This is going to be super interesting for anybody who enjoys quality films, from up-an-coming directors. The Sundance Film Festival is showing their entries online!

Here is what they are saying: “Invited from the same short film program as its namesake event, this exclusive collection of premiere work in short filmmaking premieres first in Park City, Utah — and then rolls-out streaming to you. Free from anywhere in the world.”

And here are the others

Beautiful work from Mario Hugo.

And one of my personal favorite artists Lee Misenheimer from Brooklyn, NYC

Concept & Art Direction from Stockholm(via Newstoday)

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A rather impressive Volkswagen ad by german agency Grabarz & Partner.

Watch it here: http://advertlover.com/videos/VW_Phaeton_shadowplays.mpg

Cleo

The blog “Design Oberserver” was founded by heavy-weight designers, writers and thinkers from Pentagram: Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand and Rick Poynor among others. It is one of the best places to look for intelligent discourse on graphical design and visual culture.

Another very good resource is “SpeakUp”, which is very much like Design Obeserver but with a slightly more humorous/light hearted angle to the articles. Here every designer can discuss what’s on their minds. If you want to have a small idea of how designers think you must check these blogs out and contribute, because without critical thought we will only amass mediocre solutions.

And talking about critical thought check these links out:

M-o-n-a-m-o-u-r Now defunct, but always good for creative inspiration
Serial-Cut
Asterik Studio
Tolleson
Zip Design
FWIS

One of the guys behind Non-Formats’ illustrations the Si Scott is an english illustrator with a nice typographic technique go check him out, but be aware the navigation could use some adjusting.

The Precursor site is up here because of the navigation, it’s (con)text based meaning you can write directly on the site and request a specific project very much like the old days when you were using DOS and amiga, can be confusing sometimes so be sure to read how to navigate the site.

“Area 17 refers to the optical cortex of the brain where vision and creativity are processed. It also refers to our Interactive Agency where vision and creativity are realized”
Arnaud Mercier’s company in NYC. A site with great work.

For the people who havn’t yet seen Adobe’ newsletter Edge go check it out it’s excellent. This month they go behind Big Spaceship’s Nike project and other projects.

Last but not least Goodby, Silverstein & Partners + Ken Garland

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Janus Friis’ newest project which was codenamed “Venice” launched yesterday under the name of Joost, pronounced juiced. Let us see if the people, who brought online telephony to the public, can do the same for online television. We can only wait and see what will happen.

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If you are a typomaniac then you know Erik Spiekermanns, he just recently updated his blog from German to English. Go check it out, especially under the download section where you can download and view the movies he has made over the years about typographic.

Just to give you an idea of his work here are some of the typefaces he has designed: ff Meta, itc Officina, ff Info, ff Unit, LoType, Berliner Grotesk.

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Beautiful typographic work from days long gone. And by the way the typeface is called Standard Medium, but Akzidenz Grotesk is quite close to it. (Via DanskDynamit)

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Crazy motiongraphics check it out at http://www.huevisualab.com/

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Illustrator extraordinaire Steven Herrington

You can’t get around Group94 on the net, they have made tons of flash sites and they excel at it as no other. Speaking of flash, check out these couple of sites Gringo & Ginga

Another community site for designers: Nice To Meet You, this is what they say about it:

“Nice To Meet You™ is (yet another) platform for creative people and companies around the world that urges its members to get in touch with others and have an outlet for their creativity. In other words, this is a space to promote yourself and your work - but even better - to get in touch with other registered users.We supply you with your own “ntmy.org/your_profile” where you can write a description about yourself or your company, as well as show examples of your work.

Nice to Meet You™ is user driven in that sense, so it’s up to our users to do what they want with the space that we offer. Comments, private messaging and a strong search engine are just a few of the functions that Nice to Meet You™ handles right now - with more exciting features just down the road. “

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Ever wondered how creative people keep their work area organized, or how they live, well for a long time now I have been keeping this link to myself, but it is too good not to let you know about it, as it is a very interesting cultural reference. Another thing of interest is also to see that many creatives, almost always, have a lot different things on their desks, especially small toys and gadgets, and here at 1508 we sort of have the same thing going on, maybe it’s a design thing who knows.

“ARTISTS, ILLUSTRATORS, DESIGNERS & CREATIVE FOLK SHARE THE STUFF ON THEIR DESKS”

www.on-my-desk.blogspot.com

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