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Trek Thunder Kelly

2008-05-21T15:58:00.000-07:00

Absolutely amazing.

He takes famous persons and immerses them with fashion and pop culture.

Design and a Designer

2008-05-15T09:10:00.000-07:00

Calli-Designs

A Designer

Calligraphy

2008-05-15T08:56:00.000-07:00

Type Kulcha

2008-05-12T16:15:00.000-07:00

TypeCulture.com

Visit this amazing portal to the world of typographic research. See cool films on type setting, letter carving, and more. Edited by the independent type designer Mark Jamra.

Design blog by folks that know

2008-05-12T15:56:00.000-07:00

designobserver.com

This blog is produced by William Drenttel, Jessica Hefland, Rick Poynor, and Michael Bierut, who are highly informed commentators on design, politics, and the state of the universe... well world.

typo types

2008-05-12T15:48:00.000-07:00

Great examples of FRESH FRESH typography

2008-05-11T12:44:00.000-07:00

So this is a page I found with a collection of different designs and links to the designers pages. Kinda cool.

Buro North is a design studio so its a collection of artists who work on the projects. You can look at their recent jobs and it tells you what they were going for as well as having the images in context.

Enjoy guys,
Sarah

Children's Book Creator

2008-05-11T12:23:00.002-07:00

This is the designer I chose to share with you guys. His name is Robert Sabuda and he creates these awesome pop-up children's books. He has a partner for some of his books, including his Pre-Historic Encyclopedia series. I think it's pretty neat and would love to be able to have the skill and talent for creating books like these. Check him out!

~linda

ppaper

2008-05-08T14:50:00.000-07:00

Found Pao & Paws today

If you get a chance check out the galleries.

It scrolls sideways and it is in Japanese, but their artists are still really cool.

This is the artists

at-a-glance this was my favorite. (Adam Pointer)

Love the gradients. I feel like this is the real way to use them.

and I also was attracted to Satoshi Matsuzama

Eco-friendly Design

2008-05-06T09:07:00.000-07:00

I thought that the designer from this site was pretty cool artistically, but also for the reason of their incorporation of their own personal mission to all of their work. I like how this person's career does not relegate his/her idea of what is right and wrong and they decided to work really hard in providing people with alternate solutions for printing and hosting websites in a more green way.
There is also suggestions on the site for greening your work if you are already working in the graphic design field by way of encouraging people to make little changes about the materials that they use to print.

PS: I don't remember html

Joshua Davis. whoa

2008-05-06T06:50:00.000-07:00

(Image and quote from Apple)

The graphic artist I'm fascinated with at the mome

nt is Joshua Davis.

He works primarily in Flash. His pieces utilize the computer's ability to create random compositions.

His colors are amazing!

You can reach his website

His desi gn blog

One of the design sites, "Once Upon a Forest"

Adobe's article (picture up top)

Wikipedia

Interview with Digital Web Magazine

More artwork (that's for sale on his site)

great illustration site

2008-05-04T09:37:00.000-07:00

http://thelittlechimpsociety.com/acerriteno/new-digital-illustration-by-alberto-cerriteno/

Design Contest

2008-05-04T09:35:00.001-07:00

The Capiusa design festival in Guatamala is looking for international artists to submit their work, it’s got a neat brief… ‘Make Design Not War’. The submission date for international artists is 12th May. Enjoy.

Editorial design/Illustration examples

2008-05-04T09:21:00.000-07:00

In preparation for your project in multipage layout, visit http://designarchives.aiga.org/ and, in the filter categories at the bottom left of the screen, select Illustration, Book Design, Editorial Design, and Typographic Design to see great examples of current award winning work in these areas.

In the Thorndike Collection - course relevant documentary!

2008-05-04T09:09:00.001-07:00

Fascinating, three thumbs up .... This documentary references many of the graphic artists and issues we have discussed in this course, in addition to the Unibomber, Negativeland, the CIA and U2.

Sonic Outlaws, a fragmented, gleefully anarchic documentary by Craig Baldwin, approaches this incident from several directions. Some of the film is about the legal nightmare that ensued from Negativland's little joke. In a highly publicized case, U2's label, Island Records, charged Negativland with copyright and trademark infringement for appropriating the letter U and the number 2, even though U2 had in turn borrowed its name from the Central Intelligence Agency. SST then dropped Negativland, suppressed the record and demanded that the group pay legal fees. Trying to remain solvent, Negativland sent out a barrage of letters and legal documents that are now collected in "Fair Use", an exhaustive, weirdly fascinating scrapbook about the case.

Sonic Outlaws covers some of the same territory while also expanding upon the ideas behind Negativland's guerilla recording tactics. Guerilla is indeed the word, since these and other appropriation artists see themselves as engaged in real warfare, inundated by the commercial airwaves, infuriated by the propaganda content of much of what they hear and see, these artists strike back by rearranging contexts as irreverently as possible. Their technological capabilities are awesome enough to mean no sound or image is tamper-proof today.

Design Oppertunity!

2008-04-25T06:49:00.000-07:00

I don't know if anyone might be interested in this, but we need a cover done by the end of the month for Edge of Eden - a disc of student created media. The design is going to be very open creatively so anything goes really. The template is located here www.discmakers.com/templates
The CD template that we will be using is the 4 panel, 2 CD eco-wallet. So just pass anything you like onto me and I will send it on to Nancy with the others so she can pick one that she likes.
Thanks,
John

Books Dru Talked about during class 4/8

2008-04-08T09:27:00.000-07:00

Due for 4/15:

Clean New World--Mod Lavin (read chapter two, part one)

Pick also another chapter to read for class Design Issues, Citizen Designer, or Clean New World.

Also find a designer that you find very interesting to present in class (check syllabus).

"The History of Graphic Design" by Meggs has some more poster ideas for assignment 2.

World War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, & Art

2008-04-07T16:24:00.001-07:00

www.teacheroz.com/WWIIpropaganda.htm

Powers of Persuasion

2008-04-07T16:15:00.000-07:00

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.html

The Russian Avant-Garde Book

2008-04-07T16:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2002/russian/index.html

Some d inspiration.

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There are a lot of sites that I have RSS'd that are pretty cool. I could spend hours, hours, and more hours looking at most of these sites. I apologize if you like them as much as I do (and you procrastinate even more because you are design surfing).

My favorite design site:

NOCOT This site is amazing. It updates usually about once a day and has the coolest stuff. Notcot.com has a lot of marketing and interior and exterior design. There are some amazing ads on there as well as very creative packaging. Very cool. Also, if anyone is interested in fashion design, sister site Notcouture is pretty neat. If you RSS Notcot.org you will be updated every time one of the sister sites is updated. Notcot.org just had a website featured: dyslexflix. :)

Yanko Design is a website similar to Nocot. I just recently found it. It seems as if it is focused more on design of the future.

Some good free sources: FreeVectors.net, SpoonGraphics, and ColourLovers. The first two have free designs while ColourLovers has some wonderful color harmonies for use. Pantone has also released color trend favorites for spring 2008.

Some typography sites I have flagged are: Typographica (recently they named the top typefaces of 2007) and a cool site with Kinematic Typography (this site takes famous movies and animates the dialogue--this would be a pretty cool assignment for motion graphics).

If you are ever interested in entering a graphic design competition try RSS'ing this site: graphiccompetitions.com

Cool ads: Coloribus.com-Advertising Archive

Some personal favorite graphic designers: Joshua Davis, Lisa Alisa, and Geraldine Georges.

And some DIY stuff (done by other people of course): PostSecret and Etsy

Hopefully that will get some people inspired. They are pretty cool things.

Enjoy! :)

Irregular Goods

2008-04-07T15:04:00.000-07:00

http://irregulartimes.com/irrposter.html

Dru's Websites:

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Dru's Websites from her GA1 folder:

Awards:

Adobe Achievement Awards

Blogs:

AIGA Center for Sustainable Design

Design Your Life

Design Writing Research (main page)

Design Writing Research (Deconstruction)

Portfolios:

AIGA Design Archives

Community Architexts (architecture+type)

Daniel Brown (architecture and media design)

Teachers Tap (design portfolios and instruction)

Society for Environmental Design

Creative Circus

Publications:

2wice Arts Foundation

Communication Arts

Eye Magazine

The New York Times: On Language

The Designers Accord

Miscellaneous:

Chico (free stock images)

Slanted (design books)

HillmanCurtis (films)

Humanitech (I have no idea)

Milton Glaser

Wordie (for people that loves words)

Tutorials:

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Tips

AIGA: find your first job

Adobe Flash

Jeffery Veen (5 Steps to building a portfolio)

Typography:

New York Times: About Typeface

Website Design:

Yug Go

2008-04-04T08:44:00.001-07:00

Hi guys! welcome to the COA Graphic Attack blog.

Here you guys can create new blogs to websites and items that you find inspiration from. Also don't be afraid to add your own work. It might be cool to see what other people are doing. :)

Have fun.