Herb & Maricris take on Best Buddies pro bono
In early October, we seized the opportunity to work with a great non-profit organization, Best Buddies Australia, and offered to provide pro bono creative services for their upcoming Best Buddies Day in December.
Best Buddies encourages one-to-one friendships between volunteers and kids with an intellectual disability. Every year they launch a festival day for both volunteers and their buddies to enjoy. This year Best Buddies have decided to step up the planned activities to a full on movie making day.
Since teaming up with Best Buddies, we have been very busy bees. We created two story-line concepts that involve both friendship and adventure, wrote scripts for each and allocated roles in front and behind the camera for everyone involved. We then designed and illustrated an instruction booklet to guide the kids during the day. Throughout the project, we have been liasing with Mark Trevaskis, executive director of Best Buddies Australia, considering how Mark’s logistics and structure will fit in with our concept framework.
We’ve had a heap of fun with this project. Despite the long hours that it has required, it was simply a brief that was too good to pass up. Mark has been great to work with, giving us creative freedom while also providing enough constraints to make our job a lot easier. We really enjoyed the trust and responsibilities he placed on our shoulders. We flexed our guns and have hopefully exceeded expectations.
We’re looking forward to being able to hold the final product in our hands! I’ll post another update after the booklets come back from the printers, next week.
*Highfive*.
(Thanks to Kyle Labad for the sweet illustration of our secret identities.)
This is amazing. I love the idea behind Elsa Lambinet’s project. Elegant and fun!
A modular design allows for three types of chocolate that can support two added ingredients: black chocolate has a hole to contain fruit, milk chocolate has spaces for nuts, and white chocolate is surfaced to hold liquids, and all three contain a hallowed compartment for inserted flavored wafers, perhaps nougat or carmel. Participants get to mix and match ingredients for hours and hours as they gorge themselves on custom confectionery goodness.
Cat-in-the-hat chucks. I would like a pair of these please.
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Tonight We’re Gonna Dance, Like We’ve Never Danced Before.
“…eyelids made from double cream…” Love it. This is the best kind of story telling. Just two paragraphs in, I already felt that this could be one of my memories rather than fiction from someone I’ve never met.
One day, I hope to write like Benjamin Savva.
Hand in hand, stumbling through the half-soaked streets blinking heavily with eyelids made from double cream, heading in the general direction of home, wherever that might be. We tight-roped across the pale yellow pathways, laughing, hiccoughing, silently singing each others praises to the red sky. According to my absent-minded influence we slowed down in front of the same spot I always slowed down to feast on the smells of hot brodjes and crispy frittes. “Mmm, something smells good!” Minnie excalimed. “Actually, I’m very hungry, shall we stop and share some chips?” As though it were as easy as that, just stopping to get frittes as you pleased. Stopping to eat, when ever it should take your fancy.
This. Is. Excellent.
‘Boardwalk Empire’-Style Vintage Subway Cars Now Running in NYC
This weekend marks the beginning of the coolest ad campaign we’ve seen in New York in quite a while. As of yesterday, and every weekend through the end of the month, patrons of the 2/3 express line in Manhattan will be able to step into an authentic vintage subway train from the 1920′s, as part of a large-scale promotion for the new season of Boardwalk Empire, HBO’s series set in Prohibition-era Atlantic City. From the project organizers: “Originally operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) system, the train began service back in 1917 and will once again be operational. Customers who have the opportunity to ride the vintage train will be transported back in time to the Prohibition era with authentic details such as rattan seats, ceiling fans and drop sash windows, as well as a custom branded interior featuring Boardwalk Empire-inspired period artwork.” Sounds pretty awesome to us. Has anyone in NYC taken their old-timey train ride yet? If you have, let us know all the details in the comments!
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THIS GRAPHIC IS A RIP-OFF.
This image has been all over the internet for the passed few days, however this graphic is a rip-off, it was produced earlier this year by Chris Thornley aka RAID71 for an editorial piece, you can see it featured on Creative Review here » http://www.creativereview.co.u…
Sadly Raid71 is currently going through cancer treatment himself right now. An online store has been set-up selling his artwork and raising funds for the hospital’s cancer charity that is caring for him » http://www.raid71.bigcartel.co…
I do appreciate that the designer who is getting all the attention for this image actually said that it may have been done before, and to let him know if it has (his post is below) but people have posted on his blog and he’s not referenced it. If some of the people who have praised this image could credit the originator, RAID71, and help to promote his online print shop in aid of Royal Manchester’s cancer charity then that would be brilliant, thanks.
As he is the actual originator of this image please support Raid71’s online store » http://www.raid71.bigcartel.co…jmak:
Thanks, Steve.
Posting designs like this one makes me paranoid, because I can’t shake the feeling that it’s not original. I enjoyed the process regardless, but please let me know if somebody else beat me to the idea!
Thoughts?
Part of the Art & About festival in Sydney - some really sweet installations in the sidealleys around the city. These birdcages are my favourite. I see escape :) where are the birds now?
Gorgeous photos of the Empire State Building construction. Imagine how insanely brave these workers were..
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The Times & Trials of Matt McCarron: How Many Eight-year-olds Could I Beat Up?
HAHA! oh. my gosh. I might be a horrible person for finding this hilarious.
Scenario:
I’m standing in the middle of the field. 400 yards away I see a group of eight-year-olds charging towards me. I’m not sure why they’re running. And I don’t know that they want to kill me.
These boys and girls do not have any weapons beyond their fist; neither do I. They are not…
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