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A sneak preview of the staging area for the Little People concept / project I will be working on for the next 2 weeks. Played w/ some props and done a couple preliminary shoot for proportion, details, lighting etc. via iPhone before shooting w/ my Fuji x10.

I’ve written / storyboarded about 18 potential vignettes so far. Psyched about materializing my miniature world.

Stay foolish – stay inspired!

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While I am away working on a project for the next 2 weeks, follow my Pinterest for inspiring eye candy visuals across 7 boards. You can pick to follow any one or all:

Designy -> Outstanding concepts / eye candy designs.

Cool stuff -> Stuff found. Merch / toys / accessories.

Furniforma -> SOHO / Home / Office.

Pretty pictures -> Shot w/ iPhone – or not.

Typographika -> <3 typography – examples 2 study.

‘C’ -> Part of an on-going concept research.

Analog or not -> I read / see / hear.

The Colour Envelope #10 by Studio Laucke Siebein

Superb bookmanship mastering editorial design / layout and packaging. Full of colours of course since the client is Akzo Nobel Decorative Coatings. Eye candy project.

Who wouldn’t dream of such an assignment?

Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone by Adrian Tan.

He was the guest-of-honour at a recent NTU convocation ceremony. This was his speech to the graduating class of 2008.

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Oh that title is provocative! More than that in fact. Read it. It’s a MUST. Really I insist. It deeply affected me. It still resonates today. A few times in a lifetime you’re offered a jewel of rare intelligence, of insights of that kind. Rare. Very.

Consider your options. You find the title too (insert thought here).. or not enough (insert another thought here)..

Pass reading.. Missing. Big time.

This is a lifechanger.

Regular Graphic Design Today. Editors: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, A. Mollard

My notes on key statements excerpted from the foreword:

Nowadays designers like to combine three different stylistic tools – for ex photography – typography – patterns (illo) – to create complex works.

Create a very personal impression on observers / visitors.

Underlying? The need to ‘humanize’ the result. Although you can’t see me – there is still a real person behind this piece.

Economic hardships lead to creating greater value = reducing superficiality.

‘Authorship’ means that designers are increasingly creating all components of their designs (images, fonts) themselves. This happens to such an extent that posters, small portfolios and magazines are being produced and published entirely by the designers themselves. Distributed via Internet / mail.

Develop your own design profile / target a signature collection / your own trademark approach. For years I have spoken about the ‘Online the Brand is You’ principle. Treating yourself as a product (not in a dehumanizing sense / but w/ literal objectivity) to achieve expressing uniqueness of talent = your signature.

Sometimes clients w/ approach bc of personal work.

Behance Portfolio Review WEEK

I was invited to review portfolios as a ‘senior’.. no pun intended.. Love extending the wings of creatives. Get movin’ Montreal.. time to show-up.

Upcoming: May 17 @ 18h30

Less and More: Dieter Rams exhibit project at the Design Museum by Bibliothèque.

A retrospective exhibition dedicated to Dieter Rams, one of the 20th century’s most influential industrial designers. As head of design at Braun, the German consumer electronics manufacturer, Rams defined an elegant and rigorous visual language for its products.

The exhibition featured 244 objects, spanning six decades of his life and work.

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Father of the ‘Less is more’ principle – this exhibit / installation project is one that I wish I could have seen. He was a master at beautiful in simplicity that is timeless.

When you look at these today – you can’t miss being impressed by this creative giant who is making quite a comeback in the design circles in the past couple of years.

How to Spot the Future by Thomas Goetz

Odds are that any idea deemed potentially transformative, any trend we think has legs, draws on one or more core principles. They have played a major part in creating the world we see today.

1. Look for cross-pollinators.

2. Surf the exponentials.

3. Favor the liberators.

4. Give points for audacity.

5. Bank on openness.

6. Demand deep design.

7. Spend time with time wasters.

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via: Chris Lüscher

ButterworthSullivan or BWSN for short has established a reputation for delivering progressive websites, brands and applications. We take an interdisciplinary approach, blending the practices of design, technology and branding — to create modern interactive products.

Niiice elegant landscape scroll website.

Colour Mania by Viction:ary.

Where the world dances in a veritable kaleidoscope of colours, everything becomes one of its kinds in their unique colours even if they are flat and mute. Taking a glance at a rambling collection of works, extensively covering campaigns, illustrations, branding, packaging, products and more.

It manifests how unicolour designs draw on the essence of nine colours and a rainbow tone, and project powerful impacts in an era ablaze with all sorts of hues.

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If you like colors as I do – this one is for you.

Screen capture courtesy of Jess3 iPhone showing a Twitter notification w/ a forget me know quote: A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it — Brenda Laurel.

Off to work out of the studio / fleeing intense renovation.

Craziness! Making of time-lapse of the illustration DJBroadcast 52 – Robot Illustration by Super Silo.

In the past couple of months I have been experimenting w/ photo apps and am now considering buy an iPad to take photo editing further. Nevermindus shooting w/ an iPad – but syncing w/ my iPhone library – would enhance tenfold w/ the larger view port – to export back to workstation in a digital pictureshow project I’m currently working on.

The only down side? Hate the inscreen keyboard. So a couple of weeks ago found the NoteBookCase for iPad 2 (3 to be released mid-May – but only available in Japan). Was pretty excited by the product until I saw this one. Ooooh!

Brydge a full-sized aerospace-grade aluminum keyboard with optional stereo speakers, connects to your iPad using a patent-pending hinge. You can pre-order on Kickstarter.

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Shake Test is selling me.

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via: Taxi

Showing some cool design projects by Natasha Jen who now has joined Pentagram’s New York.