Some sharp work by Brussels based design agency Coast. Definitely worth a look.

The blog has been on the lowdown recently due to ill-health and lack of fuel . Kicking things off once again. Designers workspaces I find inspiring or just look cool.

Brian biggs

These Peöple

David Lu

Jutojo

Jung und Wenig

Unknown

A handsome chap from Glasgow. Check his album artwork out inparticular.

Spacewood.co.uk and also his blog WECANNEVERSTOP which covers the ongoings in Glasgow, Edinburgh and beyond.

3 X MUTHA-FUNKIN’ FIRST CLASS DEGREES FOR OUR BOYS. MEGA PROUD.

 BiC® Cristal® http://www.challengebic.co.uk unveils the results of a challenge to artist James Mylne, to recreate a well known masterpiece using just one BiC® Cristal® pen. The reproduction of The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, took artist James approx 90 hours to complete, but thanks to its long writing length and oil based ink, just a single pen was needed to finish the work.

Fantastic short film Logorama, dealing with all sorts of aspects of consumer society. It’s pretty incredible, and absolutely worth a watch.

Perhaps this is a place in Chelsea worth checking out for you lucky ones in NYC?

their website

Fecal Face gets a preview of “Ghosts of the Barbary Coast” a solo show from Jeremy Fish opening Dec 4, 2008 at Fifty24SF in San Francisco.

Sweet studio, sweet research, sweet show, sweet model making skills, sweet drawing, sweet beard etc etc.

“Jeremy actually chastised me for taking photos where you could see the projector. I think he wants you guys to think we’re more talented than we actually are. Not me. I’m fine with being mediocre.”

- Sieben and other artists all wall drawing.

“-This is Travis finishing up the wall piece. See that double headed bird above him with the banner that says “Not 23 Years Old?” There’s a funny story about that. I mentioned this briefly before, but while we were in town we did a talk for the Dallas Society of Visual Communications. Each of us had to speak for about 20 minutes about our personal work and how it ties in with our commercial work. I haven’t spoken in front of a crowd since I was in High School and I was really really nervous about the whole thing. So I made a bunch of notes so that I wouldn’t get up to the podium and completely forget who I was and what I do. And so the first thing I say when I get up there is, “Hello, my name is Michael Sieben. I’m 23 years old and I live in Austin, Texas…” and Travis totally yells at me from his seat, “You’re not 23!” and I hadn’t even realized that I had said that I was 23. Because I’m not. I’m 32. And I guess I was just so nervous that I looked at my notes and totally got dyslexic for a second. Anyway, it was probably the most embarrassing way imaginable to start off my talk. I hate Travis.”

Extract from Michael Sieben’s guest blog about a show called ‘Low Tech High Life’ on the infamously fabulous Fecal Face blog. Everything about Fecal Face is good, the collaborations, the collective excitment, the range of work. However I would like to point out that really I’m just in love with Michael Sieben.

awesome anti-advertising by Amsterdam based kessels kramer, good luck using their website, it’s a cryptic page that changes each time you refresh,  and the links to any of the actual work are hidden in each joke page, placed randomly every time. These guys just take the piss but it’s all too good. The Hans Brinker Budget Hostel has seen a turnover increase of 46% since this campaign. Their advertising for Diesel jeans is hilarious too, if you can find it…

Here are two virals for the hostel done by kesselskramer. Next time you’re in London check out their store/office/studio at the KK Outlet.

This advertising campaign is a brilliant fuck you to the normal approach. Kessels Kramer are advertising to a generation raised in the age of the consumer. They are fully aware that us kids know all the tricks of the trade, and this is how they’re getting our attention, it’s working!