touché to the 'vandals'

anything banksy can do, the national gallery can do better (apparently...)

over this bank holiday the cansfestival is happening in landan. a weekend long art exhibition celebrating stencil art. so it seems fitting to mention the grandtour project. set up by the national gallery, a possible backlash of sorts towards artists like banksy, self installing graffiti into prestigious galleries and juxtaposing other fine art like warhol's soup & monroe and monet's garden & sunflowers?

the grand tour project took reproductions of the old masters out into the streets of london, framed and hung. an interesting concept.

[photos from nationalgallery pdf.]

covered by the guardian. gallery here. 

no logo

in december 2006, sao paulo's mayor passed the 'clean city' law which effectively outlaws all billboards in the city. now the law has been enforced, the issues it raises, especially for graphic designers is certainly cause for debate and discussion.

couple of good articles over on adbusters, boingboing and businessweek (by creativereview's editor). flickr set with some amazing photos documenting the change over here.

ironically enough, murdoch's excuse for a broadcaster, sky used the situation to make an advert, explaining that they love movies so much, that they're not going to interrupt theirs with ads... srsly wtf?

whadda you lot think on this, comments?

you suck at photardshop... #3

yes. you do. and it's depressing. sort it. up this week, cloning.



hit it up. mydamnchannel.

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the motherland

i recently did my critical studies essay on socially, politically and culturally, powerful and changing graphic design. i decided to look at constructivism and its effects on the russian revolution. i wish i had this article then. alas, it is still an interesting read and has some amazing examples of early graphic design from the 1920's up until 1970. link to the article over on crestock after the jump. 

article here.

also, some links i found at the end of the article and from sifting through comments. a blog seeming to post a different soviet propaganda poster a day, here, and a russian site (in english too) cataloguing russian graphic design here.

kintography

kinetic typography. as showed to us by fred today. i've liked this piece for a long while and brought it into a couple of ppd sessions before now. REALLY wants to make me learn flash/after effects and final cut. whatever the hell was used.

by jarretmoody. hit the link and check more of his stuff out.

some more stuff by olivierbeaudoin entitled 'typolution'. very organic feel to this. seems to be done purely as an illustrative type project rather than worded expression of a film.

and just a bit of fear and loathing for good measure really..? (if you haven't seen this movie, watch it, now, do it now, stop whatever you are doing, and just watch it).

ENJOI.

the biz?

here's quite a cool idea for a business card,  a break-out lockpick set. two near identical designs, one for melvin.net and the other for kevin mitnick, both professional hackers come computer security experts. apparntly melvin.net had the orignal idea and was  adopted and changed (with permission of course) by mitnick for his own use.

shweet.

pocket rainbow

now i don't have a clue what the hell the text says from the site (it's in japanese), but i'm sure it says something along the lines of 'this book is definitely cool'.

check it out @ utrecht.jp

you suck at photoshop... #2!

still not learnt ps yet? and you call yourselves designers? shame. maybe donnie can help you out.

enjoy!

mydamnchannel.com

macca

though he can piss me off at times for unknown reasons, this is actually an amazingly animated itunes ad featuring sir paul. (memo to self: need to learn flash SOON...)


catchy song too (if you can stand the oooOOO). 

don't think you can go wrong with any of apple's ads.  check 'em out at apple.com

raise them on squash!

evidently it seems the big wigs at robinsons' have decided it's time for a makeover, and i'm sure with a campaign like this they've turned some heads over anyways.















pleasing, soft use of colour in both the print and tv ads makes these really appealing to me and i guess to their target audience (mothers/children). i really like the hand, print-made aesthetic too.

there's a nice enough website aswell, with a community/post images section too. kinda cool idea for the sort of product. some random shameless self-promotion by microsoft aswell. strange. link.