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Job Post : Toronto based Trace Pictures is looking for Designers/Animators and Compositors. Crewing up for a MASSIVE project and we want you! Trace needs talented designers, animators and compositors. Broadcast/commercial experience required ~ Adobe AE, Maya, Cinema 4D, Final Cut Pro an asset. Salary to commensurate experience. FT contract until April 09. Resume/reels to jobs@tracepictures.com

Chocolate … letterpress.

Design and commercial production company, King and Country, recently relaunched their website unveiling a host of new capabilities and premiering a number of never before seen projects. (thnx Drew).

Digital Domain brings the Mecha for fit.honda.com

The monograph about the work of Thomas Schostok … blurring art and graphic design. Design, typography, paintings, collage, Gluebooks – all his work in one big monograph : {ths} is Mr. Trash

Vincent Laforet shows what he’s capable of using the new Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital camera. REVERIE is shot in HD 1080p and re-compressed to ¼ in size. Also check out some behind the scene footage at Smug Mug.

Talented Director Tony McNeal recently completed a short film: Born That Way … well worth a look.

FUEL TV turned to long-time collaborator and Signature Series artist Saiman Chow and his crew at Golden Lucky in New York City, who invested about half a year to create FUEL’s first animated short film “Looking thru the B-sides“, combing a variety of live-action, stop-motion and hand-drawn animation.

Monday morning music … Santogold performing L.E.S Artistes live at Artscape.

Crispin Porter + Bogusky launches Microsoft’s Life Without Walls site in addition to the commercials with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. Aside from the Silverlight plugin, the site raises a question: If a computer is just a tool, are all the “Hi, I’m a PC” people admitting to being tools?

New logo ident from Justin Harder for Brizo/Young & Laramore … “Another analogue adventure into the land of tangible mediums. Ranging from water color to markers and some Prismacolor, because we still have so many. Brizo is an Italian faucet manufacturer that inherited it’s name from ancient Greece, Brizo being the goddess of the sea, worshipped by Pirates …”

Talented Madrid based Helio Vega concepted, designed and directed these MadinSpain’08 titles. Sound design by Marcelo Baldin.

TBWA Paris and Minivegas make a sexy universe for AIDES. (bit reminiscent of Nervo’s Let Us Kiss though).

Crush, Toronto and Blok Design, Mexico City have created this beautiful opening title sequence for Arte en Construccion, an arts program examining the creative process of leading visual artists in Mexico (thnx to Shannon at Glossy, my new daily).

Wow … Supinfocom produces alot of young talent. Case in point: From The Hoop. A short from Supinfocom students Arnoux Anthony, Dessinges Rémi and Fesquet Guillaume.