Aces packaging..

This is pure genius: Audio engineering company GGRP Sound sent a 45rpm record in a corrugated cardboard sleeve that doubles as a record player. You can put it together one single step.

I like.

Paper fox press…

My very good friend and awesome illustrator Mr Robin Boyen had just started a collaboration with some fellow illustrators and Falmouth graduates called the Paper Fox Press.

“The Paperfox Press collaborative features four of the UK’s most exciting young Illustrators. Formed in 2010, Paperfox brings you news and updates on the innovative work of Aaron Miller, Green Glasses, Matt Taylor and Robin Boyden, as well provides a shop to buy your favourite prints”

Follow them on twitter and faceboook for freebies, competitions and great ‘what to do with free election leaflet’ origami tutorials like this one:

And great Fox masks last this one:

Cracking work chaps.

Sweet ass time consuming map o’ london…

Stephen Walter, ‘The Island’, 2008

The Island satirises the London-centric view of the English capital and its commuter towns as independent from the rest of the country. The artist, a Londoner with a love of his native city, offers up a huge range of local and personal information in words and symbols. Walter speaks in the dialect of today, focusing on what he deems interesting or mundane.

Check it out for yourself here:

CitID…

Found whilst trawling the joy of sites on cargo collective (Whilst your there check out site I just finished for the brills Sarah Papworth) this project caught my eye, a great source of inspirtation and styles from around the g to the lobe.

Click here to view site:

CitID is a ambitious project aiming to gain global consciousness by giving a (type)face to every city worldwide; big or small, rich or poor, famous or infamous, well-known or unheard-of.

Ever heard of Tegucicalpa? How about Sandnes or Brunswick? Probably not. Right now they’re just hard-to-pronounce foreign words that you will not remember. The fact is, they are all cities somewhere on our planet. Places you’re most likely never to visit. Through this project you will become aware of them, and maybe even remember their names; Here you get to meet them personally and visually, in an inspiring artistic context.

Our hope is that creatives from around the globe will make a logo or a visual interpretation of the city closest to their heart. The universal goal is that every city ultimately gets their own identity on CitID, and that both the city and it’s aesthetic contributor gets recognition through this library – a place where you come for visual inspiration and leave with more knowledge about the world we live in.

Branding of the highest order….

The Number Mill is an accounting and financial service company based in San Francisco that primarily offers its consulting expertise with creative based agencies.

Memoriam, is the typeface used for The Number Mill wordmark it was created by Patrick Griffin of Canada Type.

Super vintage branding, and good to see a different approach in what in fundamentally a financial sector business.  How much better would Canary Wharf look dressed to the nines in this type?

(Via @Teaim)

Apple sexytime….

Some cracking infographics from the boyz at apple charting the ipod and itunes over the last 10 years, click here to enlarge :

30 days to go….

…and I’ve got goosebumps.

(probs  the best tags for a post I’ve ever wrote)

Month of May Playlist…

May – The rave safe LP - click here

Here is my playlist for May, some great new finds, most thanks to spotify for the upgrade and new social links meaning sharing music became brills.  Look out for band of horses new release, Caribou’s stunning summer album as well as great new find via dalai_lager, – the whitest boy alive. BOOM!

Love and theft….

Director: Andreas Hykade
Length: 7’05
Origin: Germany

“And I’m still carrying the gift you gave, it’s a part of me now, it’s been cherished and saved, it’ll be with me unto the grave and then unto eternity.” (Bob Dylan)

David Ope, beano GIFs….

Send via Babybaigues this is the mental and stunning work and findings of David Ope, set of animations and GIFs, absolutely stunning and encapsulating, check out  here: