Thank you for a great semester…safe & happy holidays!
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
The Myths of the Overworked Creative
Been checking on this site every once and a while since someone posted from it a while back. Haven't taken the 30 to watch this yet but I plan to... seems like something most of us need to think about.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
The Branding of the Occupy Movement
Kalle Lasn, the longtime editor of the anticonsumerist magazine Adbusters, did not invent the anger that has been feeding the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the United States. But he did brand it.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
my last Happiness Factory post, i promise.
If free soda, pizza, flowers, balloon animals, light-up glasses, and 6-foot subs don't make you happy, I don't know what will. The Coca Cola Happiness Factory strikes again on a college campus with a guerilla vending machine that's giving away more than just soda...
Friday, November 25, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Push Pin Studios
Push Pin Studios is a graphic design and illustration studio formed in New York City in 1954. Cooper Union graduates Milton Glaser,Seymour Chwast, Reynold Ruffins, and Edward Sorel founded the studio.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Creative Block?
A useful article about how to tackle creative block.
Rashaad Newsome
http://rashaadnewsome.com/
The performance pieces are quite interesting. Brings together a crazy array of performers and visual elements.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Superhero posters inspired by Art Deco
These anachronic posters by Greg Guillemin, a french designer, are awesome. He takes superheroes and creates posters in the Art Deco style for them.
http://www.designer-daily.com/superhero-posters-inspired-by-art-deco-20605
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Doggleganger
An unusual and entertaining idea presented by Pedigree. Find your Doggleganger, and maybe adopt 'em too! (Hopefully you don't get paired with an english bulldog...)
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Next Class at Cooper Union
Our next class is Tuesday, November 8th at 6:30 pm. We're being given a special tour of the exhibit "Pharma" by the curator, Alexander Tochilovsky. Please gather at the new Cooper Union building at 41 Cooper Square at Third Avenue & 7th Street.
The Red M&M is a Bully, says Australia.
He's the sarcastic one, but is the red M&M also a bully? The Advertising Standards Bureau in Australia seemed to think so, had a two month long debate about it, and then decided the ads were "humorous rather than bullying." Slow clap for Australia.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
AIGA/NY Event December 8
Register as soon as you can if you're interested in getting a spot- it's $10 for AIGA student members/$20 for regular AIGA members/$30 for non-membersGARY HUSTWIT, .DESIGN FILMMAKER
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
de Kooning Retrospective
The Willem de Kooning Retrospective at MoMA not only highlights major works of the artist (which are gorrrrrrgeous), but his process as well—something that may relate to us as designers.
Le Fork Big
A French company launches a kitchenware line, with a disruptive installation that would make Claus Oldenburg proud.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Student TV Contest DEADLINE Oct. 19!
Get something for your reel, a produced PSA (public service announcement) and $500. Read the brief, as I've been saying, it's all about the idea. If anyone wants to pursue, I'm happy to look at storyboard ideas. Good luck!
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
The Creator's Project
This is last minute, but you can still RSVP to see if you might be able to still go.
Monday, October 10, 2011
SOPHIE CALLE
In association with Crossing the Line 2011, France's most eminent conceptual artist, Sophie Calle has a very special exhibit on view continuously from Thursday, October 13th at midnight through Sunday, October 16th at midnight at The Lowell Hotel. If you've ever wanted to spend some time in her hotel room, this is your chance.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Manly men, doing the manly things men do
We saw so much manliness in the Lodge campaign, I thought I'd share these pin-ups, or MenUps. Feature Shoot is a great resource for discovering up and coming photographers…
Celebrating Female Icons of Graphic Design
After spending some time in the creative industry, Swedish design duo Hjärta Smärta ("Heart Pain") observed that there weren't nearly enough female design role models at the forefront of our cultural awareness. So they started Hall of Femmes, an online project (alas, in Swedish) highlighting female designers and art directors who have significantly influenced creative culture. In 2009, the pair traveled to New York to interview some of these design icons as the basis for a series of books and soon thereafter they published four of these volumes honoring female creative legends.
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/09/hall-of-femmes-celebrating-the-female-icons-of-graphic-design/245877/
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/09/hall-of-femmes-celebrating-the-female-icons-of-graphic-design/245877/
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Silkscreen Studio in Brooklyn
For all of you who have been kicked out of Pratt's silkscreen studios time and time again, there's a ready-to-use print shop in Brooklyn. Called Gowanus Print Lab, they supply everything but the paper and have a 10% student discount. No classes necessary. I highly suggest it!
Fifty Fifty
http://statemottosproject.com/gallery/
50 AND 50 IS A CURATED PROJECT WHICH ATTEMPTS TO CONSTRUCT A HANDSOME NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT OUR COUNTRY. FIFTY DESIGNERS, ONE PER STATE, HAVE ILLUSTRATED THEIR STATE MOTTO, CREATING SOMETHING STEEPED IN HISTORY BUT COMPLETELY MODERN AND UNIQUE: A KIND OF DESIGNER'S ATLAS.
50 AND 50 IS A CURATED PROJECT WHICH ATTEMPTS TO CONSTRUCT A HANDSOME NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT OUR COUNTRY. FIFTY DESIGNERS, ONE PER STATE, HAVE ILLUSTRATED THEIR STATE MOTTO, CREATING SOMETHING STEEPED IN HISTORY BUT COMPLETELY MODERN AND UNIQUE: A KIND OF DESIGNER'S ATLAS.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Motion Graphics - ISSEY MIYAKE
Animated video for Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake's A-Poc design.
A Charity With Beautiful Design
If you haven't heard of the non-profit charity: water, now you have. They are a charity that has treated its branding and design as if they were a for-profit organization; creating a clean, beautiful design aesthetic. Their goal is to help end the water crisis in developing nations, and they are doing so in a smart and unique way. I encourage you to read more about them.
Check out their website!
http://www.charitywater.org/
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
words on paper
A free, drop-in, on campus resource for writing help with your resumé? Awesome. It's never too early to start working on your resumé, especially as it relates to internships, work, contests, etc.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Designspiration
A nice site with nice work for when you need a little inspiration, or just want to look at nice things.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Oblique Strategies
If a designer ever tells you they have never had a creative block, they are lieing. Here is a useful tool for those times we all experience. Musician Brian Eno created his Oblique Strategies cards in 1975 to help dislodge creative blocks while working on albums. Here is an online randomized version of the deck that can apply to any art or design project you are working on.
35 Animated Cinemagraphs
35 Animated photos...check them out via:
http://inspirationfeed.com/photography/35-beautifully-animated-photographs-a-k-a-cinemagraphs/
The photographer's website:
http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/tagged/cinemagraph
Friday, September 23, 2011
Have a Magic Brownie
A strange and most daring advertising campaign launched on twitter today. Starring none other than Cheech and Chong, its brought to you by your grandpa's favorite snack company... Fiber One. You can see the campaign and watch the video here.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Cool Talk by Stefan Sagmeister
Yes, we all love him and his quirky unorthodox ways about his work. But I think the great thing about a designer like Sagmeister is that his life is his work. And I don't mean that in the workaholic, A-student kind of way, but that his whole shtick is to garner no division between the joy of life and the joy of design. Of course he trudged through the mundane, through projects he hated, and probably through experiences very similar to the ones we had, but eventually he found out that his position is one in which to create not only well-designed pieces to fulfill clients requirements, but wholehearted dances to fulfill his own satisfaction. And it's never too early or too late to grab on to that.
Here he is talking about happiness. What could be better?!
http://www.davidairey.com/stefan-sagmeister/
Here he is talking about happiness. What could be better?!
http://www.davidairey.com/stefan-sagmeister/
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