AIGA Houston

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Something looks familiar, can’t put my finger on it…

“Sex Lives of Animals” at Museum of Sex

“Deer threesome”

‘If You Could’ have teamed up with G&B Printers to bring you the ‘If you could do anything tomorrow, what would it be?’ Diary 2009.

On the same theme as their two previous sold out publications and limited edition print series, 2009 will see a third publication printed, in the shape of a year long diary. Drawing responses from the same question ‘If you could do anything tomorrow, what would it be?’ artists will get free reign on one of the 52 weeks of 2009, embellishing a double page spread template.

52 entries will be selected and published – one for each week of 2009.

The diary will not only be a showcase of some of the best design and illustration in the world, but also of the quality and range of G&B’s extensive printing facilities. They will be sent to the very best agencies and studios with a small number being sold exclusively online. If your work is selected, the diary will give you the opportunity to have your work in front of clients, designers, advertising agencies and more day in, day out for the entire year.

They will be printed in a very limited run, of which you will receive one, if selected.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE AUGUST 11TH

• DOWNLOAD IYC Diary 09 Brief PDF (ZIP)
• DOWNLOAD IYC Diary 09 Adobe Photoshop artwork (ZIP)
• DOWNLOAD IYC Diary 09 Adobe Illustrator artwork (ZIP)
• DOWNLOAD IYC Diary 09 JPEG artwork file (ZIP)

for newbies like me

http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/fonts.html

Design International

The Interns at LOVE AND WAR are leaving this week…too bad, I only just met you guys.

Dbilly

found at chainchange

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Aaron Draplin of Draplin Design Co. along with the folks over at Coudal are creating a three part documentary called Draplin Project, which obviously stars Aaron and I guess it’s going to be his thoughts on the world.

But what they’ve decided to do is give everyone a sneak peak of the film, with Mr. Draplin going on an amazing tirade of how design in America can seriously blow, and how we need to take back design and make it something amazing again. The clip is titled, Why America Is Fucked, and is really amazing, like I couldn’t agree with him more. It’s also filled with a lot of “fucks”, so if you’re sensitive you probably shouldn’t watch the video. As a sidenote, Aaron wrote a note to his parents with the video post, which I’d like to share with you all as well:

DEAR MOM AND DAD: I know you raised me well, and taught me how to speak and behave like an appropriate adult and all that, but, Jess asked the question and I got all fired up and then started swearing like a sailor. These things happen. Don’t excommunicate me.

link KN

Ponoko (about) is for physical things what Lulu is for books and what CafePress is for t-shirts. You create a design for, say, a chair, upload it to Ponoko’s site, and list the chair for sale. When someone likes your chair and pays for it, Ponoko laser-cuts the pieces out of a range of materials, packs them up and ships them to the buyer. Or to you, if you want to assemble the pieces first. You can buy product plans created by other people and, depending on the license, customize them to make and sell something new.

What if there were no stop signs and a major corporation was charged with inventing one?

Documentary video of us going out, projecting and asking people for their own beliefs.
At the end were the animations of their responses that were projected in the exhibition.

I Believe In… from aichenlin on Vimeo.

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(*More exhibition space and opening photos to come.)

http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2006/09/wiedens_ad_stud.html

Design LAB website built with indexhibit.

a set of giant posters located in Madrid, London, Berlin, Brussels & Milan that monitor the noise level on a high-traffic roads. ambient noise levels are displayed via decibel meters connected to LED screens embedded in billboards, in homage to Noise Awareness Day (April 16). the posters were part of AEG-Electrolux’s advertising campaign supporting its new silent washing machine. the accompanying Web site also compares decibel levels of the major urban areas on line graphs to learn more about the detriments of noise pollution.

“Local school kids are taking it a step further and are deliberately shouting at the sign in unison in order to make the numbers change. The Manager of the night club is finding the poster helpful too – he is taking photos of the sign in the early hours of the morning to show the local council that he is not making too much noise.”

link: infosthetics.com

Starling is the New Times
If you are 100% convinced that Stanley Morrison designed Times New Roman, you might want to listen to Mike Parker’s account, where he explains how Starling Burgess is the designer of Times New Roman, having drawn it in 1904, 28 years before Monotype designed it. Font Bureau is releasing Starling, a revival of the original Times New Roman, shown above. Starling will come with an Ultra weight that looks absolutely delicious.

link: SpeakUp UC

World Science Fair Logo Animation

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I know a lot of people say that ‘fashion is just clothes’ and that fashion doesn’t even matter…BUT THEY R WRONG. (They are not deep enough to ‘get’ fashion)

While a lot of street fashion bloggers wouldn’t even notice this girl on the street, they don’t realize that her outfit provides important commentary on life, society, terrorism, performance enhancing drugs, race-relations, the media, the blogosphere ruining journalism, divorce, GHEY marriage, and how humans are different & the same at the same time. It’s a clash, yall. A constant 1, and the only way we can elect the President that God wants in office is to ‘find ourselves’ and the vote based on ‘who we are.’

We need to find out who we are as soon as possible. We must enroll in Art Colleges, obtain design degrees, and change the world, and the way that we look at it, and how we can tell people to stop using gasoline to buy fast food, and go to more music+art+technology festivals.

When u look at the pictured female, ask urself what her outfit represents.
What do the dots repesent?
What do the stripes represent?
How do the stripes and the dots convey differences and similarities?
What’s up with Palestine and Israel?
What’s up with the USA and brown-ish countries?
What’s up with France and Australia?
What’s up with mainstreamers and alts?
Will we all ever co-exist and learn to live and love eachother?
Will movie studios produce more Existential Comedies involving Dustin Hoffman to make the world a better place?

I just want every1 to be able to think critically, like a college professor who has a ‘rlly demanding’ class where you get a “B”, but you ended up finding yourself, your major, and what society is all about.

Fashion is beautiful, yall.
Life is beautiful, all yall.
Fashion = Life = Beautiful
(Yall^3)

Never Forget.

Love Bench Project
Public Art Project

Following my time both living in Berlin and taking residence at Irish Museum of Modern Art my impression of western society is that its population is more comfortable with expressing its sexual identity to the public than Japanese society. My idea was, if I install special benches, which are suitable for heterosexual, gay and lesbian couples in the public spaces of Museum, I was curious as to how people would use these benches. This project is an experimental public project, which will develop depending on people’s reactions.

IKEMOKU
Interactive Installation

IKEMOKU was the project that took place twice in front of the Statue of Moyai at Shibuya Station in Tokyo, a popular meeting place. While waiting, many people smoke. However, there was no ashtray around there for some reason.   Masuyama had an idea to create a new styled ashtray with lots of spines to put cigarette butts so that he could provide smokers a modest pleasure for a moment when they had to kill time.

The work was titled Ike-moku Project , which was named after “Ike-bana” (Japanese traditional flower arrangement) and “Shike-moku” (a cigarette butt in Japanese ). Ike-moku Project is a project to try to harmonize a concept of Ike-bana - creating art by putting flowers into the needles of a base - with a concept of ashtray.

In order to encourage people to put a cigarette butt on the object , Masuyama stuck ten of dummy cigarettes on it.   As a result of that, people understand such a strange, unknown and unidentified object as an ashtray and started to put butts into a spine as he expected.   It was a multiplier effect that the more cigarettes were put on it, the more the object looked like an ashtray.   Naturally enough, smokers started gathering around the Ike-moku.

Eventually, almost all smokers there put a cigarette butt on Ike-moku without wondering why they were doing so.   In about five hours, Ike-moku Project was finished with 55 cigarette butts when the work was removed due to rain.

http://www.adngaleria.com/EN/artistas/shiro_masuyama/shiro_obra.htm

http://www.iheartpapyrus.com/index.html

I met Damien in Seeking, and he was featured on the front page of QBN today.
I thought he should be featured on the front page of our blog too.

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