Inspiration on Instagram | Basketball Toons by Vanila Lab

Not only do these aswesome fictional basketball team illustrations, by design studio Vanila Lab, take me back to the cartoons I used to watch when I was a kid, it also reminds about how I would fill the back of my homework books with doodles of logos, mascots, cars, people in class and "cool" inventions. Not much has changed really..!

See more from this project on Vanila Lab's Instagram here.

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Drink Milk by Dmitry Patsukevich

"I wanted to make a bottle for a drink which gives strength.

                                                                               Be stronger than a viking, drink milk!"

Let's get 2014 off to a good start - with a nice dose of dairy. January is the month everyone goes diet/gym crazy, but I wonder how many of us are starting off the year with a massive fry up?! Concept milk bottle design by Dmitry Patsukevich. Happy New Year folks!

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Simon Laliberte's Poilu

After a bit of a dull week it's always nice to end it a high. I came across this packaging project by Canadian Simon Laliberte a couple of weeks and my first thought was "Ha BRILLIANT!", I knew I had to share it. This sort of packaging design really does brighten my days up, it's this kind of humorous thinking that inspires me and makes me want to get creating something of my own.

Laliberte has cleverly thought of a way of making somewhere which is usually pretty plain and turned it into something humorous and endearing. Humor does it everything for me. I know little about the designer other than the concept above were created for a uni project. Pretty cool ay?

Check out more of Simon Lailberte's work here.

Me and Hollie are off to Brighton for a few days next week (Mon to Thurs, maybe spending the last day in London) so no posts for a wee while. The Berlin trip fell through due to lack of funds, so we're holidaying on familiar soil. If you have any recomendations please leave a comment or tweet me @mat_buckets

Anders Drage's Mountain Milk

 I'm a big fan of milk, I was promised that if I drank milk, ate all my greens and bread crusts I'd grow up to be big and strong. It didn't really pan out that way, still to this day I drink a load of milk and eat my greens but I'm still pretty slim, the only thing that came out of eating crusts was curly hair (though that's a fib right?).

Who would have though a project about milk could get me so excited. Anders Drage's brief for his final campaign at college was to make some packaging about something he loved. He came up with Mountain Milk, packaging design based on the idea of using the best you can get, Norweigan Milk and making it into an international product. Drage, a Norwegian native wanted to create a luxury bottled milk product which celebrated his country's rich heritage and would have a similar status of a fancy bottled water or beer.

I think it's a cracking idea and something with potential, for me he's got the branding and look spot on. I know people either love or hate milk but what's your opinion on the concept and design? Not bad for a student's work ay?

More into on this project click here and for Anders Drage's site click here

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Over the weekend I reached 500 followers! I'd really like to thank everyone that has ever given up a bit of time to read what I'm actually writing, I've loved every minute of my blogging time and that fact that you guys sharing an interest in my interests just makes it all worth while.  I will be launching another competition later this week as a thank you, so look out for that.

Inspiration - Bernhard Lang's Aerial Views

With all the different types of media we're exposed to each day it's progressively taking more and more to properly grab my attention. I'm not saying I don't find a lot of inspiring things, of course I do but sometimes it takes something coming from a slightly different angle or perspective to stop me in my tracks. Bernhard Lang's Aerial Views project made me turn my music off and demanded my full attention.

I love it when this happens, it's basically my brain's way of saying "you should check this out, you'll really like it". The German born photography, Bernhard Land has spent the last couple of years traveling the world to find perfect locations to capture these really unique aerial images. I came across his work via the Coggles Sunday email where the top images was shown, quickly I found his Behance profile and then onto his own website. I was truly blown away by his work, there's a playful, surreal and slightly animated (reminded me of a stop motion project about the seaside, really can't remember who it's by though sadly) feel to them.

I hope you enjoy this series as much as I did. This is only a small selection of his Aerial Views, just go to his website and Behance profile to see a whole load more. Images all belong to the man himself.

Also I just wanted to say how happy I am to have reached 400 followers and a massive thank you to all you guys. I'm glad you enjoy reading what I have to say and post about, it means a lot to me.