Design + culture news
June 23 (14) 09:04 am
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motion {c/y}
#TAG: analog — creativity — installation — music
OK Go – The Writing’s On the Wall
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Pre-order the new album now and get this song and 3 more as instant downloads.. BUT there is more: check-out the ‘goodies’ you can get!
How about a.. pair of Converse sneakers hand decorated by them? Or a custom analog synth kit? Or even ride to a gig on their tour bus?
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The band’s frontman Damian Kulash sometimes makes big declarations like: “We’re trying to be a DIY band in a post-major label world”.
Objective accomplished. Ok to go now.
June 23 (14) 06:18 am
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imaginative {c/y}
#TAG: business of design — web design
Are you going offline for a while? Or in a rut to redesign (again?!) your online portfolio website?? Or under a long term contract inside a somewhere agency or corporation?
Always a good idea to still ‘show-up’.
Collect no more than 10 best pieces and make a slide show as Lee Goater did. Check placeholder and pay attention to info about the project is showing up in the circle.
Smart!
June 21 (14) 14:21 pm
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industrial {c/y}
#TAG: analog — packaging — toys
Now even you can get the highest professional-quality art direction in just seconds with the Pocket Art Director™. Someone completely just made my day today.
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Comes in two ‘handy’ sizes: Full or mini.
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Or buy the ‘real’ rolling Pocket Art Director™.
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via: Derek Kinsman, creative Technologist, Teehan+Lax
June 20 (14) 09:58 am
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industry news {c/y}
#TAG: ethics — privacy — social media
Time to worry! It’s complicated: Facebook’s history of tracking you. Facebook is launching an aggressive technique to track people across the Web by Julia Angwin.
Even if you are logged out!
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Ghostery has a Chrome + Firefox + IE (seems to rem) + Safari + Opera extensions to use to see who is tracking you and to configure what / who you want to block.
June 19 (14) 08:26 am
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illustration {c/y}
#TAG: art — poster
Souther Salazar artwork transports the viewer into a vibrant and endless world of overlapping narratives and dreamscapes — half-remembered, half-imagined places “where stories can develop and take on a life of their own.”
I love to be transported in the realm of impossible possible – a profound trait of being a child – and a defining quality of a creative adult.
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Ready for a kiddy room posters.
June 18 (14) 14:54 pm
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imaginative {c/y}
#TAG: art — graphic design — typography
StudioKxx is home to the extra talented Krzysztof Domaradzki, a graphic designer, illustrator and artist residing in Poland.
His cutting-edge typographic treatments, extremely detailed illustrations that are tempered with very simple interfaces and visual treatment.
Love the green tape wall letter!
June 17 (14) 08:14 am
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art — photography {c/y}
#TAG: photo essay — photo manipulation — portraits
1503 is a strange and fascinating photography essay by Christian Taglianivi a Swiss-Italian residing in Switzerland. The costumes are splendid – the stance impassible. And what about those elongated necks?
No, not simply images, since he loves designing stories with open endings (requiring observer’s complicity) on unexplored themes or unusual concepts, featuring uncommon people with their lives and their thoughts made visible.
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Communication Arts 24-25—calls for entries.
Interactive — October 25/24
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Design — May 2/25
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The Smashing Conferences explore real-life projects, workflows and hands-on insights.
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Upcoming: Oct 28-31/24
SmashingConf - Workshops
Online: check dates.
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AIGA call for submissions
AIGA’s competitions celebrate exemplary design and demonstrate the power of effective design.
50 Books | 50 Covers: February 26 / 24
365: AIGA Year in Design February 26 / 24
Alt Summit 2024.
It is a conference and a community of thousands of women influencers and entrepreneurs in creative fields.
Upcoming: March 17-20 / 24
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YouWorkForThem — Good design needs good fonts! YWFT is privately owned and run by designers.
Rocking it since 2001.
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They LUV design! #13
Mind-blowing visual feats and original designs I recently discovered.
Previously: #12 - #11 - #10 - #9 - #8 - #7 - #6 - #5 - #4 - #3 - #2 - #1
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They LUV drawing! #3
Illustration is probably the largest creative area to express (mostly without words) a message.
Previously: #1 - #2
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A type of Show #5 – I love typography - these projects caught my eye.
Previously: #4 - #3 - #2 - #1
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Moodboards #1 – Branding collaterals staged and served with conceptual brilliance.
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A little (www) Story. In 1995, JF and I started a little project — Netdiver mag.
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