Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek from London-based design studio FL@33 are currently compiling and designing an exciting new book entitled ABC Dimensional (working title) to be published worldwide by Laurence King Publishing in spring 2011.
And on the Second Day, the CTN Expo became Comic Con for animators.
Day 2 at CTN-X was wall-to-wall with attendees, standing room only panels, exhibits, demonstrations, screenings and parties. Andreas Deja drawing in the lobby surrounded by hundreds of students and pro’s; talks by Roger Allers, Bill Kroyer, Peter De Seve, Rob Minkoff and [...]
Okay, this is probably the most random post in a while but I am somehow intrigued. Never before have we posted a website for a celebrity before, but this, is truly something else. I don’t know what this says about Jim Carrey, or what he is trying to convey, or the person who created this, [...]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today its short-list of the 10 animated short films that will vie for nomination slots for this years Academy Awards. Thirty-seven shorts had originally qualified in this category and were screened last weekend for members of the shorts branch. The short-list includes Nick Park’s latest Wallace [...]
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A conceptual package design, which at this time is unaffiliated with Coca Cola, created to drastically reduce the cost of both initial manufacturing and recycling.
“A convex logo substitutes colorfully sprayed can. Naked can help to reduce air and water pollution occurred in its coloring process. [...]
This fall the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art opened its new academic building on its Cooper Square campus in New York's East Village.
Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek from London-based design studio FL@33 are currently compiling and designing an exciting new book entitled ABC Dimensional (working title) to be published worldwide by Laurence King Publishing in spring 2011.
Wokerman aka Adam Brackney has been hustlin like a milk man on LSD in a hot July. Check out his wonderful array of goodies for purchase at his recently launched online store. Also, if you get down with the likes of Twitter, follow him there as well.
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The packaging for the complete season of Six Feet Under is absolutely amazing. Designed to look like the cross section of a graveyard, this package comes complete with fake grass on top as well as it’s own gravestone. We’d love to know who designed this if anyone can shed some light.
Via Becker’s Blog
NY-based Sonic Union mixer Steve Rosen takes water on a melodic journey back to its source in the new CGI-rich :30 "Born Better" for Nestle Waters' Poland Spring, out of McCann Erickson, NY, NY.
Remember when those swilry vector bubbly graphic were all the rage? I wonder if all the computer arts kids will now move onto 3D and try their hands at that style again. If they did – the benchmark is probably Mark Gmehling’s work. Tasty.
Troika Design Group, a strategic branding and design agency for media and entertainment companies, has been tapped by Polsky Films, an independent feature film production company, to produce its signature logo animation.
When Director John Hillcoat wanted to create the post-apocalyptic world of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" which premieres nationwide November 25, 2009, he chose DIVE as lead visual effects house for the skill and authenticity required to replicate the mood of the novel.
First a few quick snaps:
Tomm Moore (The Secret of Kells) and Donnachada Daly
Lou Romano (center) gives a young artist some advice.
Craig McCracken (right) and his wife Lauren Faust (left) look over some of their notes.
For a Friday afternoon of an inaugural event it was pretty spectacular. This was supposed to be the “slow day”, but [...]
Every year, the BBC airs a Children In Need charity fundraiser. This year they produced a stop motion music video which, especially for cartoon buffs in the UK, is a pretty big deal. It collects around 120 characters (approximately) from British children’s shows from the last 30 (or more) years. It features classics like Paddington [...]
I got into a discussion with a friend last week about the horrible theatrical cartoons of the 1960s. I call them “drive-in cartoons” because I see no use for them except to be filler at drive-in theaters, allowing time for kids to get concessions or for teenagers to make-out before the main feature. Almost all [...]
You can now check out all the work from the Synth Eastwood Homemade Show from May. Content includes 120+ print, 30+ motion, 20+ audio submissions and 10+ installations.
Who doesn’t love Legos! I remember my parents buying me more Legos than Barbies. I only owned one Barbie, which I actually think was a knockoff version. Anyways, here are some crazy fun Lego sculptures I came across while surfing the blogosphere.
Brooklyn based photographer Noah Kalina just released the third issue of his eponymous magazine. With every issue comes a different theme, and this time, Kalina asked his favorite artists, illustrators and designers to take one (or more) of his photographs and reinterpret them however they like. The result of this inspiring collaboration is gorgeous. Go get the issue.
A life-size Gundam replica temporarily situated in Shiokaze park in Tokyo. It lights up, emits sounds from the Gundam shows and shoots steam out of various parts of its body and the head moves.
Yesterday, Gordon Brown made an incredible speech at TEDGlobal 2009. For a world leader to talk about technology, global consciousness and global ethics in the way that he did, was truly an impressive sight and completely out of the realm of standard political rhetoric. I am truly in awe of his intelligence, understanding and compassion and am very hopeful for the vision that he illustrates in this speech. Please watch it and pass it on.
Derek Hudson is a Paris based, world renowned award winning British reportage photographer with 3 decades of experience, travelling the world for magazine and corporate clients.
Visiting Amsterdam hotspots and related people of the MiNiBar, Momkai, La Melodia (who made the Soundtrack) and HOTEL who designed the Amsterdam map you can download at nike.com/sportswear
Directed by Sartoria for Nike Sportswear
We Choose The Moon celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon mission by recreating the experience in real-time. Right now the rocket is at Stage 6 and will be touching down on the moon's surface Monday at 4:17 EST. After that the entire experience can be relived at the user's own pace, but until then it is real-time video, audio, tweets etc.
Two typographers (plmd.me ) and a pro race pilot collaborated to design a font with a car. Using a combination of motion capture and a stunt-driven Toyota iQ, here is the Toyota iQ font.
Designed by New York designer Harc Lee, Time Switch is a wall clock that was designed to resolve the designers own frustration with meeting deadlines and wanting to “stop time.” For anyone who wants to turn off time for a while, Time Switch offers a flip-switch solution.
Fiction Department has created 2 x 25 Hand printed & manufactured limited-edition, box sets as numbered series for the new Si Begg EP 24-Bit Error Collection
Slightly personal post: My wife Liz, who is currently art directing slash designing at Tank has (finally) started a blog/site to show some of the work that she's been doing for the past 4 years.
Mickey and Johnny got their website up and running, and guess what we found there?
A two-minute animated voyage through nature's life cycle, following the trials and tribulations of a humble apple seed. The film was kindly funded by Adobe, produced at Nexus Productions and features a soundtrack by Jape. It was made using a mixture of stop motion papercraft and 2D drawn animation.
Photo set of the typography used inside the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on anything from exhibition signage to elevator buttons to restroom signs. Via
An epitome of creativity. The outcome of combining fashion & design in an interactive virtual magazine devoted to offering luxury from cover to cover. A ground breaking publication with a provocative approach to visual content portraying the elite in fashion, beauty, design, architecture, culture and lifestyle.
The 2nd wave of online art installations, curated by HKI for the new Diesel perfume Only The Brave is live. This release sees contributions from Michael Paul Young, Tom Muller, Serial Cut™ and Peter Jaworowski.
Goodmorning Technology releases its fresh new website, reworked entirely from the ground up with the great Secretary CMS. A long time coming, the new site is packed with enough new content and projects to get lost in!
Some quality print and collage work from Spain by Jorge Chamorro. It is always great to see artistic work infused with superb graphic design. Get out your scissors and rubber cement folks!
Popped into the wonderful Posteritati store today to see what new things they may have on their walls and saw this gem. The poster of the Woody Allen Classic, Manhattan. Truly a beauty. But quite pricey. Did a bit of googling to see if there were any other versions of this out there and found an even gemer gem.
How can we forget the scent of dolls? A smell of plastic mixed with vanilla, with an after-taste of Roberts talcum powder, that enchanted you at the first encounter. You felt you could eat them...
On December 7, 2005, at an international conference, a new symbol was endorsed for use by the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement societies of the world. It will appear as a flag and as a logo on arm bands, buildings, vehicles, ships, etc.
“The Bourgeois Brass Knuckles are a cross between two iconic objects whose cultural and socio-economic associations lie at opposite ends of the spectrum from one another. Originally designed by Jonathan Sabine, the BBK is being produced in a numbered limited edition run of 50 by the Chromoly studio. Each chrome plated Bourgeois Brass Knuckle comes in a laser etched handmade walnut box.”
A new face for Area 17, a company involving Arnaud Mercier, whom I've always felt is one of the best new media designers in (relatively brief) history. Enjoy.
Zoogami releases a new beer and wants to position it as a modern product that follows the evolutions of the world in which we live. This is the Contemporary Beer project, born to explain, in an experimental and completely revolutionary way, what happens in the world in real time.
Lovely Package® is partnering with FontShop to giveaway a copy of FontBook. All you have to do is email us with your full name and shipping address* before May 31st.
Sweet laptop case. Hard Graft is definitely stepping it up to the next level. The image is from their New High collection, and I’m loving the elastic band on the front, so you can shove misc. items like magazines in there.
Gretchen Nash wrote a book about letters she has been putting into a luggage case since her childhood. In the book, with the letters, Gretchen made beautyful hand crafted infographics on the trends, word frequency, ... she finds in these letters.
Launched a little over ten years ago as a companion to MuchMusic and now part of the bigger Much[Blank] network of Canadian music channels, MuchMoreMusic changed its name and logo this past March.
What do you get if you take 144 squares of paper, a foil-blocking machine and a whole heap of folding?
The answer - an eco-friendly, cost concious, E.P for Sheffield based music maestro ULTRAMEGASUPADEADLY (UMSD for short).
Nylon just launched their new reel....awesome work by Creative Director's Jason Cook and Bryan Lee, dope track by Princess Superstar, and tight edit by Agathe Fay ;)
Boks is an AIR application (so it works on Windows, Mac and Linux) that provides a User Interface for Blueprint CSS’s framework. It’s been designed for those who think the Grid System is good but never really took the time to give it love.
The famous design firm headed by Ivan Chermayeff,Tom Geismar and Sagi Haviv specializing in identity and brand design, art in architecture, motion graphics and exhibit design. Responsible for hundreds of the most famous trademarks in the world such as Mobil Oil, Chase bank, PBS, Viacom, Showtime, National Geographic, NBC, Barneys New York, Univision, Xerox, Cornell and Brown universities, Museum of Modern Art,and many more.
A dear friend has informed me of an exhibition opening this weekend at Printed Matter. A collection of over 100 zines from publisher Nieves since 2004. Worth a look see if you are in the New York area. Cheers.
Colophon is an independent type foundry set up by Brighton based design studio, The Entente (Anthony Sheret & Edd Harrington). As well as distributing and acting as a platform for fonts designed by the studio, it selects fonts designed by others to distribute and create products for.
Transmissions of Consciousness and States of Being through Image, Video + Words.
The curation of hi-fidelity aesthetic stimulation which may affect and expand one’s consciousness, stir up latent cosmic origins, trigger cellular intelligence, tickle the neurons & the warm one’s heart.
Some really interesting work from Nina Jua Klein. Image shown — Type design based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde”.
Here is a little peek at our the posse’s posters. Celeste’s on the left, and the Lifter Baron X Agrimson collabo on the right. Show up on the 4th for more tasty treats. artcrankpostershow.com for more info.
I've updated NoPattern with 10 new projects including work for Invisible Children (which is a great cause, check it out) and a new print for sale at NP&CO
Today Fallon are launching three things at once - "A new logo, a new website, and even a desktop application"
Skimmer is that desktop Air app, aggregating Facebook, Flickr, Youtube, Twitter and Blogger. Though seemingly the 'popular' release of all three has brought their site down! or they've cut their losses are currently restricting ip's.
Non-the-less, it's out there and you read more here.
Our second book as authors and designers, published with F+W Media’s HOW Books, is Women Of Design: Influence and Inspiration from the Original Trailblazers to the New Groundbreakers, bringing full attention to the wonderful work, careers and contributions of women designers, writers, teachers and entrepreneurs around the world.
Kevin Hockin from Boxed Water sent us some photos of their newly launched product. With a package that is more sustainable than plastic bottles, they’ll be giving away 10% of profits to world water relief and reforestation foundations.
We print for other creative companies both large and small. Our friends in Designworks at BBDO in New York made up this gem of an identity system for their new post production suite called The Kitchen at BBDO.
In a long list of illustrators, DGPH stands out by quite a bit for me. It’s been a few years since I first came across their work and their imagination and style keeps me super inspired and unbelievably anxious. Take a second to check out their site for Molestown! It’s a game too! YEH
Track of the day
Really feeling the sugary sweetness of this track by Boreal Network from their Steel Whirl / Empire Builder – EP. Another hit from Moodgadget Records.
The Grid System, the brilliant resource for grid knowledge and resources, brought together by Antonio Carusone. Though I'm sure most already have this excellent site noted, a Forum has recently been added, so go there, sign up and start muttering about further integrating the long learned craft of typography and grids onto the web.
Local art director/designer Allan Peters gave our site a shout today! Be sure to check out his blog. He updates it regularly with great nuggets of inspiration and insight. Thanks, Allan!
Inspired by the Gutemberg’s Textura, this typeface is based on the principle of anamorphosis: moving in space and the angle reveals the letter. by Atelier Aquarium
Typography on the web is anything but simple, and for many, it is a troubling mystery. Today, we're going to review six ways that web designers and developers can improve the typography of the sites they create.
Design Smoke presented by Spunk Design Machine has new video interviews up, featuring Katie Kirk & Nathan Strandberg (Eight Hour Day), Craig Duffney (Design Works & BBDO), and Michael Brown.
World famous architect, Frank Gehry, was commissioned for a sports arena in Brooklyn. The holding company recently decided to fire him from the project. A low blow to someone at the top of his field. PDF article available here.
Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video here, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.
Skimmer℠ is an Adobe® AIR™ desktop application designed to streamline, beautify, and enhance the experience of participating in your most frequently used social networking activities.
The Nerdery (aka Sierra Bravo) has a sweet new website and image! They also featured the work they did on this site in the "Our Work" section. Check out the feature and their new site at http://nerdery.com/.
Lots of new episodes since the last post about them. Check out episodes from Steve Rife, Michael Cina, Sara Nelson Forss and Bill Thorburn! Check it out at http://www.designsmoke.com
There is a major disconnect between the life of a design student and the transition to being a design professional. To demystify the transition, we share the failures, successes, and surprises during our years in college and progression into the field: the creative process, monetary problems, internships, interviews, mistakes, and personal relationships. We include the work from our first design class to our most current client work, along with side stories and interviews from our mentors, teachers, and peers. This book will serve as the ultimate companion for design students, educators, and anyone breaking into a creative field. .
Local letterpress printer, teacher and historian, Bill Moran was recently interviewed by Steven Heller on AIGA national's site about the Hamilton Wood Type Museum. Be SURE to check it out. http://tinyurl.com/billmoran
The wonderful folks over at Grain Edit recently gave a nice shout out to the Emerging Designers site. Check it out and spend some time checking out the rest of the site, if you don't already read it daily. http://tinyurl.com/chr4jm
Check out this interview with Sol Sender, He tells the story of conception and birth of the Obama ’08 logo, including the strategy behind it, developmental concepts and finalist designs for the identity not chosen by the campaign.
http://www.vsapartners.com/news.asp?article=70
http://veaux.org
VEAUX is an online talent market that helps fresh creatives sell themselves and picky buyers find the choicest cut of artistic goodness around.
The newest episode of Design Smoke is now online. In this episode New Zealand art director and musician Aaron Pollock discuses working with Stephen Sprouse, Target, and his band Quarter Acre Lifestyle.
http://www.designsmoke.com/
Follow the trials and tribulations of Zangief, the all-powerful, all-too-sensitive Soviet leviathan from the famed Street Fighter series. Take a look at our short films, a kickoff for Periscope’s Frontal Lobe. You might even learn something about love and loss before you’re through.
Enjoy! From your friends at PERISCOPE.
http://www.zangiefchronicles.com/Z/
Back in the holidays of '08, Sevnthsin created this beast of a holiday promo. Make sure you beat the donkey kong portion to see the final confrontation with THRASHIN' SANTA! www.thrashinsanta.com