A cool site

Now this site some of you may now or may already be a member of. It is a site to look at because there are aspiring typographers, graphic designers etc who place their portfolio on here and leave it open for critiques as well. Besides all of that the work is actually better than average. Very interesting stuff that you can ask the artist about as well if you become a member and also make room for your work to be recognized.

http://www.deviantart.com/

Preloaders for many companies

I know it is a bit late but I kept forgetting to share this site with everyone, but mainly the students who are in web design class and wanted to get creative ideas for preloaders.

http://www.prettyloaded.com/

Wednesday, December 9th

Here are the scheduled meeting times, please be on time and have all class work as PDF on a thumb drive.

Print design, GONE!

This is awesome, please watch the entire clip this 6th sense thing could change the face of branding an advertising as we know it.

The Olympic games is now a web address...

A link to more info

Cool Sprint thing

http://now.sprint.com/widget/

Thought this was really cool

Here is a site that has blueprints of cars, planes and other stuff its really cool.

Erik Spiekermann

Erik Spiekermann


No I've got clean the fucker hahaha

Check out this site

Heres another online advertising link....enjoy


http://www.180360720.no/

FEED: The Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report 2009 Key Findings

Found this very interesting relating to the relation of a brand online presence to there marketing and advertising plan.

FEED: The Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report 2009 Key Findings

View more presentations from Razorfish Marketing.

Rock & Roll

Two photography exhibits about music recently opened. The first, Who Shot Rock & Roll at the Brooklyn Museum, is a sprawling survey of photography and music starting w Elvis in the 50s. The other at Clic Gallery, Bande a part, is about the underground NY music scene in the 60s 70s 80s. The Brooklyn is free w Pratt ID, Clic is a gallery open to the public.

REFRESHING....

A convex logo substitutes colorfully sprayed can.

Naked can help to reduce air and water pollution occurred in

its coloring process. It also reduces energy and effort to separate

toxic color paint from aluminum in recycling process. Huge amount of
energy and paint required to manufacture colored cans will be saved.

Instead of toxic paint, manufacturers process aluminum with
a pressing machine that indicates brand identity on surface.

BY HARC LEE

SEEN AT BEHANCE

Best Free Fonts of 2009

This looks like a nicely curated set of free, (legal) quality fonts, yum! 

AT&T Suing Verizon Because "Map" Ad Is Confusing to Dumb People (and Lawyers)

A Verizon Wireless ad shows a beefy Verizon 3G map next to a less impressive AT&T 3G map. AT&T is suing, saying it leads people to believe AT&T has no phone service outside of its (admittedly skimpy) 3G areas.

READ MORE HERE

Lubalin Now

The Cooper Union has an amazing new building, and this is the inaugural exhibit of the relocated Herb Lubalin Gallery opens this Thursday 6-8pm.  The exhibit promises to connect the historical influences of Lubalin with contemporary designers.

R.Crumb

W magazine has a nice slide show of recent Robert Crumb drawings.

Yoga center ad on a straw
















Crashed car placed in a parking lot to announce a Monster Trucks show

THE DIRTY POST-ER

I'm a sucker for interactive design, but I would be pissed-off if I was the recipient of this poster.

DIRTY POSTER

SIMPLE = EFFECTIVE.

Awesome art direction and execution by BBDO Worldwide for the Moscow News.

www.bbdo.com

Robert Willams X VANS X DQM

slow friday night

Robert Williams: Vans Vault x DQM from Jared Abe on Vimeo.

Exxxcellent

Sure, it's just a promotion for The Simpsons, but how cool would it be to win?

The Wild Things You find in nyc

To mark the coming out of the movie (that I am dying to see..), Where The Wild Things Are, there is an exhibit of original drawings from the beloved children's book by Maurice Sendak. This exhibit began on October 6th at The Morgan Library and Museum on Madison and 36th and will run until November 1st. Maybe make a day out of it and get the 10$ Pre-Fixe lunch of my favorite restaurants Ayza, located on 31st between Broadway and 5th. It has a beautiful interior and also known for their fine selection of chocolates if you have a sweet tooth as well.




My roommate, Noura Salem, is starting a fantastic publication on campus called SIFT Journal, which is about sustainability in design. The journal was initially for the architecture, interior and industrial design departments, but she has now opened submission of proposal ideas for the Journal to the COMD department as well. If you want to get involved and submit anything you would like to write about sustainability, please contact Noura siftjournal@gmail.com or look for the SIFT flyers on campus.

AIGA 365

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/exhibit-365-30

AIGA's 365 exhibit was really good. It's worth a go-see.

Shirt of The Month

Plazm Thread is a subscription based t-shirt club. They curate and produce limited-edition shirts by established and upcoming artists, from legends like Ed Fella, Al Jaffe and Art Chantry to new comers like Kate Moross and Hannah Stouffer. And they're pretty cool.

MTV 2009 Woodies

This is a great opportunity for anyone with the time and talent. It's strictly voluntary and not a class assignment, but I'm happy to work with anyone who gives it a shot. Check your pratt.edu for the brief.

The Art of Rebellion

Harley-Davidson presents a one night only poster show featuring art of a rebellious nature.

Unusual billboards

Some nice out-of-the-ordinary billboards, good food for thought.

100,000 Paper Airplanes

100,000 paper airplanes were thrown from the rooftops of six 7-11 story buildings in Grand Rapids, Michigan creating the effect of a quarter-mile long rainbow. Along with the thousands of paper airplanes, thousands of musicians came together to play a beautiful melody. This event is part of the Art Prize competition and was done Sunday by Rob Bliss.

http://www.artprize.org/artist/id/2691

Love the pie, hate the chart

This site by "visual & data journalist" David McCandless is very inspiring.

Scissor Sisters Music Video

So sadly, the second I wanted to put up here has embedding disabled on Youtube, probably because the Scissor Sisters don’t want to be more popular. So here’s the thing: click on this link and watch the video: Eyeball Rape

Ok, so the song's not really called Eyeball Rape but here's the thing I absolutely love about that video. If I was standing in a

ditch taht I'd just dug and somebody had a gun to my head telling me the only way out of death would be to describe

ANYTHING that's happening in that fucking Scissor Sisters music video, I would probably just pull the trigger myself.

Tim Burton in New York

Tim Burton will have a major exhibition at MoMA starting November 22, 2009 and running through April 26, 2010. The exhibition will showcase over 700 pieces, starting from childhood into his present day career, including paintings, drawings, storyboards, puppets and more. MoMA will also screen a retrospective of the directors 14 films throughout the course of the show.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/313

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118004737.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Advertising vs. Reality

Check out this German site, which compares food packaging and advertising to…unappetizing reality. Mmm.

Beatles Rock Band Intro

The new Beatles Rock Band video game was released a few weeks ago. MTV who are co-owns
the new game hired Passion Pictures a London based 2-D production company to create a cinematic intro for the game. Known for the Gorillaz music videos', Passion Pictures uses 2D drawn animation, computer animation, stop frame animation, mixed media, and live-action. Directed by Pete Candeland this intro for the video game is beautifully drawn and fantastic to watch in every sense of the word.


watch the video here : Videos // The Beatles™: Rock Band™

check out more of their work here : http://www.passion-pictures.com/

From Bill

Our friends in Wisconsin sent this fresh, new Penzeys Spice logo. You should be able to download it.

Competitive Coloring

Jonsi and Alex from band Sigur Ros have posted a coloring book and competition.

The BP3 Album Cover.

When I first saw the cover art for Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 last July, I like many other hip hop purists thought, "How could Jay break from the 10 album tradition of always appearing on the cover of his albums, by doing some conceptual artsy fartsy shit errr stuff?"

After seeing how the cover and subsequent album art was constructed, I'm now converted. Pure DOPENESS.

Check out the art director of the whole project Dan Tobin Smith

water?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW5eBfZhE4M&feature=player_embedded#t=149

came across this today, found the motion graphics very appealing as well as the fact that a lot of information was able to be communicated with very minimal narration. the music choice was interesting, i guess it added a little bit of hope through the awareness of a quite devastating subject.

All Your Dreams Belong To Us

London based street artist D*Face has a U.S. debut exhibition at Jonathan Levine Gallery. Mark Dean Veca is also showing with a smaller solo exhibit.

Monet's Water Lilies at MoMA

This Sunday, MoMA will be putting all three of Monet's "Water Lilies" on view for the first time since 2001. These pieces will be shown until April 16, 2010.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/arts/design/11monet.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1

Jonathan Hoefler and Steven Heller Interview on WNYC Radio

Today on WNYC Radio typographer Jonathan Hoefler of the type foundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones and graphic designer Steven Heller were interviewed by Leonard Lopate on his "Please Explain" segment. The two designers discussed how typefaces are created, used and why typography has been so important to culture and design.

You can listen to the radio segment here:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/09/11/segments/140481

Color as Structure Show

"Color as Structure"

Timothy Callaghan, Don Kimes, Valerie Molnar, and Richard Roth

September 15 - October 17, 2009
Opening Reception: Tuesday September 15, 6-8pm

One of the exciting things about doing a project like this is the gift of being able to view work through one's own particular lens, in this case how color has ordered the work of a varied group of artists. Timothy Callaghan, Don Kimes, Valerie Molnar, and Richard Roth all share a concern for color as a way of structuring their work by either building or maintaining a framework, or through the creation of hierarchies or systems of organization. That they also share a concern for historical paradigms, visual culture and everyday life is also apparent, as is the lack of a shared point of view.

For Valerie Molnar and Don Kimes it is the actual construction and destruction of the physical manifestation of color-as-structure that the work is built upon. For Molnar, each color-infused thread, stitch by stitch, becomes a network of units producing a buoyant, cheerful formalism. For Don Kimes the color structure deals with recovery and reinvention, resurrection and recreation--- the image literally regenerated by nature and intention. One can clearly see the color codes referencing the ubiquity of visual culture in the 21st century in Richard Roth’s “object” paintings whose existence as a personal, ideal ‘collection’ is carefully controlled and maintained by the artist. And in Timothy Callaghan’s contemporary ‘plein air’ paintings which are built on a platform shaped by flattened color space and are descriptive of a daily life of leisure, consumption, and politics one can see these color structures and frameworks as a scaffold upon which the image is ultimately constructed.

Julie Langsam

September 2009
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Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser. Courtesy of SVA.

Milton Glaser’s SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design

SVA (West 26th)
Chelsea
601 West 26th Street, 15th floor, 212-592-2010
August 31 - September 26, 2009
Web Site

ComD Agency

Next Tuesday is the first information meeting of the year for the ComD Agency. This is the student run club that will be focusing on creating a dialogue between Advertising students and Art Directors through lectures, studio tours, portfolio reviews and other events.   
Tuesday, September 15 12:45 PM Steuben, room 403   
Since this club is just forming, it seems like an excellent chance to get involved from the start. I'd like to see some of my top students get involved.

Staples

This spot perfectly combines a truthful insight and ironic use of music. Today across the city, many parents will be humming this tune.

Art & Copy

We will not be attending Art & Copy as class, but if you have the chance to see this documentary during its very short engagement, please do, the reviews are very good.

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon Show at

International Center of Photography
1133 Ave of the Americas, (at 43rd St)
New York (Thirties/Forties)
NY, 10036
United States
Phone 212-857-0000
Hours Tue-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri 10am-8pm (5-8 pay what you wish); Sat-Sun 10am-6pm

Milton Glaser...

Hey everyone this is Clint,

I found an ad in the paper for an exhibit entitled Milton Glaser's SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design. It opens August 31st and is open until September 26th. Location: School of Visual Arts Visual Arts Gallery, 601 W 26th St (Btw 11&12th Aves) 212-592-2145 Times vary and its FREE

so i found this on the bryant park schedule

Bryant Park Knits

• Tuesday, June 23
• 1:30pm – 3:00pm
• Upper Terrace across from the BP Grill

http://www.bryantpark.org/CALENDAR/events/event.php?event=1304

School's Out…

have a great summer!

Interdependence Tree Project

Participants from 23 different countries & 39 US States created more than 7,000 leaves, for this collaborative yarn bombing in Alabama. Organized by the International Fiber Collaborative, the same people who did the gas station.

Let's have a meeting

Please come a few minutes early, and be prepared with any/all work, questions, gripes, suggestions, yarn bombing, etc…

Knitta Please

Knitta began in August 2005, when the soon-to-be-Knittas were discussing their frustration over unfinished knitting projects: half-knitted sweaters and balls of yarn gathering dust. That afternoon, they knit their first door handle. Then it dawned on them… a tag crew of knitters, bombing the inner city with vibrant, stitched works of art, wrapped around everything from beer bottles on easy nights to public monuments and utility poles on more ambitious outings. With a mix of clandestine moves and gangsta rap — Knitta was born! Today, Knitta is a group of ladies of all ages, nationalities, and… gender.

Check out their guerilla pieces in several countries! 

really fun to play around with

search flikr by color

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/

T-Mobile's New Guerilla Commercial

T-Mobile unleashes guerilla dance routine at Liverpool Street

Saatchi & Saatchi's latest ad for T-Mobile will be on air less than 48 hours after being filmed this morning at London's Liverpool Street station, where 350 dancers performed routines as commuters passed through the concourse.

'Dance', created by Saatchi & Saatchi London, was produced using hidden TV cameras within the station, which captured the spontaneous reactions of commuters as they watched the dance troupe perform.
The three-minute guerrilla-style ad, which is part of T-Mobile's 'Life's for Sharing' campaign, is to premiere during an entire ad break in 'Celebrity Big Brother' on Channel 4 tomorrow night, less than 48 hours after filming began.
Lysa Hardy, head of brand and communications at T-Mobile, said: "'Dance' brings to life the fact that there are often unexpected, wonderful, exciting things that happen that you want to be able to share with your friends and family.

Check it out!

Facebook in Real Life

If you haven't seen this, you're missing out.

2 min video of facebook if it was in real life. 

Watch

Funny Advertising Analogy

http://jokes-o-matic.com/categories/sexuality/jokes/Understanding-Marketing

the ampersand

this is a blog dedicated to the ampersand- http://ampersand.gosedesign.net/

some sad yarn bombing

i was going across the brooklyn bridge the other day and i saw this scarf tied to one of the wires. it made me laugh when i thought about yarn bombing.

feeling ambitious?

try making one of these

Where little sweaters come from

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT5MFdAB7fI

yarn bombing is the new graffiti

http://www.oberholtzer-creative.com/visualculture/2009/01/yarn-bombing/

yarn bombing

plant this page

this completely blew me away

Jelly Beans Anyone?

defending a failed design

designer of the failed tropicana carton talks about it

mobile device

if you don't call it a car maybe people won't notice they can't afford it (or that it's ugly)

The art of the Heist

I found this campaign for audi, which i thought was a really interesting non traditional idea.  http://www.campfirenyc.com/category/case-studies/?id=3

Google Logos

Google Logos: 1999 - 2008

Check out how they've changed over the past couple years

One from 2008 - look how far it's come

One of the first designed logos in 1999