Director Kris Moyes is back with another artful music video, this time for dark Aussie crooner Kirin J. Callinan's track Way II War. The black and white clip reads like a series of super hi-end animated gifs filled with all sorts of uncomfortable…

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AIGA’s Design Leaders Confidence Index rose again in the most recent quarter.PCWorld claims Google has been ignoring Android, and the neglect is starting to show in poor apps and defecting developers.Type City, an elaborate cityscape built with metal…

This massive bank of candid moments, all tracked to exact locations, for the Canadian Tourism Commission are presented on a single page with infinite scroll.Credits: tribalddb.ca
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When Albuquerque Ambulance needed motivational posters for their employees it turned to local agency 3 Advertising. With all due respect to cats hanging from trees, the creative team was most inspired by the paramedics and EMTs. Their stories were told…

by Matthew ClarkWhat’s one thing you wish you knew when you started your career? Collaboration will get you farther than solitude.

The idea behind this project was to produce a consistent set of buttons that could be used for the range of social actions frequently taken in Web applications. These actions are often important goals for users, such as connecting third-party accounts or sharing content to third-party platforms, so their appearance has to be attractive and clear.

The standard buttons provided by third parties (such as Facebook, Twitter and SoundCloud) vary in size, style and interactivity. A consistent button set could reduce a lot of that visual noise and inconsistency. Furthermore, having it in CSS format means that changing the text for certain actions would be a breeze for developers, and it also allows administrators of non-English websites to translate labels into their native languages.

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Looks like it's the week for coffee cup sleeve stunts. The latest is from JWT New York and Trident White, which uses the sleeves to block the mouths of cute illustrated faces on coffee cups. The tagline: Don't coffee-block your smile.

BFG 9000 and director Harold Einstein's newest work for Kayak shows a man that went to some length to ensure he gets the best travel deals. Turns out, there are some pretty unflattering side-effects for his wife. Good thing there's Kayak.