Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays everyone, and safe travels. See you in the New Year!

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spiffy plates!

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Visualizing Mass Transit

http://oblog.designobserver.com/post/visualizing-mass-transit/37558/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter

Dog Name Tags

MILTON GLASER IS SPEAKING AT PRATT MANHATTAN

and nobody told us?

http://prattgradcomd.com/event/13/12/2012/gag-event-milton-glaser

pratt whatchu thinkin', grad comd is still comd.

Milton Glaser, Pratt Manhattan rm 213, 7-9PM Thurs Dec 13

Art of the Title

In Typography we did a project with title sequences and my teacher introduced me to this website. It's really interesting! I've always loved title sequences and the credits for North by Northwest is actually one of the things that led me to graphic design.

Art of the Title

The Universal Arts of Graphic Design

PBS off book video about Graphic Design
Featuring: Debbie Millman, Emily Oberman (Pentagram), Drew Freeman (Pentagram), Steve Attardo

Furniture Design Uses Type

Ernesto Lago's Work

These clever tables are based off of letter forms. Not just graphic designers get inspired by type :)

Outstanding Guerilla Advertising

This website helped inspire me when working on guerilla ad concepts. A guerilla ad can really be anything and the boundaries of advertising are being pushed far beyond just a pretty-looking print ad.
I would keep this link in mind for future reference

Cool Web Layout

Pitchfork had a really awesome pop up ad for this ty segall article, and the web layout for the article is even cooler

http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/ty-segall/

BEWARE TYPE NAZIS

A friend posted this on my Facebook wall. It's true, it really makes us cringe.
~eye roll~

Decent Font Website

I stumbled across a great free font website called

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

It clearly has decently and professionally selected typefaces.
What a difference from competitors like Dafont.com and 1001fonts.com

Guerilla Ad

ha

Cyan Magenta Yellow Bacon

A fun and inspiring website to look through!

http://www.cmybacon.com/

Stop Abuse

This is part of a 3 part campaign against Abuse. So powerful, great concept.

Click the link to see Watercolor typography

Watercolor Type- type done by hand using watercolors gives these pieces a very unique look. I can't wait to try it.

A currently running advertising campaign from Brita, a German company that specializes in water filtration products, says in its ad slogan that “last year 16 million gallons of oil were consumed to make plastic water bottles.”

Brita wants you to stop using water bottles and instead use their water filters to clean their water. While you can ask yourself what use the water filters will do, when the majority of the developed countries have an excellent quality on their water, the advertising campaign highlights one of the most pointless waste products in our society today.

Americans send about 38 billion water bottles a year to landfills. Considering the 1.5 million barrels of oil needed to make those bottles, the environmental impact of plastic bottle waste is truly staggering.

Snowman going the length for his Snowwoman

http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-day-john-lewis-145103

Really dumb ad on the Long Island Railroad

Paths to the White House

Click here to see the full interactive graphic.

Nature's Cure

not your average poster

courtesy of designcouncil

Movember

One of my friends from Australia posted this on Facebook the other day. Its basically to raise awareness for men's health and prostrate cancer. The manner in which they executed their campaign really appealed to me. Especially since many people like my friend are now growing moustaches in order to raise awareness. http://au.movember.com/?home

On being creative.

House Industries Presents Alexander Girard

House Industries presents Alexander Girard

"Girard worked with George Nelson and Charles and Ray Eames to form a design team that has influenced the fundamentals of design throughout the United States and the rest of the world. Girard initially established a fabric collection based on his architectural training. His first fabric line consisted of plain upholsteries and geometric drapery prints—stripes, circles, and triangles. He went on to create many more patterns and designs, largely inspired by folk art. 

"In the mid-1960s, Girard began his design work for Braniff International Airways re-branding – “The end of the plain plane”. This project gave Girard the opportunity to work with textiles, color, and graphics on a grand scale, redesigning everything from the sugar packets to the ticket counters to the color of the planes themselves. He used colors like light and dark blue, beige, ochre, orange, turquoise, and muted yellow to make the planes recognizable from the ground. Italian couturier fashion designer Emilio Pucci designed attendant uniforms.

Queen says ...

Kit Kat - Take a Break From the Usual

Because of this, I actually went out to get some Kit Kat.

Creepy Ad

Design is vital.

Fish.

The Public Side of Paula Scher

Yesterday I saw Paula Scher speak at the Public Theater for which she designed the identity. She is well-known for an array of other work in a variety of styles. I used to think that having a style is important for being an artists but in fact, it can hurt you more than help you. Just like Paula, a good designer should be able to demonstrate many different styles and ways of doing things so they can show a little of everything. Aside from her super formal work like identities (Citi logo, for example), Paula paints. She paints particularly designs of maps, which are now being used to decorate 3-dimensional space, are being sold at shows and she is being commissioned to do more. I wanna be able to stay a designer as well as an artist throughout my career. I must say though, Paula doesn’t just have thrilling work but also a great sense of humor. She made me also consider one thing- deciding on a color scheme perhaps even before the design or the composition. She uses red, black and white in a lot of her pieces…knowing and understanding the relationship of color can really help design work from the thumbnail to the final. 

Click the link below to watch a video of her talking. She discusses a lot of what she talked about yesterday and more.

Paula Scher Gets Serious

Food Photography

Hi guys,

for all you food photographer wannabes. you gotta start somewhere. haha! Here are a few monday blues pick me ups. There are more on the tumblr page Pictures of Asians Taking Pictures of Food.

Jhon Baldessari is my new best friend!

Real California Milk Commercial

something clever

Mitt Romney's Tax Plan

This is pretty outrageous. I think the concept is amazing.
http://www.romneytaxplan.com

Clever piece by Christoph Niemann promoting WQXR (interesting use of the Escher tessellation)

Ad from Chiel Worldwide, South Korea. As many other ad campaigns that come from Asia, this graphic just amazes me how openminded, compared to the American Market people are in Asia, and how they are not afraid of pushing it a little bit more that what people are used to, but not to the point where it can affect the viewer in a negative way.

Creative Public Awareness Ads

Act Fast. The longer we delay in helping children with autism, the harder they are to reach. Act fast, act today.

Give A Hand To Wildlife. A masterpiece can always attract a lot of attention.

 What Goes Around Comes Around. Delicious? No? Then stop throwing rubbish into the sea.

Liked Helping Terceira Island. The evolution of the thumbs up.

Branding/Identity/Design blog

Interesting design blog! Focused mainly on branding and identity, but includes other aspects of design as well. On this post, they show the studio Lo Siento and their 3D/4d (readable from all sides) typography.

Academia- Sia Kinetic Typography

Ad of the Day: Smirnoff 'nocturnal awakening'

http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-day-smirnoff-144285

"Smirnoff enjoy a 'nocturnal awakening' in this colorful, raucous and really quite outlandish spot from JWT" 

I LOVE the new Smirnoff ad. It's an exciting celebration, of sound, color and texture. Beautiful imagery and narrative. (Scroll down on the ADweek article to see the video.)

Stop Procrastinating.

It's 4 years old but still incredibly relevant.

JetBlue Election Protection Campaign

Just in time for the election. Good job, JetBlue.

too cute.

Let's see…how to promote a TV show about kittens and puppies? By live streaming kittens 24/7 until the new season begins!

Michael Carini

http://mccarini.wordpress.com/

Self Portraits and *drugs*

I hope this isn't too inappropriate.

I thought it was interesting to see the process of a man who completes a series of self portraits on various drugs. I believe it says a lot about how the artist see's himself rather than the effect the drugs had on him.

http://cultso.com/artist-takes-every-drug-known-to-man-draws-self-portraits-after-each-use/

If I am correct, someone for the first project brought a bad ad that was from an a Thailand agency, I couldn't stop thinking how funny and maybe crude this ad might have been, and looking through the internet I encountered this ad for WMF boning knifes.

Personally I think this ad is great, the visual is powerful and eye-catching  it cuts straight to the point and gives you a clear idea of what this knifes actually do. I don't know how PETA would feel about this ad, and if it would be well received in the US, but, I don't know, it's just amazing.

New Species of Monkey in the DRC

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/africa/dr-congo-new-monkey/index.html

47 Brilliant Advertisements.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2npMLZ/:1SJ_k+__Y:IzqyhQK7/www.rsvlts.com/2012/08/04/brilliant-advertisements-photos/

Check out this page that shows numerous great ads. They all are relatively simplistic but use, and perhaps rely, on various visual metaphors.  Many of these are humorous. Which is one aspect of advertising that can be difficult to accomplish; you don't want to come off as cheesy. But then again, no one wants to sit and take their time to read an ad only later to be left bored and confused.

I enjoy an ad that makes you think. You take in the ad first; the visuals, copy, logo etc.. Then you start to piece all this information together. And once you've understood it,  it's like the brand is letting you in on a little joke. It allows the audience to catch on to a narrative, or make a version of their own. All arriving to the same conclusion: buy that product. The trick is, to do this successfully. You don't want to provide your audience with a problem that they cannot solve.

Clever insurance ad.

Clever pollution awareness ad.

Canine Advertising

http://www.caninest.com/clever-dog-advertising/

Police Blotter: Humorous Copywriting

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/32/fg_88blotter_2011_8_12_bk.html

Check out the various blurbs about recent crimes in Brooklyn. The writers at The Brooklyn Paper take a light-hearted approach to reporting the seemingly endless crimes occurring in Brooklyn.

Matei Apostolescu Work

This is a photo and illustration collage by Matei Apostolescu. He illustrates many things with bright colors and makes eye-catching graphic images. This is one of my favorites but to check out more you can visit his site: http://www.013a.com.

Nice (mostly German) postage stamps