FFBüro, Top Five
1) Howies – this great ethical street & sportswear brand are a cut above the rest, impossible to find any in Australia though. I feel a spending spree coming on during a trip to the UK in Sept.
2) Green – it’s probably a spring thing but really enjoying the colour Green.
3) Parcels in the post – always nice to open a parcel first thing in the morning, on this occasion it was some lovely new
Patagonia gear.
4) Magic Markers – last week we had new Sharpies, this week new Magic Markers.
5) Nintendo Wii – the Wii sports golf has taken a bit of a going over since it’s arrival, now looking forward to stepping up to the full Tiger Woods version.
Design, Digital, Motion, Recommended
Announcing a great new collective in Melbourne, Australia –
Robots For Breakfast are made up from ‘Touch My Pixel’, ‘Renmotion’, ‘Dirty Puppet’ and ‘Something Splendid’. Between them they cover pretty much every aspect of the creative fields from full motion work to print and photography.
They are a young bunch, full of love and great ideas, and
F/F are happy to be their friends.
Digital, Interest, Recommended
A quick follow up to the previous post sees the wordly people over at Penguin really getting into the swing of things in the digital space with a whole platter of online offerings to get users engaging with their brand.
Analog, Digital, Opinion
One thing that remains a major difference between traditional media executions and the digital space is the lack of attention paid to the ‘Words’…
FFBüro, Top Five
1) Freshly squeezed organic orange juice – best way to start the day.
2) Sharpies – our marker of choice.
3) Old projects / New projects – we presently have a couple of things finishing up and a couple of things starting up to keep us on our creative toes.
4) Infographics – we have recently had some info related projects on the go, which led to a little research and immersion in the subject.
5) Otl Aicher – will there ever be an olympic games identity system as good again.
Design, Digital, FFBüro, Latest Work
The all new shiny
Pioneer Australia site is now live.
Function/Form were very lucky to have been invited by
Flash Group to lead Art Direction on this project. The digital team over at Flash have done an awesome job delivering this new site, well done all involved.
FFBüro, Top Five
1) Chocolate Biscuits – preferably
McVities.
2) Bamboo – sustainable and an being used in increasingly interesting forms, see the ‘Bambu’ range from
Artek and this great picnin veneer wear from
Bambu Home.
3) Orange, Grey and White – classic timeless colour combination.
4) Babushka Dolls – do you remember opening your first one.
5) Sanna Annukka – great Scandinavian, Eastern European influenced designs and illustrations.
FFBüro, Top Five
1) Organic Veggie Gardens – first crop of spuds went into the raised beds this week
2) HubsTv – new music video player goodness
3) The Apple rumour mill – what will the next product launch be??
4) Homemade chocolate cake – was my son’s 1st birthday celebrations this week.
5) Marcus Walters – great illustration from the UK. Bought my son the ‘My First Alphabet Poster’ over at his
Etsy store