Heres a selection of work I quite like from the Cannes Lions winners.
I haven’t had time to see every single one so they’re quite random, please excuse me!

Love Story Campaign: Smooth E Cosmetics
Cute little love story from Thailand.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Choir: Toyota
I’ve seen this a while back, but it is quite an amazing ad.

Twister: Bangkok Insurance
This is just, funny.

Vladimir: Knorr Soups
A love story, that spans continents.

Dust: Gap
Very witty, I’d love to do this…

Truth: Politics
A public awareness message for elections in Argentina. Very clever copywriting.

Alzheimers: Abuse
A powerful message from the Institute for Support of Abused Children.

I don’t know why I like this. It might be because I smoke. But the poetry by Billy Collins and various visual linkages in this piece for Sundance is very engaging. Silver Cannes Lion Winner 2006.

Sundance Channel: Best Cigarette

The Ark
A beautifully detailed and AD’ed short animated film. Looks great!

Scriptographer
Scripting + Illustrator = Wonderfully unique computer generated art. Get this plugin now!

Teviot
Wicked site for UK studio. I love everything about it. And the work is fabulous too.

Ontwerp v4
A flashy site for Ontwerp with some alright stuff.

Ruth Gwily: Illustrator
Intense and emotional work from Ruth Gwily. Very nice illustrations.

I read this article a while back, and it’s still quite relevant.

Check it out…

César Moreno: Portfolio
Very sexy collection of work by César, colourful and vibrant for a dull Thursday.

9031
A great site full of goodies for your computer, including a funky screensaver called Fliqlo.

Craig Atkinson: Portfolio
Some good stuff from UK based designer/illustrator.

Trix+Me: Miriam Bossard and Trix Barmettler
Dynamic team with some interestin work. I think from Germany.

Metagramme Studio
A very clean typographic design for Metagramme, with some very cool work within.

Strichpunkt
German design studio with clean work. Nice.

Hold Your Breath
An amazing experience to respect the lives lost due to genocide in Darfur.

iDEA2Dezign Community
Cute little design community, with some good links. A bit too cute for me…

Tönky
A French designer with some good print work.

HIPPnotic Portal: South African Design Blog
A very funky little blog on South African design and design related stuff. I like the simplicity of the design, nice dudes!

Sleeper Studio
Australian based design studio with some nice graphic work.

Phillip Toledano: Photographer
Amazing photography by Phillip, very deep, very intense.

Oh my, it’s almost July…

A friend asked me about HTML emails. As much as I want to forget about 3 years doing bi-weekly e-newsletters for the Village Sky City Group in New Zealand, I realized it’s still a big thing.

Heres a few links to some interesting articles about designing HTML emails…

Vitamin Features » HTML Emails - Taming the Beast

Campaign Monitor, Email Design Guidelines for 2006

Campaign Monitor, Optimizing CSS presentation in HTML emails

Campaign Monitor has a nice gallery of ’successful’ HTML emails here which might be of good reference use.

Apple Pro: Stardust
An insight to one of my favourites, Stardust.

Ok PushIt
A random bunch of links. Some good stuff…

Loren Holyoke: Illustrator
Very wicked sketches/illustrations from Loren.

Japanese Flood Tunnels
Reminds me of Half Life, or even Final Fantasy.

Guerilla Innovation: Blog
A blog on design, advertising and interesting things.
Made me laugh at 10am this morning.

Studio Output
Multi disciplined studio who do pretty alright stuff. From the UK (I think!)

It’s 1AM, and that was a very long title, but I just found this gem and had to share it for all those fellow typo-freaks out there.

http://webtypography.net/
A practical guide to web typography

The Culture Front
Rui Tenreiro shows a great collection of graphic work.

M/M Paris
I love these guys. Lots of interesting goodies but you’ll have to dig around inside!

Simple Records
A very cool site for a very simple record label, Simple Records.

Grafische Vormevers
2006 Graduate work from Antwerp, Belgium.

Hanazuki
An interesting studio who does art direction for different media, interesting site, alright work.

Kasino
A collaboration of four creatives who do, creative stuff. Inspiring.

We Feel Fine
‘An exploration of human emotion, in six movements’.
This is a very interesting site, very playful.

2×4 Inc.
Design studio on art, architecture, fashion and culture.
Simple site, impressive work.

MUSE
A new website for band MUSE.
Very cool, with some good untacky video effects in Flash.

Sergi Pons
Commercial photographer with some interesting images.
His ‘Selfservice’ photos contain much more spirit.

Oscar Gimenez: Illustrator
Very sexy vector illustrations from Mr Gimenez with lots of flair.

Chris Pacetti: Portfolio
Portfolio for designer Chris Pacetti, some alright work.

Forcetwelve
A studio with some very nice work, and a very cool but simple site.

Typographic Approach: Alternatives to Helvetica
Hmm. I’d probably choose Akzidenz Grotesk over all of these…
Please people learn how to respect and spell Akzidenz Grotesk.

Jacks Lawnmowing
An interesting metaphor for an Australian design studio.
Nifty idea, though a tad confusing.

Toothjuice
Some cool graphic work from Josh Clancy in Minnesota.

Ecosmart Fire
Wouldn’t it be nice to curl up in front of one of these beauties?

Thinking*Room Inc
A studio with a strong philosophy of thinking outside the box, while their site opens in a popup window.
Sorry, i’m just being honest.

Cannes Cyber Lions Winners 2006
Some good deserving winners.

This song is mesmerizing. And so is the video, directed by Robert Hales with visual effects by BL:ND (Blind) in Santa Monica, California.

Amazing

Check it out…
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So, I was a little bored this Sunday after an absolutely fantastic weekend, and added the cute little 1983 icon next to the URL in the browser window. It’ll probably only show up if you’re a new visitor, or clear your cache…

Anyway, Like? Want to do it?
Check this link out for details on how to do this nifty trick.