Andrea Alstad presents some helpful tips on using paper choices to add interest to your design in her article "Layering Color to Add Depth, Interest to Your Design".
Freedom from HTML Fonts
The font choices for web design have gotten a lot more expansive, thanks to services from companies like Fontdeck, Webtype, WebInk, Web Fonts, and Typekit. These companies provide an online library which is accessed by brief snippets of code, provided when you pay to use the service. How's technology columnist, Stephen Beale, provides a review of the five services mentioned above in his article "Technology Review: Web Font Services".
Cadavre Exquis
Tim Burton is depending on you to create Stainboy's latest adventure, which began "Stainboy, using his obvious expertise, was called in to investigate mysterious glowing goo on the gallery floor...". Read the story thus far, then tweet your contribution using #BurtonStory.
Poster Genius
"A poster series curated by Edit — each designer was asked to represent a musical genre using one shape and one type (stating the genre)."
Wear a Book
How Low Can Your Logo?
"We are testing your capacity to willingly create that which you spend your entire life trying not to create: the worst logo ever. Participants have the chance to conjure up design demons from the darkest nether regions of their inner world and be purged of them forever. The process looms with graphic doom and will undoubtedly leave the best among us contorted in pain. But may the lowest of the low-brow win! The logo lancelot with the worst design will surely bask in the glory of industry infamy for generations to come."
Visit http://howlowcanyourlogo.com/ for the design brief and a list of prizes.
Bigger is Better
Share your iPhone on a larger scale with tableconnect...when it gets here. A prototype is available for viewing, and its pretty nifty
Twitter for the Creative
Artylizer is Social Media that lets you enjoy and share your favorite art, ideas and creations.
You can:
- post short text messages (up to 333 characters),
- attach/embed images
- add links to your messages (youtube and vimeo links are auto-embed)
- point location on map
- subscribe to other users' feeds and send them messages
- perform creative design & art for sale
The perks:
Each month, users with the most subscribers will get a special promotional package of their artylizer profile page on Facebook, and receive gifts from artylizer sponsors.
Communication Shutdown
Do you suffer from social media mania? Do you constantly tweet, or update your Facebook status? Can you manage to do without it for just one day? Today would be a great day to give it a try and simultaneously raise funds and awareness for Autism worldwide. Communication Shutdown 2010 will provide a CHAPP (charity app) for a minimum donation of $5 that advices your Twitter followers and Facebook friends of your decision to remain 'silent' for this one day in support of the autism cause.
The 10/10 Project
"A single day represented in 100 photographs." "The 1010 project was devised as an antidote to everything in modern life always having to be bigger, better, louder and brighter than what’s been before." "10 photographers. 10 photos each. All taken on 10/10/10."
What Did You See Today?
Graphic Designer, Art Director and Photographer, Alex Becker has an eye for the extraordinary within the ordinary. His site, Things I Saw Today, features out-of-the-ordinary items in ordinary circumstances that some might walk by without so much as a second glance.
The HTML5 family (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and others) is making strides to push Flash out of the picture. You can stylize fonts without adding images, create photo galleries that don't require a third-party plug-in, incorporate 360 degree elements, integrate video right into your code, and a host of other things that make your HTML site appear very Flash-like. Apple, Google and Microsoft have created extensive showcases about what HTML5 can do for you. Don't get too excited though, according to David Bliss of odopod "Right now, Flash remains the better choice for rich, immersive experiences."
Bye Bye Lorem ipsum
Goodbye Lorem ipsum, hello Fillerati! A brain-pleasing alternative to meaningless filler text, Fillerati is a site that allows designers to pick an author, and a selected piece of work, then create paragraphs, headers, lists, or just a few words to use as placeholders in works in the making.
Topography in Typography
Exquisite and ingenious is the best way to describe these city maps by Axis and world maps by Typomaps....a must see for type lovers.
Visual 'Cliff Notes' for Complex Issues
There's nothing better than a visual solution that simplifies complex data. If you want to "[Make] sense of complex issues through data and design" visualizing.org is the place to go. Want a better understanding of the scope of the damage created by the oil spill, how about what will happen to the world if greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed? You could read about it, or get the 'cliff notes' at visualizing.org.
Packaging is Everything
Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze, attractive precious metals and stone, and the categories for this year's Pentaward Package Design winners. It is so much more difficult to pass up those unnecessary items when the outside is as sleek, sexy, fun, unusual, or just downright brilliant as these.
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog
Here's a fun game for the hard core typographer...or anyone who wants to be a hard core typographer - The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog (a Typeface Memory Game designed by ps.2 arquitetura + design) tests your recognition of different font types and teaches you a little about the typeface. Game night anyone?
Xerox Urging Us to Blaze Trails
Any information you could ever want is readily available somewhere out there in cyber space. The trouble is sifting through all the unrelated information the search engine pulls up to find what you want. Xerox thinks they have found the answer to the information overload syndrome portrayed by Bing in their television commercials. Trailmeme, 'a new kind of publishing', allows users to create meaningful patterns in web content. You can blaze your own trails, and benefit from the trails of others.
Who Won't Make the Cut?
Care to take a guess at the selections for this year's Communication Arts Ad Annual? Here's a hint, it won't be any of the nominees for The Consumerist's Worst Ad in America 2010. Voting ends tomorrow (September 28), if you want to add your voice.
Make the Client Think He's Right.
In the October Issue of Print Magazine the article "The Art of Seduction" reveals some of the sneaky tactics designers use to get those "intractable, unimaginative, chronically contrarian, colorblind, or just plain grumpy clients" to say 'yes'. You would have to be pretty gutsy to pull off some of these tactics, but they are nonetheless funny, non-pedagogic lessons that design students may chose, or not choose, to store for future use.
Advertising Agencies at Risk?
In his article "Who Needs Agencies?", Brian Morrissey exposes the increasing popularity of Groupon for marketing needs. Social platforms appear to be taking over every aspect of life these days, but can they be used to eliminate the need for advertising agencies? That idea is about as grandiose as desktop publishing eliminating the need for Graphic Designers.
'Manmercial' - the sequel
Everyone knows the sequel is never as great as the original, and Barbara Lippert of Adweek agrees that this is indeed the case with Wieden + Kennedy's newest campaign for Old Spice, with Baltimore Raven's linebacker Ray Lewis. As Lippert said, Lewis' spots simply reinforces Mustafa's position that men want to be him.
More Bang on Your Buck
If you've travelled outside of the U.S. you've likely had to exchange your standard green bills for what looks like 'funny money', as most of the world's currency varies in color and size according to the denomination of the bill. In "The Buck Stops Here" Steven Heller posits that designers have questioned the aesthetics of U.S. currency, and points towards suggested redesigns created in "The Dollar ReDe$ign Project". If implemented, any of these could be a welcome change for tourists and the visually impaired.
Type Safari
"Go on a Type Safari" by James Felici takes you on a 'typographic trip' to countries all across the globe to view exotic specimen of the 'typographic kingdom' and seek out and enjoy an endangered species - hand-painted signage.
Folded Inspiration
It's a Social Event! It's a Presentation!...all folded into one.
Sappi Fine Paper invites you to the debut of The Standard 4, Scoring & Folding FOLDED INSPIRATION. Presented by Kit Hinrichs and Trish Witkowski.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at the Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art (1717 North Harwood Street, Dallas, TX 75201). Reception from 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. and presentation begins at 7:00 p.m. RSVP online.
Sappi Fine Paper invites you to the debut of The Standard 4, Scoring & Folding FOLDED INSPIRATION. Presented by Kit Hinrichs and Trish Witkowski.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at the Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art (1717 North Harwood Street, Dallas, TX 75201). Reception from 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. and presentation begins at 7:00 p.m. RSVP online.
2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards
The Adobe Design Achievement Awards recognize innovative students and faculty members who AMAZE the world. Finalists will receive Adobe software and a trip to Taipei, Taiwan, where they will be honored in an awards ceremony during the 2011 IDA Congress set for October 24-26, 2011. Category winners also will receive a cash award of US$3000.
For deadlines and more information visit the ADAA website.
For deadlines and more information visit the ADAA website.
010 Gallery Accepting Submissions
The 010 Gallery is taking submissions for exhibitions for the Spring Semester 2011. The application is on the website for downloading at www.twu.edu/visual-arts on the front page, the sidebar info, and top of the Student Organization page. Tabitha Salazar is heading the group handling the application process and voting this semester. Any questions go to her at: gallery010@yahoo.com.
The deadline is Dec. 6th with Voting on Dec. 8th and 9th.
Flux Student Design Competition
This is the fifth annual Flux, brought to you by AIGA Blue Ridge. Submitted work will be selected by a panel of accomplished designers. The selected entries will be displayed in Frederick, MD.
Flux Competition Categories:
- Identity (ID)
- Posters (PST)
- Publications (PUB)
- Packaging (PKG)
- Web/Interactive (WEB)
Entry Deadline: Saturday, September 25, 2010, 11:59pm EST
Entry Fee: $5 per entry
- (Entries containing multiple pages in the following categories are allowed 3 images per entry.)
- • Publications
- • Packaging
- • Identity
Eligibility: undergraduate and graduate student work and freelance work created between August 2009–October 2010.
Click here for registration details and file specifications.
Mail all entries to:
- AIGA Blue Ridge
Attn: Flux Student Design Competition
73 Stockade Court
Hedgesville, WV 25427
Reception: Saturday, November 13, 2010
Southwest Airlines Internship
Southwest Airlines has several Spring Internships available in Dallas, TX. Deadline for applying is September 30, 2010.
With our NoLimits Internship Program, Southwest Airlines can guarantee you more than just another line to add to your résumé. Not only will you get hands-on business experience in your particular field, you will also get to experience the Fun-LUVing Culture that makes Southwest Airlines home to one of the most highly sought after internships year after year.
We are looking for individuals with the following:
* A Warrior Spirit, a Servant’s Heart, and Fun-LUVing Attitude!
* A commitment to Customer Service
* Excellent communication skills
* Sense of humor
* Self-motivation and energetic personality
* Team-oriented quality
* Flexibility to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
* Ability to work well alone or with others
As a Southwest Intern, you are treated like an Employee from the very first day you start. You will be challenged to push yourself and grow not only in your professional life, but your personal life as well. Previous Interns have written for our inflight magazine, assisted with ad campaign photo shoots, and helped design marketing strategies for new gate openings as well as various other activities that have a direct impact on the success of Southwest Airlines.
Not only do you get to have FUN and enjoy your work, you get paid as well! The payment amount will depend on the particular internship and requirements. All Southwest Interns enjoy free, unlimited space-available travel to anywhere that Southwest flies, and each Intern takes full advantage of this unique opportunity.
For more information, go to http://www.southwest.com/careers/internships.html
TWU Annual Art Alliance Student Art Competition
The 2010 Art Alliance Student Art Competition will be held November 15 - December 1, 2010. Work most have been completed by TWU students in a course taught at TWU within one year of the exhibition. Entries will be accepted at the East Gallery (Visual Arts Building) on Tuesday, November 9th and Wednesday, November 10th between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. or 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Entry forms are available in the Art Office (107), the Gallery Office (108) or online.
Illustration Competition
Print is having its first-ever illustration competition. $20 student entry fee. Deadline: October 1, 2010. Visit the site for more information.
Intern at Print Magazine
Print is seeking highly organized interns to work in its editorial and art departments. Read more at PrintMag.com: Work With Us: Intern at Print
Rebrand "Keep Denton Beautiful" Contest
Keep Denton Beautiful (KDB) is a non-profit organization whose mission is inspire individuals to take greater responsibility for creating a clean and beautiful city through litter prevention, reduction of waste, and community beautification. They are looking for a fresh new look that is more exciting, trendier, and more distinctive. They would like a new logo, word mark and tagline.
The contest winner will have the opportunity to see their design through to implementation with an unpaid marketing internship. This is a great chance to build a portfolio and gain some “real world” experience.
For further information contact:
Jannibah Coleman
Volunteer and Program Coordinator
Keep Denton Beautiful
1117 Riney Road
Denton, Texas 76207
T: 940.349.8737/ F: 940.349.8396
E-mail: jannibah.coleman@cityofdenton.com
Web: www.KDB.org
The contest winner will have the opportunity to see their design through to implementation with an unpaid marketing internship. This is a great chance to build a portfolio and gain some “real world” experience.
For further information contact:
Jannibah Coleman
Volunteer and Program Coordinator
Keep Denton Beautiful
1117 Riney Road
Denton, Texas 76207
T: 940.349.8737/ F: 940.349.8396
E-mail: jannibah.coleman@cityofdenton.com
Web: www.KDB.org
FedEx Office Deliver Your Design Holiday Card Contest
The winning card design will be featured in FedEx Office's 2011 holiday card collection for customers to purchase. Plus, you’ll win a $500 Target® gift card. Visit the competition website for further information.
Part-time Graphic Designer Needed
We're a small, but growing internet company. We provide products and services to the Service Contractor Industries (currently Heating, Air Conditioning, Plumbing, and Electrical). We've been in business for eight years, and we're consistently profitable.
REQUIREMENTS:
We're looking for a part-time (20-25 hours per week) Graphic Designer Admin to help us create and manage compelling, useful, high quality marketing and other content for our customers (heating, air conditioning, electrical, and plumbing contractors). We will pay $9 - $15 per hour depending on skills and experience.
Duties will include:
· Working with creative team and management to complete content projects on time and to specification
· Posting content to our website
· Creating and sending content notification emails
· Creating forms and templates as requested
· Communicating with customers effectively via email and telephone in a professional manner that projects a positive company image
· Maintain project list and complete projects on time
· Perform other duties as assigned
REQUIREMENTS:
· 1 - 3 years education in Graphic Design, or comparable experience
· Ideal candidate will have experience or be proficient in the following:
o Microsoft Publisher (will train if otherwise qualified)
o Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
o Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
· Ability to work in a production environment
· Strong work ethic; self-motivated
· Excellent communication skills – verbal and written
BONUS SKILLS:
· Previous marketing experience
· Strong Illustration work
· Knowledge of Video editing
· Adobe Dreamweaver
· Adobe Flash
Please send a resume, work examples (links will be fine) and contact information with your response.
Please do not respond if:
· You don't have a resume and work examples (we will delete any email without both)
· You're a jerk (we have no tolerance for jerks)
· You cannot reliably commute to Lewisville Texas Monday – Friday
o We shouldn’t need to point this out, but just to save time… You can’t reliably commute to Lewisville TX from adjoining states or foreign countries, so if you don’t live within EASY daily commuting distance we don’t need to see your resume.
Please reply to sarah.blackhall@serviceroundtable.com
Call for Entries....Typographic Book
Letter, Word, Sentence, Paragraph: Typography Basics for Print and Digital Media is a book that breaks down the study of type into a systematic progression of typographic relationships. HOW is calling for any design/art that has a typography focus to be published in the book. Entry information is available at allabouttype.com. Deadline: March 30, 2011
National Portfolio Day
On Sunday, October 3 the National Portfolio Day Association will hold portfolio reviews at the Hilton Anatole from noon to 3:00 p.m. This event is for undergraduate students only. For further information call Melinda Richardson at 212.592.2110.
Logo Competition - Florida Blueberry Festival
The City of Brooksville, located in Hernando County, Florida, is hosting the First Annual Florida Blueberry Festival in 2012. The Florida Blueberry Festival Committee is offering talented art students an opportunity to participate for a minimum enrollment fee of $50.
There will be 13 cash awards given, totalling $10,000 with an additional $1,000 to the first-place winner's school. Visit www.floridablueberryfestival.org for details.
Rising Eyes of Texas 2011
Rising Eyes of Texas 2011 is now seeking undergraduate and graduate students to submit their best work!
NEW ENTRY DEADLINE: DECEMBER 15, 2010
This year's juror is Risa Puleo, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin.
Cash prizes are awarded; last year over 30 artists from 13 Texas Colleges and Universities were exhibited.
Photo Contest: The inFocus Campaign
Denton County Friends of The Family present The 2010 inFocus: look at the real message campaign.
How Do I Enter?
The rules are simple. All participants have the chance to submit original artwork in 1 of the 4 contests: photo, video, t-shirt design or bill board design to increase the knowledge about interpersonal violence prevention and the media’s impact on violence against women. For a pdf of official contest rules email Jana Perez at JPerez5@twu.edu.
The inFocus: look at the real message Awareness Campaign 2010 will provide prizes for creating original artwork and short videos on interpersonal violence prevention and the media’s impact on violence against women. Participants have until Friday, October 22, 2010, to register and to submit their original artwork and/or video.
Selection Process:
The judging panel will select a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winner from each contest on. All winners will be announced October 29, 2010 (no later than 6:00 pm) on the Denton County Friend of The Family Official Website (www.dcfof.org) and all social media sites used for promotions. All winners will be contacted (by phone) by a DCFOF employee and they will have to claim their prize in person (must have a valid form of identification).
Follow Us:
Facebook: Denton County Friends of The Family
Twitter: dentoncountyfof
Digg: dentoncountyfof
Logo Contest - Haltom City Public Library
The Haltom City Public Library is sponsoring a Logo Contest as part of its 50th birthday celebration in 2011. The deadline for entries is 10/30/10. For more information, and to request an entry form, contact the library at 817-222-7790 or the committee chairman at 817-503-0394.
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Help Needed
1. Presentation Creation: Every spring, SIFE competes with a formal 23-minute presentation, and needs a professional looking visual presentation created from the presentation points, pictures, video, etc. provided.
2. Teacher: SIFE hosts a Girl Scouts Interest Project conference at TWU on Nov. 6 (Saturday, 8-5). Teachers need for Media Savvy, AV Production, Graphic Communication, Desktop Publishing, and Computers in Everyday Life classes. Each comes with a set of skills and exercises to cover, and each class will be 3 hours on that Saturday.
TracyLocke Summer Internship
"Do you love, love, love advertising? Do you look through CA for fun? Unwind with ad blogs? Know Adobe Creative Suite and InDesign like the back of your hand? Do you crave brainstorming like most people crave macchiatos? If you love coming up with smart, fun, strategic ideas that get attention and move people", then apply for a summer internship with TracyLocke.
Art Exhibition Opportunity - Ramen Republic
Denton’s Asian inspired noodle restaurant – Ramen Republic, is a new venue for Denton’s local artists to display their works of art in a public environment. The partners of the restaurant have a love of the local arts and a commitment to further the interests of our artists.
“Our restored red brick wall is an ideal backdrop for display of local art’” says Charlie Foster who is the founder and managing partner of Ramen Republic, LLC. “We invested in a gallery quality display system that will allow each artist to properly display their works in the manner in which they please” states Foster.
Working with guidance from the Greater Denton Arts Council, Ramen Republic has developed an exhibit plan that will allow artists the chance to display their artwork and also allow them to market the artwork after their exhibition is completed. “We hope to be able to have a large variety of artwork – from photographs to abstract art” states Foster.
Ramen Republic is an Asian inspired quick-casual restaurant that specializes in custom made noodle soup bowls, crisp salads, tart yogurt, and offers fresh brewed ice teas and better for you beverages. It also will be offering unique beers, wines, and sakes. Ramen Republic is also committed to the environment with eco-friendly packaging, a recycle station, and energy conservation practices.
Ramen Republic – 210 E. Hickory St. Denton Texas 76201 940.387.3757 www.RamenRepublic.biz
Freehand Fonts
When none of those pre-fab, "scripty", faux-handwritten fonts will do, go to YourFonts. For a mere $9.95 you can have a font created that is based on your own handwriting – within 15 minutes. ZACH SHIRLEY :: CONTRIBUTOR.
London Olympic Logo Woes
The logo for the Olympic Games in London was released over two years ago amid rabid critique. Over a year in the making by the UK's Wolff Olins and costing over $800,000, ABC News called it "a jigsaw puzzle" and quoted several British design blogs whose descriptions include "a 1980's hangover." Designer David Airey's blog posts excellent commentary on the logo complete with links to other posts. And to complete the bash-a-thon, the Sun posted a sensational headline with claims that when animated, the logo causes seizures. Although the logo is already in use, should it be modified or redesigned? ZACH SHIRLEY :: CONTRIBUTOR.
Smell Like a Man, Man
Wieden + Kennedy has scored big with its "manmercial" for Old Spice. The spot has garnered more than 7,000 comments (and 13,000 or so "likes") on Old Spice's Facebook page and has been viewed more than 3 million times on YouTube. Even more interesting is the fact that many viewers are convinced it aired during the Super Bowl (it didn't), and it has generated a ton of consumer-generated spoofs and parody videos. Barbara Lippert of Adweek provides a great breakdown of what makes this manly-man campaign so successful.
Hilton Loses its Sexiness - Again
Remember Hilton Hotels in the 70's, 80's and even 90's? Okay if you don't - they were sexy and so was the logo. Scarface was filmed at the Fontainebleau Hilton in Miami, Sinatra played at the Waldorf Astoria Hilton, and Elvis loved the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Hilton was for Players. The logo has undergone several changes over the years, and when Landor took on the re-brand, great things were expected. But part of the creative concept includes reference to "the posts of a bed" – at a Hilton? Sigh. Hilton hotels do not have beds or bed posts, they have "luxurious, cloud-like, custom-made sleeping accommodations covered in Egyptian cotton". See a full breakdown of the re-brand at Identityworks.
Super Bowl, Super Ads?
The New Orleans Saints finally got their win, and this year's Super Bowl was the most watched TV event with over 106.5 million viewers. And exactly which was the winning commercial depends on who you ask, but top votes on all counts went to the Doritos Dog and Snickers "Celebrity Sack". Barbara Lippert of Adweek gave Google's "Parisian Love" top honors outsmarting other ads in both concept and budget. Other favorites include: Doritos "House Rules" and Dave, Oprah & Jay Leno's surprise plug for The Late Show.
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