Damn I love a great idea! – saw this on The Age. A new font ecofont created by Dutch creative agency Spranq – designed to minimise ink usage on laser printers by up to 15%. Maybe we can do a web version that uses 15% less electricity to render!  Download for free.

Some new work up on the igloo site. Environmental Graphics for some of the retail at the newly refurbished Royal Womens Hospital in Melbourne.

Check out this innovative Christmas greeting from the folks at AKQA.

Google has released its annual zeitgeist which reports on all the most popular searches performed in 2008.

The list includes regional breakups for 34 countries (including Australia) and is a great insight into just what people have been searching for in the past 12 months.
Google Zeitgeist 2008

Over the years many free CMS’s have come and gone but it seems they are finally becoming a viable solution and not just for small web shops but large corporations are also seeing the benefits on building sites around an existing system such as Drupal.

Below are a few examples of large organisations that launched sites in 2008 using Drupal for their CMS.

Sanyo Australia

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Bit of igloo – check out Vics nice illo work on Take40 and the Prince of Persia home page takeover of the Take 40 Website by igloo. The new site also offers advertisers a more integrated offering than before with background takeovers and integration with the banner ads. (best viewed on a bigger screen!)

The Doghouse – A sensational viral for a jewelry store. I think it is the best pieces of viral marketing I have seen and it is so perfectly conceived for the current economic environment. This is simply outstanding! Great idea, perfectly times and really well put together. An idea so good you just have to send it to you mates…and reconsider the crappy gift you were considering for the missus!

This modern, fashion forward site represents the very best of what’s hot online right now, and may, in fact, be the nexus of Web 2.0.

Or not.

It’s either a very elaborate joke, or the first website to be produced by a man who spends his nights crouched behind a rubbish bin at the train station, trying to avoid mind control beams sent by aliens trying to control his thoughts.

I made this. you play this. we are enemies

Here’s an example of cool digital twist applied to a traditional medium. Sony Pictures has brought the movie poster to life for its upcoming movie, Terminator Salvation. Check it out, but turn on your sound for maximum effect. Badass.