Probably not. But maybe to be published in the next In Flight Magazine?
Samuel Michael submitted the winning contribution for a designing competition held by Durex. The theme was “Think twice before risking unprotected sex”. Click the image to enlarge.
Browse his portfolio:
www.samuelmichael.co.uk
Can someone please tell me what is so damn exciting about snooker? They show it on Eurosport day and night. I know the rules. I know some of the names of the big players. They are almost all from Great Britain. Go figure.
And sometimes they show darts. Another pub sport. It seems like the British are into sports where you can be fat and still be nr 1 in the world. Except for football of course.
Britsp…excuse me, Eurosport, please show tennis. That is a real sport.
Time moves like a bullet. You notice how fast it goes when you try to sum up trends and styles in web design. Not long ago we we’re all doing small Flash pages in pop-up windows. Now it is different. Or is it?
2008 is the year of vintage web. Old has become new. You want the worn-feel, by making spot-like effects and torn edges. Big headlines is the way to go and you are allowed to toy around freely with fonts. Mask away! You also work a lot with collages, and maybe this blog can fit in there? Last year’s trends are clinging to life through a respirator. Time to kill them off and head somewhere new?
2007 was all about gigantic RSS-icons. All elements in line with Web 2.0 got a major breakthrough. 
Over-use of big and colorful icons. Glass-effects on headlines. CoverFlow navigation (I-tunes). The foreground were in bright pastel colours and the background in dark-grey and had wave-shaped patterns.
2006 was the year that the gradients came and conquered. This thanks to strong help from the rise of Web 2.0 presentations. Another popular theme was diagonal lines and patterns. 
You also played around a lot with words. You threw in dots and underscores in weird places. Big letters got small and small letters got bigger. You got away with anti-aliasing text and other graphical elements.
We all remember the minimalistic “pixel fonts”. Weird was good, usability was put to rest. You did everything to be creative and many times failed. Arial came back after two years of leave. 
Techniques like sIFR (Flash and JS) came and were used to get even funkier types.
Save your pixels! Never let your site be wider than 600! Make it open in a pop-up without a scrollbar. Validate your code!
Flash came to to kill HTML. Text came sliding down like disgusting Powerpoint presentations. The table was put on death row. CSS and divs were rulers of the web. The first examples of blog layout came and ruined our lives for years to come. Arial and Verdana was replace with “cool” fonts like Tahoma, Lucida Grande and Trebuchet MS. The web page design was clean with massive top pictures.
What will 2009 be like?
But at least they are going to save the world…
This is how I clear my mind during long, long, boring projects.
Disclaimer: The mood of the picture has nothing to do with any personal attitude issues.
Here is a brief guide on how to get one of those small icons shown next to your URL in your web browser:
Piece of cake!
The profession of the week - a beginning of a lame tradition! Applied the overused retro/vintage style that has become popular this year. More to come!
My earlier employer thought they did. But they didn’t. So now I give them away for free! Free is good. In this free package (did I mention it was free?) you will find 26 free sport icons saved in 24-bit PNG with semi-transparency. 
Free sports icons you might need.
Volleyball, baseball, tennis, golf, fotball, ice hockey, basketball, floorball, table tennis, motor sports, beach fotball, boxing, chess, cricket, curling, cycling, darts, board games, bandy, gaelic fotball, handball, motor cycling, snooker/billiards, horse racing and ultimate fighting.
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