Our icon of our hand made typeface for Elephantik just got posted today on a fellow design studio’s blog for the top A-Z icons for twitter. Go check out the full list at souellis.com

Just a snap shot of the Winchester river completely flooded turning our next door field into a lake. Yuck.

Enjoy the quick snap shot of 5 swans visiting the lake outside my office window.

Overall wonderful Vimeo spot for the Tostitos TV spot. Visit the Vimeo site to see the full screen experience.

Sports figures and celebrities are clear prototypes for building a personal brand since it has become standard procedure for them, and Chad Ocho Cinco has mastered the art. The gift and the curse for the Cincinatti Bengals is that this guy has built his personal brand to the point where it is engaging fans at a higher level and undoubtedly increasing the fan loyalty to the NFL. However, as Ocho Cinco walks into the office of a team’s Director of Player Personnel, he can say, “If you hire me, I’m bringing 1 million people. How are you going to handle that?”

A St. Patrick’s day all-things-Irish inspired poster that I designed back in 2007, enjoy the desktop wallpaper.

This fairly ’sneakily’ new service allows you to watch TV while your online. Well that’s cool. And something many have long since been waited for. In this new on-demand age we’re going to have a lot more media at our fingertips.

Maybe you got a chance to watch the Grammys last night, we did. The most exciting thing about it of course to me was watching the advertisements. Lincoln.com/music/ lead the way with a miniature performance of “Major Tom” by Shiny Toy Guns followed with a vote for the car companies next campaign TV spot . [...]

Diesel’s latest campaign and micro-site experience reach out to teens, college kids, and young professionals who all just want to act their age. I find some of the executions sexy, some clever, some funny, and some just pure stupid. But theirs a lot of executions and I am sure they’ll only run the best ones in print. Overall the campaign is pretty good, and on brand but the micro-site seems a little social media friendly standard.

Well this is a bit Macabre but effective…