the guy who runs ‘one minute portraits’ (see earlier this week) also posts his own collection of weird doodles and stuff online, check mister benjamin hammond’s odd-ball ‘drawings and findings’ right here
me news
kilo jewels
the publishing wing of communication agency kesselskramer are due to release several new titles, including an update to the 5 year old brick-red ‘kilo’ book, this time in a bright green cover and full of new work covering the period between the two publications…
other interesting titles are ‘use me abuse me’ shown above and the intriguing looking ‘ink’, full of tattoo-related short stories and some powerful illustration work from ‘happy pets’ (see earlier post today) more info on all of the titles can be found under the heading ‘new’ right here
satisfied cats & dogs
some anarchic design work (posters, flyers, books etc.) from swiss studio happy pets, who were also featured in the latest issue of ‘eye’ magazine…
drink and be merry
belgian beer brand ‘vedett’ have been working on a very ‘out of the box’ image for several years now, like their tactile website for example… how many beer brands would dare to do this?
(tip via ‘ellen bokkinga’… thanks!)
2012
the british post office have released a series of stamps featuring a whole series of illustrators and artists (julian opie, george hardie to name two) in the run up to the london olympics, with two more stamp sets due in the following year.. the design is in the hands of studio david hillman
somehow i feel that they could have been a bit more ‘wild’ than this with so many talented people involved, the overall impression is rather ‘traditional’ for me… although the basketball one is quite funky…