Google put together a project re-imagining some of the most iconic advertising campaigns in history for the web.
“This year we partnered with four global brands and a group of advertising legends in a bid to test a medium and challenge an industry. See how Amil Gargano, Paula Green, Harvey Gabor, Howie Cohen and Bob Pasqualina worked with the latest technology to bring their most famous ideas to life online and inspire a new generation of creative minds along the way.”
With half a million views on Vimeo, there’s a chance you have already seen this, but if not, it’s definitely worth checking out. Solipsist is a dance film directed by Andrew Huang… it might be a bit slow and long for some of you, but if you don’t have enough time to check out the whole piece, at least jump ahead to around 7:00… So epic!
The first comment in Vimeo sums the film up pretty well: “I still can’t believe that this exists.” Check out the film above and keep reading to see an interesting behind the scenes video from the shoot.
Really digging the navigation of this site and love the treatment to the photographs. This is an amazing way to present editorial content in a browser and even with the influence that you can see from print layouts, it is very well though out and enjoyable to use. I’m definitely tired of the people who just try to design a traditional print magazine layout and throw it online, thinking they are creating a online magazine… Seeing this layout and the quality of content is a breath of fresh air and actually gets me excited for the future of “online magazines”.
As soon as our wallpaper submission post went up, we started getting a bunch of emails from interested people. We will slowly start to dole out wallpapers as they become available to us. Psyched on this crowd participation!
Here is our first one, courtesy of Australia’s Bohie Palecek. Find your size below.
Our good friend Michael De Wit works at Vans and took a little field trip up to Maine with the design team to try their hand at building wood surfboards. Joe Carter put together a great video of their experience and if you look closely, you can see Michael reaping a Defgrip tee! Big thanks to Michael for the support and next time we expect to see our own Defgrip surfboard! haha!
From Dylan Haigh: On Feb 1, myself and 3 talented artists/printers launched a new company called Industry Standard that specializes in screen printing FOR ARTISTS ONLY. No little league t-shirts, no yard signs. We only make prints and posters for other artists.
Carson Leh has been making custom leather seats for the past year or so and has been getting a great response since we first posted about them over a year ago. He has recently setup a Kickstarter page to help raise funds to step up his production and do a full run of seats that he will be able to sell at a lower cost! Check out his Kickstarter page here and make sure to donate! Even $1 can really help out!
Almond just sent over a bunch of photos documenting their process in shooting the photos for their latest print ads. Keep reading to check out all the photos and see the finished ad.
Quintin and FBM have teamed up to make a special hat, designed with a tough and gritty look to represent Mike Tag and his fight with Lymphoma. To show your support for Mike, you can purchase these from your local shop or mail order, or ask them to carry it. All proceeds go to the Mike Tag fund.
Click below to see more photos and prebook information, and go here to read more and check out a compilation of Mike Tag videos for a dose of Mike Tag’s influential riding and, as Crandall put it, “calculated insanity”.
In keeping with Ludwig’s tradition of doing unique projects, comes the new “Scout Series” hats. These hats feature US Made WWII-era and Vietnam-era dead-stock canvas, and look pretty sweet if I must say so myself.
Click below for more info and to check out some detail shots.
A friend and I came across the design work of French artist Florian Chevillard, a.k.a. BuroLoco, and we loved it (I was especially into the awesome window displays he created for Hermes). Later on we were lucky enough to have him design the latest Lavar tees. Click below to read a quick interview with Florian and check out some samples of his work.
Our good friend Caleb Everitt has started a new design studio called L A N D with Ryan Rhodes and sent over a link to their new site. We have always been huge fan’s of Caleb’s work and can’t wait to see what those guys do with L A N D!
You may remember that I posted about Chris Piascik a little while ago. Well, I hit him up and he was more than down to contribute a wallpaper for the site. I’m stoked with the results.
