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This is pretty old but work a look if you’ve never seen it - its pretty self-explanatory and I’m too lazy to write a description. Just watch it…

Richie

I’ve been working on some self marketing material right now. So I’ve made the best bit into a desktop wall paper for everyone to love and admire every day.

Richie

Finally, a meat based typeface.

Check out more fine work by Robert J. Bolesta.

Richie

I’ve no idea what the story is behind this photo, a great photo none the less.

Richie

Its been ages since I’ve seen any eBoy stuff, until today when I stumbled on this bad boy - its been cropped to fit our skinny blog - click on it to view its full beauty. eBoy currently has an exhibition running until the 30th of June at Concrete Hermit in London.

Richie

Not so much an update as I’ve found some high quality stills from the animation. The You Tube size video doesn’t do it justice.

Richie

Apperently there’s going to be a G.I. Joe film, with Snake Eyes played by Ray Park. You’ll have to wait until 14 August 2009 to see if its any good. I’ve got a hunch it’ll be poor. But I hope I’m wrong.

Richie

There’s more to typography humor than I first thought…

Richie

This is a pretty neat typographical world map. I’ve no idea who created it, nice work whoever done it.

Richie

I found this while browsing the web and it made me chuckle. What does it say about you when you find typography jokes funny? What have I become? God help me.

Richie

I’ve been working on a logo for Claire Wingfield, a freelance copy writer from Edinburgh. I’m really happy with the result.

Richie

I found this amazing animation of a Lennon interview. I’m determined to do a similar style animation soon. It’s so amazing. The story behind it is that in 1969 when John and Yoko were in Toronto as part of their bed-in for peace tour, a 14 year old Beatles fan with a tape recorder called Jerry Levitan knocked on every door of the hotel where he knew Lennon was staying until he found him at which point Lennon was good enough to give him a 40 minute interview. The tape of the interview gathered dust for around 35 years until Jerry Levitan met a young animator called Josh Raskin whose work impressed him sufficiently for him to allow Josh to make a film to accompany an edited section of this Lennon tape. (Thanks to Adam Buxton for the background blurb).

Richie

We’ve spent a while updating the portfolio section of our main website. Check it out.

Richie

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries. All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries. Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons. Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?

Made by Animate Projects

Gav

I finally got some shots taken with my tunnel new vision lens. Its every bit as good as I’d hoped.

Richie

I’ve just discovered a pretty cool photographer by the name of Alexey Titarenko. He does a lot of long exposures on what looks like medium format monochrome. Unfortunately his website sucks the sweat from a dead dogs ass - Alexey give us a shout if you want a decent site.

Richie

I’ve just done some design for Bridgend Garage that I’m really happy with.

They are a great garage, I’ve been using them for years, highly recommended:

Bridgend Garage
Longridge Road
Whitburn
West Lothian
EH47 8JA
Tel: 01501 744012

Richie

I’ve been quiet for the first time in ages so I’ve finally got round to doing another Teetonic t-shirt. Vote for it now!

Richie

I just found this really cool Clockwork Orange graphic while browsing the tiniterweb. I don’t know anything about it other than its a photo of a print. And I just bought a clockwork orange t-shirt today, shame it didn’t look more like this, oh well.

Richie

I found this ace website, Retro Skate Stickers, it has skate sticker artwork from when skate stickers began. I can remember loads of them from when I was about 12. It also has photos of old school shoes that have gone ‘full-circle’.

Richie

Channel 4 has staged an ambitious live television advert during an episode of reality show Come Dine With Me.

A team of skydivers had just three minutes and 20 seconds to spell out the brand name Honda in a series of formations over Madrid.

PS - I thought I better mention that someone emailed this to me before you make the assumption I watch Come Dine With Me.

Richie

This Will Destroy You is an American instrumental post-rock band from San Marcos, Texas. The band is made up of guitarists Chris King and Jeremy Galindo, bass player Raymond Brown and drummer Andrew Miller with Brown playing the keyboard for live performances.

One of the greatest bands I’ve heard this year!

Gav

I’ve just watched the new Coors Light advert and I feel sick - its a really bad rip-off of Flight of the Conchords. The ad is almost identical to the first clip ‘She’s so Hot’.

If your not familiar with the work of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement then heres some of their best bits…

Richie

This clip was put together by Adam Buxton and Radiohead as a bit of non-profit promotion. Its a tweaked version of the end scene of David Fincher’s Seven.

Richie

I love the look of medium format infra red film. Nick Brandt puts it to good use in his work in East Africa.

Richie

Bon Iver is the stage and recording name of indie folk singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. The name, Bon Iver, is a bastardization of the French, bon hiver (good winter). He independently released his debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago in 2007, which was recorded while spending four months alone in a remote cabin in Wisconsin.

Buy It!

Gav

I created this graphic to be used on the unfinished pages on Victorias Nightclub while it was under construction. I liked it so much, now the sites finished I thought I’d stick it on here.

Richie

I cant remember where this came from but its been lying on my desktop for ages so I’ve finally got round to posting it. What a cool sequence of photos.

Richie

We’ve been doing loads of design for Victorias Nicghtclub in Glasgow. I’m pretty happy with the ‘retro electro’ look I came up with for The RE:LAUNCH party. It looks better on the actual site.

Richie

I found theses really cool book jacket illustrations by Jaline Sritharan. I don’t know if they’re for real or just a personal project - either way they’re pretty sweet.

Richie

A friend of mine left this on my ‘Fun Wall’

Cool eh?

Gav

I’ve been waiting on this album for ages, and I’m pleased to say its been worth the wait. There aren’t many Hip Hop albums with a track about Tommy Cooper. Buy/download/steal it now: Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip.

Here’s one of my favorite tracks:

Richie

Just when you thought the whole ‘change the warning on a fag packet to something funny’ thing was done to death:

Richie

After much deliberation we’ve decided to get a Mk2 MR2 for the Scumball 3000. It’s the best piece of kit we can get with the £500 budget. Plus its mid-engine and rear wheel drive set-up make it a top sports car.

Richie

Another top album cover from Mark Farrow - Spiritualized’s Songs in A&E. Farrow was inspired by Jason Pierce’s brush with death after a bout of double pneumonia. The whole thing has taken 18 months to prepare and features a 32 page booklet and poster shown below.

Richie

I’ve just entered a few photos into the latest Lomography competition, Stolen Portraits. These photos of my old work mates make me chuckle - thanks T, G & Wheels. If I win anything I’ll let you look at it.

Richie

I found this helpful illustrated instruction leaflet on Wikipedia while researching the origins of the Molotov Cocktail. The arrow pointing at the Policia shows how really good graphic design can communicate more effectively than words.

Richie

Its official - sectioneighteen are in the Scumball 3000! We’ve just paid our entry fee for the 2009 Scumball. 

If you haven’t heard of the Scumball 3000 it’s a road rally across Europe over four days raising money for much needed national charities.

The event takes place on the 16th April 09 - We’ll have a micro site up and running soon so you can check out all our plans. In the meantime if your feeling generous get in touch with us about sponsorship. Although this years official charity hasn’t been decided yet here are the previous years: 

2006 The Sussex Snowdrop Trust 2007 Winstons Wish 2008 Whizz Kidz

To quote the official website “This is the scumball rally… you don’t have to be rich or famous… you just need the balls to survive if you’re shot at in some God forsaken, prostitute infested, war torn country”.

Richie

For the last couple of days I’ve been listening to ‘John Peel: Right Time Wrong Speed’ and its reminded me how much I miss John Peels radio show. One summer I listened to nearly every show. I was working for a magazine at the time doing 3pm - 11pm, fortunately everyone there was like minded so John Peel was on the radio every night.

So this desktop is inspired by the late, great, John Peel - and one of my favorite quotes from him.

Richie

I’m just back from the Pub where I had a few drinks and a chat with a couple of fellow designers. The subject of the ‘Free Pitch’ culture came up. I was told about a horror story involving Stirling council inviting 114 design consultancies to pitch for the layout of a quarterly business newsletter; which has a £50,000 budget over three years. I just read the article from ‘The Drum’ website for myself. This is pretty nuts, its totally damaging to our industry. Here’s the whole article from The Drum’s website: linkygoodness

I’m so excited - I’ve just redeemed the voucher I was awarded for my Lomo Home of the Day by ordering the TunnelVision Lens from the Lomography Shop. Thanks to the nifty magnetic ring system I can use it on my Holga 120N and my Lomo LC-A. Its primary job is wide angle conversion - effectively multiplying the lens’s focal length by 0.45. So, the Lomo LC-A’s 32mm lens is blown out to an approximate 15mm with the TunnelVision capping it off. The Holga’s lens moves from a 60mm to 27mm view - which in medium format terms is roughly equivalent to the Lomo’s 15mm view. The macro portion of the TunnelVision can be unscrewed to enable its up-close-and-very-personal capabilities. 

Plus it comes with a healthy warrenty - In the words of the Lomo Shop “The warranty on this guy? - 10 long years, sucka”.

Check out the tasty shots:

Richie

I can still remember looking for accommodation when planning a trip to Amsterdam nearly 10 years ago. Only because I came across an ad for the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel. The self proclaimed ‘extremely honest’ advertising stands out, but we didn’t fancy the extra dog shit in the main entrance.

Richie

If you haven’t bought the latest copy of The Drum then you won’t have seen this. I nearly had a breakdown when designing this - Illustrator unexpectedly quit and I lost about an hours work at around 11.30pm. All the hard word paid off and I’m totally happy with the finished product, especially the sexy lego people. I still haven’t seen it with 3D glasses, but I’m told it works.

Richie

I don’t know anything about this book, other than the cover is astounding and the self portrait is by Duane M. Palyka. I’ll bet Duane lost most of his hair from the stress of trying to create images with only 256 colour - what a tit. I do miss the days when the word ‘computer’ had to be in a digital typeface - those were simpler times.

Richie

re:vision is a range of bracelets/cuffs by Craig Arnold. They are recycled from old lenses and are all ‘one-offs’. A very original idea I think. They are all around AU $200. They can be found at oyemodern, everything else there seems pretty average in comparison.

Richie

One of our current projects is to design the promotional material for Victorias Nightclub, a Dance Club in Glasgow. We’ve started to rebrand the four main nights there. Gav is working on ‘Reloaded Thursday’ & ‘Fresh Friday’ and I’m working on ‘Flawless Saturday’ & ‘The Sunday Club’.

I’m really happy with what I’ve produced for The Sunday Club - The colours suit the blog.

Richie

It looks like we might never do another minute of work. I got a copy of GTA IV last night and we’re about to get an office copy for breaks. Which can only mean one thing - sectioneighteen is doomed. Damn its good. The physics seem every bit as good as the hype, the graphics are ace and the gameplay is very addictive. The soundtrack is ace, especially the Tuff Gong radio station. Thanks Rockstar, you’ve gone and ruined everything.

Richie

I’ve just finished the first part of the marketing material for The Bongo Club.

Check the Work section of the main website soon for the finished article.

Richie

Visit my Bebo page and grab yourself a copy of my new sectioneighteen Bebo skin.

UPDATE: If you’ve tried to use this skin and couldn’t then we apologise. I hadn’t made it available for public use - doh! Its now ready for public use.

Richie

The new album ‘Love To Make Music To’ is due for release 09/06/2008. The albums flag ship track ‘Fair Weather Friends’, shown in the above clip, reminds me a little of The Go Team. The videos pretty cool too. Some of his more experimental stuff is pretty hard going. There are a few tracks that sound like early UK rave, but don’t let that put you off, lots of the stuff I’ve heard is as good as the above.

You can download the Hrs:Mins:Secs single for free from daedelusmusic.com

Richie

UPDATE: The track in the above video is available now on the Fairweather Friends EP

We’re excited to announce we have business cards. Because of the foil blocking its taken a while to have them made but its been well worth the wait. They consist of a black and silver foil block onto 380gsm Curious Skin in Black by Robert Horne. Thanks to Arc Colour Print for helping us to bring these to life.

Richie

Something I made earlier.

Gav

Another desktop from the designers at sectioneighteen.

Gav

Download the 1920×1200 desktop here.

I couldn’t resist, here’s a teaser for the press ad.

Richie

We’re super busy preparing for our launch this week so the blog might be a little quiet. The first part of our launch marketing is finished and will be in the next issue of The Drum - in newsagents this Friday (25th). I was going to post a teaser on here but decided against it, so you’ll just have to wait until Friday. You might want to look-out your 3D specs.

Richie

My girlfriend couldn’t wait until Fathers Day to give me my present (supposed to be from my 1 year old son) so I got my Smena 35 early. All the way from Kharkov, Ukraine - check out the Google map below - there its called a Chema 35. What an ace peace of plastic. The multiple exposure setting is great fun. Once again I’ve used the Poundland film, the stuff’s ace!

Richie

Here is the first of what will hopefully be many sectioneighteen desktops. This one is inspired by my renewed love of skateboarding and design. Despite me having two staved fingers on my left hand, a dodgy right wrist, a bruised right hip and knee, I’m still enjoying skating again.

Download the 1920×1200 desktop here.

Below is the photo I based the whole design on.

Richie

The logo for the 2012 Olympics has been the subject of much debate. Well, not so much debate, just people saying its shit. I have to agree I’m not a fan, so when I seen this photo it made me chuckle. I think I read somewhere it cost around £400,000! There is talk of it evolving in the run-up to the Games. Lets hope it evolves into something less, em, shit?

Richie

Another little piece of design for ya!

Gav

We’ve been playing around with patterns and stripes, heres the outcome.

Gav

Swirly sectioneighteen for all our fans!

Gav

Tokyoflash are makers of bizarre digital watches that look like they’re straight out of Akira. They’ve been around for a few years now and they continually design newer and weirder watches all the time. Each style of watch has its own unique way of telling the time. I only know one person who has bought one and they have given up on using it as a real watch. Even although it could be argued the watches are a victim of form over function I still think they’re pretty sweet. There are now a few stockists in the UK so it makes buying one a less painful process.

Richie

We found this dog up Glenshee trying to ride the button tows!!!

Gav

sectioneighteens latest ebay purchase!

Gav

The Tesla Roadster looks like it might be the first really good electric car. 0-60 in 3.9 seconds! And it’s not even some hybrid half-measure, its a fully electric car. Its already in production in the US and we’ll get a special allocation of 250 euro-spec roadsters in Spring 09. However, its a bit weird with no engine noise.

Richie

Why? Because I can, thats why.

Richie

You might have noticed a lack of Posts today - thats because we’re super busy just now, which is ace. It means the blog has been a little boring though. Anyway, here’s a little treat in the form of Adam Buxton’s ‘fan’ video for Spoon’s ‘Don’t Make Me a Target’. I think its pretty cool, it shows what you can do with just a camera, some editing software and a lot of talent.

Richie

Breakdance2 Electric Boogaloo…

Nuff said.

Richie

You may have noticed our blog has been down for most of the afternoon. Sorry! Our servers have been undergoing some maintenance. To make up for it here is a photo of our latest company investment - a pair of fetching Elvis mugs from Giftland in Livingston.

Richie

Blink and they’re gone!

Gav

This design will be used to promote our branding services within the music industry. It’s been a great chance to flex our creative muscles.

Richie

This typeface has been circulating the web for a few weeks. The designer is unknown apparently. If its you - nice one!

Richie

Bond will be after us soon!

Gav

This design started out life as a Graphitti Stencil. I then submitted it to Teetonic about a month ago. It would have been been the perfect t-shirt to wear in London yesterday. 

Richie

Solaris FG Plus is a very cheap 36 exp 200iso film made by Ferrania Technologies. It has what can only be described as an unusual colour pallet. With a little over exposure it gives a washed-out yellowish 70’s look. Great Lo-Fi film. It’s on sale in Poundland for, you guessed it, £1. I’m buying more!

Richie

This film has to be my favorite ninja film of all time. It’s loaded with explosions, clouds of gas, teleportation, Garfield phones and ninjas fighting 8″ tall toy robots. It’s amazing from start to finish. I bought it for 99p from a local book shop. You can buy it from play.com for £4.99 if you can’t be bothered to look for it.

Richie