Winter Olympics LGBT Creative Challenge

I was pretty pleased to see the winner of the Winter Olympics LGBT Creative Challenge (created by The Drum, The Chip Shop Awards and One Minute Briefs), was the one I voted for.

Not only is it similar to typical Visa ads (i.e. rather minimal), its brilliantly simple. There's no in your face rainbows, no sexual suggestion (as with some of the other ads), and no mention of 'gay'. Just four words. 

Don't get me wrong though, I'm all for rainbows and gay, but this stands out for it's simplicity rather than feeling the need to shout it from the rooftops. Well done Carolyn Lonsdale.

See the top ten here. 

Best Picture Nominees in LEGO

Because LEGO.

On the Road for 17527 Miles

Gregor Weichbrodt, a communication design student from Germany, has created the road trip of my dreams using Jack Kerouac's seminal book, On The Road. "The exact and approximate spots Kerouac traveled and described are taken from the book and parsed by Google Direction Service API. The result is a huge direction instruction of 55 pages. The chapters match those of the original book. All in all, as Google shows, the journey takes 272.26 hours (for 17,527 miles)."

You can buy the print book here (the PDF here) or download it for free, over here. What I'd give to have the time and money to do the whole 17,527 miles.