David Mikula has worked for the likes of Nike, Microsoft, Whole Foods, Sesame Street, Wieden + Kennedy and Digital Kitchen. That is to say, he's got a track record of impressive clients and great work. His new site is a very clean presentation of many of these goods and I recommend diving in headfirst. I love the Redscout Rebrand, the Undefeated Experiments and this Taste Journey video game pitch - but that's really just a quality sampling. Lots to be inspired by here by in terms of the work and the presentation of it.

I'm sure I'm being effectively woo'ed by their pitch but this Affinity Designer looks like one helluva alternative to Illustrator (and possibly Photoshop depending on your needs). The intro video alone is enough to convince someone that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Yes, it's marketing and in reality it likely has its share of bugs but that's not enough to make me not want to try it out! Someone's gotta take down Adobe eventually, right?

Pretty fascinating these times we live in

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I write this from the past to post in the future so that it is available during your present - right now. The offerings are short this week from being out of town and being hunkered down with work but I think you will rather enjoy what you find within.

• Undulatus Asperatus - Clouds rolling like water. Really gorgeous piece of work.
• Enhance Your Lighting - Tim and Eric direct Jeff Goldblum in a commercial for GE. It's perfect.
• GamersNight Oculus Rift Reaction - the build up is a little slow but this is exactly the kind of full-force immersive reaction you want people to have when trying out VR.
• The New Pornographers - Dancehall Domine - great song, phenomenal video. Can't say enough incredible things about this.
• OUVRE-MOI - I watched this in a public space and could not help but laugh aloud very audibly.
• Law Hawk - I have a feeling this guy is maybe a terrible lawyer but his abusive implementation of the Hawk sound effect won me over.
• Yellow Magic Orchestra - Firecracker (Soul Train 1980) - people recognize YMO as being a highly influential group, right? If not, get into this Soul Train performance and respect their offerings!

Need more? Watch this Crazy David Bowie SNL performance or any of these new Broad City Season 2 Bonus Episodes or just gaze into this greatness. You're all set.

Have a wonderful weekend.

been following this movie for a long time and can't wait to see it released VERY soon

nice looking UI sketchbook that comes with storyboards and stickers for ease of iterating.

Kitten Body + Sloth Face = Best Thing. BEST. via @jeremy_okai

Headed to New Orleans this evening and out until next Tuesday. I will be updating the sidebar of various links but the main blog, here, will be left to stagnate a little bit. I'm just letting you know in case, ya know, you got worried.

I suggest everyone spend some time stalking Creative Works - a design conference in Memphis this weekend. I have high hopes for some solid sneak peeks on the happenings via their Instagram.

one of the best music news stories I've read in forever

one of the best parts of this show are the silly background gags - i.e. Oprah mural behind Abbi

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Despite being one of the largest Kickstarters to date, I've never browsed around on the Pebble Smartwatch site. Surprisingly, they have a very strong pixel art vibe going on! I love the Our Story pieces and it's a nice compliment to their display restrictions.

It's a tricky place to be - because they certainly don't want to look like a cheap device but they've managed to inject a good bit of personality into their brand. The next few years should be very interesting for them.

I should probably dive more into his catalog of personal works but, thus far, my familiarity Dhani Harrison is almost entirely of him covering songs by his father, George Harrison. That tradition continues with this Conan performance of "Let It Down"*. Dhani's voice has an eerie similiartiy to his father's (understandably - see also: the Lennon boys) but he does an incredible job of staying faithful to the original material; horns, backup singers, lotsa guitars and doesn't mess with the vibe of the song one bit.

There's more from Conan's weeklong tribute to George Harrison that you can watch here.

* Bonus: the guitarist is a familiar face.

After reading through this Quora inquiry about the benefits and downsides of Famo.us javascript I'm incredibly intrigued. The promises the tech makes - fast animation engine, very low latency, no backend - sound familiar but really get more interesting once you read into the details of how those things are accomplished. They really do seem to be taking a fresh approach to making Javascript faster and making building apps easier.

I probably have enough of these already but I'm a sucker for a quality vector

so far, lots of great nods to 80's anthemic punk.

What happens when one automated, image generating Twitter bot tweets at another automated, image generating Twitter bot? Well, when its Quilt Bot to Pixelsorter, it results in an endless loop of manipulated, glitched out madness. These kinds of "conversations" are probably rampant on Twitter but this is the first of its kind, to me, with image volleying. Hopefully whomever is behind both the bots is tweaking their algorithms to help make this loop grow and change into something even more intriguing than it already is.

I'm a sucker for a solid retro-future / alternate history visualization and Jakub Rozalski has them in spades. His concept art seems to mix Renaissance simplicity with Mech Warrior - and yet it still feels quite classy. There's a lot of potential album art just waiting to be mined and used for the right pairing.

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"Girl Behind the Glass" is a track from Groundislava's new album Frozen Throne but it also doubles as the backdrop for an interactive piece from the We Did It collective. Even if you're not into the music the interactive piece is a nice throwback to 80's neon overload visuals - complete with Power Glove-y first person cursor. It's a strange, glitchy, rainbow fever dream - and that's a combination of words meant as a compliment.

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