Eric Tesroete is a 3d Artist by trade - you wouldn’t have guessed it eh. He created this head for a Halloween party out of 370 triangular planes of card before taking these beautifully lit photos of him in it. If he could make a service out of this I’d totally pay to spend some time in big-head mode (despite the fact that after a recent dusting off of our studio N64 it turns out I’m the WORST GOLDENEYE PLAYER EVER).

Airfix for Narcissists. Love it.

Belgian animator Kristof has a great showreel - the newest bit of which is the above video for Hermanos Inglesos’ new track, ‘Wanderland’, an animal escapade featuring a lot of birds and a couple of randy unicorns. Be sure to check out his vimeo for loads more stuff.

If you like your bicycles, be sure to check out the photography of Matt Lingo.
He does take photos of other stuff too! Found via

So this dude lobs a load of ants in his scanner then scans them for 5 years. What’s the betting he’s single. Still, at least he has his ants (not one of which you can see in this video).

It reminds me of an early version of Sim City set to a soundtrack of obscure Middle Eastern Trance. Actually, that’s sort of what it is. Enjoy.

The SSZ love affair with JR continues (challenged only by the magic touch of Blu).  This one’s a music video for German singer Patrice singing Nina Simone’s “Ain’t got no (I got life)”.

Originally aired by Fubiz - très genial!

This post comes from the heart. If you are at all interested in print, independent magazines or free bloody speech then you need to subscribe to this service; it has, quite frankly, changed my life.*

The concept of Stack is to promote independent press by sending subscribers one (or quite often several) independent rags a month. This can range from Eye (RRP £17!) to Little White Lies, Bad Idea, VNA, Anorak, the list is endless. If you’ve heard of these then you’ll know what a good deal this is, if you haven’t then you, child, are the most in need of it.

Strangely though, for me at least, it’s the other ‘free’ magazines you get with the featured title that make it all worthwhile. One example is Manzine, an outspoken reaction to mens magazines written by some of their editors. Reading-on-the-bus-kudos aside, it has helped to reinforce my confidence in the power of a print mag, however home-made - No-one else will own my copy of Manzine, I’ve spilt coffee on it and dog-eared the corners, it’s truly been a journey. I still pick it up months later and it’s as ball-splittingly hilarious as it was the day I got it.

I can’t recommend Stack enough, it’s a bundle of joy landing on your doormat every month, a constant in a world of wars, politics, doom, gloom and digital media. Plus they delivered issue one of our magazine last month, getting them a gold star in my book.

Jonny

*well maybe not changed my life but it’s definitely been the best £40 I’ve spent this year

We might as well eh. Go to his webspace here.

Definitely worth looking at, Lukes site, not only for the quality of work (bloody LOVE the cupboard woodcut) but quality of presentation. A bit of nice photography goes a long long way, and I wouldn’t expect luke to have too much trouble getting through the door of a studio with this bunch of work (unless he’s an arsehole. You’re not an arsehole are you Luke?). He was also partly responsible for the Nottingham Trent 111 identity that we posted a while back.

Can it be true that I hold in my mortal hand an issue of purest AMMO?* With issue three, the cutest little inspiration mag in the planet brings us words and pics from Peskimo, Jam Factory and a favourite of ours Jessica Hische (cue glow of envy due to epic typo-crush) as well as loads of others. You can fit this baby in your back pocket but it’s jam-packed with artists that will make you quiver (ie. Pat Perry - never heard of him before but my is he good…) and is well worth picking up from the AMMO store.

*You’ll be pleased to know that our propensity to shoehorn content into barely-relevant quotes is as yet unabated.

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)

Ashwin is a London-based designer with a very nice collection of work in his portfolio including this poster called ‘The Bare Essentials’. Often a self-congratulatory ‘design about design’ concept combined with the student classic ‘poster over face’ pose will bring me out in a rash but this piece overcomes that by being really rather pretty with some intricate use of colour (The clock has a red second hand for example). You can buy it an’ all.

Loughborough grad Ben Marsh has some fun new work up, including a twist on condom packaging for all us kids born in the 80’s. Donkey Shlong = MEGAWIN.

New work from the Blu, now using more and more of the environment in his work. And bloody loads of paint, obv.

£2.50 for 64 pages, an Eboy cover and fold-out poster, articles by creative types including Adrian Shaughnessy, Sanky, D&AD, Glug, Eboy etc. Want it? Buy it here.

Ok, I’ve plugged this on my Facebook and my Twitter, and I’ll more than likely be cracking it on my personal blog too (not that anyway reads that shite), but I just had to post this on here too. In the midst of New Blood and other end of year shows I feel bad for not posting about any students. But this is too good.

It’s like someone has looked inside my mind and picked out my ideal look, feel and way of creating typography. That’s right, it’s all hand rendered. Anyway enough of the arse licking, go watch this video and make yourself feel inferior like I do right now.