Looking for some inspiration? Why not check out Bibliodyssey, a blog about historical illustration. From 15th century monsters, 18th century mechanics and anatomy to early 20th centrury patterns.

A wonderfull collection of some amaizing illustrations. Check it out...

bibliodyssey.blogspot.com

The weekly badge review. The features from Monday 24th to Saturday 29th of December plus the spotlighted Sunday´s button badge. Let´s see what we had this week: A seagull in space, a robot, a monkey, a hungry monster and love from Italy, what else do we need on Christmas? This Sunday´s special feature is a fantastic watercoloured mouth by Laure Pointereau from France

If you are an owner of iPhone like Kon and I then you probably want to know about where to find some really nice desktops.

I only came accross polga few days ago and I have to say these are some nicest desktops around. It is a collection of wallpapers from selected artists and if you fancy yourself submitting some, then why not get in touch with poolga [at] cammaert.com  linking to some of your work.

Another place I found was this pool on flickr. There are some real jewels among many so-so ones. Check them out here (pages 26,28,29,30,31 and so forth).

A sad day is upon us. After 1st of february, AOL (current owner of netscape) will no longer support Netscape Naviator. For those unfamiliar with netscape this was one of the first browser out there that kicked started internet revolution. Going head to head with Internet Explorer, it was until mid  90's that Internet Explorer completley dominated the web usage.

I remember signing up to hotmail and college email for the first time on Netscape Navigator on one of the Solaris Unix systems we used for CAD. This was back in 1994 and my first ever experience with the web. Off course, back then there wasn't that much out there and newsgroups via Nescape were fantastic. Sad to see it go..
I wonder what Allmightys would have looked on the good old netscape ..probably wouldn't even load :)

RIP Netscape Navigator 1994-2008

Allmightys Team would like to wish all our members and guests a Happy Chrismas and wonderful time with family and friends during this festive period.

Unfortunately, Santa was detained by Imperial Stormtroopers :( Read here.

Yours, Allmightys Team

The weekly badge review The features from Monday 17th to Saturday 22th of December plus the spotlighted Sunday´s button badge: A range from mexican deadheads, a bunch of octopusses, a fantastic art zine which comes along with button badges, two designers from downunder and this week´s spotlighted artist: Véronique Liegeois from Ghent, Belgium:

In a continuing effort to always improve your experience on Allmightys, we are happy to announce "Member Reviews". A weekly feature where our members post on our blog about all things art and design. We hope this will provide our members and visitors with a colourful picture of Art and Design as presented by our members around the world.

Please welcome our first Allmightys Blog contributor - Sven Palmowski aka a.mar.illo.
Sven will be posting every Sunday about the wonderful world of badges.  The weekly post will be a summary of his daily finds from his blog "Badge Review"

To find out more information about Sven and see his own work, please visit his page here on Allmightys or his full portfolio here.

If you would like to become a contributor on Allmightys, please send us an email with example content showing how you could contribute to Allmightys blog. If you write about all forms of Art, Design, Film, Events..we would love to see some of your work. In return for your contribution we can offer a regular supply of ultra cool Allmightys Tees :)

We would love to hear from you! Please send email to more(at)allmightys.com.

Here's a little animated story to get you in the mood for the holidays :)

view here...

Just a quick update on what has been going on in the last few days.
At the moment, we are busy getting ready some neat new little features for the next competition. First of them is (finally) your avatars. Until now we have been using gravatars, which still work if you don't have a picture loaded in your account. If you do have a picture in your account, this will from now on always show up when you are leaving comments. This applies to the blog as well as the Design Forum. Another thing you will notice is that there is no more entry boxes for your name and email address. We now have a full link between your comments and your user account. All you see now is the comment box and nothing else. This was a must as in the last competition we noticed few people leaving positive comments under fake names :) ..where you guys can't tell its them, we always could. Its funny when people try to beat the system :))
We have also added a web field in your user profile...this is for something very cool coming tomorrow. Watch this space!

p.s. Your old comments unfortunately still show no avatar...this is just how the system work. Not to worry, all your new comments will show your own profile pic. Test it out here.

Take a look at these brilliant USB flash drives. I think they are a brilliant combo of a technological gadget and design. Some of them are themed (Star Wars, Halo etc...) and some are individual. I especially love the Darth Vader one, but that's already sold out :)

If you're still looking for a cool Christmas gift, you could get one of these along with a cool Allmightys shirt ;) How about it?

Check the site out here...

If you are mad about badges or even just an ocasional fan then Badge Review is the place to go. Our latest designer a.mar.illo runs the blog and he knows his stuff!

In his words "...find some inspiration on 1 inch diameter."

Linky

a.mar.illo's bronze winning design "Soul Machine" is currently in print and should be available in store in January.

Now, I always found colour blindness a really interesting fenomenon that at times some friends that were colour blind found me extremely irritating ..always asking questions like .."so what colour is this...".

Colour is subjective but off course majority of us pecieve colour in a particular way ..but there are some trully unique people out there ..that see a whole different picture ..isn't this amazing?

Wanna se what it means...then check out a color blindness simulator, Mac OSX only , sorry..

Sim Daltonism

Sim Daltonism is a color blindness simulator for Mac OS X. It filters in real-time the area around the mouse pointer and displays the result — as seen by a color blind person — in a floating palette.

Here's a funny claymotion movie involving a snowman and cool soundeffects.

Watch it here...

Do you have what it takes?

The 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards gives higher education students from around the world the creative license to propel their careers in the future. Enter in 12 categories in 3 media areas endorsed by the industry, over 60$K US in cash prizes will be awarded in New York City.

Submissions close May 2, 2008.

Ready to submit, click here

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The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition — which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software — honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from the world's top institutions of higher education.}

The “MechTech” competition has ended!

As with our all competitions, it's brilliant to see the magnitude of approaches and ideas that have been submitted. This surely was a theme with many angles to look at it, and we feel that we have a great range of designs here.

We want to thank you all for submitting such great work!!

As always, we will be printing 6 designs from the range. The three winners all ranked high in the voting and were all very convincing looking at the comments that you left. The same counts for the Special Selections. The runner-ups were also close but maybe just lacked the extra little edge to place them higher in ranking... altogether it was a very hard choice this time...the results are:

Prize Winners (Printed)
1. Skeletroid vs U-botron vs The Aerobots by Puzon (Com: 2.00 EUR per shirt sold)
2. White Robot by mickeyns (Com: 1.50 EUR per shirt sold)
3. Soulmachine by a.mar.illo (Com: 1.00 EUR per shirt sold)

Special Selection (Printed)
(Commission: 1.00 EUR per shirt sold)
1. A few good men…I mean robots! by Joe Gonzalez
2. Nature and Technology by garygeorgec
3. Tricky Forest by vergilije

Special Mention (Not Printed)
(order by score)
1. Tie by siarlis
2. Toothed Wheel by fat1
3. Crazy Cuckoo by darossi   
4. Extending Bodies by Lizala

For full listing including images please visit our past competition page.

Thank you all again for submitting such wonderful designs and thank you, your friends, our new members for taking time to vote. We are now working to get these printed and for you to wear as soon as possible.

What's next? Christmas Break!! :) New competition coming January!!!!
Subscribe to our newsletter for updates and to be notified as soon as the new competition has launched.

Thanks again,

Yours, Allmightys Team

We just wanted to remind everyone that the voting for designs submitted for the 'MechTech' competition ends tonight at 23:00 GMT.

So if you haven't voted yet, go here and give the designs the points that you think they deserve...

Have fun!!

Welcome to the future! Join the ride! :)

Collective Perception

Collective Perception is an excerpt of SpaceCollective.org, a soon to be
released, invite only information exchange dedicated to the future of everything.

SpaceCollective is about to go into public beta and is issuing a limited amount
of exclusive beta generation invites now.

Watch the SpaceCollective preview for further information.

Today's Friday Animation is in tune with our current competition, which is in the voting procedure at the moment. There are still a few days left to score the current entries, so if you haven't voted yet, do it now :)! The lead characters are totally in the category MechTech :)

The film was made by Rani Naamani of the Vancouver Film School. I love it especially because of the use of facial expressions on the very simply crafted robot faces. What a pair of eyes and eyebrows can do...

see it here...

Reprints are here for you just in time for Christmas: 'Drying Up' by Joe Gonzalez and 'Little Old Men'

They are brand new in the store from today, available in all sizes... so get them quick.. in time for your Christmas stockings!

Also, dont forget to check out Joe's and Andy's profiles!

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells ... (oops..too early...only few weeks left!)

For all you out there who are thinking about giving away an Allmightys t-shirt (or several :)) this year, here's some information about shipping times in the hectic holiday season. The German Post suggests the following shipping dates so that the packages arrive on time:

- for Germany: post by 21.12

- for Europe: post by 12.12

- for the world: as soon as possible, as the actual date is the 1.12.

Please allow 1-2 days for your order to process prior to these dates.

So, visit the shop now and give away your favourite tee... :)

Check out this Helvetica Now Poster Competition organised by LinoType for some very cool entries and ideas.
Via CPULV

Talking about competitions ...did you know there is only 8 days left to score entries in our current "Mech-Tech" competition? :)
Tell us which ones you would like to see printed by scoring all the designs on the scale of 0-5. Winning designs get printed and designers recieve commissions from sales.
VOTE NOW!!