Hey everybody in Copenhagen (and vicinity),

this might be short notice but tonight there’s going to be an event at Republikken on Vesterbrogade, if you want see and hear some nice work come and take part. Sweet Talk is happening in Dublin, New York & Copenhagen. Just to get an idea here are some pictures for you to view

Here is what Richard Seabrooke from Sweet Talk has to say about it:

WHAT IS SWEETTALK?_ SweetTalk started over a year, and 17 editions, ago to encourage stimulating conversations about Design, Illustration, Motion Graphics, Fine Art, Animation, Photography and all those excellent disciplines in between that make up the fantastic creative world around us.

SweetTalk is about seeing the people LIVE onstage who practice these disciplines best… Pioneers, Legends and forthright thinkers. They are there so you can hear them firsthand in a relaxed, enthusiastic atmosphere,not a stuffy cold conference style format. People who attend get to make up their own minds on what the speakers have to say about their work and working process. We try as much as possible too not to tax the patrons, preferring to charge the minimum amount to cover costs and keep this going, something that has stood as we’ve moved out of Irish only editions to the UK, Scandinavia and now the States…

SWEETTALK 18. COPENHAGEN Candy in association with Tiger Beer present Sweettalk 18, Copenhagen.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 8TH 2007. Venue: RUMMET IN REPUBLIKKEN. 24 VESTERBROGADE. COPENHAGEN. Admission: 75DKR. Tiger Beer reception from 7pm, first speaker 8pm. Limited edition treats for early arrivers!

Speakers: Bleed (Norway). http://www.bleed.no Martin De Thurah (Denmark). http://www.dethurah.dk Ingen Frygt (Denmark). http://www.ingenfrygt.dk

Hope to see you there - Shaft

Have you ever used Google maps to look at those aeriel pictures, well then you’re going to love this. This site takes all the good, and available maps, and converts them in one place, and you can even choose between the different sources…looks sweet and the navigation is intuitive as well.

Flasheart.com

Lighning “S” of the Justice League of 1508

Zion Graphics

Amazing motion graphics from Pistachios: GE996 – Old but still sweet as hell (does anybody by chance know the soundtrack to this piece?)

MerMerMer from Göteborg

This Way Design We Recommend B-Reel, not Cypress Hill but Swedish designers SuperShapes, old site but still worth the visit, and hey!? don’t these guys from the States look very similar Ingredient Made By Made Markus Karlsson

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Check out these robots, pretty darn sweet

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The Art of Type is a panel discussion about typography from Extensis, go and listen now!

“This year at the Macworld Conference and Expo, we hosted a number of expert font panel discussions at our booth on the show floor. The discussions turned out quite well, and for those of you who were unable to make it to the show, we”™re happy to report that we recorded everything!”

Chris Bolton is a Finnish designer, not only does he make interesting work, but so is his site: It is built on xml and xsl styleshees, making it quite fast to update and in a logical way too.

Letter by Circle is founded by Dante H Carlos, and you will like it. Outlandish is photography creation house for young Belgian talent, not to be mistaken by the Danish music group. Hey that’s my pencil there

Last but certainly not least check out Tony vs Paul, they really are rivals huh?!

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Go to Diesel.com and check their new site. They are doing some sort of viral thing which is quite funny.

Anybody interested in flash design experimentation should look at this, crazy stuff from the labs of Mathieu Badimon

Adidas Y-3 old but still good Darren Firth Banksy be sure to check out the shop its free of charge Audrey Kawasaki amazing illustrations Anteprima Japanese fashion brand with explosive site Charles S. Andersen Found Associates Nice work. Site by Engage Christiane Beaulieu Yuo should definitely check this one out. Quite funny and good work, makes you wonder whats real and not. And last but not least atypography site, the great Lineto

Check out this Scandinavian photographer living in NYC, Frej Hedenberg’s portfolio. It really shows some great work.

By the way he was voted “avant guardian” by Surface magazine (they basically showcase the best unknown, for a while anyway, fashion photographer in the USA).

Site is by an old colleague, Patrick Marckesano, whats up dude!

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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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The blog “œDesign 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 “œSpeakUp“, 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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