Rimi supermarket has a new logo...

Not that the old logo was that beautiful, but what is the new logo!? Looks like mix of the airline Sterling (RIP) and Ulvang wool. Sorry, but am REALLY not convinced... Ah, fun is to see that the Rimi website still hasnt been updated withe the new logo.

Amazing wallpapers

http://dlanham.com/art/lasthouse/

Free and amazing computer wallpapers. Super design. Ah.. all is good.

Best and worst of Olympic design

Swedish mag Cap&Design had an article about the different designs of the Olympics:

http://capdesign.idg.se/2.990/1.185259/kolla-in-den-basta-och-samsta-os-grafiken

Personally I prefer the Mexico from 1988. Pretty funky

And when it comes to the logo for London 2012, I find it looks like the Jewish museum Berlin which was designed by Liebeskind. Great museum and building. But as a logo...!?

Save Polaroids now

Polaroid is dead. Long live Polaroid (online)

Save Polaroid
http://www.savepolaroid.com/
http://flickr.com
http://ffffound.com/

Piet Mondrian does shoes

Piet Mondrian shoes by Vans. Of course found in Japan. Why do they get all the cool stuff!?
http://zozo.jp/shop

Loads of free comic fonts! Even Roy Lichtenstein style

You want to use Roy Lichtensteins comic font that he used in his speech bubbles? One was created by Albright-Knox Art Gallery: "P22 Pop Art Comic"

According to Fontshop
"The Pop Art font set was developed for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. The Comic typeface, in regular and bold italic, was inspired by the work of Roy Lichtenstein, whose crisp, clear caps were distinctive but legible."

You can buy it for example here:
Fonts.com

Dont want to pay? Here are loads of free alternatives:
hans.presto
Blambot
manfred-klein

"Laffayette Comic Pro" is fairly similar:
dafont

Skandiabanken has a new design...

From blue to black site. Seems like all websites go black this days. They have cleaned up a bit and the site looks fresher. But is it really better?

Funny products for iPod / Mac geeks (like me..)

Pretty cool place to place your glass, but really expensive...http://www.meninos.us

Loads of great looking RSS feed icon for free

This Russian website has collected an amazing collection of RSS feed icons. Just look at the funny Ikea version!

http://malevi4.wordpress.com Great stuff!

Create good-looking word clouds: Wordle

Heres a word cloud based on my blog. Create your own at http://wordle.net/create

Read magazines online for free

"Read the world. Publish the world." Thats what http://issuu.com/ claims anyways. See for yourself what you think!

How to create a Roy Lichtenstein style image in Photoshop or Illustrator

Here are some great tutorials if you would like to become a pop-art artist!

http://vectortuts.com/illustration/turning-a-photo-into-lichtenstein-style-pop-art-with-illustrator/




http://www.creativepro.com/article/digital-pop-art-unleash-your-inner-warhol

http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-popart.html

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=11762

Pantone magnetic calendar designed by Stokke Austad

Heres a great protoype for a Pantone magnetic calendar, designed by Stokke Austad. It will be displayed at Home Acessories at 100% Norway 2008 in Earls Court, London.

Heres a selection of other great designs from Norway that will be at 100% Norway

Global logo trends according to logolounge.com

LogoLounge.com have categorised 27 000 logos and found a couple of trends: supernova, fine lines, FoldOver, etc, etc.!

A great overview and inspiration.

Robots made of fonts are Fontbots!

As a design nerd, you gotta love these fontbots made by Jonathon Yule:
http://www.invdr.com/invdr_portfolio_fontbots.html

Its a bird, its a plane, no it is Helbotica!

Western (animated) Spaghetti by PES

Great animated cooking video made by PES.

Visit more great videos http://www.eatpes.com/

Amazing (design) reports

Annual company reports dont always have to be dull. Just look at the beatiful reports done by http://feltron.com/

Pantone color selector

Easy way of finding Pantone color numbers

paintselector

http://www.mrsdesign.co.uk/colours.htm

5 sites that sell you on the web

The Swedish mag has gathered 5 sites that are good for designers wanting to promote themselves online:
http://capdesign.idg.se/2.990/1.161853

D&AD Awards 2008 winner

the results are in:
http://www.dandad.org/awards08/index.asp

and these are the categories:
Ambient
Art Direction
Book Design
Branding
Broadcast Innovations
Digital Installations
Direct
Environmental Design
Gaming
Graphic Design
Juries I-P
Illustration
Integrated
Magazine & Newspaper Design
Mobile Marketing
Music Videos
Online Advertising
Packaging Design
Photography
Poster Advertising
Press Advertising
Juries P-W
Product Design
Radio
TV & Cinema Advertising
TV & Cinema Crafts
TV & Cinema Graphics
Typography
Viral
Websites
Writing for Advertising
Writing for Design

I particullary like the Yellow pencil winner for Writing for Advertising (TV & Cinema Advertising)
Title: Michael Madsen
Agency: Mother
Client: Orange

Paint websites gold!

Campaign site done by agency: Colle+McVoy, Minneapolis. Pretty cool tagging other sites, while listening to good music:

http://www.paintthatshitgold.com/

Read more about it here:

http://www.frederiksamuel.com

Webby awards 2008

The winners of the Webby Awards 2008 have been chosen. And here are my favourites: BEST NAVIGATION/STRUCTURE Nominees Blenderbox Schematic

BEST USE OF ANIMATION OR MOTION GRAPHICS People's Voice Winner: Zune Journey Agency: T.A.G. SF / Firstborn

BEST VISUAL DESIGN - AESTHETIC Checkland Kindleysides Agency/Credited Organization: Sennep

atmostheory - Please do not copy

http://www.atmostheory.com/ Kinda of nerdy Apple command jokes, but still pretty cool poster from atmostheory

Webcasts fra Gulltaggen

Se webcasts fra Gulltaggen 2008. Bla. Bill Whitehorn fra Virign Galactic

http://icecube.no/inma/

Cool t-shirts from Phatrags

Some are quite rude, but others you might wanna wear. I particullary like this Jesus one. It says: "Jesus saves, after each level he passes"

http://www.phatrags.com/
Use this code if you want to save 10%: phat10a

Cool designer font screensavers

A great Helvetica screensaver from: http://scr.sc/products/dropclock/ And its both for Windows and osX! HOWEVER: 136mb for a screensaver is rather heavy.. (And I cant seem to get it downloaded somehow...) Any help?

This wordclock is also pretty cool:
http://www.simonheys.com/wordclock/

Looking for more news on type? Check out this: http://www.typeneu.com/

Norwegian musicfestival posters

NORGES KULESTE FESTIVALPLAKAT
Have a look at most of Norways musicfestival posters at VG. Personally Im quite fond of Arendals "Canal Street" poster designed by Innoventi

Brandjunkie survey

Brandchannel:

The Brandjunkie survey results: http://www.brandchannel.com/features_effect.asp?pf_id=415

A concentrated dose of the Brandjunkies results http://brandchannel.com/features_effect.asp?pf_id=416

Padre Paranoia sells funky t-shirts!

My Spanish friend Chema has gotten his new website up and running. See (and order!) his great designs at
http://www.padreparanoia.com/

Personally, I like the flying Leika the best :)

Next years color trends

At least this is according to the Swedes at Cap&Design

http://capdesign.idg.se/2.990/1.156101

Design your own font

Easy web application to create your own font for free. They will be under Creative Commons license and hence free for all users

Test it here: http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/

Loads of Typos at ilovetypography.com

John D Boardley is from the UK, but lives in Japan. He has a great blog about fonts:

http://ilovetypography.com/

David Collins website

One of my tutors, Dave Collins, from Leeds College of Art & Design has an quite interresting website: http://www.davidcollins.info/

Buy your tshirt now, get free shipping!

At a Minimum Order of £
35 or 50€ or 400 Norwegian Kroner. Free Shipping and a red String Thong for free! Code: Valentinus2008+
Visit my webshop now: http://www.portada.no/butikk/

Find images and photos

Sometimes you might wanna find images, photos or god forgive: even clip-arts! Well, search no further:

http://www.deviantart.com/

Just look at the beautiful "dirty paper" I found in REALLY HIGH resolution! Yummy.

Internal joke for nerdy designers: Design Police

Extremly funny templates for designers who think that just because you have the tools (Adbobe CS), means that you know design.

Download template for sticker production and let people know what you think about posters, ads, etc. that you see everywhere around you.

http://www.design-police.org/

Favorite Website Awards

Wanna see many cool website, that win awards, all at one time? Here you go:

http://www.thefwa.com/

A whole new time! (Neolog´s design watch)

The German company Neolog have made this really cool wristwatch, called NEOLOG A-24 II. Rather than showing the time with numbers or a dial, the digital watch shows time as line.

NEOLOG is based on dividing time into intelligible units: Hours, units of ten minutes, and units of one minutes which are arranged in vertical blocks.

It takes a bit getting used to (at least for the first hour of having the watch..:) BUT it is so sexy... Christmas tip of the year I say! (too late for most countries, but if the gifts are given on the Holy 3 Kings Day there is still a chance!)

Check out the site (and order it) http://www.neolog.cc/english/ Ahh... and the site has some widget downloads too :)

Microsofts iPod

Ok, so there is quite alot truth in the this video:


However, I really find the Zune Art site excellent! Its really a creative ad campaign that uses animation and indie tunes to promote the Zune. It ought to generate a buzz online. Loads of freebies: wallpaper, videos, even faltpack toys!Check it out:

http://www.zune-arts.net/

Potential Architecture in Norway

Theres a new website called Potential Architecture. It shows a wide selection of projects that of some reason nevere were realised. Quite interesting site I find.

Heres one project that unfortunately wasnt done: www.potentialarchitecture.com

The project in Røros, was done by Huus og Heim (who happens to be a friend of mine! :)
http://www.huusogheim.no/

Lego screensaver and other fun things

A site called 9031.com has loads of cool screensavers, wallpapers, etc. for free. Especially I love the "briblo" screensaver. Which is really loads of legos falling. AND if you have dualscreen (like I do), each screen shows a different lego setup. COOL!

http://www.9031.com/downloads/index.html

Free fonts and other free things...

Quite dumb name for a site "Hacking Ballz", but they have quite nice free fonts (for testing purposes only of course!...)

http://www.hackingballz.com/fuentes/a

Happy website

A friend of mine tipped me about this site. Its a US based webdesign company called The Happy Corp Global. Pretty cool site, with loads of info. http://www.thehappycorp.com/words/