The Kingdom Series

Stunning print series from Christopher Hewitt, self taught Director, Designer, Photographer and occasional Writer located in East London. He's also the man behind the short experimental film I posted awhile ago "Things Fall Apart"...

COCONUT NIGHT - We Are Wolves

Amazing work from my Behance pal Jeremie Saindon

Galactic Mail

This high-energy piece was created by Asterokid and Motraboy and produced by The Mill. They used XSI Softimage as a main tool. Very nice work.

Processing x1000

Check out these killer bumps created by Nervo for Fox Japan. Collaborating with Processing artist Robert Hodgin to create a complex flock of birds entangled in strings. He utilized a single bird cycle that Nervo used to create an application that allowed them to control and generate animations of the flock in an intricate flight dance. After some compositing and styling these animations became the identity of the channel's horror segment. The music and sound design were created by Darrin Wiener aka Plastiq Phantom.

For more info on Processing, details on it's release from beta this week and new features check out this blog entry.

What Else Is There?

What Else Is There? from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

...from Vancouver

Damien Jurado, "Caskets"

Wow, very haunting video - be sure to play this video full-screen in HD!!!

BLU in Berlin - Nov '08

You've been...

From Behance comes "Served", 5 portal sites representing the best in Photography, Motion, Typography, Industrial Design, and Fashion.

The feeling is mutual

Solid work from Roanne Adams, great site too.

Order Out of Chaos

The Grid System (.org) is quite the good read and touts that they are the ultimate resource in grid systems. As a side note, they also have a Flickr photo pool which you can contribute your work to.

The A's To Our Q's

Great interview with Jordan Seiler over at Wooster Collective!

War has started

I must say, Peter Fuss has some balls.

Casey

Brad Eastman's Beastman has a great unique style to it and was just shown at the China Heights Gallery in Sydney.

Happy Turkey Day

I'm back from the holiday break, had a nice Thanksgiving with family and friends, and can't wait to get back to work. The next project I'm working on is purely kinetic type driven and is based on early Soviet Era poster designs, so here are a few profiles I've dug up for my search for inspiration...

AceJet170's and Erik Nitsche's flickr photostream is a great typographic resource, Eva Eun-Sil Han has an amazing experimental geometric framework to her work and A Soviet Poster A Day (which trailed off last year) is still a great blog.

Type Feature

Check it out, one of my projects was just featured on typographyserved.com

Desktop Project

Download some fresh wallpaper over at +KN | Kitsune Noir!

Pictura Dr

I look up to Jaron Albertin as being one of the best music video directors to blend color and composition into one great solid piece. My favorite of course being Emily Haines "Dr Blind".

M83 music video contest

After working on the first two videos for SATURDAYS=YOUTH with Matthew Frost (Graveyard Girl) and Eva Husson (Kim&Jessie), M83 is now extending an open call to fans to submit their best video interpretations of "We Own The Sky", their latest single from SATURDAYS=YOUTH. The competition will be launched today on Pitchfork, the leading US indie music site. Anyone who wants to submit an entry has until January 20, 2009 to produce a video for "We Own the Sky" and upload it onto the youtube contest page youtube.com/group/m83. The winning entry will have its Pitchfork TV debut early next year.

This is one of my favorite releases this past year and the song is amazing. Good luck!

magCulture

The magCulture is one of my favorite blogs to check out and always gets me hyped about making a magazine!

The Boxing Lesson - Dark Side of the Moog

Check out this epic music vid in HD... animated and Directed by Eric Power

"All of me" by Chris Chameleon

Geomapping

Flickrvision and Twittervision are probably the most amazing real-time online mapping systems I've ever seen. Instantly updating from around the world whenever someone posts a new entry... via Toby

Fight & Kiss

Great hipster slo-mo extravaganza music video from We Are Wolves.

Nature Girl

Brazilian born Nacionale/Doug Alves now resides in LA and doing some kick-ass typography and illustration work.

ABC-3d from Marion Bataille

Poppy Cut

Ophelia Chong has a great cut-out style to her work, especially love her work with Lemon Poppyseed!

POLADROID!

Still sad over the fall of Polaroid? Check out Poladroid, it's sure to lighten your day! PS- if you're into it contribute to the flickr pool.

The Fly's Primer

Fwis Graphic Design Firm has a very impressive portfolio of book covers and posters... very inspiring typography too!

Yvette Molina

If you're in Oakland check out The Johansson Projects new show with work from Bay Area painter Yvette Molina. Her work is precise using layers of oil paint and glazes. Love it.

i ♥ flickr photographers...

Oladios has a bizarre and amazing way of capturing action shots and a very original vintage-like dynamic color scheme. Wow.


Di P'anna has a stunning use of colors and composition, very inspiring.


Elinay has the most amazing captures of Hawks and other birds of prey I've ever seen.


Ana CB (Fuxxión) with great use of dark levels and mystery.


Peterbaker has a fantastic eye shooting landscapes.

IL

Finding alot of jewels on flickr lately, the latest being "IL", a new magazine making it's debut in Italy, designed by Francesco Franchi, Luca Pitoni and Ilaria Tomat.

Rec

Top grade work from Viareggio/Milano based photographer Federico Erra.

Happy Halloween

The demented dioramas from Jonah Samson are jaw-dropping...

The other "Mr. T"

Allowing fictions and established hearsay to create a flawed interpretation, Mike T. Rea creates inspiring wooden sculptures, my favorite being the "Suit for Steven Hawking".

Minilogue - Animals

Director/Animator/Characterdesign: Kristofer Ström
AE/Filmmaestro/Cutting: Erik Buchholtz
Producers: Bart Yates, Nicholas Wakeham
Studio: varelsen.com / ljudbilden.com

Organic

Although I despise MTV (don't get me started), that doesn't deter me from simply being blown away by these bumps from Umeric. Great work.

Nikon NYC

The 2008 winners of Nikon’s small world photo contest were announced this week in NYC.

Sizes May Vary

Just snagged this workbook off amazon... I would recommend this for any designer looking for a new fresh new sketch/idea book!

Paris Adventure

Went to Paris a couple months back with my girl, the music is from Ratatat’s latest release LP3, the song is “Mi Viejo”. All shot in 1080w/Canon HF-10. Click here to watch the HD version!

QOOB.tv

I’m completely hooked on QOOB.tv - the best music videos, short films, and animation streaming from Italy.

REI Go Playlist winter soundtrack

This is a must see - REI is giving away 10 exclusive free songs for your winter soundtrack! I'm completely in love with all of these tracks and can't wait to put them on my ipod... go to REIGoPlayList.com, click on song you want, then "experience the track" to download).

Here is the complete band list:
The Apples in Stereo
Robbers on High Street
Eagles of Death Metal
Au Revoir Simone
Persephone's Bees
Saxon Shore
The Rentals
Quadrillion
American Analog Set
Ohmega Watts

Ryan McLennan

Great interview over at Fecal Face!

Of Montreal

Hushpuppy Gallery is evolving...

...we took the sign down so that makes it official, I guess. This past year the gallery has been open has been great fun for Erin and I, met alot of great artists and people, now on to bigger and better things! Right now we’re looking into a more “collective creative” space, I’m thinking a screen printing setup and possibly a darkroom, but that could change… we’re looking for a space with a somewhat large work area…

Photoshoot

Last week I met up with Erin and her team of stylists over at Crimpers for a photoshoot in the Historic Oakland Cemetery. This was just a quick preview of whats to come, need some more time to edit the photos.

Pet Banksy!

Banksy just opened his first official exhibition in New York. Set inside a fake pet store, here's the BBC coverage...

Cassavetes "Night of the Knife"

Well, after 3 months of not posting anything, I'm back! We finished the music video for Cassavetes finally a few weeks ago and here it is. Directed by Jason Drakeford, edited by Robbie Horlick, lighting by Dan Hollister.

I have a new blog!... actually it's a log...

Check it out here - jasondrakeford.tumblr.com/

This is more of a log than a blog, basically I'll be posting on what I've been up to, personal projects, work, photography, etc. If you've never had a blog before I would highly recommend Tumblr! It's super easy and really fun to use.

Erin's Hair Portfolio Photoshoot

We spent all day after the gallery show on Sunday shooting Erin’s hair style portfolio. 4 models. 10 hours. Check out the results!

Hushpuppy Interview...

Read it here!

Breeze Block

Check out this Krylon Spray Paint Lamp from Portland based Breeze Block Gallery... and they accept custom orders too... sweet!

Peurs de Noir (Fear of the Dark)

This short series of films on the subject of fear looks amazing and has been getting alot of really good reviews...the DVD will be out later this summer!

Full Screen 3D Browsing

Check outPicLens, it's free and by far the best add-on for web browsing EVER.

My Drive Thru - Santogold, Julian Casablancas, N.E.R.D

Western Spaghetti by PES

one small seed

Wow... Natasja Fourie has pretty much the best photography site I've ever seen. I especially love the subtle touches of the contact page.

Obama...!

...made this quirky piece last night while trying to wrap my head around creating a flyer for the next Hushpuppy Gallery show on the 19th... it'll be done today... promise!

Chris Jordan: Picturing excess

Very powerful talk from artist Chris Jordan running the numbers on modern American life...

Books

The Small Stakes is a quaint design studio started by Jason Munn. His work is very inspiring, even being featured in numerous exhibits and is part of the permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

:00 Seconds

From Grow-Design-Work comes this simple but great motion piece about the war in Iraq...

Sixpack

Check out some super fresh work from my new favorite illustrator Finsta... very nice.

Untitled

Untitled Magazine No. 002 just out...

Lovefingers

Quite a great collection of regularly updated free mp3's from Lovefingers!

The Reverse Graffiti Project

From Russia With Hate

Current's Christof Putzel just won a Livingston Award for Young Journalists for this pod that investigates a growing movement in Russia where neo-Nazi groups are brutally attacking immigrants and spreading their hate by posting violent videos online.

Overgaard

Anders Overgaard photography uses color in quite a magnificent way.

The Bay Bridged

I've probably mentioned it before, but Sacred Mtn. has some amazing work up their sleeves!

1920s-40s

Check out these vintage Japanese matchbox labels.

In Graphics We Trust

Very nice styleframes from Sebastian Onufszak!