anyone in advertising can really appreciate this clip
Stop signs are one of the many things we take for granted. It's hard to believe that there was a time before the stop sign existed, and that someone had to invent it. The Process is a fun short about how things would have turned out if it were designed by committee.

http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2008/07/23

Harbour Island & Eleuthera, The Bahamas

As most people know,

I just moved to Nassau, Bahamas the first week of June.

While we're not quite settled (house under construction)

and still living out of a suitcase,

we decided to take advantage of the holiday weekend.

This is just a little taste of 'Island Living'.

Washington Lottery: Birds

Cheers to whatever your wacky dream may be.

Photoshop Tutorial

create a vector composite effect from a photo

click here

Leo Burnett

love this website, even though it's nothing new, i just can't get enough

leoburnett.com

Cannon: Journey

taking life frame by frame

Coldplay Apple, spot

ColdplayAndApple

Pretty awesome.

Rainbow gradients are back.

nolaf.org

Great example of how to use the web to advertise a product

and entertain viewers.

nolaf.org

Red Bull: Flight Lab

Red Bull give you wings...

build your own flying machine, paint it anyway, flap your wings and take off..

redbull.com/flightlab/

Calgary Font! New from VEER!

veer.com/ideas/galleries/calgaryscript/

Paint That S**T GOLD!

paintthatshitgold.com

The Minneapolis hip-hop duo lets fans play graf artists.

Promoting their newest album When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint that S**t Gold, the Minnesota duo of producer Ant and MC Slug, better known as Atmosphere, are giving fans some virtual spray cans and stencils to tag any site on the web. 

Go to Google for instance and paint the site gold while listening to cuts from the latest record. Artwork and/or tags can be saved to the site’s web gallery where users can vote or comment on creations. There are also tour dates, downloads including MySpace skins and wallpapers and webisodes that offer the "making of" scenes of the album.

Britt Spencer, Illustrator

A fellow SCAD graduate's website and work... great stuff!

Always great to see fellow alumni doing wonderful things in the world.

brittspencer.com

Nice Illustrations

sampaints.com/portfolio.html

McDonald's Outdoor in Europe.

Outdoor posters were turned into large interactive push puzzles that consumers

could solve in order to "sort your head" This was done to promote

McDonald's Large Coffee for only 1 Euro.

CommArts: Exhibit

162 pages of the latest and best deign and advertising projects from around the world!

http://commarts.com/exhibit/

Great Inspiration to begin the working week!!!

Book World poster campaign: Ad agency JWT Dubai created this poster campaign for Book World, a beautiful store off a quaint lane in Dubai, crammed, corner to corner, with rare, old and very old books.

Bountiful Bicycle Center: advertising posters Richter7

(Salt Lake City, Utah) saw skyrocketing gas prices as an opportunity

to sell road bikes to current repair customers.

Letterpress Cards

Check out these two great sets of cards I purchased.

I'm going to frame them and hang them around the our new house!!!


Letter Cards are from L|2 Design Collective

Hat prints are from Hammermill Press

The Rather Difficult Font Game

It offers 34 random fonts (different every time you visit).

For fellow type geeks to enjoy!

play it here

Time Magazine's: Design 100

Today's Most Influential Design

Great design is no longer reserved solely for museum-worthy products, as multitasking designers turn their attention to everything from books to artisanal food, and from lighting to transportation.

Check it out here, Design 100

This book cover is fun!

Love the 'alternative' approach to type.

Top 10 Sites for Designers

bluecusa.com

Blue C

An ad agency based in Orange County, CA.

creativepro.com

CreativePro.com

Educational and inspirational site for designers (print and web) and photographers. Strong how-to tendencies.

moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/

Design and the Elastic Mind

This fascinating MoMA show explores the intersection of science and design.

farshidmonfared.com/

farshid monfared

Monsters and other creatures from Iranian illustrator Farshid Monfared.

coke.com/hf

Happiness Factory

With the Happiness Factory, the Coca-Cola website turns an animated TV ad into a series of engaging interactive games.

idea2dezign.net

Idea2Dezign

This visual culture blog is a showcase of websites, designers, design tips, ideas and resources.

maground.com

MAGROUND landscapes

MAGROUND is a picture agency for landscape, urban and background photography. The high resolution images are optimized for the use in advertising and CGI.

nikolaysaveliev.com/

Nikolay Saveliev

Stunning portfolio of New York City-based designer Nikolay Saveliev.

SuperKonductor.com

SuperKonductor

SuperKonductor.com showcases the screen-printed posters of Chicagoan David R. Head, Jr., as well as blog posts about visual culture and a calendar "to-do" list of upcoming art events across the country.

tacosalpastor.net

Tacos al Pastor

The art and design of Joel Martinez.

Travelers Insurance-Delivery

A dapper man and his 35-foot umbrella come to the rescue of all they meet on a whimsical trip to the city. An umbrella for all season.

Retouching: Photoshop Bliss

Check out these sites

(some will let you roll over to see the original, then the modified):

amydresser.com

bestretouching.com

retouchshoppe.com

Tiger Beer

Beautiful prints that embrace the heritage of the 76 year old brew.

Skittles Piñata

New ad for Chocolate Skittles, bizarre. He's just like everyone else.

Candy Magazine

This is an extravaganza of stellar

design, illustration, photography and fashion

and you can download part 1 of the new issue of

Candy for free!

60MB and 157 pages of pure inspiration.

http://www.candycollective.com/

Coca Cola: Inspiration

Weiden+Kennedy/Amsterdam viral videos to show that Coke

'is happiness in a bottle'

Keith Richards for Louis Vuitton

Wowwww... this is different, never saw this coming.

Schweppes: Burst

slow motion balloons, so beautiful... love slow motion and the music :-)

Thomas Woodruff's: Freak Parade

a beautiful book filled with amazing typography and illustration.. delicious!

Thomas Woodruff’s Freak Parade is a sequential series of 32 large paintings, created with both exhibition and book form in mind. Mr. Woodruff’s paintings are major endeavors of delicate detail that resonate with many layers of meaning and levels of activity. Like an onion, small worlds unfold from within larger ones inside his complex and ambitious compositions.

Wellcome Collection: The Heart

"The Heart" exhibit nestled in London's The Wellcome Gallery visit:

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/heart/

Here, visitors the world over can glance at the importance of the organ from not only the obvious medical standpoint, but in art, literature and pop culture. Click the hotspot found on the mural-spackled heart on the homepage, then watch it unfold into a tiled gallery with each window offering everything from video footage of speeches on the heart, detailed paintings of the organ, images of heart patients being helped and so forth.

Animal Planet: Anthem

This is so fun, Animal Planet gets more edgier... love it! Great Music.

80's Type Party

The new video for DVNO by French superstars Justice is a full-on gradient chrome

’80s type extravaganza. Directed by the brilliant Ed Banger

records impresario So Me.

OBEY: Obama

Shepard Fairey of Obey Giant fame supports Obama through his graphically powerful posters.

http://www.obeygiant.com/

Saw this sticker in Jacksonville last week and when I went back

to take picture they were gone... beautiful!

Saks Fifth Avenue, new packaging

A new identity designed by Pentagram for iconic New York retailer Saks Fifth Avenue launches on January 2, 2007. After the jump, partner Michael Bierut describes the process behind the development of an identity with more variations than there are electrons in the known universe.

For Saks Fifth Avenue’s fall campaign, Pentagram asked the designer and typographer Marian Bantjes to create a special promotional treatment of the store’s “Want It!” theme.

Paula Scher, film shorts

Hillman Curtis short documentary
of the very inspirational, Paula Scher from Pentagram

David Carson, film shorts

Hillman Curtis short documentary about David Carson's life in design

Travel Alberta: Ski Lift Bench

Ride a lift to the summit while you wait for your train.

ever changing hair trends...

another great example of guerrilla marketing for a salon

watch to see how it works:

http://creativity-online.com/work/view?seed=PMbzMhvU

Prada Trembled Blossoms

curiously chilling and vividly beautiful

James Jean for Prada

IKEA dream kitchens

Genius is the only thing that comes to mind.. they've done it again! WoWoWeeeeee..

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/rooms_ideas/ckl/default.html

Helvetica [A Documentary Film]

This documentary demonstrates Helvetica's impact on human life and thought. While some praise it as a conceptional breakthrough never to be questioned, others blast it for perpetuating conformity.

Happy 50th Helvetica!

movie trailer below... enjoy

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much,

to win the respect of intelligent people

and affection of children,

to earn the appreciation of honest critics

and endure the betrayal of false friends,

to appreciate beauty,

to find the best in others,

to leave the world a bit better,

whether by a healthy child,

a garden patch…

to know even one life

has breathed easier because you have lived.

This is to have succeeded.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly

trying to make you something else

is the greatest accomplishment.

Mantra...

Saw this today and thought I'd share with all, a design-ism of sorts.