Things that make Rory tick

Rory is a designer who works at OgilvyOne London as head of design. He likes to post things that may or may not include:

music, design, photography, art, digital media, social media, film, everyday snaps, inspirations from Africa, maybe some humour, a little politics...

...and he's bound to moan sometimes.

OK, quite a lot.

my outdated portfolio: create:liberate

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Twitter: @rufeus

my old hub: rorycampbell.com


my neglected African creativity platform: Swikiri

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One of the best mural pieces I've seen in ages by Supakitch & Koralie filmed in Gothenburg

Outstanding skills on show here in this complex piece. 

thanks to @Rylie83

A sweet mural for Valentines Day by AM Collective

To celebrate Valentine’s, we at AM Collective decided to create an interactive art piece that hails love in all its shapes and forms. On Monday 13th, we were hosted at the wall of Village Underground in Shoreditch, where we graffitied the piece. With the shape of an anatomic heart from afar and made of numerous graphic hearts from up close, the wall gives people a platform to express their love, or lack thereof. Punters are encouraged to pick a particular heart to write within them, and slowly the piece becomes a fragmented book of many stories – almost like a cubicle toilet but a tad more romantic. Just like our beloved Shoreditch.

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Thanks to @bohellberg for the link

Wow. Wacom's Inkling allows you to capture what you draw on paper in a digital format.

If this works as well as they make out in the video then this is absolutely amazing. I will reserve my excitement until I've tried it out.

Read more about it at Tech Crunch

Adventure. Spielberg. Jackson. 3D. The Adventures of Tintin trailer - Hergé must be rolling in his grave.

Adventure. Intrigue. Colourful characters. Spielberg. Jackson. 3D. All the ingredients of an swashbuckling box office hit.

Sure, I don't deny this trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn looks great. I think it will be great film and a huge success, leading onto a massive franchise. But it makes me very sad. Unlike successful comic-to-film productions like Sin City, it seems the unique visual aesthetic of Tintin is as dead as Hergé himself.

 

The gorgeously distinctive colouring that the artist rendered so delicately is given in to hollywood Technicolor. I feel there is an essential visual character that is lost in this representation that betrays the integrity of comic book. I'm hoping it is just a bad representation of the trailer but I can't see how they would be able to represent the fundamental style in 3D.

Shame on you, Steven. And Peter, I thought you would have known better.

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Fantastic folk creatures in psychedelic colour & hypnotic repetitive shapes - sculpted in wood by AJ Fosik

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I came across these brilliant images of woodworked wonder from a tweet from @iamtheoryone. I'm absolutely fascinated by the colours and repetitive shapes.

AJ Fosik was born and raised in Detroit, although he calls more than one city home. Having lived in Brooklyn, Denver, California, and Philadelphia, AJ thrives in searching the American landscape for nuances of our culture. His sculptures address traditional American folk imagery with a psychedelic color palette, drawing the viewer into familiar territory while proposing new perspectives. Hundreds of wooden shapes are masterfully constructed into a confrontational, bestial sculpture. In a composition that references stuffed deer heads, AJ awards his trophy creatures with ferocity and vibrancy. Numerous sets of eyes and radiating auras of pop-inspired triangles shed fresh light on an age-old motif, putting the viewer in charge of reassessing their preconceptions of folk art. 

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Now you can tell your mum what you do: An Introduction to Graphic Design | Design Observer

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"Albert Einstein once said that the secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. So don’t ask us to explain how kerning works: just trust us."

The Design Observer is an valuable resource for all things design and what can be more valuable than a concise introduction to Graphic Design.

Print the article out and have it handy for Aunties and Uncles who still think you're either and "Artist" or simply "In Advertising".

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Between Bears by Eran Hilleli - a beautiful evocative animation

thanks to Jamie Romain for the link.