It is oddly beautiful though, and a perfect example of where GIF’s have come since the 90s. The artist (yes, a GIF artist) is Francoise Gamma; a guy with a knack for making the freaky and bizarre seem mesmerizing and, well, freaky and bizarre. For some reason they remind me of Blade Runner; quite sci-fi and androgynous.

I will post a few here, but to save your browsers from crashing, I recommend going to his website to check out the rest. There is also Videogramo, a single page site that is an artwork in itself. Great stuff.

David Kelley, the founder of the legendary design firm IDEO, gives a great talk about creative confidence and the moments when some of us lose this confidence, somethimes forever.

“That opting out [of creativity] that happens in childhood … moves in and becomes more ingrained by the time you get to adult life.” We must all help people to realise that creativity is an innate talent to be fostered and nurtured and not to shy away from. Kelley tells us he believe that when people gain this confidence they work on what is important in their lives and make better decisions. And he asks us not to divide the world into creatives and non-creatives.

I’m down with this.

Watch the talk here.

I found this amazing work over on  another blog, Dave Tucker, who does a good job of explaining  the project, so I’ll let him do it;

“Over the summer Dodge Ram’s creative team decided to do a series of commercials, web design and print advertisements that would embelish the rough and gritty manliness of Dodge Trucks. The team decided on a rugged Old West theme which would tie in the grit, strength and danger of the time with the masculinity of their trucks.  To tie the era with raw machine power Dodge decided to focus on the workhorse machine of the era, letter press and wood type.  The commercial was shot at the International Printing Museum and ties an era with no automobiles seamlessly to the present with close shots of the machines at work, mimicking a modern day close up of pistons and belts in an under the hood car commercial.”

The finished project is up and running over at Dodge’s site and it looks beautiful.

But, the fun part is the behind the scenes. The nitty gritty. The press. So, watch the video and check out some of the photo’s from the making of. What a great project.

But, there is something wrong with these promo images and video. Anyone care to guess what it is? Hmmmm.

It’s great to see developers go beyond the bricks and mortar and make that leap towards building a community’s heart & soul as well.

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So great! Some spectacular examples exist out there in the world, and I’m sure you have your favourites. Mine? Well, Hitchcock had Saul Bass by his side to create some of the most memorable and beautiful titles I have ever seen, so my number one is North by North West. I stumbled upon a little video on title design which shows some great examples, and speaks to some interesting people. Have a watch (it even features some Saul Bass). If you can, link us your favourites, if I find enough, I’ll do a post of the top 20 movie titles of all time. (I’m lazy, I need your help).

It’s a beautiful idea and I love some of the comments on their Flickr stream, see below.

“Recently I visited Madrid and I noticed that the men who work for the garbage collection are real geniuses. You can tell it by the way they work and by their faces while doing it.”

This is binman Hans-Peter Strahl taking a picture of the church in Hamburg Altenwerder with his pinhole dumpster. Binmen start their tour very early, this was at seven in the morning and he was already up and working a few hours. so it comes in handy that taking trashcam pictures is mostly waiting. Shot by Mirko Derpmann with a Fuji gw690 on fuji velvia.

The City Hall in Hamburg photographed with a garbage container by
garbageman Michael Pfohlmann, Christoph Blaschke and Mirko Derpmann. Shot on a 106×80 cm sheet of ilford multigrade with sin minutes exposure time.

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With a few hours up her sleeve before her flight home, Donna taught us the basic principles of card sorting – setting up, running a card sort and some tips for analysing the results and turning it into a usable information architecture. Jill, Mike and Teresa got their hands dirty and did a quick card sorting exercise on the night too.

View the complete set on Flickr

Donna’s a freelance user experience designer who specialises in large, messy websites; and large, messy  business applications. She has written three books – on card sorting, web writing, and information architecture. In her spare times she runs UX Australia, an annual user experience conference.

There are a lot more of these GIF’s on his blog, so be sure to check them out (plus all his amazing illustrations).

The result was The Dumpster Project.

“I think that we define ourselves through the things that we collect and the things that we keep,” Premo says in a video about the project. “I think we imbue meaning into objects and I think subsequently those objects become a record of who you are.”

Premo: “Listen, this is what baseball is about: run it out, throw hard, slide with abandon, work hard and long and slow if necessary, always think, never think, guffaw like a hick but quantify like a philosopher, spit, never dance like some end-zone shit head, make eye contact, don’t back down but oh christ-never ever be a meathead, embrace dirt and be honest. Above all, run it out.”

Premo: “I don’t know what you are talking about. I don’t see anything.”

Premo: “I remember this watch from when I was about 5. For two years I waited for that guy to stop pump-faking and finally pass the damn ball. By the time I was seven, it became clear that he was never going to commit.”