Stunning Website....

http://wonder-wall.com/#project/en

I've never blogged about a website before, but my friend Laura just passed on an AMAZING one on facebook. It's for a Japanese interior design company, why are all the coolest things from Japan?! It's so gorgeous, amazing movement & lovely attention to detail, normally I don't like sound in websites, but the use of sound here really really works, I could play with it all day, sooo nice.

New Logo

So this is a logo design i've been playing with for a while, it started from an origami style, I also wanted it to look drawn / handmade. I had plans to animate the spidery intertwined "M M" on it, but god knows if i'll ever get around to that! It's quite far away from the pixel RGB identity i've been using for my site, I wanted the new logo to reflect my interest in illustration and handdrawn work.

Wallcandy - Ennis 2010

Just came across Wallcandy, a street art initiative in Ennis. I love the idea! Much like guerrilla gardening, this sponsored guerrilla art takes on drab areas of the town and makes them interesting and colourful, would love to get this going in Cork! These kinds of pieces inspire surprise, delight and curiosity, great to see it happening in Ireland which can tend to be down on street art at times!

Murals!

So i've been looking at murals getting my thoughts in place for the EP proposal we want to submit, here's a few lovely ones i've found!

The first of these is from Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn via Weheart.co.uk. The second is from Blu and Os Gemeos via designyoutrust.com and the third is from Matt Moore via designworklife.com. I love them all! Can't wait to get stuck into ours.

***edit*** Came across this interview with Mark Moore on MocoLoco, interesting interviews, lovely pictures!

Electric Picnic Mural

Just found out my poster was shortlisted for the EP poster comp!!! I'm so delighted!

In other EP news, myself and two friends (Deirdre and Lauren) want to put in a proposal to make a mural at the Body & Soul Electric Picnic event this year. I've been working on the design and this is where I am with it.

I've lots of ideas about where to take it, originally I was going to have it very brightly coloured with black outlines, but now I think i'm going to keep it as a line drawing, draw all the lines in different colours and leave a lot of white fill. I think using a lighter hand on it will hopefully leave it more inviting, more open to interpretation and should suit the atmosphere of the Body & Soul area. I took my cue from the Body and Soul website, "an enchanted landscape", in developing this image.

Slightly unrelated, I love how biro scans!


***edit*** Now in colour, done in illustrator, hopefully we'll get the submission in this week....

Old London Transport Posters

Love these! Via Elvis Communications

Summer Solstice Mural

Met up with Lauren & Tomas last night to put together rough ideas for the summer solstice mural, here's what we came up with, I won't be there to paint it (booo!) and i'd imagine the finished piece will be a lot more developed than this! Much will be added organically on the day, can't believe i'm missing it! It's going to be painted this Saturday in Midleton