Love this beautiful animation/film created by the guy’s of +1 Amsterdam. Not completely new techniques and it has a very MTV-ish feel to it, but still … very nicely executed.

The city district Amsterdam Osdorp recently merged with Slotervaart and Geuzenveld-Slotermeer and was given the name Amsterdam Nieuw-West. This change also meant the end of 20 years of restructuring urbanized areas. To celebrate everything achieved, a book was published. ‘The Metamorphosis of Osdorp’ gives an overview of the architectural highlights. PlusOne was asked to create the video.

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AND MY ABSOLUTE FAFORIT is this animation from Paul Postma

Check the EDaward website for full details, credits and all winners.

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DDB China Group took over a busy pedestrian crossing and placed a large canvas featuring a leafless tree on the road. On either side of the crossing were sponge cushions soaked in green environmentally-friendly washable and quick dry paint.
As pedestrians walked towards the crossing they stepped on the sponges and the soles of their feet made footprints on the tree. Each green footprint added to the canvas like leaves growing on a bare tree. By walking they could create a greener environment.

Nice way of re-language carbon footprint to green footprint ;-)

Source: good and campaignbrief.com/asia

BP stated in their 2005 Environmental Statement: Gelsenkirchen‘s commitment to health, safety, environmental protection and quality as the nr.1 priority:
“No accidents, no harm to our employees or our neighbours, no damage to the environment, high product quality for our customers”.
Before that in 2000 BP introduced the new logo. The logo was designed by Landor and featured as a blossoming flower reflecting the company’s environmental responsibility. Bright and bold, the identity evokes natural forms and energy that represent, respectively, BP’s position as an environmental leader and its goal of moving beyond the petroleum sector. British Petrol was transformed into Beyond Petrolium.

Painful to see that non of the above seems to pass the test of reality.

Reason for Greenpeace to start a online campaign, a design competition to redesign the BP brand. The competition was originally initiated as a protest to BP’s plans to invest in Alberta Tar Sands (the dirtiest oil form), wrecking the Canadian boreal forest. But with Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, the competition got a lot more attention and response. And, as you could expect, the result are pretty indiscriminating, if not to say radical. The tag lines show anger with: ‘Broken Promises’,  ‘British Poison’, ‘Bloody Planet’ and ‘Biological Pathogen’.
It’s also a nice example of crowd sourcing

You can watch the results here

Credits go to TBWA\MEDIA ARTS LAB for a brilliant and consistent campaign. And to the actors John Hodgman (PC) and Justin Long (Mac)

Every major browser now supports the ability to link to a font. That means you can write a bit of CSS, include a URL to a font file, and have your page display with the typography you expect. For designers and developers, this is a significant step forward. No longer will you need to trap your content in images or Flash. But Fonts have copyrights.
And that’s where Typekit comes in. They’ve developed a web-only font linking license with the major type foundry’s. And they’ve build the technology platform to host free and commercial fonts.

Inspirationspam is now using the VERA SANS by Bitstream as bodytype…

… and LFT ETICA DISPLAY WEB by TypeTogether for the headings.

Check out the WEBSITE for more details

You can also see what happens to star player Rooney when he doesn’t make the difference this tournament.

And, not that I’m chauvinistic or anything… but I’m missing: Kahlid Boulahrouz, Mark van Bommel, Nigel de Jong, Wesley Sneijder, Ibrahim Affelay, Robin van Persie, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Arjan Robben, Dirk Kuyt and most of all Rafael van der Vaart ;-)
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