Every year Adverblog does a little “Did You Know” and this year’s has got a lot of little factoids in there that I didn’t know about (and a lot I could have guessed). Nothing groundbreaking in here, just very bloody exciting that we may just have really turned a corner in terms of communication.
The great connected unknown. Isn’t it just brilliant? Now if they’d just hurry up with that wire in my head…

There are a million brilliant things that you can do with the delights of spam email messaging. This is just one of them… but what a lovely twist to be using it all for a good and relevent cause.

Updated portfolio out by Holly Wales, who I first worked with when she was straight out of college after coming across her work somehow (was it New Blood?).
She flew the coop quickly, obviously recognising that a good freelance illustrator can have a pretty interesting life of adventure – so I’m really pleased to see her new site up and looking lovely.

KeepCup is the world’s first reusable barista standard takeaway cup. A gorgeous product with a long-term ethical vision (even down to recycling the cups after their 4yr life cycle). Its a brilliant story, and inspiring to young creative mums everywhere (Abi got her idea watching her baby drink milk)!

“When siblings Abigail and Jamie Forsyth began their first business – a takeaway food store and catering service, Bluebag, in Melbourne’s CBD – they say customers were reluctant to drink coffee from takeaway paper cups. A decade later the Forsyth’s have launched KeepCup, a new business and product they hope will inspire baristas and consumers to bin a bad habit once and for all.” – excerpt from Australian Design Unit via @geekgirl

To celebrate it’s 100 year anniversary, London’s Selfridges department store jumped a century into the future, to the year 2109. Windows are wrapped with the entire alphabet, each of the twenty six letters have a futuristic product on display including zero gravity paint and an infinity bin. Wieden + Kennedy also opened up the idea for the letter X to the general public to vote on, the winner: xtra hours in the day clock.

Jump 10 years into the future with Selfridges and Wieden + Kennedy, with windows of the future to celebrate their centenary.

Amazing little 3 pixel x-height font in progress from over at Typophile