Someone handed me a $50 Million dollar bill today

Did you get yours? The Atlantic Lottery / Lotto Max Street team was handing these beautifully designed gems out around Moncton and Halifax again today (yesterday too) to help promote this Friday's BIG $50,000,000.00 jackpot. Don't try and use them at your local convenience store to buy popsicles (as I once did as a kid with Canadian Tire Money), but use them as a reminder to get your Lotto Max tickets for tomorrow's draw. 50 Million Bones would come in handy about now.

Also, if you like the look of the bill or would like any other form of bogus (not legal tender type) money created... let us know. We're good. In fact, the first bill concept we created was rejected 'cause it looked too real. I guess no one thought having special unit RCMP officers swing in through your windows on rappelling lines would be funny.

Now, in the same vein as my previous post below on "sleevefacing"...

(Photo and thumb credit: Stephen Brander)

33 Sleevefaces with video

See the full gallery on posterous

Holographic Drums & Turntables

Tokyo Sky Drive

This is mesmerizing:

"I'm on a Horse" - Behind the scenes of Old Spice Spot.

We should all smell like this man.

The continuing quest to make Old Spice "not your grandfather's brand" is in full swing...



Love it.

Cartoons for Designers

From the Amazing Lunchbreath of Core77

Schools Kill Creativity

I've been on a real TED kick lately. It's a part of my nightly routine. I could literally cancel my cable (well maybe after the Olympics) and live off of TED talks.

This one by Sir Ken Robinson (who's a hilarious speaker btw) particularly struck a chord with me. He has articulated something that has been bugging me my whole life. How can you be creative if you're scared of being wrong?

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

-Pablo Picasso

The amazing work of artist Daniel Rozin

Here's some brilliant work from artist Daniel Rozin. His whole thing is about creating interactive art installations that use the principles of light and shadow to "change and respond to the presence and point of view of a viewer". In a sense, the viewer becomes the art. Pretty cool stuff.

















More on Rozin Here.

86 Years of Winter Olympic Posters

Inspired by today's opening of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Here's a collection of some of the fantastic poster designs from the past 86 years.

1924 Chamonix

1928 St. Moritz

1932 Lake Placid

1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen

1948 St. Moritz

1952 Oslo

1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo

1960 Squaw Valley

1964 Innsbruck

1968 Grenoble

1972 Sapporo

1976 Innsbruck

1980 Lake Placid

1984 Sarajevo

1988 Calgary

1992 Albertville

1994 Lillehamer

1998 Nagano

2002 Salt Lake City

2006 Torino

2006 Vancouver

Some good info on Olympic Winter Games history here.