The Boneyard is the world’s largest ‘cemetery’ for military aircraft, housing more than 4,400 aircraft including B-52 flying fortresses, F14 Tomcats and A-10 Thunderbolt ‘tank busters’.

Conceived by Eric Firestone and organised by curator Carlo McCormick, The Boneyard Projects debuted with Nose Job in the summer of 2011.

Nose Job was an exhibition of nose cones taken from military aeroplanes and given to artists to use as canvases.

Eric says:

“The second instalment in this series, Round Trip: Selections from The Boneyard Project, features five monumental works created on military planes by a dynamic selection of popular graffiti and street artists from around the world.”

“With a nod to the airplane graffiti and ‘nose art’ that became popular during WWII, the project offers a vision of the wonder by which humanity takes to the air.”

The Boneyard Project: Return Trip is exhibiting at the Pima Air And Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona until 31st May.

So, in order to put her at ease on her birthday and to celebrate this charming foible, I’ve crafted a handy flip-book that allows her to make up her own:

I chose fifteen classic proverbs and divided them into four ‘beats’ allowing for some interesting mix-and-match possibilities, such as the one below:

Happy Birthday Linda and, as the old saying goes;
‘When in Rome, the grass is always brightest just before the early bird laughs.’

Designer and photographer Rob Dobi has created a collection of illustrations that serve up satirical personality profiles that affectionately satirise the hipster crowd.

In terms of the thinking behind the collection over at YourSceneSucks.com, Rob writes:

“Everyone seems to be involved in some sort of strange contest where the winner wears the tightest jeans, puts on the silliest looking makeup, and sports the worst haircut. in the end, everyone loses. you all end up looking the same.”

To our credit/shame we were able to spot a few of ourselves in the line-up. Check it out yourself and let us know if you see spot your face in the crowd!

You can also check out more of Rob’s work at his official site » www.dobi.nu

The video is set inside a beautifully hand-crafted forest and tells a heartbreaking story of love and loss through the eyes of the wild animals that live there:

The design of the puppets by Jonny & Will, the evocative lighting and the gentle pace of the edit combine to create a texture and tone that delicately complements the tenderness of the song.

Pure storytelling magic! More please!

To demonstrate the enormity of what this means, the Google Data Arts team have created a website called onehourpersecond.com that nimbly demonstrates through the winning combination of animating cute illustrations with mindblowing statistics to show how their YouTube user-generated content stats stack up.

What this brilliant site does for me is highlight how we are all total media junkies and it makes me wonder whether we will be able to sustain this level of video consumption in the future.

Food for thought. 

Now go watch something!

I really liked the posters they produced for the 2009 festival and I love the set they produced for 2010. They incorporate beautiful hand-drawn type from 23 year old illustrator Min alongside a bold and colourful range of Mad Men-esque illustrations.

In their own words:

“As a reaction to the success of the 2009 Guimarães Jazz posters, we tried a completely different graphical and conceptual approach for the 2010 edition. We based the graphical decision on the idea that Jazz could be colourful and fun, still maintaining audacity and sensuality.”

You can see more work by Atelier Martino&Jaña on Behance.

To me, the collection feels like it alludes to biomimetics, the process of understanding and applying biological principles to human designs, through his stunning compositions.

By accentuating the patterns formed by the proofing materials, Holdsworth seems to subsequently accentuate the comparisons between nature and architectural technology

Currently based in London, Dan has upcoming exhibitions this year in Stockholm and Zurich.

You can also see more of his work here

Greta prepare and presented a mouth-watering menu consisting of the following, authentically Lebanese, delights:

Manakeesh – dough topped with thyme, sesame seeds and olive oil

Fatayer – savoury pastries stuffed with spinach

Tabbouleh – a lebanese speciality salad made of chopped parsley, mint, tomato, onion and bulgur)

Falafel

Loubieh bi zeit – green beans coooked with olive oil, tomato, onion and garlic

Batata harra – spicy potatoes with coriander

Warak enab – stuffed vine leaves

Shankleesh – aged cheese covered with thyme and pepper mixed with onion, tomato and olive oil

Kibbeh – croquettes stuffed with meat and chicken

Hummus

Labneh – strained yoghurt

Whilst we fed our faces, Greta fed our minds with a fact-filled presentation all about Lebanon »

Greta has been with us at Turquoise since 2010 and we’re very glad to be able to continue working with her now and into the future.

The food was marvelous and we learnt lots. What better way to round-out the week?

Thanks Greta!

Unfortunately, in the hectic run up to Christmas we somehow managed to overlook Greta’s actual birthday in December and had to wait until she returned to work this week to correct this.

In effect, we gave her a second birthday and so in coming up with a concept for her birthday card we looked at the precedent for having two birthdays.

Naturally that brought us to Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who, as well as having two birthdays, is the face on all British currency.

So, to commemorate Greta’s birthday we designed and made a wedge of alternative Brixton Pound note.

Happy belated birthday Greta!

//DISCLAIMER//
The printed notes are in no way intended to be used as bankable currency and we were definitely not trying to manufacture counterfeit money.

From Jacob’s description on Vimeo:

“The concept behind this video is to show Conan O’Brien as a the monumental entertainer and solid wall that he is. Conan O’Brien is and will continue to be a seasoned television entertainer. This solidity and timelessness is the perfect representation of Conan O’Brien.”

Regular readers will know that we are fans Motion Typography and we’re keen to see how it’s role develops in application as more websites begin to integrate motion content with page content through HTML5 to create more immersive web experiences.

You can follow Jacob on Twitter or check out his official website here.