Welcome to the blog of Johannesburg creative agency Nicework. A fine selection of the best creative ideas, art, design and advertising.
Fatimah Kabba created this board game centred around one of the major occasions in a graphic design: “The Pitch”.
“I wanted to “rebrand” the preconceptions about graphic design, I wanted friends, family, clients, and the general public to have a new found respect for the field, the legitimacy of which I think is too often minimized or entirely over looked.”
Check out this great kickstarter project here
An amazing music video for the Lonely Island. It is good to see michael Bolton has a sense of humour.
Thanks creon
Renowned designers Steven Heller and Louise Fili have recently co-authored and published a book titled “Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design’s Golden Age”. The book focuses on various examples of typography advertising, street signs, invitations, type-specimen books, personal letters from the 19th and 20th Century.
“Scripts is a celebration of script letters, alphabets and fonts from classical to modern, from Italy, France, Germany, England and the United States. It is a collection of all manner of ephemera in which scripts play a prominent role.”
- Steven Heller (taken from an interview on the Thames & Hudson blog)
The 99% Conference. Inspiring and insightful, as always. The folks over at Behance know what they’re doing. And now they just uploaded a massive (!) recap of the conference.
Here are some of my favorite quotes of the day:
“What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It’s curiosity and rigor.”
- Andrew Zuckerman
“The ‘Ok Plateau’ is the point when we turn on autopilot and stop getting better at a certain thing.”
- Joshua Foer
“Geeking out is extraordinarily useful.”
- Joshua Foer
“If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic.”
- Starlee Kine
Read the full conference recap here.
Via Swiss Miss
An odd take on historical portraits, dead people rated by their “bangableness”
There is stuff for boys too.
BANGABLE DAME NO. 2 Emmy Hennings, Dada performer and poet
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“3 Dreams of Black” is an interactive film by Chris Milk and some friends at Google that showcases the creative potential of WebGL. WebGL is a context of the HTML5 canvas element that enables hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in the web browser without a plug-in. See it here
Here is how they made it…
Following up on their successful Old Spice campaign, Wieden + Kennedy, Portland have done it again…
Via (ibelieveinadv)
Following Google’s i/o conference they released this amazing advert for the new Chromebook… a kind of Google laptop.
Chromebooks are built and optimised for the web, so you get a faster, simpler and more secure experience without all the headaches of ordinary computers. Take a look: http://www.google.com/chromebook
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