Christmas Bash

Celebrity

The Christmas Special of Extras saw the final outing of Andy Millman (Ricky Gervais) on our screens and served up an excellent treaty on celebrity culture. You can't help thinking there's a little of Gervais and co-writer in Andy's words.

Gervais appears as Andy in a mock Celebrity Big Brother and is asked by another frothing fame hungry contestant on the show if he would come to her "Hello" sponsored wedding. Enjoy.

Iraqi ballot paper design

Although more than a year ago now here's an interesting story about the Iraqi ballot papers.

The 2006 elections in Iraq presented ballot designers with a unique problem. More than 200 parties or individuals registered to be listed on the ballot, a fact that created a typesetting dilemma for the one-page design. But each party or individual who registered also had to supply a logo by which they could be identified by illiterate voters.

Some logos were turned away, including a drawing of a rifle, a picture of a mass grave, and a representation of a Koran surrounded by a halo.

The result is a very involved ballot; a sample of the 2005 ballot is shown here. More than 72 percent of eligible voters registered so they could put their own very personal "logos"-their fingerprints-on record so they could vote.

frohe Weihnachten

Happy Christmas to everyone from Julia and Kevin. Are you feeling the warmth of the little baby jesus deep down in in you heart?

Bethlehem

Graffiti artist Banksy has set up his annual Santa's Ghetto in Bethlehem this year, where visitors will be able to buy his work until Christmas Eve. His stencils on the controversial wall separating Jerusalem from Bethlehem have also inspired other artists to make their marks.

Pentagram's Brandspanking

Interactive designer Andy Foulds’ studio has produced a series of Flash animations based on Angus Hyland’s logo design for Brandspanking, a London-based media production company that specialises in branded content. The animations play during the introduction to their website, also designed by Foulds.

Angus Hyland designed the Brandspanking identity in 2007 with design assistant Zara Moore.

Andreas Gursky

Since the 1990s, Gursky has concentrated on sites of commerce and tourism, making work that draws attention to today’s burgeoning high-tech industry and global markets. His imagery ranges from the vast, anonymous architecture of modern day hotel lobbies, apartment buildings and warehouses to stock exchanges and parliaments in places from as far a field as Shanghai, Brasília, Los Angeles and Hong Kong.

...a reminder for you dipos

nothing really matters.......

A Tale of Slapdash

A short piece about misunderstanding.

Turbine Hall : Tate

Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth is the first work to intervene directly in the fabric of the Turbine Hall. Rather than fill this iconic space with a conventional sculpture or installation, Salcedo has created a subterranean chasm that stretches the length of the Turbine Hall. The concrete walls of the crevice are ruptured by a steel mesh fence, creating a tension between these elements that resist yet depend on one another.

Quirky book illustrations

Illustrations and book art from old and recent books.

Some unusual samples in there.

Mutable Identity

By using it's building, Casa da Música, as a visual source, Stefan Sagmeister created a dynamic, faceted and endlessly varied identity. It just look like a StarWars Sandcrawler but the identity concept is great.

anyone for more tennis?

Miss spent youth

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Mutations you rarely see

Mutant foods

10 years on!

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Zach "Beardo" Galifianakis

new video for Kanye West

Heads of State

Offset and silkscreen posters for music groups and assorted events by Heads of State.

Paris City of Love - Welcomes the Rugby World Cup