I'm convinced that a good, all text no images, book is the best visual inspiration you can have.
By reading your mind cruises arround fabulous worlds, situations, colors and forms, and it's always a joyfull ride.

This is a Spot directed by BUCK for a bookstore that gives all profit to charity, it's a really nice surreal animation ride. 

By working with big clients there is a object/application that designers don't like very much, because of all the technical and strict content it has.

Annual Reports 

So we at NAD/ sometimes talk and change ideas about how to give some interactive and more fun look and feel for this kind of work.
We've talked about ePubs, Ipads, interactive applications, multitouch surfaces and many tech savvy stuff.
The reallity is that we don't need any Alien like technology to create a nice interactive and fun design object, here is an example of a real cool annual report for a solar industry cliente. This annual report is printed with a tint that reacts with the sunlight and just appears when it's exposed to the sun.

Using the potential of Opentype, Travis Kochel, developed a font that is, at the same time, an application.

The font is Chartwell and can be found here: http://tktype.com/chartwell.php

Here is another video by Naomie Ross. She explains the letterpress in a very smooth picture. The look and feel is just there, and as you can see you also have some tracking motion in the type. This video seems to have only 15 seconds.

Shot with a Canon 7D.

Amazing job!

In the book, The Animator's Survival Kit, Richard Williams tells a story about him asking Milt Kall, one of Disney's Nine Old Man, "Milt, do you ever listen to Classical Music While you're working?" , and the answer was: "Of all the S-S-S-STUPID GOD-GOD-GOD-DAMED Questions I-I-I've EVER heard! I never heard such a f-stupid Question! I'm not smart enough to think of more than one thing at the time!", pointing out that he needed silence to work, concentration on what he was doing.

In the other hand designers really like to ear music while working, and many times they even associate styles os music with the style of work they did or do, like some kind of inspiring muse.

Bruno and I would like to inspire you too, with some music videos, some for the music and some for the video.

Here is this months music video list:

Kraak & Smaak - Squeeze Me

Gramophonedzie - Why Don' t You

Radiohead - House of Cards

Initial sketch by Milton Glaser for I (heart) NY brand

1976. Ink and tape on paper envelope, 2 7/8 x 3 5/8″ (7.3 x 9.2 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

Alexandre Farto, aka Vhils, gives a new meaning to the word: Bombing.

We have seen the street art evolve thru the time, starting with graffiti, tagging, stencil, stickers, wallpaper, painting, etc. but this new colaboration of Alexandre Farto, Orelha Negra and Pirotec is something different.

Interview with our creative director, Nuno Abreu, talking about the past, the present and the future of NAD/.

At Computer Art Portugal, February 2011.

One of the most influential visual and type designer of our time, Erik Spiekermann, talks about visual languages, design processes, typography and music on Gestalten.tv