One Plus One Equals Three has a quite an interesting page of what is design quotes for you to stroke your chin at
Here is my quick sketch of my awol tea strainer from my previous entry, The Office Kitchen Vortex, as requested by Phil.
Idea Protection is one of the must have bookmarked links for legal info on protecting your precious money making and / or creative ideas.
It’s always nice to get positive feedback on your design efforts from your audience.
Nice!
The contest to design a commemorative quarter for this year’s Canada Day was won by Nick Wooster, aged 11, of Saanichton, British Columbia with this great, cartoony moose design.
Possibly the cutest coin I’ve ever seen — via BoingBoing
Utah-based artist Tom Forsythe, who won a five-year legal battle with Mattel over his photographs of Barbie dolls sometimes naked and paired with kitchen appliances on Tuesday said the court decision cleared the way for other parodies of iconic American brands. The ruling late last week by a federal judge in Los Angeles was the second major blow in two years to a bid by toy maker Mattel to defend Barbie’s image from use by artists and singers
Paul Curtis, a Yorkshire graffiti writer, has come up with a really clever writing technique: he lays a template with his tag over a dirty wall, then sprays the template with solvent, leaving behind a clean patch bearing his message. It’s inverse graffiti — he’s selectively cleaning up dirty walls.
He decided to commercialise the process and tagged Smirnoff ads in Leeds, and that’s where he got into trouble: he’s been ordered to remove
the clean patch of wall and get rid of the ad — via boingboing
Curators at The Museum of Modern Art are looking at adding graphic design to it’s collection. Currently they display works in Architecture and Design, Drawings, Film and Media, Painting and Sculpture, Photography and, Prints and Illustrated Books.
Q: Is Graphic Design, not Simply Posters, Museum Worthy?
A: Super short answer, yes.
Q: Why has it taken so long?
THOUGHTS: Modernising MoMA: Design on Display
For all you Home Star Runner fans, be sure to check out this week’s update, including photos of The Cheatar, a giant fibreglass guitar with a sexy The Cheat design. The guitar will be auctioned off for charity along with other over-sized guitars, after being on display for a Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame exhibition in Cleveland.
The Cheatar is modelled with one of those sexy 80’s hair metal band members from Limozeen.
What is Art Direction?
Art Direction and the Web
The linked articles above are a good read for any designer, art/creative director and/or aspiring ones, in all mediums not just web. Yes, you can have art directors in web design, and yes there is a need for them.
I went for a job interview a couple of years ago for a web design posititon. When asked what I’d like to be doing in 5 years time I said art direction. My interviewer (marketing manager), looked puzzled at me and said this isn’t graphic or printed design, so we won’t need an art director. I went on to explain (very unsuccessfully), that no matter the medium design is still design. Silence. He then reworded the question and I answered the same. I didn’t get the job.
A few political sketches took a 15-year-old Prosser boy from his art class to questioning by the Secret Service — and thrust him into a debate over free speech
I got an unexpected shiny thing in my e-mail this week. Greg Brotherton has a luscious new creation available that I desperately want: the Brotron Hamilton D-6.
The lightest of the rapid fire pulse cannons, this compact power house turns you from a tank commander into an actual tank. Choose from a range of antipersonnel and armor shredding settings for the variable auto-feed. Repeated firing can damage internal organs so be sure to add a rapid fire recoil vest before hitting the field as one man wrecking crew.
Art alert!
This looks like it’s going to be very cool indeed: www.resistcrew.com
Sydney Exhibition:
29th April 2004
Galeries Victoria
Level 2, Shop 4
500 George Street
Sydney
A very nice example of public art.
Several beautiful examples of trompe l’oeil paintjobs on streetside utility boxes, either traffic light switching boxes or telephone punch-down racks.
No idea where they come from, although the text on the books suggests Israel.
A gallery full of photographs of wonderfully ornate French manhole covers.
Some amazing metalwork from a time where the simple things in life were created with great beauty.
It seems a shame that since these photos were taken some of the manhole covers have been removed.
Michael McDonough’s Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School
Nuff said. Good article. You can even just read the sub heads and you get the idea. Some of my fave sub heads from this are:
- 1. Talent is one-third of the success equation
- 2. 95 percent of any creative profession is shit work
- 3. If everything is equally important, then nothing is very important
- 7. When you throw your weight around, you usually fall off balance
- 10. The rest of the world counts
Some entries so far in The Iconfactorys annual Pixelpalooza Contest.
My favourites so far are ‘Geezers’, however ‘One Of These Days’ is not without it’s charm. ‘Baggies’ and ‘Reenex’ are also kinda cool, and ‘Paperface’ has a very cool simple anime-stationery cuteness about it. I can see plush talking dolls made out of this set.
Speaking of plush talking dolls, go buy a Cheat from Homestar Runner, or at least checkout the demo.
At the same time The Unstrung Harp was being published, Gorey was embarking on another project, one which turned out to be part and parcel of a major change occurring in the paperback book industry: designing the covers for the new Anchor Books.
Looky-looky! Online postings of covers by Edward Gorey. Check out Those Gorey Covers!
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