SpoonMug

I spotted these from a promo mag and thought what a neat idea to have your own spoon attached to your mug. Always handy to have a spoon available for getting out the biscuit that fell after dunking!

Posted by: Richard

Repo Man

‘An ordinary person spends his life avoiding intense situations. Repo man spends his life getting INTO intense situations. Let’s go get a drink…’

This cult 80's film was one of my faves as a young reprobate – the dialogue, bad attitude, and punk rock weirdness …

Released in 1984, British Director Alex Cox based the film on his own personal Los Angeles horrors and the tutelage of Mark Lewis, a Los Angeles car repossesser and neighbour.

Frustrated punk rocker Otto (Emilio Estevez) gets fired from his supermarket job and is later dumped by his girlfriend.

Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent (Harry Dean Stanton).

During his training, he is introduced into the mercenary and paranoid world of the drivers, and finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue concerning a huge repossession bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malibu driven by a lunatic government scientist (Fox Harris), with Top Secret cargo in the trunk...

For some cool pics from the film visit: http://www.repomanfilm.com/promopage.htm

Here are some clips on YouTube:

Repo Man (1984) - Intro

John Wayne was a ... (one of the greatest lines from Repo Man)

The Repo Code

Otto Asks for Some Dough

Posted by: Dan

WeLiveHere Website

Sheffield Icons


View of Castle Market



The Town Hall extension 'The Egg Box'



The New Roxy



The Cooling Towers



'The Scottish Queen' - Parkhill


WeLiveHere is an online gallery and store showcasing the design work of Sheffield based artist and graphic designer, Jonathan Wilkinson. The subject matter of the work reflects his exploration of the familiar and perhaps not so familiar surroundings of Sheffield and other places that he visited. These places that are still in existence, now defunct or close to demolition represent a rich seam of inspiration for him.

The works vary from limited edition runs to open editions, produced as striking lithographic prints and I just thought how cool they look and reminds me of my days as a youth especially Roxy as this is where I got my first Love bite, whey hey!


Check it out: http://www.welivehere.co.uk/

Posted by: Richard

Some really cool ads...

“I love these – they use and manipulate the items they’re posted on really cleverly to create fun and thought-provoking adverts”

Posted by: Clare

A WIS at designing furniture

I like WIS Design. They have produced many beautiful items of furniture using recycled materials, but these two really caught my eye.

The Vanity Chair is upholstered in pieces of old leather jackets and the Decades chest of drawers uses a mixture of discarded drawers found in flea markets.

WIS Design is Lisa Widén and Anna Irinarchos located in Stockholm, Sweden. Visit http://www.wisdesign.se/

Posted by: Bew

A Blooming Fantastic Idea!

To raise awareness that Honda's gardening products are not only good for the garden, but also good for the environment Inferno London came up with this great piece of DM.

It was printed on specially made stock containing seeds that, once wet and put in the ground, would grow into flowers.

They used 100% recycled acid free stock and enviro-friendly inks of course!

That's one way to grow your market share!

Posted by: Bew

Can I make everybody happy?

This book is a must, it contains a range of email conversations between the client and his or her graphic designer. Very amusing and something we can all relate to!

Posted by: Matt

Here come the girls......

Race for Life 2008

For the second year running, I will be out in Bakewell doing my bit for the Race for Life 2008. This 5k 'fun' run is in aid of Cancer Research - so, if anyone would like to sponsor me, it's very easy, you can do it online at http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/yvettenuttall or on my sponsor form in the office.

It's a great day out - a brilliant atmosphere, a little exercise followed by a well deserved pub lunch, I'm very much looking forward to it!

Thank you to everyone who sponsored me last year, my family and I raised around £300.

Posted by: Yvette

Turtle-power

I bought this recently in the attempt to reduce my plastic bag collection and be more 'ethical'. I was unaware that as well as filling landfill sites many of our plastic bags end up in the sea, to be gobbled up by hungry turtles mistaking them for jellyfish - foolish and sadly fatal! I think it's great that high street shops are championing their cause. Also 30p from the sale of each bag goes to the Marine Conservation Society http://www.mcsuk.org/

Posted by: Yvette

The Black Keys - Attack & Release

Attack and Release

This is the fifth album by blues-rock duo, The Black Keys - (one of my favourite bands) and is the first album they have ever produced in a studio.

It has been produced by Danger Mouse who became known when he famously remixed The Beatles White Album Jay-Z's Black Album to create The Grey Album. And also co-founded Gnarls Barkley.

The production values are much higher than their previous (self produced) records and it's not anywhere near as raw, but the end result really is outstanding.

If you want to get a feel for the album - put on track 2 and turn the volume right up!

Posted by: Bew

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

Coca Cola Hippo

Formed from washed out old coke cans, this hippo was an unusual gift from my friends!
It was created by an artist in Africa who recycles old cans and turn them into quirky animal sculptures.

Posted by: Yvette

50 Years of a beautiful Thing

When I first brought a movie home about a typeface my wife laughed and labelled me a geek. She soon became enthralled.

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.

There’s plenty of the greats on here, including Wim Crowel, Massimo Vignelli and a very funny Erik Spiekermann relating type to people.

Posted by: Matt

The Deep

Me, Claire and Daisy went to The Deep in Hull last weekend and I've got to say it was excellent. There are loads of cool interactive things to mess about with - the best for me was a floor that when you walk on it creates ripples like you're walking on water.

The main attraction is the giant tank, underwater tunnel and underwater lift. The Stingrays and the Nursing Sharks were amazing and as you can see by the pictures you get really close to them. It's well worth a going to see.

Posted by: Bew

No Country for Old Men

The Coen brothers are back on form with a vengeance, with the best film I’ve seen in years. There’s so much to enjoy on so many levels, from the set up that quickly establishes a cast of what feel like real living breathing characters, to the heart-pounding chase that takes up much of the film, right through to the final scenes which lend this Texan thriller an existential edge – leaving you with as many questions as answers.

The icing on the cake is Javier Bardem’s performance as Chigurh, a relentless hit-man with a habit of deciding your fate with a coin toss that’s as disturbing as his haircut. Call it... friend-o!



Check out the trailer at http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/nocountryforoldmen

Posted by: Tom