What a beautiful story by Koji Yamamura, a Japanese animated film maker, who’s variety of animation techniques and films show in countless festivals and individual exhibitions worldwide. Mr. Yamamura is also a nominee for the 75th Academy Awards Short Films’ Animation Category.

Mr. Yamamura has created a new short animation film tittled “Man & Whale” for Greenpeace Whale-Love campaign. It took about 5 months to produce the film

It’s official! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the 7 book of Harry Potter and the final book in J.K. Rowling’s magical Harry Potter series, will be released on July 21, 2007.
If you made it this far and waited up until now for the 7 book of Harry Potter then

Apple.com is truly amazing. If it’s product design or a creative commercial that just blows you away, then it’s probably says Apple on the sticker. Now, the new Apple ipod commercial continues their latest ipod commercial line, but it’s so good so who cares.

It features a couple of silhouette dancers who groove to Mi Swing Es Tropical, a song by Nickodemus & Quantic featuring Tempo. You can get the new ipod commercial song at Apple.com

If you haven’t seen these ipod commercials yet, check them out:

Musa Collective, a Portuguese design company, determined not to show their members’ names or resumes in the company’s Flash website, aiming to promote the Portuguese design abroad and host an exhibition of 15 design posters, called The MusaTour, first time presented in Japan. Well done!

With clients as Virgin Music and Sony, Steve Scott simple yet to-the-point online portfolio presents colorful illustration portfolios and great animation shots.

It’s art? It’s graphic design? It’s typographic? It’s exploding with colors and imagination? It’s… all these and more. Eye candy overbrimming portfolio of Maciej Hajnrich aka nietylko – said Carole Guevin / Netdiver.

Paul Antonson, whose illustrations are comic/realistic in style, is an NYC based artist who’s had the good fortune to illustrate for clients like the Village Voice, WSJ.com and more.

As you can see, Matei Apostolescu, based in Bucharest Romania, creates detailed illustrated compositions. I can look at his work for hours trying to absorb and figure everything out.

At 5qm.de you can find original wallpapers from the fifties, sixties and seventies. OMG, I must have them all !!!

Koji Morimoto, a well respected animator and director in Japan, working in the field of “anime”. Morimoto directed “Beyond”, one of the short animation pieces collected in “The Animatrix”.