This is beautiful and simple, all done with old computer code, a generation of recent skills which is now out of date… Weird. stop(); the world i want to get off!

Thought this was pretty interesting.

Burj Dubai is already the tallest building in the world.

When complete next year it will stretch half a mile into the sky over the United Arab Emirates, taller than three Canary Wharf towers balanced on top of each other. It will stand a whopping 189 stories high (Manchester’s tallest building, the Beetham Tower is a mere 47 stories).

The statistics are staggering. It cost £2 billion. Designed by American architect Adrian Smith it includes lifts that can carry 42 people at a time, traveling at 40mph. According to the official website, at peak cooling times it will require 10,000 tons of cooling per hour. This is equivalent to the capacity provided by 10.2 million kg of melting ice, in one day.

Here’s a snap from my Google Earth. It casts an ominous shadow.

This is how it compares to the worlds other tallest buildings. The Empire State Building is currently the 9th tallest in the world (it was the tallest for 41 years). The World Trade Center would have been 8th if still standing.

And finally, this short video captures the vastness of the structure

Official website here http://www.burjdubai.com/

A handy reference guide to the anatomy of type here for you to download.

Was dry paint… boring isn’t it?

Dry Paint

Printed in 2005  1/4

This is interesting. Basically, take select dialogue out of a Garfield strip and you’re left with a disturbingly sad story of Jon’s life. Courtesy of Rug.

We recently ran a book cover brief for 2nd Year Graphics students. Found this which should be of help/interest to sharpen up your ideas (ho, ho, ho, the horror…). We will upload the best student work from this brief in the new year.

The Penguin Blog

As some of you will be aware the site has been down since Tuesday 2nd December. This was due to a Turkish Hacker… Thanks whoever you are, I am sure we will return the favour at the next eurovision song contest. Anyway we are now back up ‘n running. Many thanks go out to Mick Eccles for helping me sort this out. Should you know anybody who requires SEO (get yourself top listed on search engines) he is the man. Contact him here: http://www.willbefound.com 

Cheers Mick, Billy.