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my outdated portfolio: create:liberate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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Obox Signature Series

Graham Coxon's new crowd-sourced video for "What'll It Take" features some incredible post production

This video is made up of videoclips sent in by 85 fans from 22 countries.

Directed by Ninian Doff

Thanks to @bohellberg for the tip 

The Guardian open journalism promo imagines how they would cover the Three Little Pigs

I like it. But some of the response seems critical from fellow adland people.

Paddy Power's "Chav Tranquilizer": for all your race day needs. Banned before it ran.

Thanks @kevski1978

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

A new identity for UK channel More4

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ManvsMachine and Channel 4's in-house agency, 4Creative have created a lovely new identity for More4 comprising hundreds of mechanical flippers. The identity is bursting with character which really comes to life when placed into real world environments and animated delicately for great effect.

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Go read more about the process on the Creative Review website where you can also see a fascinating "making of".

Footage of London Fireworks on New Year's Day 2011 - absolutely breathtaking

The fireworks displays I've seen on TV in central London from the past
have all been lame and I've been glad to have missed the chaos of
getting in and out of the masses with limited transport services. Not
this one. Here is 10 minutes of sustained firework extravagance.

I reckon Boris took a big chunk of money from the cutbacks for this spectacle.

Magnificent weird and wonderful commercial for Scrabble in a wholly UK style.


thanks to @bohellberg for the tip

"Plaid Bench" - a nifty little custom bench design with a wonderful splash of colour.

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I like the colours and the non-uniformity.

"UK-based raw edges (yael mer and shay akalay) designed 'plaid bench' as part of the bench 10 project - organized by the lollipop shoppe - during london design week 2010. the seating unit consists of three different benches: a hardwood version, a plywood bench painted white, as well as a pine construction which has been painted in bright blues and greens. each of the designs can stand alone, however, raw edges has made the three benches in such a way that they interlock into one another horizontally and vertically, creating a large rectangular platform forming a vibrant plaid pattern."

found at Designboom

Dark Side of the Lens | A gorgeously shot short story film about a photographer and bodyboarder

"Relentless Energy presents Short Stories, a challenge to recognised core sports and music filmmakers...

The first Short Stories film, by renowned photographer and bodyboarder Mickey Smith, explores his world as a true waterman - both as an athlete and artist, and is called The Dark Side of The Lens.

"Originally I planned for the film to be more anonymous, rather than biographical, an all encompassing piece, to represent the photographers keeping the surfing machine afloat", explains Smith.

Something that offers insight into what it takes to grind out a living as a water-based photographer in the surfing industry: a short experimental glimpse at a life lived in the shadow of obsessive photographic pursuits."

"It also gave me the chance to ask myself a few questions, like, if you're always observing and documenting what you see and experience, are you ever truly present? Questions like that where I could step back think and then see what the answers were", Smith says.

As well as documenting various voices and experiences across surf photography, Smith worked with Allan Wilson from the Astray Collective, who acted as Director of Photography on the project. Together they logged hours of footage across the Atlantic coastline, traveling around Ireland, Cornwall and Manchester. Shot in Super 16mm film, as well as groundbreaking work with Canon 5D mk11 Digital SLR, Smith also projected images of the huge walls of water within which he works, on to monster urban landscapes such as sky rises and castles in Manchester, as well as the cliff lines at his home of Ireland"            

New music: Blur – Fool's Day

Blur are back to where they left off.

You can download the single for free over here.

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