New cover illustration work from Cristina Guiian for the Association of Illustrators Directory, or AOI for short.

The AOI provide a great resource for Illustrators. Amongst many things, they represent the licensing interests of artists old and new, which could one day include you.

Haw-lin.com is a purely visual look at the world of culture couture and consumerism.

You might normally hate endless scrolling, but you won’t with this site.

Nice use of typography in ads for the Citeoën 2CV; a car whose visual appeal might have seemed a little less obvious.

A bit harsh perhaps, but the ads are proof that the mid 70’s were great years for design and the arts at least.

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We should have posted this weeks ago, but we spent too much time laughing and not enough blogging.

The success of the Shadrack series caught the attention of the Boxfresh crew, and this new video spot from the Man Dem highlights Boxfresh’s commitment to the cultural tie-in.

‘We Are You’ is Boxfresh’s tag-line. Directed by Steve Glashier, Shadrack has brought 300,000 odd ‘you’s’ to their ‘we’, so excuse the language and get with the clever, nuanced humour.

Mars Blackmon was a Spike Lee alter-ego who starred in his seminal She’s Gotta Have It ‘86 movie.

The character gained cult status as iconic front man for Nike’s Air Jordan commercials in the late 80’s early 90’s, and they’ve given life to Mars once more through designer / art director Markus Eriksonn’s website and iPhone app work for Nike.

Go to the site (or customary iPhone app), choose your best body double, upload your pic and you an excellent way of bringing two iconic brands to you, the new ‘Mega-drive Generation’.

Do y’know? Do y’know? Do y’know? Well you do now.