I know I’m posting in sporadic waves, but not to worry. I’ll never completely stop posting. Sometimes I just don’t have the required time to put into digging for material, and of course I don’t want to post a lot of similar things. Anyway, here is something noteworthy. Tofu packaging, courtesy of kyotofoodie.com, featuring a man drinking sake. It’s different. Check it out, Kyoto Foodie, and have a look at some additionally clever tofu packages.

I found this over at fubiz.net, Matt W. Moore, who by the looks of things is a pretty rad dude. Due to my dodgy translation of the fubiz post, all I can really say is that if anyone wants to send me an untimely holiday gift, I’ll definitely take one of these snowboards!

OK, here is the 2nd SoCal post of the week. This one definitely falls under the category of “good business.” I had come across this about a month ago, and hadn’t thought to post it until I came across it again today on NotCot.org. La Casa del Camino is a resort just a couple of steps off of the ocean in Laguna Beach. Even though Laguna Beach is more known for it’s rocky coast line than for it’s waves, it is the home of the Casa Surf Project. It’s an interesting business model, allowing corporations (such as Billabong Men’s and Billabong Women’s, Rip Curl, etnies, Roxy, Quiksilver, L* Space, Lost International along with Riviera Magazine and Glaceau) to decorate and sponsor a room. Anyway, it’s a still a cool idea (although most of the rooms end up looking like I wish my room would’ve looked when I was 15).

Probably 90% of the corporate work I’ve done as a designer has come from Coca-Cola… none of it has been this awesome, though. If you’ve been browsing the design interweb sites in 2010 I’m sure that you’ve seen this series of adverts done by illustrator Andrew Bannecker, but you haven’t seen it here yet. Which means… you haven’t seen it… the right way. Anyway it’s very colorful, and quirky– the perfect visual for bringing “hope” to what I’m sure was a gloomy Copenhagen Climate Conference. These are just the sort of graphics that you’re not likely to see in North America.

I have a couple of California-centric posts in the queue for this week. I’m not entirely sure what the practical purpose of this project is, but over 57,000 aerial photos totaling 329 GB’s are available of the California coast line. Below is an image from my ol’ stomping grounds in Laguna Beach (which, now that it’s February in NYC.. I can’t pretend I don’t miss).

More at California Coastal Records Project

Another nice photo gallery, this one from We Heart

This is a cool video that’s been making the rounds on the interweb as of late. I think this is a student project, but it definitely hints at some of the possibilities of ‘augmented reality‘ technology.

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Jeff Hamada at BOOOOOM, an all around good guy, has been posting a lot of solid photography lately. And other solid stuff. Here’s Ali Bosworth, from Victoria, Canada.

Just came across some still images from a short film titled “Connected”. Billed as a ‘Sci-Fi Western’, the film was shot in Faxe Kalkbrud, Denmark, and the stills look pretty amazing. Here’s what they had to say about the costumes:

We wanted the suits to look like they where designed for people trying to survive in the apocalyptic wasteland. Yet they had to look outdated and unsafe, thereby adding tension to the drama. And they had to appear slightly uncomfortable and silly because we wanted to add a light touch of humour to the story. We did not want to make the film overly serious or in any way pretentious.

Photographs by Nich Hance