Aha!

So now I know what must have inspired these guys..

Think for a minute before you throw away your old carton boxes. You can make some cool stuff with it, like Berni Valenta did!

I was in New York recently at the New Museum on Bowery and couldn’t help noticing the design of the museum’s T-shirts. Look familiar anyone?

As promised, Adformatie asked us to come up with an interactive case that deserves a Cyber Lion at the upcoming Cannes Lions. Please share your best case (March 08 - April 09) in the comments and we will enter with our most popular case.

Leroy Smith (Charlie Murphy) is the guy who motivated Michael Jordan into becomming the greatest basketball player ever. Now, with his revolutionary website, he’s finally able to motivate the world, including Canada. Make sure you play the game, wich is great. So who’s behind all this, Nike?

Nice promotion for IAMS dogfood. 

Now that summer has arrived here in Holland its time to hit the beach again! If you’re looking for something a lil’ bit different or want to impress your better half with a romantic getaway; take a look at Camp Silver on the island of Texel. You can spend the night here in an original design classic; the Airstream trailer or a Pacific Dome tent. Ik zeg doen!

That MJ lost his credibility a few years ago we all know.
Since his concerts in London didn’t get him out of his huge debts he did a garage-sale. The kind of stuff he sells is sometimes hilarious, sad, beautiful or just ugly.

This cool project collects business cards from people who got ditched at their agency. All the cards have an inspiring personal message.

The famous ‘Andy’ style. After Monroe now Blondie. On an Amiga. And it looks so easy!

Finally, ILNW is taking over Adformatie with reviews of three high-end interactive cases. For the next round of reviews, we will ask for your participation, so stay tuned.

Open the free iPhone app, confirm your location and a taxi will arrive to pick you up in no-time. iPhone users are first-in-line because the request is forwarded to the nearest taxi’s on-board computer. NewWork by Mangrove and NewToast, available for Dutch users only. Hope you enjoy it this weekend.

Still, t-shirts are hot. These designs show a clever use of the t-shirt with an integrated form of ad or art. 

Some interesting bottle designs by Arnell for 1000 Acres Vodka. I don’t know if this is the kind of bottle I want to hold when i’m drinking away my sorrows with the lads, but they look pretty fresh.

The cartoonist Robert Crumb (aka the man who came up with Fritz the cat!) just finished a comic book of the biblical story Genesis. Everybody who knows his genre will agree with me that this will be a hell of a trip! Well, I hope so anyway. Now we just have to wait till October…

After a succesfull ‘trend bloggers’ feature in Creatie, they asked us to the same trick on monthly basis for Adformatie. TheFWA, Adverblog and NewWork will send in their favorite interactive case and comment on the others. I have the honour to represent NW, but can’t do it without you. I hope we can decide together which case we should send in and why. The first issue of trend bloggers will be available at the Spinawards Adformatie edition, next Thursday. From there, you decide..

OfficePOD: Changing the way people work. A little high-end design office in my backyard. One problem though, I don’t have a backyard. Maybe they will produce a balcony version next year.

Planning a snowboard trip? Well, I’m guessing you just come back from one. Let’s just presume that you are planning one. In that case, get yourself a Beard Head and look like a wiseman, an intellectual for that matter, when you try to do your tricks on the steep slopes.

Is it just me, or is this really an attempt to copy nalden.net?

Right then, some leisure time here on New Work! This game, 99 Bricks, looks like Tetris but it’s a bit different. Instead of making the bricks disappear you have to use them to build the highest tower that you can. Sounds easy, eh? Wait till the physics kick in!

If you thought the new Pepsi logo was just so so, think again. According to this leaked design strategy from Arnell Group, it is nothing less than the String Theory of design. Drawing from the Mona Lisa, the Parthenon and the impact of sun radiation on the earth’s magnetic fields, this has got to be the funniest document I ever read.

To promote the new Škoda Fabia we created this small campaign site. The car is available in 169 different colors. So choose a combination you like and let the painters paint.

As seen on TV! By the makers from club 11! The newest thing in town Trouw Amsterdam will open next week. No view over the city this time but these pictures tell me it’s going to be superb!

This geeky umbrella made me laugh. It’s perfect for pedestrians and samurai alike. Also, if the makers want to adopt the name Samurain, i’m open to offers.

Forget everything you know about paper robots. Download the blank template, created by Shin Tanaka, to design your own Giant Robot. The best designer will win a trip to the Interactive Paper Art show in LA. 

I bought this book for a friend the other day, A day at elBulli. It covers one day at the famous catalan elBulli restaurant from sunrise to sunrise. A minute by minute insight in the philosophy of Ferran Adrià.

Every day, countless work hours are wasted in endless meetings.  The solution? SUCC: a Slightly Uncomfortable Chair Collection, for shorter and more efficient meetings. Great idea by Sid Lee Collective!

This is some quite bizar adrenalin stuff…!
I was even wondering if it’s real.

The iconic white-framed snaps, also known as Polaroid pictures might/will be produced once again! When the production of the instant film stopped last year, an Austrian artist and businessman named Florian Kaps saw himself as the savior of this film. He started the impossible project. Read more here.

Swiss brand QWSTION just released their Black Collection. Six styles available in ink black - Sports, Messenger, Shoulder, Simple, 3-Day Travel and original Backpack - emphasize QWSTION bags’ minimalist industrial design and made-for-function principles. Perfect for the modern traveler at ILNW who travel a lot.