Incredible surfing photography by Tasmania (Australia) based Stuart Gibson. That duck-dive is crazy!

Cool designs by Francesco Muzzi over on the Behance Network.

Great illustration by TheGrossUncle. I like the use of colours and the effect of acrylic and ink on board is excellent.

KAWS, aka Brian Donelly, is the man responsible for such work as Kanye West’s 808’s and Heartbreaks album cover artwork as well as boasting an extensive toy range, paintings that sell in excess of $150,000, and shoes for Mark Jacobs, to name a few. It seems he’s been making a huge mark on the world, literally, and I have to say his style has really grown on me. I think he’s changing the way people see art, especially how he speaks to a younger demographic with his cartoon iconography and figurines.  I can’t see myself shelling out for his merchandise any time soon, however something like this would certainly ad some colour to my walls.

Great poster for the 2009 Cut and Paste event in London. I like the non-digital look, especially concidering this competition is based on using a tablet to construct a design in a 15 minute time frame. For more information click here.

Very nice poster by the 1970’s Japanese artist Shigeo Fukuda. I found it on the Japanese art website macauart.net.

Nicely done print campaign for Jeep by BBDO/Proxomity Malaysia. Super simple and super powerful. (Click the images to enlarge)

Images via ibelieveinadv.com

Absolutely amazing branding and packaging for 3 Beat Records by Matt Keers. Helvetica, lots of white space, and three transparent coloured shapes, so simple but so damn nice. All his stuff is brilliant.

Really nice packaging from Laura Alejo’s portfolio on the Behance Network.

Vintage anatomical illustrations with a twist. A lot of this style is popping a lot on ffffound lately and I really like what I see! I wish I knew who the artist was! For now I’ll have to label the as cool illustrations.

Found on ffffound

This guy caught my eye on Valorandvellum’s flickr, he’s pretty awesome.

I watched Back to the Future for the fist time in 13 years on the weekend, and I couldn’t help but notice the shoe’s (Hyperdunks) Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) was given when he goes to the future. As it turns out, they do in fact exist in 2009. Presented by Kobe Bryant, in the Delorean they came out July 2008 at around $1000 a pair. I think if you’re after some now you’ll need either a lot of money or a time machine!

Images via here and here

With no “off” button this ‘Chrono-Shredder’ by Susanna Hertrich represents the passing of precious time by shredding the days of the year.

More here

A daily dose of inspiration thanks to Dmitry Maximov from Moscow.

Images via fubiz

Interesting interactive posters from a campaign designed by DM9DDB to promote Saxsofunny, a sound production company from Brazil.

Image via toxel.com

Super nice stills from an installation by Helmo. More here.

The flavour of Mt Dew just went up a few notches. They’ve put out a new series limited edition Green Label series bottles featuring a collaboration of various wicked artists including Chick Anderson- one of the ‘coolest’ out there in my book, known for his amazing use of light and colour for example…

Not only is Mt Dew changing it’s image up, the Pepsi brand has branched to music, launching a virtual record label dedicated to digital singles Green Label Sound. I think it’s a really cool idea and the Chicago hip-hop group Cool Kids are a sign of more good things to come.

You don’t have to look very far until you come across a blog featuring Obama these days! I’ve seen a LOT of really amazing contributions to the campaign but I think this is my favourite by far and couldn’t help myself.

I found this on Notcot.

The colour conossiuer’s dream time teller.

Via: fffound

It takes a little while to believe that these amazing tilt shift videos of Keith Loutit’s are real. One would be forgiven for thinking this was a stop frame animation of micro machines! I’d never heard of this cool technique until I found some of Loutit’s work on Vimeo. There are some more fantastic examples in HD here. Enjoy!

Really nice art direction in this Purell print campaign I found at adsoftheworld.com. I really like how the same concept is cleverly portrayed accross various illustration techniques.

Beautiful illustrative typopgraphy via fffound.

“His name is Puño. He was born in Madrid in 1978, live in Paris and he is a drawer. He draw for books, for press and for publicity. That’s how he earn his living. He makes photographies and write about things too, but that doesn’t give him so much money. He like the city. He like the cities. That’s why he usually travel a lot. Travel and draw. And this doesn’t give him so much money either.”

This guy has a sweet style of illustrating, heaps more good stuff here.

Image via: cpluv

Some interesting photography by Asger Carlsen. I love the surreal and dreamlike nature he captures in his photos.

Image via booooooom

Woah, such an epic childhood book comes to life in 2009! Spike Jones is working on an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story set to be on the big screen later this year. These shots are amazing. If I’m not mistaken, I get the feeling it will be filmed in New Zealand.

youworkforthem.com reminds me of Veer, a designer’s site with an array of useful design tools inlcuding fonts, images, vestors and even t-shirts.

Happy New Year everyone! Back in Toronto now, it’s a new year, in a new pad, and I even have a sweet new watch I thought worth showing, thanks Santa!

The smart Cookie from Made in England came up with this just in time for Christmas, download and print your own lifesaver here.

Oblong Industries’s crazy (and amazing) interactive operating platform could be something we’ll be seeing more of in the future?

Fine design coming from Sydney, Australia. It was really refreshing to come across a design studio that produces such quality graphic design. I’ve been slightly obsessing with illustration lately and I do miss the discipline of this kind of work, there was definitely a lot of emphasis on this at university that’s for sure. The bottom two (above) are in fact artistic representations of data from a business report, real design with a real purpose! See more of there great work right here!