Our mates at Brave just sent us a brand spanking new Panasonic TA1! They recently crowdsourced a crack-team of UK designers to create a huge range of skins to customise their latest HD MMC camera – our little number is adorned with a monster skin designed by Brave art director Chris Weston. Check out the full range here.

D&AD: So what do you think of New Blood this year?

Jonny’s beard: ‘Blah blah blah, I live on Jonny’s face’

(or something to that effect)

Our friends at creative agency Brave are looking for the best junior creative team in the country. When they find them, they’ll give them a one month paid placement and the chance to earn a full time job at one of the UK’s fastest growing creative agencies. But instead of making people trek from the four corners of the land, they’re holding book crits on Skype! So if you’re feeling brave, why not  check out their site or drop them a line on skype_crits@brave.co.uk to arrange a chat and show off your work!

For all your advanced aquatic activities. Today’s cover can give you everything you need. The sport diver manual by Jeppesen.

We’re lucky enough to attract regular visits from a whole host roving photographers agents at our agency. It was during one such chelsea bun fueled encounter that I stumbled across Joey L. His work displays a maturity that goes far beyond many that have been shooting for decades. His client list contains some of the biggest names in the industry from Warner Bros to Channel 4 and a whole host of stops in between. Quite frankly, the sheer talent he shows in his work makes me want to vomit on my own legs.

Just a little visual stimuli for the day. Today’s cover is from the book ‘A Field Guide to Birds in Australia’ by Graham Pizzy.

A collection of some of the most controversial magazine covers of years gone by. An interesting visual account that reflects the changing times that gave editors the chance to push the boundaries of decency and morality. Heavy.

A taste of street sleeping from the comfort of your own home. The design team at snurkbeddengoed not only work for the best named company in the Netherlands but also came up with this innovative idea to raise money for SZN, a charity for young homeless people, that fund housing projects to help people into jobs and education.

An amazingly simple but striking capture of only three frames of film in a never ending loop. Mostly taken from cult films from the 70s and 80s, there’s a glimpse of 3 dimensional depth to these images that grabs me.

I couldn’t tell you a thing about the people behind this project, the images live on an entirely content-less website, but enjoy…

So it appears that these guys don’t speak a word of the Queen’s. But this ad for a cinema fesitval in Valencia, Spain stands out a mile. Their site contains a nice selection of print, branding and TV spots. They have helpfully translated their info section into Spanglish through what seems to be a terrible online translator…

“Casmic Lab is a study specializing in creative image constituted principally by two members; Amadeo Castroviejo Y Roser Miquel. Casmic Lab’s projects are characterized by his aesthetic hybridization. We enjoy being employed at all the fields, like artistic direction, graphical design, illustracion, web, animation, video or motion graphics. Constant experimenting and working for offering the perfect image that our clients need.”

You may remember Noah from his Youtube hit Noah K Everyday. He’s got some lovely shots in his book and some very interesting lighting techniques to boot. 

In the wake of our ever-expanding digital lives, lies a sea of once used accounts, apps and fads that we got into and quickly lost interest in. One Post Wonder is a catalogue of blogs that have been long forgotten after just one post.

Tanya Aguiñiga, raised in Tijuana, Mexico. She uses her experiences to tell stories of inter-connection and multiculturalism through colour and touch. Her work takes the form of everything from these fabulous felt covered chairs, to animal covered pillows. See more here.

This girl is so cool she doesn’t even have a website so get over it. This is a series of spectacular drawings from the Melbourne based artist and we’d love to see more!

A graduate of Salford University back in 2006, Rob has mustered an impressive list of both freelance and full-time work including this slick visual dream for Atari. I love the way he categorizes his work as either RGB or CMYK, lovely stuff.