During my recent visit to Nice I spotted this campaign artwork for Heineken around town. ‘For a fresher world’ is illustrated by one of my favorite illustrators, dutchman Parra, you may recognize his style from previous campaigns for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

‘A Glasgow tower block is set for worldwide fame as the colourful star of a new TV advert.’

The cat is out of the bag, Glasgow, Scotland is the chosen location for Sony to follow up the bouncy balls of San Francisco. A blog has been launched to document the development and the ever growing interest in this forthcoming campaign.

Further docmentation can be consumed at Flickr and Youtube.

In a bid to help students / graduates find that ‘elusive creative position’, Designers are wankers have launched the Video-Phone Portrait Prize 2006.

Entrants are challenged to create a short video portrait using a mobile phone. The video presenting an opportunity for people to sell themselves to an employer/client by illustrating how their services are of benefit to their organisation.

£5000 is up for grabs, aswell as employment opportunites for the winner.

Closing date 31 August 2006.

This is the second installement of help on offer from D.A.W, following their self entitled publication published last year.

Lots of interesting stuff going on at studio Trokia, where product designers are exploring creative technologies to develop a new approach to advertising and branding.

There is fun to be had with their ‘SMS Guerilla Projector’…

‘A device that enables the user to project text based SMS messages in public spaces, in streets, onto people, inside cinemas, shops, houses etc.’

Trokia recently spoke at the We love Technology gig in Huddersfield, looked like a great event.

Just found my way to an archive of visual and audio output from london based graphic designer / music producer Trevor Jackson.

Scriptographer is a plugin for Adobe Illustrator that allows the users to extend and create tools for the graphical medium. Its also very powerful with the under pinnings of Java and the flexibilty of javascript as the script engine.

Lots of interesting projects will be coming from this sweat little application in the future.
I’m currently doing alot of work using this plugin (not for commercial - although it would be interesting to see if it could be used) - I’ve got database interaction, sound control and a 3d engine as just some possibilities what can be done.

I used a very early beta version for my final master’s project and it was sweet then - so this new updated version is awesome.

Scriptographer

Check out these Spanish pharmaceutical and healthcare ads on Flickr.

Originally published in magazines distributed to rural medical clinics or ‘Clínica Rural’ in the late sixties and early seventies, these vintage ads have just the right blend of Madison Avenue-inspired typography and psychedelic groovitude.

Via the ever great Veer.

Farfar have quite literally produced an all singing, all dancing campaign to promote Sweden’s capital, Stockholm. The main event being a video personalisation module that allows you’re name to be sung from great heights and at varying pitches, as you become part of Stockholm the Musical, a slick site it is too.

Jobsintown.de, a german recruitment service have decided life’s too short for the wrong job and have produced stickers to be placed on machines in the street, at train stations and in the office.