Dave Ward - Designer in Edinburgh
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No Knives, Better Lives - the latest advert from the Leith Agency

I really like the new advert against knife crime by the Leith Agency.
The use of graffiti art to tie the message to youth culture works well, beautifully animated, great story telling and the music works wonderfully.

My only criticism would be how closely it resembles its influence, I have added some of the artist BLU's work below. 
Its a great chance to show his work, have a look on you tube, its fantastic stuff.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

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Posted 1 minute ago

Check out Mr Baskervilles moustache

 

Love this poster, you can buy it at Old Tom Foolery

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Posted 18 minutes ago

An agency called Nation want you to fucking go out and do something this weekend

I love this idea, a simple, quick project from passionate creatives that create a reaction.
Plus, its also useful. Whats not to love.

Weekends are for expanding the mind and getting involved with diverse cultural and creative offerings, or sitting in your underwear eating cereal and fighting nazi’s in a room filled with only the flickering of a giant TV. To push ourselves out of doing the latter we decided to make a little website to display neat stuff happening near you.  The site uses the eventful API and an idea wholly inspired by http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/. It throw’s up obscure, interesting and occasionally amusing stuff

   
Click here to download:
An_agency_called_Nation_want_y.zip (268 KB)

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Posted 19 days ago

Tom Rowe, aka Tweed Tom has some serious robotic design skills

Tom resides in London where by day he works as a creative for Antidote and by night draws 
and fascinates over obsolete mechanical marvels. 

               
Click here to download:
Tom_Rowe_aka_Tweed_Tom_has_som.zip (1222 KB)

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Posted 1 month ago

World of Warcraft avatars live and work in Dublin

This is short film directed by Gavin Kelly http://www.piranhabar.ie we worked on a while ago called "Avatar Days". What makes this one special is the fact that it was filmed, vfx'ed and comped all in just 4 days. It was made as part of the "4 day Film" catagory in the Darklight Film Festival.

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Posted 1 month ago

A rough guide to screen printing from Andrew Bell at Edinburgh College of Art

I have been going to the Edinburgh Print Makers for a while now, experimenting and learning the craft. This is a lovingly shot and edited overview of the process. Nice work Andrew! And props for getting your video on the mighty Swiss Miss!

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Posted 1 month ago

Just been on a tour of the Apple WWDC conference, from my sofa

My brother in law is at the Apple developers conference at the Moscone Centre this week, kicking off today with Steve Jobs keynote and launch of the iPhone 4. Knowing what a mac nerd I am he called me on iChat, he put me up full screen and walked me around the Moscone centre.

Sadly all the prototypes are behind closed doors, but what an impressive place. 
In one of the shots you can see the rows of large flat screens showing apps being downloaded in real time. They fall to the bottom and by the end of the conference the screen will be filled with apps.

Quite a few of the other delegates were either looking at me strangely or saying hello. One recommended I get an iPhone 4 for my next 'facetime' session, that name sounds wrong on every level.

Tomorrow he is going to the design awards, Wednesday is Pixar, Thurs Nasa and Friday CNN.
One lucky b*stard.

(p.s. Yup, I look a mess, but 2 mins earlier I was in my scratcher)

       
Click here to download:
Just_been_on_a_tour_of_the_App.zip (1554 KB)

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Posted 1 month ago

Edinburghs Whitespace have done a great job with the Tennents website

The team at Whitespace have done a great job of portraying the Tennents universe.
Simple, polished design, well written copy and a lot of pride in the product.

Also surprised to see positive comments on the Drum, absolute shocker.

The new site is a platform for all aspects of the brand marketing campaign, with a new navigation panel  – The Tennent’s hub – allowing all assets of the site, including links to campaigns such as T-Break and Be Chilled, to be housed in one dedicated area.        

As well as providing information and history on the product and campaigns, it also allows users to view external content sites such as YouTube (for previous advertising campaigns) and is tied to the launch of Tennent's official Facebook page, again run by Whitespace, which has almost 200 fans in its first few days of launch.

Saw it on the Drum

     
Click here to download:
Edinburghs_Whitespace_have_don.zip (2415 KB)

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Posted 1 month ago

Bernbach's advertising contract with Avis

This is something you will never see in a RFP or tender today, if only modern agencies had the nerve to be so up front with new clients.

Philosophy image mercilessly borrowed from lebowitz.net

     
Click here to download:
bernbach-s-advertising-contract-with-avis-VdpVbREm2SBv8FEjRzCa.zip (273 KB)

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Posted 2 months ago

Edinburgh illustrator Verity Keniger - Lions and Tigers and Chocolate, oh my

On my stumbles through the internet I was stopped in my tracks by the website of Verity Keniger 
She worked on the we are friction book which is fantastic, so imagine my delight when I read she now lives in Edinburgh and also prints at the Edinburgh Printmakers, hope to see you there sometime!

I studied illustration and graphic design at the University of Brighton and graduated in 2008. In Summer 2009 I relocated to sunny Edinburgh where I'm focusing on illustrating and screen printing at Edinburgh Printmakers. I am a novice knitter, professional tea-drinker and aspiring baker. My chocolate beetroot cake is quite outstanding. 

         
Click here to download:
Edinburgh_illustrator_Verity_K.zip (1006 KB)

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Posted 2 months ago