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Martin Skivington
BBC mobile apps allowed in the UK, finally!
The media-lords of sense have ruled that BBC’s apps for the iPad and iPhone devices are to be released in the UK. This follows a period of consultation – no doubt ridiculously expensive – over whether the app would ruin things for UK’s legion of commerical newspapers. BBC’s apps have apparently been downloaded [...]
Rare Fela Kuti interview surfaces on charity shop reel-to-reel tapes
Soundway Records shared this wonderful story about a rare interview with legendary Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti turning up on some reel-to-reel tapes bought by the label’s manager at a local ‘Help The Aged’ charity shop. Incredibly, the track played during the interview is a version of ‘Who’re You’, the lead track from Soundway’s latest album, [...]
Trailer for ‘No Man’s Land’, an audio-visual collaboration
Musician and vocalist Fiona Soe Paing teamed up with animator Zennor Alexander to create ‘No Man’s Land’, a multlingual, audio-visual collaboration, which has wowed audiences from Italy to New Zealand. Fiona also creates excellent music as ‘Colliderscope‘.
Trailer: ‘No Man’s Land’ (Youtube)
Epic Daily Mail list of things that give you cancer
Eighteen year old Hugh Davies, a Facebook user, has compiled an epic list of things which the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail claim will give you cancer. The 100-plus items on the list – each of which are backed up by URLs to articles on the Mail’s website – range from the inane to [...]
Charlie Brooker’s ‘How to Report the News’
This has been posted quite a bit around the way but it’s good enough for re-post here.
Anyone who is familiar with the BBC’s style of televised news reports will get a crack out of this satirical spoof by comedian Charlie Brooker, taken from the latest episode of his show, Newswipe. Also check out his [...]
David Pearson’s Penguin book designs
London-based designer David Pearson specialises in book design and branding, and besides his work for clients like White’s Books and Ridley Scott Associates among others, his reimagining of a series of Penguin classics are great examples of minimalism and vision which suit the product at hand perfectly.
For further examples visit davidpearsondesign.com. (via Laughing Squid)
David Cameron Election Billboard Jamming
The guys at HurtYouBad spotted a bit of good old-fashioned billboard jamming (presumably in London?) on billboard adverts for this year’s general election in the UK.
“For our non UK readers – there will be an election this year and this smug, right wing, never-done-an-honest-days-work-in-his-life bastard is looking like the next leader of the country…thankfully [...]
Spotify/7digital’s unfortunate EULA
Now I love Spotify as much as anyone so I’m not here to diss their overall music-streaming service which is great (I’ve been using the premium version for about three months now). But I do have a bone to pick with the crazily-restrictive, and just plain crazy, terms of their End User License Agreement, which [...]
Kersplat t-shirt by James Callahan
Happy new year everyone! Please excuse the messiness of the site at the moment. It’s undergoing some severe transformation. Here is a t-shirt designed by James Callahan – a comic-book artist – for Beautiful/Decay’s excellent online emporium.
James Callahan’s Kersplat shirt @ Beautiful/Decay
Fantastic, animated festive shorts, by Rodrigo Blaas and Lois van Baarle
I’m wowing at the beauty of these animated short films.
The first (which can be viewed above) is called ‘Trichrome Blue’, and was produced by Lois van Baarle as a project for the Utrecht School of the Arts.
Trichrome Blue on Vimeo. (via Delicious Design League)
The second is called ‘Alma’, and is a fantastical short film [...]
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