Jean Malek’s website shows that great visual impact doesn’t have to be at the expense of simple usability. In fact I think the useability vs design debate is really a bit old hat now, they should just go hand in hand. (Designers and developers unite, it’s a love in!) Anyway, we really like the way they collide on this site. It’s a striking way for him to display his work and the way the menu icon follows your cursor round the screen means you never get lost.

There is also the thoughtful inclusion of quick links to get directly to the previous/next piece of work. Very nice…

Photography, Website

Last month’s Pecha Kucha presentations are now online to view at your pleasure. To view them all click here.

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To coincide with it’s Kick-Ass edition, Little White Lies have just announced the winners of it’s latest creative brief competition – to transform a favourite film into a six panel comic strip. The winner was David Rigby, who cast an ironic eye over the nuances of the film Zombieland although I think that Total Recall by Matt Boyce and The Wicker Man by Hurk (excerpt shown above) are great. See all the winners here.

Comic book, Kick Ass, Little White Lies

While browsing my local Mothercare store at the weekend I was pleased to see the car-seat safety icons I recently designed. The set comprised of 12 icons all of which featured in-store and will hopefully soon make their way into the next catalogue.

Iconography, Mothercare

Xerox researchers have invented a kind of ink that can conduct electricity and be used to put electronic circuits on top of plastics, film, and textiles. That means in the coming years we’ll be able to wear or bend our electronics. You could even print out your electronic gadget on plastic sheets, as if you were printing a document. Continue reading about this here…

Electronics, Ink, Technology, Xerox

 This looks like it may have cost  a fair bit and according to the odd blog (thanks for the info, Si) this was an 8 month project but who cares, it rocks. Lynx online offering has all the cheeky content we would expect from the brand and it’s unswerving devotion to helping young lads pull, but we’re more intersted in how it is all packaged up in a smart bit of interface design. (More interesting than Keeley? Discuss…) Anyway, it’s a great way to use Papervision to display content particularly where there is a lot of it to display like the video page.

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Take control with Wrangler’s new interactive website showcasing the spring / summer collection. Ever wanted to get hold of a smug looking model and throw him around a bit? Well, whatever your motivation with Wrangler’s new site you can. Innovative web interface or just a bit of fun? The speed to which you can slow down the action is impressive though. Crap clothes, nice site? you decide…

interface design, Wrangler

Bowerbirds “In Our Talons” from Alan Poon on Vimeo.

Video for the Bowerbirds song In Our Talons, which is off of their 2007 album Hymns for a Dark Horse. Pretty much the entire video is done in stop motion and looks absolutely amazing, way better than most big budget stuff.

music video, Stop-motion

Google break into the realm of TV commercials with this Superbowl 2010 spot – already parodied – it raises some interesting questions. First and foremost, do Google really need to advertise??? Much has already been said about it on Twitter / Blogs – what do you think?

Commercial, Google, Superbowl

addLib by wowlab. If ever there was an app that was after my job, this is it!

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App, iPhone