Dave Ward - Designer in Edinburgh
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Welcome to Adland, how many classic ads can you spot?

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Mark Denton and Seth Watkins co-directed this film to remind people that the 2009 Creative Circle Annual is ready and available.

Saw it on Creative Review

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Blow your own heart

What a great idea, would love a go at this.

Stuck for a suitably creative Valentine's gift for your loved one? 
If you're in London, you could make your own glass heart at Zest's studio

Zest, the contemporary glass gallery in West Brompton, will be holding courses for couples to come and make each other a glass heart on Saturday 13 February. Or, if you want to make it a surprise, you can go along on the evening of Thursday 11 Feb where, for £25 you can blow your own (if you see what we mean).

Saw it on Creative Review

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Student Matt Frodsham's polished work for Cartoon Network

Matt Frodsham, a third year student at Salford University has entered this polished work for the YCN student awards. Which are well worth a look, I would be all over it if I was back in Uni.

Saw this work on pointandanchor.co.uk

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Who would you Yahoo yodel at?

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Nice idea from Poke London 
You find content on the web thats worth Yahoo-ing about and then give it the appropriate Ya and Hooooo.
Its lots of fun, this painful yodel made me laugh: Biiiig Baby

Just like the Eskimos are meant to have loads of words for snow (because they're snow experts), we wanted the new, open, Yahoo! to have loads of yodels for all kinds of awesome web stuff. What if the internet has served you something gross? Or sexy? Or sexy-gross? Whatever, there's a yodel for that.

The Yahoo! Yodelizer can be used to create a yodel to celebrate ANYTHING you might find on the web.

Making a Yodel is super easy. Using your keyboard, you can create a Yodel from a bunch of pre-recorded YAs and Hoos. Then you can attach it to whatever you like on the internet. There's no logging in, no labyrinthine instructions and it's annoyingly addictive. 

It's kind of like a URL shortener. But with added yodelly goodness.

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Pentagrams Michael Bierut talks about clients


Saw it on Creative mornings

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Thon Ren & Stimpy artist is a bloody nice bloke

In 1998, aged just 14, aspiring young cartoonist Amir Avni decided to get in touch with the creator of Ren & Stimpy, John Kricfalusi. Being a hardcore fan of Kricfalusi's work, Amir sent him an introductory letter along with a few cartoons he'd drawn, some of which contained relatively unknown characters of John's. 

View the full post on lettersofnote.com

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Mr Bingo is very f*cking bored

 

Check out London illustrator Mr. Bingo

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Stina Jones is posting a doodle a day for the charity shelter

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Stina Jones, a designer from the West Midlands is going to be post a doodle a day every day this year for the homeless charity shelter. Lend your support by donating just two measly quid.

Daily Doodle is my creative fundraising project for 2010. I will be submitting a new doodle every day, 365 doodles in 365 days!

The aim of this artistic endurance challenge is to raise money for the charity Shelter, who do fantastic work with some of Britain's most vulnerable people. I would be grateful if you could show your support by sponsoring £2.

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Poor misery bear takes a trip to London

Thought this was brilliant, saw it on the apartment blog

 

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Belfast agency Front look back at the past year

Belfast agency Front have done a round up of their work this year.
Their work for Abbey Theatre, No Postie and Windmill Lane particularly stand out.

This has been a simply tremendous year at Front; we’ve grown and developed as a team in ways that I’m truly proud of.  We’ve invested a lot of time and effort in learning new things, attended and spoken at a tonne of events, worked hard to delight our clients - and as a result we’ve launched better work than ever before.

     
Click here to download:
Belfast_agency_Front_look_back.zip (1658 KB)

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