Seriously?

Let's hope this shit isn't supposed to be aspirational.

Today, Tomorrow

Today is Halloween. People in the USA, UK and many other countries will be having fun dressing up, trick-or-treating and partying. There will be people dressed as fried calamari, computers, dinosaurs, space men, politicians, Indiana Jones and towers of Ferrero Rocher. There will be amazing carved pumpkins with designs from the death star to bowling balls to popular television personalities.

It's an exciting time for anyone. We're planning on carving up some pumpkins in the office this afternoon, and we all arrived to find sweets and spider webs on our desks.

The different thing about it these days, though, is that today (the only Halloween) is only the start of the event. As more and more awesome costumes and pumpkins arrive on flickr and digg, it'll take them a few days to reach the top of 'explore' or the front page. Halloween will last four or five days.

Christmas will last until mid January, thanks to this 'digital delay'.

It's slightly ironic, too, that all this technology that has made things easier and faster in so many ways has now overloaded us and it actually takes more time now for our trusted filters like 'explore' or digg to deliver the information we see. Without them, though, we'd be living in the dark ages... right?

High Five Generator

A bit of self-patting-on-the-back today. This made it onto the interweb in all sorts of places.

Zoomdoggle

PSFK

Gizmodo!

and it even made it through the NotCot editors!

Where to next, mister high five?

The best product design I've seen in a really, really long time

I have no idea where you get these, or who designed them. PLEASE use the comments to let me know, if you know.

THIS IS TYPOGRAPHY

I recently noticed a trend in which designers write the word 'typography'. 

In this example I'm a bit disappointed there's no message connected. It's a beautifully executed piece of 3D/retouching, but all it says is 'typography', which is a bit boring in my opinion.

All sorts of other designy stuff at www.youthedesigner.com

Awful, just terrible, really, really bloody bad media placement

Link below for those of you from outside of the UK, or are immune to londonpaper sandwich boards.

Jean Charles de Menezes on Wikipedia

If you know who took this photo, or where it originated (blog, news website, etc) please let me know in the comments so I can credit the image.

nano-chro. sorry I can't say it again.

I like the paint streaks. Obvious choice, but nicely executed and stuff or whatever. But that headline is pretty painful.

"iPod Touch, the funnest iPod ever" on the other hand, is quite funny. Say it a few times, funnest. Feel dirty?

UPDATE: this is awesome too - from the end of the TV Ad.

Virgin Media get it

This pretty much sums up the experience I had getting my broadband transferred and working when I moved. Over a period of 4 weeks.

Animals on the Underground

Animals on the Underground is probably the best London Underground map 'mashup' I've ever seen.

Go look at it immediately!

Content Paradise reconsider brand promise?

Content for your 3D models can still be found at Content Paradise, though.

These post-its are awesome.

For men who drill, screw and...

Forgot the end of the line, and the brand, but this was definitely an ad for tools.

Update: the line was "For men who screw, bang and drill" and is for a £39.99 pair of steel capped boots.

Matter of fact: most image searches will have a cat result in the first 5 pages

Fact.

Edit, make it 'first six pages'. This one was on page six of the search string 'towel':

We built this city on milk and... Um. Milk.

London Dairies 020 8440 0619

Solving the problem of mumbling in the office

Many creatives (well, here anyway) tend to mumble to themselves while working. So I invented this hi-tech flag so people know when they're being spoken to.

Is that cause you think you're fat?

Cause you're not, you could drink whole if you wanted.



Sainsbury's launches 1% Milk in the UK.

Box Master

Yes, pardon me? What is 'Box Master'?

SWA

Except for the delays, crying babies and poor people, of course.

So happy to be a Bank of American

Now I work here

Cunning have lots of logos, so I thought I'd show you mine. It's a bit silly. I couldn't believe that nobody had done an alphabetti spaghetti one, then I went to Sainsbury's and found out THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY.

Shocked and appauled.

See what we do at www.cunning.com