Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants

James Chartrand is a professional and successful copywriter. But all is not as it seems. That’s because James is a woman. “Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants” is a fascinating insight into one of the great stigmas of the modern world. That is, despite decades and centuries of social development, feminism, voting right, equal [...]

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Colour of 2010

A quick post on the colour prediction for 2010, originally sourced from creative review blog!
http://winnieshek.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/colour-of-2010/

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Celebrating 160 Years

‘A School of Design for Belfast 1849-1960′
Written by Mike Catto
Designed by Seed Studio
The Ormeau Baths Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the School of Art and Design Belfast. The exhibits present an exciting visual record of the excellence produced by past staff and graduates from 1849 to the present [...]

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MK12 Motion Graphics

As part of the “Issues” class project, for which I’m putting together a kinetic typography piece, I’ve been looking for inspiration on the superb Vimeo.com. Whereas there are hundreds of good examples on both Vimeo and Youtube, I came across one studio in particular whose work just blew my mind. Motion Graphics studio MK12 have [...]

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Learn Too Fucking Spell

Amusing and informative article by web designer, Paddy Donnelly that really hits the nail on the head. The article is a semi-rant at those designers who don’t bother to learn the differences between “too” and “to”, “it’s” and “its”, and “affect” and “effect” (These last two in particular I see people mixing up all the [...]

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Merry Forrester

Blog post: http://winnieshek.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/merry-forrester/

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Going West animation

Going West on YouTube
Andersen M Studio has used approximately 3,000 still images to create this animation. It is an extract from Maurice Gee’s novel entitled ‘Going West’. They were commissioned to create this animation by Colenso BBDO. Line Andersen designed and created this and her brother Martin took the photographs. “The entire film is handmade, [...]

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Twisted pepper

Another post on the OFFSET after party at the Twisted pepper among a few others i’m sure. http://winnieshek.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/twisted-pepper/

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