There Will Be Blood

There’s not much to say about this film that hasn’t already been said. Daniel Day Lewis exceeds anything he’s ever done playing the oilman Daniel Plainview in an epic tale about obsession, oil and religion. The infallible Paul Thomas Anderson’s takes cinema to a new level. Awesome stuff.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_vantage/therewillbeblood/

Cooking Mama Party

We love Cooking Mama, the smash hit cooking simulation game from long-time client 505 Games.

And to celebrate shipping over 1 million units of Cooking Mama, 505 Games threw a party of food, drinks and gaming at Smith’s of Smithfield. Masterchef’s John Torode was the evening’s special celebrity guest and hosted a fantastic night, which finished with a hilarious cook-off between two lucky guests and one of Smith’s top chefs!

Me, Dan and Matt were lucky enough to bag invites, and spent the evening frantically slicing, dicing, kneading and frying on the Wii, with a few drinks with industry partygoers in between.

Posted by: Tom

Our First Ever Job Bag

Our first ever Job…
Here framed for posterity is DKPM’s first ever job bag – a web site for TC Harrison Iveco! As found under a pile of stuff we were clearing out!!


Posted by: Dan

Guardian leaflet - Which side are you on?

I like this leaflet for The Guardian newspaper – a simple typographical concept which is clever, simple and gets the message across…


Posted by: Dan

Drive For Life Website

Drive For Life is a new website that we have designed and built to help new and young drivers become safer drivers! Having just passed my driving test I have found working on this particular project really interesting.

We have developed relationships with local councils and the South Yorkshire Safety Camera Partnership to provide a site that is informative, interesting and fun! It is due to go live at the end of April so check it out then – you’ll learn a lot!!



Posted by: Jemma

Simpsons egg cups

Simpson Easter Egg Heads
This is a classic idea – licensed merchandise doesn’t get any better than this! Smash Homer’s Head In!

Posted by: Dan

DJ tape

Bang Crash Wallop! A night in the Hac
I found this mix tape in the loft at home – from the Hacienda nightclub’s 11th birthday party (sometime in the early 90s). It is of top New York House DJ David Morales – who played 5-6am in the basement of the club – an area not usually used.

The night was etched in my memory for ever – Morales was stripped to the waist, showing off his totally ripped muscles & tats, wearing jeans and a fat metal belt buckle, a shaped beard and skull cap. And playing the moodiest deep house music…

The night ended with a bunch of local oiks throwing glasses at him and stealing his records (you can hear it on the mix tape) – oh the nostalgic nightclub years in Manchester!

Posted by: Dan

Black Diamond Heavies at the Shakespeare Pub.

BDH are the epitome of rock n roll. With only a fender Rhodes organ and drums these guys have got the blues running through their veins (and a fair amount of redbull and cheap german lager!). They seem constantly on tour and we were lucky enough to catch them in the upstairs room of The Shakespeare pub, Sheffield. My favourite live act of '07 and probably '08!

Posted by: Matt

Website has knock on effect

I saw this absolutely brilliant landing page for Dutch department store, HEMA. It looks like a normal page until the objects start interacting with each other creating a knock on effect. Take a look, and I bet you any money that you have a little smile to yourself!

http://producten.hema.nl/

Posted by: Bew

TV's Top 25 Put-Downs Published

Insults by Captain Mainwaring and Lord Blackadder have been named among the top 25 put-downs in TV history, as chosen by the Radio Times magazine.

"Stupid Boy!" uttered by Dad's Army's Captain Mainwaring to Private Pike, is one of the lines in the list.

The selected Blackadder line was: "The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?"

The list of put-downs covers the last 40 years from British and American TV:

Basil Fawlty - Fawlty Towers. To Sybil: "Oh dear, what happened? Did you get entangled in the eiderdown again? Not enough cream in your eclair? Hmm? Or did you have to talk to all your friends for so long that you didn't have time to perm your ears?"

Mrs Merton - The Mrs Merton Show. To Debbie McGee: "So what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?"

Edmund Blackadder - Blackadder II. To Lord Percy: "The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?"

Roseanne Conner - Roseanne. To husband Dan: "Your idea of romance is popping the can away from my face."

Father Jack Hackett - Father Ted. "Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls!"

Carla - Cheers. Cliff: "I'm ashamed God made me a man." Carla: "I don't think God's doing a lot of bragging about it either."

Patsy Stone - Absolutely Fabulous. "One more facelift on this one and she'll have a beard."

Jim Royle - The Royle Family. Nana: "Is this hat too far forward?" Jim: "No. We can still see your face."

Malcolm Tucker - The Thick Of It. To a junior minister: "All these hands all over the place! You were like a sweaty octopus trying to unhook a bra! It was like watching John Leslie at work!"

Statler and Waldorf - The Muppet Show. Statler: "Wake up, you old fool, you slept through the show." Waldorf: "Who's a fool? You watched it."

Inspector Monkfish - The Fast Show. To a bereaved woman: "I realise this must be a very difficult time for you, so put your knickers on and go and make me a cup of tea."

No Offence - The Fast Show. "I notice you're not wearing a wedding ring which, given your age, means you're divorced or a lesbian."

Rupert Rigsby - Rising Damp. To lodger Alan, who complains his room is too cold to study in: "The only thing you study is your navel. You even shave lying down."

Nan - The Catherine Tate Show. Describing an encounter with an overweight hospital volunteer: "She said to me last time, 'You look bored, Mrs Taylor. I've got three words for you: Barbara Taylor Bradford.' So I said, 'Yeah? I've got three words for you too: calorie controlled diet."

The Professor - The Mary Whitehouse Experience. "I have here a copy of your book, Origins of the Crimean War. It smells of poo." "That's because it's been inside your mum's bra."

Alf Garnett - Till Death Us Do Part. "You Scouse git!"

Alexis Carrington - Dynasty. "I'm glad to see your father had your teeth fixed - if not your mouth."

JR Ewing - Dallas. "Ray never was comfortable eating with the family - we do use knives and forks."

Dr Perry Cox - Scrubs. Dr Elliot Reid: "I don't think you understand the severity of the situation here. I am dangerously close to giving up men altogether." Dr Cox: "Then on behalf of men everywhere - and I do mean everywhere, including the ones in little mud huts - let me be the first to say thanks and hallelujah."

Dr Gregory House - House. "You can think I'm wrong, but that's no reason to stop thinking."

Gary Strang - Men Behaving Badly. "Let's face it, Tony, the only way you're gonna be in there is if you're both marooned on a desert island and she eats a poisonous berry or a nut which makes her temporarily deaf, dumb, stupid, forgetful and desperate for sex."

Arnold Rimmer - Red Dwarf. "Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence."

Larry David - Curb Your Enthusiasm. "Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate."

Sam Tyler - Life On Mars. To Gene Hunt: "I think you've forgotten who you're talking to." Sam: "An overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline-alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding?"

Captain Mainwaring - Dad's Army. "You stupid boy!"

Posted by: Dan

Macquarium

Here's something every designer out there will want in their house. Get an old iMac, get some fish, place said fish in aforementioned iMac add water and voila.... you've got a macquarium.

Posted by: Bew

Pizza Hut Cinema Ad

I saw this recently after taking my daughter and 7 of her friends to the cinema. I thought that the ad was clever, made me smile and the music was perfect - reminded me of my family photos and the good times past and present - just a shame it ended with going to Pizza Hut!?

Can’t knock em for promoting Family Fun though!




Posted by: Richard