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.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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/
Steer your way to Google.com and you’ll find yourself staring at perhaps its boldest Doodle yet. No, Google hasn’t outdone itself with another musical tribute or interactive game — it’s running an ad directing users to try out Google+. But this isn’t just your average text ad or banner: Google’s drawing a big, blue arrow that points toward your Google+ name on the left side of its top nav bar. Click it, and you’ll launch into the Google+ homepage and signup process.
You can’t miss it.
Volkswagen Silent Band
Ogilvy Cape Town’s Silent Band commercial for the Volkswagen Golf 6 has won a Grand Prix and Gold Loerie Award award at The Loerie Awards, for live events, activations and sponsorship: live activations. A brass band was marched around the esplanade at Sea Point, Cape Town, with only the sounds of their feet on the ground heard by passersby. “Enjoy the Silence. The Quitest Cabin in its Class. The New Golf”.
Game leads to possible AIDS breakthrough
Online video game "Foldit" leads to a possible AIDS breakthrough. Gamers solved a puzzle that stumped scientists.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The Burning House
MTA Weekend Schedules and Construction Info Map to be unveiled Friday
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/ahead-of-its-time-an-icon-goes-digital/
For weekend information about which lines are running or where construction is, the new online-only map to be unveiled this Friday at http://www.mta.info/
Monday, September 19, 2011
Its Like Printer's Porn
Meet Nick Sambrato. He runs a print shop in Orlando, Florida called Mama's Sauce.
Nick isn't a very smart guy. At a time in history when the print industry is pouncing from one space-age technological advancement to the next, Nick has decided to take a giant leap backwards into the industrial revolution.
Meet the Kluge letterpress. An 2,000 pound, cast iron, electric powered monstrosity of vacillating rods, giant spinning wheels and pneumatic hoses. The Kluge is Nick's weapon of choice in his battle against the future.
So why does Nick use the Kluge? . . . (see link)
Meet Nick Sambrato. He runs a print shop in Orlando, Florida called Mama's Sauce.
Nick isn't a very smart guy. At a time in history when the print industry is pouncing from one space-age technological advancement to the next, Nick has decided to take a giant leap backwards into the industrial revolution.
Meet the Kluge letterpress. An 2,000 pound, cast iron, electric powered monstrosity of vacillating rods, giant spinning wheels and pneumatic hoses. The Kluge is Nick's weapon of choice in his battle against the future.
So why does Nick use the Kluge? . . . (see link)
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Cool Post by a Cool Blog: Abduzeedo
Hey Guys
I don't know whether or not this blog is a thing that people know about, but it's a pretty cool one. Certainly not the highest of design most of the time, but a lot of neat illustration and cool regular features. Run by a graphic designer and illustrator from Brazil, they have a daily post featuring work sent in by the site's users and presented as a "Daily Inspiration." Visually stimulating suff, methinks. This one post of theirs today had a lot of particularly moving images, especially that one of a mural by Joe Fenton.
http://abduzeedo.com/astonishing-concept-art-nate-hallinan
Yay!
Marc
I don't know whether or not this blog is a thing that people know about, but it's a pretty cool one. Certainly not the highest of design most of the time, but a lot of neat illustration and cool regular features. Run by a graphic designer and illustrator from Brazil, they have a daily post featuring work sent in by the site's users and presented as a "Daily Inspiration." Visually stimulating suff, methinks. This one post of theirs today had a lot of particularly moving images, especially that one of a mural by Joe Fenton.
http://abduzeedo.com/astonishing-concept-art-nate-hallinan
Yay!
Marc
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Movie Cliché Infographics
These infographics for the New York International Latino Film Festival are great, they show some unmissable movie clichés in cool graphics.
http://www.designer-daily.com/horrible-movie-cliches-infographics-17713
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Skittles Brand Book
The brand book created by Skittles’ design team is quite uncommon, just like Skittles’ website or ads are. It’s very wild and colorful, probably the best statement Skittles could do about its branding.
http://www.designer-daily.com/skittles-brand-book-17594
http://www.designer-daily.com/skittles-brand-book-17594
Transit System Typographic Maps from Fadeout Design
Fadeout Design has created a line of transit maps of the Boston, Chicago, London, New York City, San Franciso and Washington, DC transit systems. The maps are created from the names of the transit stops on each route. Each map costs $25 and is printed on "Saw Grass" 80# cover paper and all but one is 17" x 22".
The maps are a very clever use of typography, creating the transit routes completely out of text rather than the usual lines and dots.
http://www.fadeoutdesign.com/index.html
The maps are a very clever use of typography, creating the transit routes completely out of text rather than the usual lines and dots.
http://www.fadeoutdesign.com/index.html
35 Great Geometry Based Graphic Design Illustrations
35 Great Geometry Based Graphic Design Illustrations
The designs on this page are awesome! They are also very inspiring.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Why Success Always Starts With Failure
A great article about the necessity of failure! This website always has excellent articles and tips for creative people. Highly recommend it!
Ad Banned
The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority has belatedly banned a Phones 4U print ad showing a cartoon Jesus winking and giving the thumbs-up sign.
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/phone-ad-thumbs-jesus-gets-belated-thumbs-down-134786
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/phone-ad-thumbs-jesus-gets-belated-thumbs-down-134786
Friday, September 9, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Jessica Hische//Hovering Art Directors
Great Brooklyn based typographer and designer with an interesting site.
http://jessicahische.is/awesome/
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--Also here is the blog about hovering art directors discussed in class:
Hovering Art Directors
Sexist Ad Campaign
This sexist cookware commercial aired in Australia, but before you start organizing a protest— visit their website.
Crawling with Art
Art season is about to officially open, and WNYC has put together a useful, smart phone-enabled guide.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Water ink art - BDDP Unlimited and Solidarités International
Monday, September 5, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Accident or Intentional?..
Apple News | Apple Has Again Lost an iPhone Prototype in a Bar
Unbelievably, Apple has once again lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, reports CNET.
According to their source, the phone was reportedly lost at San Francisco's Cava 22 "tequila lounge" in late July and possibly sold on Craiglist for $200.
Apple representatives apparently contacted San Francisco police, saying the device was priceless and they were desperate to secure its safe return. Eventually they tracked the phone to a two-floor, single-family home in San Francisco's Bernal Heights.
When San Francisco police and Apple's investigators visited the house, they spoke with a man in his twenties who acknowledged being at Cava 22 on the night the device went missing. But he denied knowing anything about the phone. The man gave police permission to search the house, and they found nothing, the source said. Before leaving the house, the Apple employees offered the man money for the phone no questions asked, the source said, adding that the man continued to deny he had knowledge of the phone.
It's unclear if Apple has managed to locate the device or if its still in the wild.
According to their source, the phone was reportedly lost at San Francisco's Cava 22 "tequila lounge" in late July and possibly sold on Craiglist for $200.
Apple representatives apparently contacted San Francisco police, saying the device was priceless and they were desperate to secure its safe return. Eventually they tracked the phone to a two-floor, single-family home in San Francisco's Bernal Heights.
When San Francisco police and Apple's investigators visited the house, they spoke with a man in his twenties who acknowledged being at Cava 22 on the night the device went missing. But he denied knowing anything about the phone. The man gave police permission to search the house, and they found nothing, the source said. Before leaving the house, the Apple employees offered the man money for the phone no questions asked, the source said, adding that the man continued to deny he had knowledge of the phone.
It's unclear if Apple has managed to locate the device or if its still in the wild.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
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