Saturday Inspirations

1) Look at this image from one of the D&AD winners Matt Dent. At first glance the reaction is, brilliant, what a clever idea. If you don't know what's going on, it's a shield representing all the countries that make up the United Kingdom. But then you look harder again and realise that it is in fact meant to be set out like the white rose and the shield design (and if you aren't familiar with that, it's recently been adopted by Watford punks Gallows for their Grey Britain album). When you realise what Matt set out to do, you see it goes a little beyond face value. So awesome, you can see why he won really!



And here's another one from the same contest by a German Graphic designer with some environmental advertising for Ikea



CR Blog providing the goods for these two images. Go read more there!


2) This video goes beyond cool, seriously.... I laughed hard when I watched it for the first time, and have done every time I've watched it since.