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“Puss” Means “Kiss” in Swedish

Posted on May 18, 2013 | Leave a comment

Do you like weird facts and knowing what time it is? Great! You should go to Factoclock – you learn something new every minute.

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Posted in Culture, Design, Technology

Tagged album covers, blogging, cats, communication, cool, creative, digital, entertainment, fun, funny, Gene Simmons, internet, Kiss, kittens, language, Leonie Cumiskey, meaning, music, puss, rock 'n' roll, Swedish, technology, website, weird facts

Write It In Your Own Voice

Posted on May 14, 2013 | Leave a comment

Brilliant series of adverts from Uniball which highlight the merits of sending a handwritten letter and cleverly illustrate what misused fonts say about your message. An advertising campaign which is all about communication and implicit meaning – so meta! My favourite one is ‘Pappy Is Dead‘, which makes fun of Comic Sans (the underdog of all fonts) and there is also quite a camp skit deriding the Broadway font, too. The ‘Bust You Out’ version is probably the most effective, because obviously slang sounds so ridiculous when it’s read out in the Queen’s English! It reminds me of the time when James Blunt had to read out some Sean Paul lyrics on Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

Great work from TBWA South Africa.

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Posted in Writing, Design, Advertising, Comedy, Lifestyle

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Kinetica GIF!

Posted on May 13, 2013 | Leave a comment

These are some photographs I took at Kinetica Art Fair back in March. I wanted an excuse to play around with the GIF Maker on 15 Folds using my own photographs; these images were perfect because I could easily align the spheres to be the same size on Photoshop.

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Posted in Art, Design, Events, Photography, Social Media, Technology, Writing

Tagged 15 Folds, Ambika P3, animation, art, arts, blogging, cool, creative, creativity, design, digital, digital art, experimenting, fun, GIF, GIF Maker, graphic design, internet, Kinetica Art Fair 2013, Leonie Cumiskey, light art, lights, London, media, moving image, photography, Photoshop, playing around, psychedelic, skills, technology, writing

The Black Angels Tour Posters

Posted on May 13, 2013 | Leave a comment

Gorgeous gig posters for The Black Angels – so many different variations for each location on the American tour. These are all by Matt Cliff, who got in touch with me after I originally posted about how much I liked the branding for the new album and The Black Angels’ Facebook cover.

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Posted in Art, Design, Events, Music, PR, Writing

Tagged 2013, advertising, arts, band posters, blogging, branding, colours, cool, creative, creativity, design, drawings, entertainment, Facebook, Facebook timeline, fun, gig posters, graphic design, ideas, illustration, Leonie Cumiskey, Matt Cliff, promotional posters, psychedelic, social media, surreal, The Black Angels, The Black Angels posters, The Black Angels tour, USA

Reasons To Be Cheerful: Bass Drum Of Death

Posted on May 12, 2013 | Leave a comment

It’s May and the weather is still awful and a whole load of other stuff isn’t going so well for me either, but I am seeing Bass Drum Of Death at The Black Heart – a tiny venue in Camden – on Thursday. I’ve loved these guys for two years and I haven’t seen them yet so…yay!

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Posted in Events, Music

Tagged American band, Bass Drum Of Death, Black Heart, blogging, Camden, crappy weather, entertainment, exciting, Fat Possum Records, fun, garage rock, gig, indie, John Barrett, Leonie Cumiskey, London, May, Mississippi, music, Print Chouteau, rock 'n' roll

The Prince of Prints

Posted on May 12, 2013 | Leave a comment

Another lovely coffee table book for my ever-growing wish list. This gorgeous limited edition book, published by Taschen, charts the visual history of print maverick Emilio Pucci. I love pyschedelia and I love fashion, so obviously I want this iconic tome for my collection!
It’s a bit pricey at £44.99, but each book is individually bound in Pucci print fabric, and features hundreds of photographs, drawings, and candid shots from the archive of the Emilio Pucci Foundation. Below are some spreads from inside the book.
Want it.

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Posted in Art, Culture, Design, Fashion, Photography, Writing

Tagged '60s style, book, books, bright colours, coffee table book, design, editorial, Emilio Pucci, Emilio Pucci Foundation, fabric cover, fashion history, fashion house, hippie fashion, Leonie Cumiskey, limited edition, limited edition book, pattern, patterned fabric, print, print publication, psychedelia, psychedlic print, publishing, Pucci, Pucci dynasty, sixties style, Taschen, wish list

Style Over Substance

Posted on May 12, 2013 | Leave a comment

Style or substance? Audi and BBH believe you can have both in their new TV ad…

Unless you’re a woman! Hahaha, let’s all sneer at the silly vain tart who’s fallen down in the rain! She can’t have style and substance – she chose style, the moron.

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