A short 10 minute film about a gang of inner city kids that have discovered a dark new sport...urban fox hunting.
click to view film

Bob Monkhouse cancer ads

dailymail.co.uk

A very moving/powerful ad considering the history of Bob Monkhouse.

Created by: The Communications Agency (TCA) & Red Bee Media
Directed by: Steve Cope

Shock Advertising

VLCC Face scrub



Agency: M&C Saatchi, Delhi, India
Creative Director: Vaybhav Singh, Anand Swami
Art director: Chaman Singh
Copywriter: Vaybhav Singh

Ambient Media

CANCER PATIENTS AID ASSOCIATION



Agency: Everest Brand Solutions, India
Creative Director: Milind Dhaimade
Art Director: Nishant Jethi
Copywriter: Sundar Iyer

New Media

Agency: Jung von Matt/Spree
Creative Director: David Mously / Jan Harbeck
Art Director: David Mously
Copywriter: Jan Harbeck

Ambient Media

Jobsintown.de





AGENCY : Scholz & Friends Berlin GmbH / Berlin

Strange Maps

There are some interesting bits and pieces to get your eyes on here.

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

is it funny?

Okay you might ask me why I'm posting this, well I found it funny but also it's worth knowing what's going on in terms of video sharing sites and social networking sites. I guess you could see this as a you tube for a specific type of video clip, comedy in this case. It will be interesting to see if any other youtube type sites start to spring up.

MUTE

This is a magazine which discusses social and cultural issues with an emphasis on the relationship between technology and the production of new social relations. There are some really interesting and varied articles, it could be a good source of inspiration for your research or a project I would suggest checking it out from issue to issue.

The current issue is about climate change and how it is not easy being green.

3D in flash

In the next year I think you might start see alot more 3D on websites due to this development for flash, it's a clever piece of software that enables you to render objects in "real 3D". At present it's in private alpha testing, and I know that alot of top interactive agencies have their hands on it testing and building stuff. however, the public beta version should arrive in the next couple of months, I'll keep you posted.

until then there are some demos here http://blog.papervision3d.org/tag/demos/

The AOI

The Association of Illustrators is currently calling for entries for the best British contemporary illustration 2008. So if you have done something you think is worthy check out their site;

The AOI

Tigerprint

Tigerprint has launched a new competition, if you fancy it there is a prize of £250 and the chance of a placement.

Tigerprint is a part of Hallmark cards, supplying Marks and Spencers.

Frost Design Website

http://www.frostdesign.com.au/v2/

Check this out!!!! This website offers many good features, one of which is the possibility to view the information full screen. The navigation is really simple and the work takes the central focus of everything about it.

Last.fm

This is apparently the last radio station you will ever need. The concept is based around a clever little piece of software called the audioscrobbler which "scrobbles" tracks from users to a server on which a map is created. This map links artists based on what the users of the site listen to, so if you search for someone you like it should give you a suggestion in line with your musical taste, it is pretty accurate.

Check it out for yourself. Last.fm

This was setup by a group of guys in London who love music, they started with it as an idea of what they as music lovers would like and it grew from there. Last week they were bought for something like £140,000,000 which is pretty good going for doing something they love.