Design of the Year 2012 nominations announced

The Design Museum has announced its nominations for the Designs of the Year 2012 exhibition with a range of exciting designs that appeared in 2011. The work featured includes digital, fashion, furniture, architecture, product, graphic and transport design and is drawn from a wide variety of projects.

All the nominations will be on show at the Designs of the Year exhibtion at the Design Museum, opening to the public on 8 February 2012 and category winners and the overall winner will be announced at the Awards Night at the Design Museum on 24 April.

The Design Museum will be issuing details of each nomination daily on their blog,

Work shown here: Comedy Carpet, Blackpool by Why Not Associates and Gordon Young


Life-Size Paper Monster Hearse by Paul Sahre

Newsweek publishes 1960's Mad Men issue

Newsweek is planning to publish their March issue adopting its 1960's design throughout to mark the return of Mad Men to TV screens in the US.

Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, commented,  "Newsweek was very much on the cultural forefront at the time of the show, it covered the events that are so much of the background for the show's drama - the burgeoning civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the Vietnam War. That was Newsweek's cutting-edge beat and its flourishing journalistic subject. So it seemed like a wonderful marriage in a sense to take that and apply it to the magazine, to make the magazine an homage to the period."

This is either a great marketing coup for the producers of Mad Men or a very clever promotional tool for Newsweek. Either way it will be an issue to keep.

Read more about this on AdAge.

Salesforce launches Social Media best practice website

Salesforce has recently launched a Best Practice website called 'Social Success', covering Cloud Computing and Social Media.

There are some great case studies here as well as a free 25-page book looking at how Social Media is affecting Sales, Marketing and Customer Service.

Click here to see more 

Red Bull announces Canimation winners

If you have missed the publicity, Red Bull has been running a competition called 'Canimation' which searched for cutting edge animators to combine their imagination with the silver and blue can to produce some great short animated films.

The winners have just been announced and it is well worth having look at the great films. Below are just two of the winners.

Winner of Student CGI Category - Scott Waddington



Red Bull and the Featherless Chicken Canimation from Scott Waddington on Vimeo.

Winner of Open Drawn Category - Chloe Rodham



Skyhound (Red Bull Canimation) from Chloe Rodham on Vimeo.

See the rest of the fantastic winners here

Faces of British Architecture exhibition

To celebrate British architects and engineers, Icopal has commissioned a series of portraits by Timothy Soar, with commentary by Isabel Allen. The series represents the UK’s leading experts, innovators and visionaries in architecture and engineering, responsible for many iconic buildings and landmark developments. The exhibition, curated by Lorna Soar, can be seen at The Building Centre in January and February 2012.

THE BUILDING CENTRE - LONDON 9th January - 29th February 2012

Image courtesy of Faces of British Architecture

Frustrated by online shopping baskets?

Do you get frustrated with 'shopping baskets' when shopping online? Then you will find this humorous take on the infamous Shopping Basket by Oatmeal very funny.

It is essential reading for anyone operating in or thinking of entering the online retail space.

Please note: This does include profanity so please do not continue if you may be offended.

Click here to view in full

Great viral ad for LG

This is a great viral ad for LG produced by Y&R Amsterdam. A very odd customer makes his way through an electrical store and finds himself running off down the street with a bit of a surpirise.

Very clever. Click below to view.