Here's a link
http://vimeo.com/15357305
to a video of a mural I completed recently in Dublin called City Links. Heineken put on a competition called Your Heineken, Your City a while back and I won the Dublin section of the competition. The video gives a background to the design that depicts my visual representation of Dublin.
Thanks to Colin in ThinkHouse PR that did a sterling job on the editing of the piece ans a big thank you to Chewy too.

Grant Hamilton shot this series of photos. I've been meaning to post about this lad for a good while, I absolutely love them. Basically they're close crops of graphics on the side of trucks. What an awesome idea. One of those, 'I wish I had thought of that before' ideas. Fair play.
Here's the man's site: http://sxseventy.com/

There's very fiew sculptors work that I could look at all day and still not get bored. This fella is one of them. A man with serious talent. Tip of my hat to you James Hopkins.
http://www.jameshopkinsworks.com/index.html

I was lucky enough to see George Lois speak at a design conference called Offset last week. I was familiar with some of his work (Esquire mainly) but not all of what he presented on the day. The man is a serious inspiration to all designers out there. Ideas. Ideas. Ideas. He repetedly stressed the importance of ideas in graphic communication. No cheap tricks using flash-in-the-pan styles, make sure all graphic solutions have a heavy weight idea at their core. Proper order. Too much shite, trendy design out there these days with no substance in my opinion. I am itching to get my hands on his new book. I'd say it's an impressive read, similar to Tibor Kalman's book or Sagmeisters.
His site: http://www.georgelois.com/  where you will see much of his work and you'll find a link to his book. One other interesting point I never knew, the man's mentor was Paul Rand. Right place, right time!

This is such a smart idea
Have a goo here for more: http://cardoncopy.com/one/index.html

Came across this treasure trove of book cover designs all on one site. I've only had a quick mooch through it so far, but there's bloody heaps to get inspiration from. Very comprehensive catagories to choose what angle you'd like to navigate through all the information on the site too. Two thumbs up.
http://bookcoverarchive.com/

I was looking for Herb Loobalin’s recently, my studio mate Rob has a copy. It is something else, page after page of impressive typography and illustration. Right up my street.
So, I decided I wanted a copy of my own, I looked online and to my shock and dismay, it cost $140 on Amazon. Faaaak that for a lark. Silly cash.
For those of you whop don't have a that kind of cash to throw around, here is a decent Flickr album dedicated to the book. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nkeppol/sets/72157618401843508/with/3541861878/
Happy oogling.

A few of my mates are exhibiting in this exhibition. Definitely worth a gander.
Where: 'The Centre for Creative Practices', 15 Lower Pembroke St., Dublin 2 (just off Baggot St.)
When: The exhibition launches November 1st, 7–10pm and the show will run daily from 11.30–6pm until November 7th.

Taken from their site: 'Brainbelt Illustration Collective is a diverse network of fourteen creative professional artists and designers who bear a heartfelt passion for illustration. The group's visual disciplines vary from sculpture, print design, motion design, multimedia and photography.'
For more about this lot: http://brainbeltapostles.blogspot.com/