Icons / The icon archive
http://www.iconarchive.com/category/media/chums-icons-by-mcdo-design.html
Article / YouTubers star in Barenaked music video (SMH)
The Canadian pop-rock band Barenaked Ladies has enlisted a raft of YouTube’s most famous names to star in their latest music video, Sound Of Your Voice > read the article
Website / Colour - Kuler (Adobe Labs)
Another awesome colour resource requiring a Flash update - http://kuler.adobe.com/
Blog / Colour-lovers
http://www.colourlovers.com/ - “fight for love in the colour revolution.”
Nice blog site where people upload their own colour palettes, comment on others and share all-things-colour.
Website / Motion design
Nice examples of motion design for the web - http://roxik.com/toy1.html
Website / Frubalia - Uncle Tobys Roll-Ups
The guys over at Soap have launched Frubalia (working with Morph Marketing) to promote the rebranding of Uncle Tobys Roll-Ups.
Nice execution, engaging games (even for non-kids) and fast load-times. Cool stuff.
Website / Moo - Flickr Minicards
Site developed for people to print their photos straight out of Flickr onto minicards - similar to business cards.
The cards can all be different, can have customised logos as well as text.
Website / Reversa
Interesting site which uses video to great effect. Humorous stories promote the ’side effects’ campaign angle.
http://www.seemoresideeffects.ca/
Website / RTA - Pimp Our Ads
The task: Create a road safety poster for young people in NSW, to persuade them to look after themselves and their mates on the road.
How: The RTA have developed a tool for users to select an image from an existing library, add type elements, graphics and colour and submit the piece to the competition. The winner takes home a Toyota Yaris and has their poster printer.
Pretty good little tool that loads fast and has a certain engagement factor. Will be interesting to see the uptake of this campaign given the subject matter - is it compelling for 18-30 year olds or not?
Typography / To Helvetica and back (FontShop Feed)
The crew at FontShop themed their latest news feed around Helvetica and its alternatives - Worth a read
“Helvetica™ is everywhere. Still, we can’t deny its status as a classic. It truly deserves the title role in the first feature-length documentary about a typeface, and it’s no surprise that it took the #1 spot on FontShop Germany’s Best Fonts of All Time. But Helv isn’t always the right sans for the job…”