Former Thought District intern (who became our Graphic Designer, then Art Director) Dustin Tomes has updated his webfolio (The UberFarm) with some sweet new work. He’s now playing with the big boys as an Interactive Art Director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky. ‘Ole Dust, ya done did us proud.

Puma’s got some cool stuff going on with their short film series, The Games We Play. Live-action + giant sets + animation = a feast for the eyes. Motorsports is the best one, but you can watch the others here.

Via Motionographer.

Remember kids, bed wetting isn’t all that bad. It can put out dangerous forest fires, provide plants precious nourishment, and generally contribute to the betterment of animals everywhere. Interesting work by Diamond Ogilvy, South Korea.

Excellent creative work from the aptly named agency Rethink, Canada (the “rethink” part, not the Canada part… though I have nothing against Canadians. I love Barenaked Ladies, and the band is alright too).

The Canadian-born Kevin Cyr is an expert at making the mundane beautiful. Take, for example, his simple paintings of long-forgotten, derelict vehicles and the way he turns them from creepy pedophile rides into iconic symbols of contemporary culture. No stranger to art in all its forms, he’s also attained a small amount of fame for his odes to hobo comfort, including Camper Bike and Camper Kart. You’re an interesting man, Kevin Cyr. And the world is better for it.

Just noticed that one of my favorite designers dropped a new site. iamalwayshungry, now on it’s seventh version, is now up and ready to be eyeballed. Nessim Higson is definitely one guy that takes exception to the generalization that agency and designer sites are rarely updated, this new edition contains a bunch of new work that, as usual, looks like no one else’s.

The site also, however, falls entirely into the cliche that agency and designer websites are less than intuitive to navigate. What saves Ness on this catch is that he’s aware of it. Flaunts it even, noting that perhaps all too often now we’re worried about standards and usability, especially with the onset of Web 3.0. IAAH takes a different tack: it’s all about the process, the evolution. More than anyone else I’ve seen, this portfolio is full of sketches as well as finished work, rejected versions, experiments, musings, etc. He’s always linked back to the previous versions, so one could spend a whole afternoon sifting back through a whole history. Good stuff. And I suppose I should be checking back soon, because it’s already noted that v7 is temporary, and the next big thing is gonna be coming.

What if the fast food giants were mobsters? silentsketcher answers that question with this incredibly kickass work. Pulled from uniblog.

We were commissioned by James Arthur Vineyards to create 5 limited edition posters featuring their popular wines. Through the designs, our job was to bring out the inherent qualities of each featured wine. Naturally, this involved some pretty fun research.

Each  poster is 18″x24″ and is printed on some mighty fine 10 pt C2S card stock. They’re only available at JAV, so head down there and grab your fave today!

Also, I just realized I hold posters like a dork.

Jeff Soto’s work centers around weird geometrical monsters juxtaposed against a crazy world that seems like a cross between a nightmare and a dream. Whatever is going on in his head, I like it. Visit him at his website or check him on his blogotron. Oh, and good luck finding a copy of his popular works… they seem to sell out the second they’re available.

MuscleBeaver hits one out of the park with opening intro to a documentary about Germans addicted to the  World of Warcraft videogame. Depicting the evolution of computer games, every character in this prologue was “reinterpreted, redrawn (…one pixel at a time), and animated frame by frame.”

Awesome. Thought it starts out a bit slow (apparently due to the client’s wishes) it soon ditches the foreplay for a full on romp in the sack. Literally. Scooped from Changethethought.

MuscleBeaver has some pretty wicked illustration work as well.