Video

Super sweet, darkly humorous and incredibly clever safety advert for Melbourne Metro. Now viral and apparently the most awarded advert EVER by agency McCann Melbourne check out the full execution (no pun intended).

Ricky Gervais Tells A Story About How He Learned To Write.

Mental Floss:48 Names for Things You Didn't Know Had Names

It’s Not Porn, it's… (NSFW but NOT Porn...)

25 Greatest Unscripted Scenes in Films

4 Keys To Turning Customers Into Brand Evangelists

From Co.Design an article on 4 Keys To Turning Customers Into Brand Evangelists

Videos

"Rage of thrones" by the Axis of Awesome Apologies if I've done this to you...
An explanation of the Monomyth or The Heroes Journey by Glove and Boots
Photoshop Live - Street Retouch Prank

10 Qualities of Creative Leaders

   
An article on Brain Pickings from The Unpublished David Ogilvy (the original Mad Man) with his 10 Qualities of Creative Leaders.

1. High standards of personal ethics.
2. Big people, without pettiness.
3. Guts under pressure, resilience in defeat.
4. Brilliant brains — not safe plodders.
5. A capacity for hard work and midnight oil.
6. Charisma — charm and persuasiveness.
7. A streak of unorthodoxy — creative innovators.
8. The courage to make tough decisions.
9. Inspiring enthusiasts — with trust and gusto.
10. A sense of humor.

Adobe: 5 Reasons We Killed The Creative Suite

If you haven't heard, Adobe is moving from a Software model to a Cloud. On Co.Design, here's 5 reasons why.

DIY Screenprintining Kit

DIY Screenprintining Kit

Articles

3 Paths Toward A More Creative Life

1. Be mindful--disconnect
2. To create meaningful things, delve into the past
3. Be masterful

 Comic Master Warren Ellis on Boiling Spacetime: How Time Works In The Graphic Novel

Comics boil spacetime.
This is metatextual gibberish intended to prime your brain for what is next.
Time in comics is completely elastic.

Stop Reading

After chatting with a friend over Christmas about how hard it is to NOT finish a book even though you're not quite enjoying it, I came across this timely advice from Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust, via Austin Kleon's Blog:

The Rule of 50
Nobody is going to get any points in heaven by slogging their way through a book they aren’t enjoying but think they ought to read. I live by what I call ‘the rule of fifty,’ which acknowledges that time is short and the world of books is immense. If you’re fifty years old or younger, give every book about fifty pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up. If you’re over fifty, which is when time gets even shorter, subtract your age from 100. The result is the number of pages you should read before deciding.

Common Physics Misconceptions

Common Physics Misconceptions

Fly Solo

This resource helps designers ditch, both partially and entirely, that “traditional role,” and use their fluency in graphic design to create their own projects that hold passion to them and value to someone else. Fly Solo is a minimalist framework composed of short writings and illustrated diagrams that helps navigate a designer’s self-initiated project through the development process. It's a support system. A home for the designer in the land of opportunity.

Videos

How Predictable Are You? (Magmathmatics)

A South American Odyssey (3 men, one video)

Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (Stop Motion Animation, with frames available for sale!)

Video Games Aren’t Actually Destroying Our Brains (Ted Talk)

Kurt Cobain’s Handwritten Top 50 Albums List

Clients From Hell

Submit and read 'Client From Hell' stories.

Rejected Star Wars Merchandise

A series of articles by product designer Jason Geyer who was asked (along with his team) to pitch for Star Wars merchandise... This is what they rejected.

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Design Process

Articles on Co.Design about the story behind the FedEx Logo (Did you spot the arrow in the logo?); the design of the Rio 2016 Olympics Typeface and Listening Closer, To Find The Next Big Interaction Idea.

The Cost of a Logo?

As you can see, there's no standard for the value of a logo, but it is encouraging to see that many corporations value their branding and the design process enough to pay for the right design. A good article going into more detail on Co. Design.

Myth Buster's Sprited Away Cosplay

A little inside video on Myth Busters' Adam Savage's Spirited Away 'No-Face' Cosplay.

Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing

From Brain Pickings is Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing

1. Write
2. Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
3. Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
4. Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is.
5. Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
6. Fix it. Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.
7. Laugh at your own jokes.
8. The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it ­honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

He Said, She Said: Colours

A fascinating and predictable account of the male/female gender bias when asked to 'identify' a colour. Also a pretty neat, interactive infographic!