Good friend of Orangutan, Immo, is off to Vietnam and Cambodia in February to take part in a somewhat epic 470km cycle in aid of the humanitarian landmine clearance charity MAG.

A great effort for a very worthy cause and worth sponsoring in it’s own right. However Mr Blaese has gone one step further and designed and printed  created a bunch of posters, tshirts and postcards which in his own words are:

”A limited edition of original screenprints and other items I have carefully created for this event. If you decide to sponsor me for MAG landmine clearance I would like to give something back to you. 100% of all the money raised will go directly to MAG via JustGiving.”

So if you think you’d like to donate and maybe bag a rather nice print at the same time go here: http://www.vietnam2cambodia.com/

Bravo Immo, an outstanding effort!

Whilst in France recently we decided to take a cable car up a terribly high mountain as demoed below:

It was most exhilarating and somewhat reminiscent of a Bond movie, as we neared the top I was half expecting Jaws to come crashing through the roof of the gondola. Anyway despite being quite taken with the info graphics used I was somewhat alarmed by the signage shown below:

Firstly as if you need to say that; only a fool would do such a thing.

Secondly said fool probably wouldn’t have thought of such an amusing ruse until prompted by such clear visual communication.

Signage as ‘Red Rag to a Bull’ in my opinion.

…and I’m expecting skills… skills i tell you…

3 months residency at The National Workshops for Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen, with your own studio, your own flat… *sigh*
If you’re young (and indeed talented) go here

Hanna Werning’s wallpaper collection inspired by London is very cool.

I love the colours and the weird abstract shapes.

Flying from Sam Fuller on Vimeo.

BOOMBOX from Ely Kim on Vimeo.

But it’s so goddam good… on Vimeo

I like to draw things up sometimes, helps me get my head around more complex problems. But i do get very bored with drawing and re-drawing browser frames (or photocopying), so i like this

very useful (to me)

sketchbook for web-designers

… but if i had a car (or could drive for that matter). i’m sure i’d find inspiration amongst these beauties.

next time i’m in madison… i’m there

Came across this today after reading a related post on the excellent Noisy Decent Graphics.

In Wordles  own words: “Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.”

I dropped in the text from our intro page and this is the result, rather lovely don’t you think:

Possibilities as a quick visual SEO check too maybe. Anyway check it out for yourself at wordle.net