Just a quick update, as I know it’s been a while. I’ve added a recent motion video project for FormFiftyFive, documenting the making of issue 1 of 6×10. Find out more about 6×10: Making of on my portfolio website, http://www.sansgil.com.

Finally, I’ve been swept up in the whole Twitter malarkey particularly since I last posted. In that same vain, I’ve resurrected my older Tumblr which I think may well be the new Twitter-come-blog. Expect to see this blog transferring to Tumblr very soon.

Wow what a day, I managed to secure the day off work thanks to the freakish weather in the UK over the last few days and had an amazingly productive morning thanks to my house mate by building a monster of a snow dude. Personally, I feel it was a morning well used.

So in celebration of the wintery weather here’s a couple of new tee designs that caught my eye today including this years winner of Threadless Bestee—which reminds me of the foxes we get roaming the streets of London at night.

Very Rob Ryan-esque.

Oh and also I secured a place on DayTum, but more to come on that soon.

MyFonts.com have released their Fonts of 2008. Some interesting choices which I thought I’d share with you all. Personally I’m loving Museo (pictured above). Maybe it’ll find it’s way into a job in 2009?

Having had some free time after the busy start to the New Year, I managed to make it down to my brother’s office at GameSpot.co.uk after work one night last week for some good old fashion co-op Rock Band. So we stepped it up a notch and recorded some videos in glorious HD whilst strumming out some tunes in their amazing, tech filled games testing rooms. They have about ten guitar/controllers in racks on the walls. So here are some of the truly epic performances.*

*First time I’ve ever played Rock Band and I never realised quite how useless I am at tapping out two beats. Give me a guitar any day. I’m sure it’s very clear which videos I’m playing the drum and which one’s Guy is.

I’ve been busy again making more and more Yetis, this time for a friend north of the border in Edinburgh. I took some photos (the last few in this set) of them before sending them out a few weeks ago but never got round to publishing them on here.

They’re made from alpacha yarn that give them a beautiful chunky, soft look and feel. The yarn came all the way from The Yarn Tree in New York. If I’m ever across again I’ll have to stop by and check it out—I’m told it’s an amazing shop.

I Love Typography is an amazing site for anyone who has an addiction to typography, which probably means you’re a graphic designer of sorts. They produce so much great content I find it difficult keeping up and often gets stuck on my ‘list of things to do when I have more time’. One of the best things about their blog is it’s been expertly crafted to demonstrate the love of typography but in a webpage which can inherently by quite restrictive and unpredictable when it comes to typography. So hats off to thier designers/css coders for their efforts.∑

They’ve recently done a feature recapping the best typefaces of 2008 which is definitely worth a butchers at. I’m loving Face Buster—maybe I can use it in some artwork in 2009?

Papparazzi is a very cool little app for the mac which allows you to capture the full length of a webpage. Extremely useful for taking screen grabs when blogging, producing visuals or displaying completed work.

Something I’ve been meaning to share for a while.

Following on from my last post on the PS3, my brother introduced me to Pixel Junk Eden on the PS3. Simple but beautifully realised, it makes me a little jealous not to be working on the visual side of the games industry rather than being a graphic designer. But more so that that there’s nothing really that similar or that has the unique flare of these small titles on the Xbox 360. The only comparable game that springs to mind is Rez, but even that started out as a PS2 original and is now available on the Xbox 360 Market Place.

If you own either consoles I highly suggest checking out Rez for its unique mix of audio and visual exploration of wireframe landscapes like those in the classic Disney movie, Tron. Oh and friend me up on Xbox Live; julius hibert whilst you’re at it. I’ll probably be online playing Left 4 Dead—a very nice Christmas present if on the gory side.

Whilst I’ve been home for the holidays, I’ve managed to indulge in some good old family fun on the PS3, playing the great Little Big Planet—I got a hands on preview of the game, back in the summer. It’s a charming and sweet little game that exudes attention to detail and creativity which is reflected in their UK TV advertising campaign. It’s definitely being pushed as one of Sony Playstation’s bigger titles this year it deserves every bit of praise.

So sit back and enjoy these short little spots that show off how great the game is. If you fancy watching a full review of the game, check out my brother’s Little Big Planet Gamespot video review that he shot earlier in the year.

Stunning animation showing the making of The Seed by John Kelly. The Seed is an short animation created for Adobe to promote their latest line of products, Creative Suite 4. Simple and well crafted, this animation shows of the wit and attention to detail that Kelly demonstrated in his hit animation last year, Procrastination.