Revolution // Life Cycle of a Drop of Water

This is the most delightful little collaborative stop-motion film following the cyclical journey of a single droplet of water. Over a thousand still photographs were taken for the 1minute and 45seconds it spans... and even the credits are divine. The amazing pop-up book was created by talented paper magician, Helen Friel (check out her site - amazing work!).

It's a beautiful little tale that will make you treasure every drop like it were a little duckling!





Photography - Chris Turner
Paper Engineering - Helen Friel
Animation - Jess Deacon

Found via Present & Correct

Parisian Typography

After years of studying and working with Type, I still find it so utterly fascinating how fonts can be linked to moods and places so very much! They've really captured it in these beautiful videos for EF language schools.

This one makes me want to go to Paris... like right now!


EF - Live The Language - Paris from Albin Holmqvist on Vimeo.

See London & Barcelona & Beijing too

Neon mobile // Clara von Zweigbergk

As I mentioned earlier in the week... festive decorations are on my mind at the moment... and while this one isn't strictly christmassy, it certainly is cute! Swedish designer, Clara von Zweigbergk is responsible for this joy and has even made a little video so you can get busy with it too.

(Found via Seesaw Design)

Anthology Magazine // Promotion video

I may be a little slow to discover this but it's so brilliant I had to include it here. Its the new promotion video (involving the very talented Meg Ilasco) for Anthology magazine. It takes the stop motion movie wonder to a whole new level!



The magazine too is looking so gorgeous. While it's more about interiors than print design, it's so nice to see the crossover of disciplines into peoples living spaces... here are a few sneak peek pages from issue one:

Sydney International Animation Festival

I fell in love with these posters for the Sydney International Animation Festival when I saw them all around the city and was even more happy to discover there is an origami inspired animation (obviously in hindsight) to go with it. Some sneaky pics below but you can watch the whole thing here...

The identity and publications were designed by Sydney collaborative Scixors, a threesome of very talented young folk indeed. How great is that font for a start? If the animations in the festival are half as good as the collateral then I'm there!

Bank advertisements. Beautiful?

A very clever friend, Becky, just finished making this advertisement. I love the little story and there are so many beautiful frames that I had to put up a few... you'd never guess it was a bank advert! (doubley nice to see such an organic illustration style for a big corporation too)

On the subject of bank advertisements... spotted this Swiss Co-op one on twitter today aswell (via Upon a Fold)... also truly beautiful and completely un-banklike! (The amazing origami is helped considerably by the fact that the Swiss currency is so gorgeous) Since when have banks been so artistic?

A week in Twitterland

A couple of cute animations this week...
+ This beautiful little film pictured above... fusing old school information inspired graphics with new tech worlds (via @presentcorrect)
+ This amazing wall painted animation (via @jessicahische) The dinosaur part at 6-7 mins is particuarly great!

Ampersand obsessive // Bespoke Press

I am a bit in love with this print from the talented folk at Bespoke Press. Ampersands are beautiful little creatures (oops, characters) and this is the first ever print of one I've seen that actually does them justice.

If you're at all interested in letterpress you also have to watch this video that shows them making the print... ahhh, a land of inking letters is bliss!

Kat MacLeod // Illustration

I've been an huge admirer of Australian illustrator Kat MacLeod's work for yonkies... her collages and mixing of fabrics and watercolours is scrumptious! Excited to have found this video showing some behind the scenes magic (making it look so easy too!):

Kat Macleod's Process from Jacky Winter on Vimeo.

(all images from Jacky Winter)

A paper-holic heaven!

SCRIBE MUNDO DE PAPEL from ladies on Vimeo.

Saw this mexican advert (for scribe notebooks) over on Uppercase. Much fun that musta been to make!