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Once we took it outside and admired our work from the lovely Humble Pie, we noticed that the railings of our next door building looked just like a Donkey Kong set. Naturally we had to spend the whole next day creating all the characters for our first-ever stop motion animation movie.

Here it is in the MEDIUM REZ AT VIMEO:
Pixels and Bricks from Gamil Design on Vimeo.
 

SEE IT HERE IN HI-REZ!

Special thanks to the staff at Gamil Design, Gamila Company, Fat Cat Strategies, and ThirdParty Labs.

Now that we got your attention – check out Gamil’s brand new website!

Last year, we had the pleasure of working with Stefan Sagmeister to realize the deluxe CD package for David Byrne & Brian Eno’s album: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.

It was truly a labor of love, as we here at Gamil Design are big fans of both David Byrne and Sagmeister, Inc. We were elated to find this video posted by Topspin CEO Ian Rogers with his personal unveiling of the deluxe CD package as it arrived at his home.

Also check out the interview with designer Stefan Sagmeister and his description of the concept behind the unique deluxe package design.

It used to be that architects were also obligated to design chairs. Now that trend has shifted to shoes, at least for Zaha Hadid. Her recent endeavor is a footwear line for Lacoste.

The design and texture is based on series of overlaid and repeated patterns to give the shoe a dynamic fluid feel. A winding strap touts a bi-stable metal band to support the shoe at ankle or knee height for men’s and women’s editions, respectively. (Note: bi-stable metal band= snap bracelet technology)

Intrigued? You must act fast and internationally. This is an extremely limited edition of only 850 pairs available at exclusive boutiques in Paris, London and Milan.

Hadid is no newcomer to footwear, she has also designed a pair of unabashedly Zaha-esqe shoes for molded footwear sensation, Melissa.

Via Dezeen

I came across cricket today in my morning internet wanderings, and was immediately drawn to because of its simply/happy/friendly feeling packaging.

Cricket is a Green Tea and Kola Nut Brew. None of those chemically ingredients such as the phosphorics or high-fructoses are included in the Cricket formula.

The past few years, Gamil Design and Gamila Company have taken a joint trip to the NC State Fair. We are so fortunate to live in the State Capital, and have the Fair pop up 4.2 miles from our downtown office every year.

Video Still from NC State Fair "Announcing the 2009 State Fair Theme" Video

I’m not sure what the themes were for past fairs, but I’m loving the “A Whole Lotta Happy” theme for 2009! The talking bubbles in the video kinda make me think of this post we wrote back in April.

Check out the announcement video… It is has that cute homemade feel that makes you smile (Note: People in video definitely reflect the State Fair… Caribbean Music does not really reflect the State Fair… Lastly, If you get motion sickness from shakey camera action beware).

as seen on the Deep Fried Blog

We are excited to announce the launch of the Shop Local Raleigh website! The Greater Raleigh Merchants Association hired the joint team of Gamil Design and Thirdparty Labs (both Designbox members) to create the site. Gamil designed the site and then Thirdparty Labs built it with their Carbon Content Management Toolkit. At shoplocalraleigh.org, visitors can browse or search a directory of local member businesses, see Google map locations, join the campaign, and find out more about the benefits of shopping locally. Yay Raleigh!

When it rains it pours...in a cute dress

Sometimes its sad when they take your pickle away but hey, they have been shrinking it for years.

Have you seen my gherkin?

Sometimes it gets to modern for my tastes… too san-serif-euro not enough juice.

too Madison Ave not enough Indian River...

and I never have liked Pepsi and now it has a loose end. What does it men when your yin/yang gets ‘young’.

Change we wont drink.

It’s beautiful, in color AND it opens and closes! I would assume it sounds good but, really, who cares?
Vestalife will be launching it at MacWorld this month. “Stay tuned.”

via MocoLoco