Wild Animals Book by Rop van Mierlo.

 

This concept from Rop van Mierlo is adorable. Piled into a 40 page hardback book. Wild Animals showcases young children (and adults!) that a snake rattles, a lion yawns and that the man who mad the book is a creative soul.

		Priced at 30 euros grab your copy here.

Tancredi by James Palumbo

Think Ministry Of Sound and you think dance music. Think James Palumbo, co-founder and chairman of Ministry Of Sound, and you think…satirical novels. A bit of an unexpected turn of events eh? But nonetheless interesting.

Tancredi is James’ second novel, after his acclaimed debut Tomas. His books focus on the dark satire of consumerism, mass media and modern culture, but set in a futuristic world.

Tancredi is the hero of the novel, a young boy who wants to save the world, unlike the mass-media munching ‘morons’ he is surrounded with. Everyone around him suffers from ‘the incurable disease of short-term memory’ promoted by modern living, but he has bigger and better ideas to strike out on his own, against it all. This animation gives you a taster:

It’s odd, I’m not going to lie, but thought-provoking and full of fantastic illustrations. Expect a futuristic sci-fi novel meets The Little Prince and Gulliver's Travels. Kooky huh?

Tancredi is available in stores today. For more information, go to http://www.jamespalumbo.com/ or view the interview below.

Win VICE's do's and don'ts book.

This month VICE are celebrating a lot. Not only are they having a launch party for their new issue (any excuse to party right?) they are also celebrating their release of the do's and don't book which we've managed to get our hands on!

We are also giving one lucky winner a copy - so if you're into fashion and want to see some shocking fashion victims as well as some stylistic fashionistas then all you need to do is tweet out this:

RT and follow @deerbrains and @viceuk for your chance to win this do's & don'ts book http://ow.ly/6ydrp

Competition will close on Monday 26th September 2011.
Good Luck! x

Vetted Shop

Formed in the summer of 2010 by graphic designer Antonio Carusone, Vetted evolved from a overwhelming obsession and passion for well designed objects.

We provide a curated collection of simple, modern, unique, and sometimes hard to find products that are hand-picked for their superb level of design, function, style, craft and content. Only the best products are sought after, ranging from local brands to companies half way around the world. We're very picky when it comes to this, so you can always expect a consistent standard in what we offer.

For more information please click here.

Making Lists

Oh, hi.

Since I was six I have written hundreds of lists. Lists like:

My favourite colours in order of how much they affect me while I sleep,
Yellow, blue, grey, peach

Nicest smiles I saw today,
The man on the bike who waved at his friend, dad, that cat that always follows me to school, the old lady the lives near me, that girl who walks right on the edge of the path with her arms out

What to write about when I’m older and wiser and better at this,
Love, metaphors, rainbows, lists

By writing these lists and keeping them in a big book called "All The Lists I Have Ever Made", I am able to find myself and remember all the things that I like (and some I don't, too) whenever I feel a little bit lost. (It happens to the best of us.)

I am definitely not the only person who likes to write lists. One of my personal favourite list makers is Erland Loe’s unnamed protagonist in the gorgeous “Naïve, Super”:

This young man is suffering from a crisis of self, and he writes lists to try to get himself back on the right track - to remember who he is and who he wants to be:

A few weeks ago, I went to the Saatchi Gallery (oh, it’s gorgeous, if you’ve never been, you must go. If only for the Oil Room and its amazing bookshop) and bought myself a copy of listography.com’s “My Future Listography, All I Hope To Do In Lists” – a book for the most discerning list fans.

Of all the books in the Listography series, this one is particularly good because it includes gems like:

Good deeds you long to perform,
Future halloween costume ideas,
Things to do when you're feeling down,
Changes you wish for the world
The things you hope to experience before you die

and:

Every day I flick through and fill out a list or two, and will return over and over, whenever I feel like I have forgotten myself and need a little reminder. If you, like me, love lists, get this book, it is perfect.

What's the thing you hate the most about the one you love?

A survey took place which was conducted behalf of Hodder to support the release of Christina Hopkinson warm, witty novel, The pile of stuff at the bottom of the stairs, about just this. In it we follow Mary’s life as she struggles to understand what it is exactly about Joel that make her angry - is it the way he doesn’t quite reach the laundry basket when he throws his dirty clothes at it or the fact that he never completely empties the dishwasher, but leaves the ‘difficult’ things for her to put away.

So, what we want to know is what's the thing you hate the most about the one YOU love?

If this book sounds right up your street then you can be in for a chance of winning by clicking here.

Alternatively you can buy the book here.

Boobs in 3-D

The temptation was to write a long piece justifying our creation of 3DD. We could have thrown in some academic analysis on the prominent role of the nude in the history of art and elaborate on the ways that 3DD advances that canon. We might have pointed out that the beautiful images of natural breasts in all shapes and sizes are a wonderful celebration of real women in all their glory. Or we could have revealed in the universal truth that looking and talking about boobs is just a lot of fun.

But that would be to complicate something that can be said in four words.

I wonder how many guys will be adding this to their Christmas list?

For more information please click here.

The Literary Gift Company

This website has a bundle of gorgeous gift ideas from books, jewellery, perfumes, games and much more. All designed in a very interesting and unique way. Creating totes with quotes from books, candles with type, mugs from the ever beloved 'penguin books' absolutely adorable. Reminds me of Beatrix Potter.

How To Be A Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul

How to be a graphic designer, without losing your soul
By Adrian Shaughnessy
Laurence King Publishing, £17.95

This book is created to help you become effective, efficient and 'tidy' within graphic design. I found alot of this book was teaching me things that my lectuiers never really touched on, maybe that was why they wanted us to buy the books so they didn't have to go through it all? I do strongly believe that if you're passionate about design or even anything really that you can self teach yourself :)

For a more detailed review you can go here.
To buy this book you can go here.