Not an artist inspiration post this week instead a collection of fine links for you to meander through at your leisure. Of course you can always have a look at my del​.icio​.us collection for an up to the minute collection. 

Let’s get cracking. Ten links after the jump.

Links

70 Creative advertisements that makes you look twice. A collection of thoughtfully creative advertisement that make all other advertisements seem nagging and annoying. If only more ads were like this, everyone would benefit, less eye sores, people would pay attention to it and creative firms would be able to try more interesting things.

SundayTwits. A simple search term tagged collection of intersting links that Twitter user styletime encourages the creative people he knows to submit every Sunday. However it would appear that this has now been surpassed by the following item.

vot​.eti​.me. A website run by styl​.eti​.me which encourages designers to share links with each other in a similar fashion to Design Float. There’s an updated version of Sociable to include vot​.eti​.me links as well.

The Sky in Motion. A simply beautiful video set to very fitting music. Watch the sky go by in fast forward. Very simple idea but produces amazing results.

crowdSPRING. You might have picked it up by now from my work but every so often I enjoy submitting work to crowdSPRING projects. Clients post projects and then multiple creatives submit their ideas and get feedback. At the end of the time the client chooses their favourite and the creative gets paid.

Photosynth. So it’s been out for a while now but that doesn’t make it any less relevant. If you don’t know how it works perhaps having a look at this will help you understand. You download a desktop client, give it some photos and it works out how they line up in a 3D world, uploads them to the net and lets you move around. The limitations are the space of 2 gigs, it having to be publicly viewable and it only works on IE7, FF2 and 3.

Typechart. A simple idea, preview fonts and settings before putting them on your website with the automatically generated CSS it gives you.

Favicon to PNG Convertor. Now this one is less obvious, by clicking the link you’ll be taken to a page where my favicon has been turned into a PNG. In the URL you just need to change it to the website you want the Favicon of.

http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.domainhere.com

Collection of Cool Toaster Designs. I’ve already used this link in the SundayTwits idea but I thought I’d repeat them here in case people missed them. And you read that right, a collection of Toasters, goes to show there can be innovation in any field, even in a Toaster. Some impressive ideas going on here.

39 Masterpieces of Creative Advertisements. Same as above, and similiar to the first link but with different adverts. This collection is probably more concentrated with great ideas than the first linked collection, but both are cool.

Thanks

As ever thanks for reading and I hope you find some of those links useful. Perhaps add some of them to your del​.icio​.us page? Good bye.