Giles Harper

As I’ve given a shout-out to two thirds of fwd_ctrl, its only fair I give (well earned) ‘bigups’ to the rest of the unit. Giles Harper is the digital (and tallest) member of the fraternity. Recently completing some in-house projects for some great studios like Medicine Man of Brick Lane, Harper is a multi-skilled one man design machine, plying his trade in everything from digital interaction to old skool branding. Above is some of his work during his time at Medicine Man for Neo-Post.

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Keep It Simple, Stupid

Another risky promotion to come from those trusty merchants Diesel, this time in the form of encouragement of a lower intilect*. The campaign ,which succeeds the famous Dirty Thirty and the viral which made the rounds, promotes the message that the lack of thinking things through results in a better time, something that they have been pushing for years but finally had the balls to come out and say it.

*spelt incorrectly to make me slightly cooler according to Diesel.

Speechbreaker

I may not be the most informed when it comes to politics, but I know a great bit of negative campagining when I see it. Created by Lean Mean Fighting Machine the interactive site lets you rearrange words uttered at speeches by the leaders of the three main political parties (CR wisely observed that it was probably funded by the lib dems as the only utterance that you can make sense with them is “choose the liberal democrats”). Its genius for the simple fact that they are not saying anything bad about any party, they leave that joyful honour to you. Found via Gavin Lucas at Creative Review. Try it athttp://www.speechbreaker.co.uk. Below is my rather poor attempt.

Vivisesja Audio Visual Festival 09

When fwd_ctrl were asked if we would like to contribute to the Vivisesja Festival in Poznan, Poland, we were more than happy to send our showreel off to be screened at this years event. The festival runs from the 18th to the 20th of November and there is a wealth of audio/visual delights for participants, from VJ live performances to short film and animation screenings. Unfortunately there isn’t a English version of the site up yet but we have been informed it should be up soon so keep checking for updates. Below is last years video summary and the promo for this years event, for more information visit http://www.vivisesja.pl.

The Toke

With emails going back and forth from fwd_ctrl to Poznan in Poland this week we wanted to check out the design scene in Poland, hearing nothing about it up to this point. There seems to be a wealth of great design from this country, too many just to mention in just one post, but have selected a few of my favorites for your viewing pleasure (listed below). One site that really stood out was thetoke, the portfolio of Darek Nyckowiak. Hailing from the aforementioned Poznan, Darek has a very interesting site that will, if anything, baffle and excite. His work on the site is extremely strong and has animation and actionscript to make even the most hardened of web developers go <weak> at the knees. </weak>*