Travel posters for the lazy

(These posters were created by illustrator H. Caldwell Turner for CollegeHumor)

OK Go - Needing/Getting

Avengers of Pop

These AMAZING posters were designed by Merlito

...and I found them on this 'ere website

100 Years of East London Style

Join the War

I realise most people would have already seen this being passed around on Google+. They are however, AMAZING and deserve a post of their own on here. Designed by Aaron Wood

I ♥ Word Clouds

So... I am now obsessed with wordle.net

Just type in a URL and it'll word cloud up a website! I typed in my blog and these are the results:

Say it with llamas

This week I have found the need to create a word cloud (as you do) and discovered this highly useful website..

www.wordle.net

Just type in any copy, and voila, a perfectly formed word cloud is formed...

You can choose font, colour palette, orientation and background colour to great effect:





And here's another type-related site that's great for those occasions when you just need to say it with llamas...

www.llamafont.com

Kenny Powers takes control of K-Swiss

Facebook Fail

...and if you enjoyed that, have you read this?

Facebook inspires Israeli couple to name baby 'Like'


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An Israeli couple have named their baby daughter Like, taking inspiration from the Facebook social networking site, Israeli media say.

Lior Adler and his wife Vardit said they were looking for a name that was "modern and innovative".

Facebook allows users to "like" their friends' statuses, pictures and posts.

Like Adler's father said originality was a key factor in the choice and said he had checked no-one else in Israel had the same name.

"In our opinion it's the modern equivalent of the name Ahava [Love]," he said, according to Israeli newspaper Maariv.

"It's just my way of saying to my fantastic daughter, 'Love'."

According to the Haaretz newspaper, the most popular names for girls in Israel currently are Noa, Maya and Tamar.

Like, however, will not be alone within her family with her unusual name.

Both parents enjoy cooking and named one of their daughters Pie - using the English word for the name - and Dvash, Hebrew for Honey, according to Maariv.

Like's father said that when he announced her arrival on Facebook she was very popular.

"When I posted her picture and name on Facebook I got 40 'likes'," he told the newspaper.

"Considering that I have only a little more than 100 friends on the network that's a lot."

Via BBC News

Short. Different. Printed.

Some simple and amusing press ads for Welt Kompakt newspaper. Clever uses of Facebook status updates combined with recent news topics...







(via www.ibelieveinadv.com)

Newport (Ymerodraeth State of Mind)

I prefer this to the original:

Newport (Ymerodraeth State of Mind) from Vanessa Whyte on Vimeo.

Time Lapse

There are many offerings on YouTube that show a time lapse in a short piece of film. Here are some of my favourites:

This film was created by Eirik Solheim, he captured footage throughout 2009 and cut it into just 90 seconds...


How to grow a beard, then a goatee, then a moustache...


In this video a man took a photo of his daughter everyday from her birth until she was 10 years old and cut it down into just 1min 25secs..


Then there's the disgusting but quite scientific route...


And the real footage of a man (who looks like a woman) trapped in a lift for a whopping 41 hours!!


And finally, Noah Kalina took a photo of himself everyday for 2356 days...

Facebook Cartoon Campaign

This week Facebook seems to have transformed into a social network for 80s and 90s cartoon characters. Apparently, I am now friends with The Powerpuff girls, Hey Arnold, Sonic, Penny Crayon and Yogi Bear.

According to many a 'copy & pasted' status update...

"Change your Facebook profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood and invite your friends to do the same. Until Monday there should be no human faces on Facebook, but an invasion of memories. This is in support for stopping violence against children."



Many people believe the campaign was started by the NSPCC to support their fight against cruelty to children. However, the NSPCC denies any involvement with the Facebook group. Although, it welcomes the new focus on the work the charity performs.

The instigator of this phenomenon sweeping Facebook has not yet come forward and many people are beginning to wonder how changing your profile picture is really helping children. Although it certainly draws focus to children's charities, perhaps it would have been better to encourage a donation, before you changed your photo? With 90,000 followers in the largest Facebook group (and there are many more), donating a pound a photo could have raised a lot of funds so far...

This is not the first time a charity's cause has gone viral on Facebook. Most recently, Facebook users changed their statuses to suggestive slogans such as "I like it on the table" or "I like it on the floor" to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. These phrases predictably raised a few eyebrows on the site. But little did they know that women were actually referring to wear they keep their handbag.

Are you a social media addict?

Drawing The Internet

To coincide with Internet Week Europe, ad agency Saint is pitting the creative industry against a load of 10 year old kids to find out who is the most creative. An interesting project with some very interesting designs. Here are some of my favourites:






And here is my own humble offering, completed during my lunch break yesterday over a bowl of Covent Garden Winter Veg soup....



The voting hasn't begun yet, but hopefully it will do well.