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my outdated portfolio: create:liberate

My Flickr

Twitter: @rufeus

my old hub: rorycampbell.com


my neglected African creativity platform: Swikiri

Archive
2012 (121)
2011 (296)
2010 (96)

Searching illustration

Obox Signature Series

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.

Follow @AM_Collective on Twitter

Thanks to @bohellberg for the link

Thanks, Airside, for making the world of design, animation and music a happier place to be. You will be sorely missed. 1998-2012 RIP.

A farewell tribute to the design agency Airside who have announced that they will close in March 2012.

You can read more about Airside's history and story of their closing at Creative Review

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.

Tintin_les_cigares_du_pharaon
Tintin-le-lotus-bleu
Tintin-17-oyrfcg7juf-1024x768

Transport For London, 2012 Olympic poster proposals | graphic minimalism illustrates motion

Media_httpwwwcreative_axhnf

Media_httpwwwcreative_dgeaj

Media_httpwwwcreative_xjicl

"Ben Terrett over at Noisy Decent Graphics posted some great Olympics-related work by University College Falmouth student, Alan Clarke. Sadly, the proposed posters aren't set to be part of London 2012's official communications program. If only...

Clarke's work also forms part of UCF's new graphic design BA Hons website at fromfalmouth.co.uk."


More at Creative Review

MAPPING STEREOTYPES : The geography of prejudice - these illustrations made me chuckle

Media_httpalphadesign_pfzgq
Europe According to Britain

Media_httpalphadesign_iabgc
Europe According to USA

Yanko Tsvetkov is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator living in London and created these humorous illustrations of the geography of prejudice. I like the way the he's made efficient use of a specific resource to communicate different stereotypical viewpoints. 

See the rest of the series, including viewpoints from France, Germany, Gay Men, Italy and Bulgaria.


stolen from Sanni

A fantastic animation for "Where Do Good Ideas Come From?" illustrates how our connected world leads to innovation

Pastedgraphic-2
Pastedgraphic-1

One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from?

Steve Johnson concludes that with today's tools and environment, radical innovation is extraordinarily accessible to those who know how to cultivate it. Where Good Ideas Come From is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how to come up with tomorrow's great ideas.

Thanks to @culturengine for the tip.