The Brilliant creative team blog

To This Day is a spoken word poem written by Shane Koyczan, a Canadian author and poet exploring the impact that bullying can have on children.

A selection of animators were invited to take part and given a 20 second slot to illustrate. Learn more about tothisdayproject.com.

If you watch The Walking Dead then you will appreciate these posters by Michael Rogers, although a little similar to the style of Olly Moss and his star wars trilogy posters, they are still very cool.

These awesome promos have been created by OPTIMUS DESIGN for Emporium Arcade Bar, a bar where people can have a few drinks and play on all the classic arcade machines.

Seth Tara’s has been commissioned for a new campaign by the History channel, entitled "Know where you stand" where he fuses iconic imagery from the past with modern shots of the location as it stands today. I love this sort of stuff, I just wish he created more!

This stop motion by Karim Rejeb is absolutely amazing!

As a big fan of the Nitro Circus I couldn’t help but chuckle my way through this. He uses Playmobil toys to capture some awesome tricks and stunts... this is how it looked in my mind when i was a kid.

Future Bristol is a website which seeks to engage the public on their opinions of Bristol becoming a ’Low Carbon City’ in an interactive way, delivering information though amazing illustration.

How cool is this!

Legoland Discovery Centre in Berlin has recreated a miniature version of the BER (Berlin) airport built from 100,000 Lego bricks. The model which took six months to build, was presented at a press conference.

Granted, it would be more impressive if it was to scale :)

Dubai based agency Y&R have created a campaign with KAFA to highlight the effects of verbal abuse, entitled ’Words Hurt’.

Using visual wave forms of abusive words as ever lasting scars left by verbal abuse, is not only clever but emotionally effective to the viewer. The strap line ’don’t suffer in silence’ is also pretty genius.

Back when I was at Secondary school, my closest friend turned to me one day in Science class and said, "I’m going to call you a name... and It’s going to really hurt you", I laughed with intrigue and told him to come at me with the best he could think of, he leaned closer and in a calm voice said, "you’re a dummy"...

I laughed it off until I saw how serious he looked, and without a word, turned his back and left me in silence for about ten minutes. He had thrown the silliest word he could think of at me and yet as I sat there alone, I started wondering if he was actually being serious, was i a dummy?

Considering we used to sit there stabbing each other with compases, what he had said was actually quite hurtful.

It turned out his older brother had done the same thing to him the night before, but it goes to show that it’s not all down to the words them selves but the emotion and intent at which they are delivered and more importantly by who.

Astro Dinosaur are a series of painting by Scott Listfield that span over a decade.

His work is inspired by Kubrick’s 2001: Space odyssey showing scenes of an astronaut exploring the modern world and surrounded by present culture with a holiday snap style execution.

Sci-fi books and movies made us believe we would be living in space, flying cars and working in unity towards furthering humanities quest for knowledge and exploration. Although the astronaut is expressionless, you can’t help but share in his disappointment at how far we have not come.

His work truly fascinates me, you can see more on his portfolio.

Our illustrious leader Craig, is gearing up to run the 2013 Virgin London on Sunday the 21st of April in aid of Prostate Cancer UK.

With a few marathons already under his belt, all of us at Brilliant HQ are confident he will smash his previous times and raise a butt load of money in the process... he may look like a bit of a hobo but we know he has been training harder than Rocky 4 (the one where he grows a beard and lives in a barn) for the event.

You can sponsor Craig via Just Giving, and follow his training progress here.