A brilliantly simple short spotted by Nikolay over on FFF. 35mm reduces 35 famous flicks into the bare essentials and depicts them with sharp and clean visual style.

Lots of high quality talent from Handsome Frank Illustration Agency.

Every now and again I’ll check in at Poolga for some new iPhone backgrounds and much to my delight this morning are some new additions by pixel mystros eBoy. So for the rest of the week I’ll be rocking these sexy pixel landscapes.

It’s a shame there’s not an auto background rotation feature on the iPhone like there is on OS X. Maybe on the new iPhone 4?

Just like the real postal service Postal Ephemera has been a couple of weeks delayed—many apologies. However in its absence we’ve had some really great bits of post come in over the last few weeks.

To coincide with the recent relaunch of I Love Dust—which I talked about a week or so ago on FFF—we were lucky enough to receive one of their excellent mailers. Matching their new identity and website which is focused around the theme of ‘a butchers choice cuts’, the whole mailer has been brilliantly executed.

Arriving wrapped in a sheet of newsprint and tied up in coarse hessian-like string reminiscent of a local butchers. Past the exterior paper, there’s a thick layer of cloth again printed with the same typographic treatments and motifs in the layer that preceded it. Then you get to the juicy steak of content that is a small booklet showcasing some of I Love Dust’s most recent work. Beautifully foiled on the front with the words ‘Choice Cuts’, the whole theme works very effectively, doing justice to the work inside, which is to be expected from one of the best Design and Illustration agencies in the UK. What makes it such an effective piece of communication though, is the meticulous detail I Love Dust have paid throughout from aesthetic to the finish on the production.

To top it all off, I Love Dust have some damn good work in their portfolio.

I was clearing through some emails at the beginning of the week when I came across a friendly reminder about Going Going Gone Red! A campaign friend and fellow FFF contributor Sean Rees has been working on with the creative team at The Partners. Using the already well known [RED] branding the project has been setup to raise funds for London’s First Children’s Hospice.

Illustrators from across the globe have been asked to contribute their own designs for characters based upon a game many will be familiar with from their school days. Taking one of three body parts (head, torso or feet), three different illustrators work together to create one new funky looking monster. The end result is will see the work auctioned off with all the proceeds going to this very worth cause.

So far the contributions are really impressive and very endearing. You can see how they’re progressing on the dedicated Going Going Gone Red! Blog which is being updated as new illustrations are received. Though an auction date hasn’t been announced, I’ve been told it should be in the next couple of months so best of luck and try to make it along if you’re in the London area and after some unique work from lots gifted illustrators.

Aaron Miller has done a sterling job of creating a really interesting header illustration for this week over at FormFiftyFive. I’ll even go out on a limb and say it’s up there in my top 5 that have been created for the site since we redesigned it last year. For me the best ones have been those that play with the space, change on a daily basis or think of the area as more than just an illustration space.

There’s only today and tomorrow to see it on show at FormFiftyFive so head over if you haven’t already seen it and check out Aaron’s full folio site for some more gems.

The V&A in South Kensington is probably one of my favourite galleries in London because of it’s amazing architecture and stunning collections. I took the chance whilst I had some time off earlier in the week to go check out an exhibition about digital interaction and art called Decode. I shot a fair bit of video and a lot of photos which are going up on my flickr and vimeo.

In the mean time though I also had a mosey around the Fashion collection where they had a special exhibit on by Royal College of Art students and graduates called Future Fashion Now alongside the permanent fashion collection.

On show were some amazing examples of garment design and tailoring showing off a lot of technical competence in making clothes. A few pieces stuck out in my mind including this oversized gold embellished cable dress knitted on these huge metre long knitting needles. As well as a few others including this very soft knitted pattern dress that was slightly felted. There’s plenty more photos from this temporary exhibition on the SansGil flickr and you can find full details of the Future Fashion Now exhibition on the V&A website.

I love the idea behind this collection of screen printed stockings. Lots of really interesting patterns and witty interpretations to make any pair of long, luscious and  alluring legs into a work of art.

Full collection of stockings along with lots of photographs and a list of stockist check www.les-queues-de-sardines.com

I saw the new BBC trailer for Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic today and it’s really well shot. I’d love to produce something like this to promote my yetis.

Great illustrated homage to a recent Vogue cover by Kelly Smith.