Sit down next to me

Charming and clever flat, canvas chairs by Japanese studio YOY…
(I have no idea where the commas go in that last sentence without it looking weird):

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Tales from the crypt

This is fairly incredible… A couple of weekends ago the National Mall in Washington, D.C. was covered in one million handcrafted human bones as part of a ‘visible petition’ against ongoing genocide and mass atrocities in Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma, Somalia, and Syria, under the title One Million Bones and organised by an art group called The Art of Revolution.

I think the creation and execution of this project is amazing and really impactful, but I question what good it will do. On their website they describe the aim as ‘to raise awareness of the issue and call upon our government to take much needed and long overdue action’, but it’s just too broad to do any good. No one would claim genocide is anything other than a terrible, but just generally asking the government to ‘stop genocide’ is ridiculously unfocused and will likely end up with no concrete action at all.

It’s a real pity that a brilliant, important idea, brilliantly executed, and 3 years in the making could ultimately have no real, lasting impact:

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Wool you, won’t you

Yarn graffiti by street artist Hot Tea:

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Cut and thrust

Behind the scenes at our last shoot:

Boom box

Whatever side you stand on the XBox / Playstation divide… (I’d really like the new XBox to be good, but they seems to be actively trying to disuade people from buying it. I don’t want a media centre, Kinect is still terrible, I just want to play games) …you have to admit that Sony have always been head and shoulders above Microsoft when it comes to advertising.

This new ad does a really good job of capturing all the exciting potential of playing games, and does it with explosive, grinning, high-budget charm:

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Bang bang my baby shot me down

Absolutely brilliant gif-based advertising, originally posted on Tumblr and an amazing use of the format:

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Power animal

French graphic designer and illustrator YoAz‘s Electro Animals series, created out of circuit diagrams:

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