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Icons, Icons, Icons…

Cg — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:30:42 +0000

No, not the celebrity type, the graphical type! – Yes, the new, highly anticipated iconography book by the very talented Jon Hicks has been released and I was there as soon as the book hit Five Simple Steps ready for ordering! At almost £40 (with postage) The Icon Handbook certainly isn’t cheap but according to

Tattoo

Cg — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:32:40 +0000

So after probably three years of deciding whether I wanted one or not, I finally got ‘inked’ yesterday! The design I decided to go with in the end was to represent the proposal of marriage, which I made on my recent Caribbean Cruise with my girlfriend and her family. I had a good idea of

Gowalla 4.0

Cg — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:39:32 +0000

Off the back of my original post about Gowalla, the team there have now released an updated version of the app and it’s absolutely beautiful to look at! The update is stunning from a design perspective especially that loading animation when refreshing your lists, however I do feel the app itself has taken a direction

Xbox Fall Dashboard Update

Cg — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:31:05 +0000

As reported by Games Radar, the fall update for the Xbox Dashboard is upon us, and I have to say, it’s looking rather beautiful. It features a much cleaner design and is apparently much quicker than the previous dash (thank God!), I’m really liking the look of it and it seems to fall much more

The Manual

Cg — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:57:13 +0000

The Manual, a new journal that takes a fresh look at design on the web is a project that started on Kickstarter by Build Conference organiser Andy McMillan. I backed his idea for a new snazzy book with interviews from popular artists from around the world around 5 months ago, and now the book finally

mcbess – Big Mother

Cg — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:15:24 +0000

Continuing on from my recent spending I also recently purchased this huge A3 book of art by mcbess. I had not heard of mcbess until it was announced he was going to do the cover illustration for the third installment of 8faces. I loved the sneak peak of what he had created and Googled him

Link print and original sketch

Cg — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:11:23 +0000

I came across Alex Deligiannis’ brilliant interpretation of Link from Zelda around a month ago on Dribbble, I was instantly blown away and now, he is selling them on his personal website! Not only that but I was lucky enough to buy his original sketch from the man himself, I can’t wait for it to

Ping Zhu

Cg — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:49:12 +0000

I recently came across Ping Zhu’s illustrative works and fell in love with her style. Ping is an illustrator from LA, plying her trade in London, her website is full of wonderful pieces of her work and I recommend you all to go check them out over at her website Pings Zoo. She also has

Carousel

Cg — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:09:46 +0000

Carousel is an app for Mac OSX that enables you to view Instagram photographs taken by yourself and others. First of all I find it hard to believe that the official Instagram website doesn’t even offer the simple things such as being able to view all your photos in a collection, browse photos, like them

Link is crushing cities

Cg — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:08:10 +0000

Just in the process of moving things over to WordPress from my Tumblr blog and forgot how fricking awesome this Link poster was by Drew Whitmore. Check it out via Kotaku.

Zelda Scroll

Cg — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:19:46 +0000

To celebrate 25 years of the best gaming franchise of all time, Josh Dunbar has created this awesome wall scroll featuring some of the most memorable characters from The Legend of Zelda. And what’s even better than looking at this thing? why owning one would be pretty sweet and by visiting Josh’s official website you

Kick To Pick

Cg — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:08:19 +0000

A good friend of mine, Mr Nathan Parks has just had his first app hit the Apple App Store and it’s a really great little app. The app is called Kick To Pick, you may have even heard about it, it’s a very simple app, but with a lovely little idea – it will pick

Bioshock Infinite Posters

Cg — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:45:09 +0000

If you haven’t heard of Bioshock Infinite, the next video game in the brilliant series by Irrational Games, then first of all, check out this brilliant trailer, and then appreciate this absolutely beautiful set of posters that are based on elements from the Bioshock universe. These posters have been created by the artists at Irrational

Dribbble

Cg — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:32:35 +0000

Well after what felt like forever I somehow managed to get drafted to the invite-only design community that is Dribbble.com! I have tried and failed before to get an invite but today was the big day, I came across Iain MacDonald via Twitter who mentioned he had two invites for Dribbble and if you were

Thor Poster

Cg — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:12:46 +0000

I was looking through the latest edition of Empire magazine and they had an article about the upcoming film ‘Thor’. I can’t say I’m that enthusiastic about that hitting cinemas but I am enthusiastic about this beautiful poster by UK artist Olly Moss. This poster was featured in Empire for it’s beautiful look and I