
Accent Creative presents Formative Sessions, a downtempo musical selection exploring the relationship between music & graphic design.
This free mix aims to explore and honor the relationship between music & graphic design as every track was carefully selected to induce creative motivation, to top it all off, audio quotes from legendary designers help motivate and inspire you workflow.

Painter Kelsey Brookes invites Computerlove into his beach side studio in San Diego.
By Matthew Newton, Senior Editor
Kelsey Brookes used to be a scientist. Before settling into life as a prolific painter whose work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, he worked tracking viruses for the U.S. government. In fact, Brookes jokingly blames his raw, anxious form of art on America's university system which, as he puts it, "refuses to teach its scientists how to draw."
According to Brookes, his figurative paintings draw influence from Hindu and Buddhist deities, exotic animals, sex, and rustic American quilts. And in sublime bursts of color, the 31-year-old artist uses his figurative style to capture the ghostly nuances of the natural ...

FILE Magazine Issue 2
124 pages and over 3 hours of short films, documentaries and music videos on DVD.
FILE Magazine is a bi-annual publication featuring a broad selection of visual communication in the fields of graphic design, art, photography, fashion and moving image. Beautifully presented in a 30 x 39 cm hard cover with a full colour 52 gsm newsprint stitched inside. Each issue is accompanied by a DVD featuring short films, music videos and documentaries. A magazine to Watch & Read.

On Wednesday night, Erin Carey â a 31-year-old aerialist/trapeze artist who performs with the Zany Umbrella Circus â found herself surrounded by law enforcement officers as she attempted to enter the circusâs studio space located in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Some of the officers were Pittsburgh Police, others she couldnât identify. Carey had just parked her car in front of the Lawrenceville Corporation offices on 43rd street, and began walking toward the Zany Umbrella studio when approximately a dozen officers approached her.
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[via Annals of Americus]
A collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis

Turns out the G20 is equal parts media blitz, protestersâ wet dream, show of police force, and weird marketing opportunity. But I suppose all global economic summits are kinda like that. But whatâs fascinating is seeing how an event like this can transform a city. Watching a local newscast last night, I was reminded of how a cityâs visitors bureau can look on any opportunity â even one boasting threats of violence and destruction like the G20 â as a way to hustle its wares...
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[via Annals of Americus]

More impressive work from Prologue ... this time for MTV's 2009 VMA show package.

xtraNormal brilliant little free service for creating and scripting your own mini web movies, quite fun, quite flexible and thankfully fairly quick to render (no waiting 3days for a render ala' Verizon movie maker viral).
Also check the wonderfully insightful client V designer video!
Apologies if this has been posted before!