Sweet Posters and Illustration

Tommy likey. (Quote from Tommy Boy)

TragicSunshine

If I could live in a website...

...I'd make my home at http://holdenouterwear.com/ * -  a retail company started by professional snowboarder, Mikey Leblanc. You can see by the style of the site it's incredibly innovative and not your typical retailer site. I recently bought a jacket from these folks and the site has been a great tool in evaluating resources for my Motion Graphics class - looking at sense of place and personality in film. 

So, if you could live somewhere on the great world wide web.... where would you be??

* Be sure you have sound on

Fitch Live

Fitch has an impressive client list and an office here in Seattle. Check out their portfolio page. Its so fun to interact with these non-conventional interfaces!

RIP, Polaroid...

Make your own mock-polaroid pics –-- Rich showed me this today!! >> check it out

Tomasz Opasinski - Poster Designer/Real Good at Photoshop Guy

I'm sort of regurgitating this from graphic-exchange.com, but I visited Tomasz's (Polish I believe?) site and was amazed at the size, quality, and high-profileness of his portfolio. My favorite part was under the 'evolution' section where he shows the images he starts with and then the poster he ends up with, very inspiring! Check it out!

Crush + Lovely

Hia, INK! This simple project was put on by a creative group based out of San Francisco –Crush + Lovely– who's motto goes something like this: We celebrate human narratives through digital formats. We create meaningful experiences on the web. We light up ideas that light us up.

Abstract as this may be, I think they're onto something. To offer everyday people a chance to dream and wonder and share their own creativity is a beautiful thing.

Timesculpture Commercial

Twitter

It’s true. I’m now connected to Twitter. It’s just really unbelievable how life has changed because of social networking. Yes. I admit. It’s awesome. I can’t wait to let everyone know what I’m doing... especially when what I’m doing is completely wickedly cool. Sometimes I even wish that while I was doing something really cool, I could tell everyone about it so that everyone knows I’m up to something fun and my life isn’t boring.


Please be careful. There are some interesting ironies happening inside of this trend. We are more connected to the rest of the world than ever before in the history of civilization. But in the same moment –it’s my assumption– that we are more disconnected with our neighbors. Because communicating is convenient. Notice, convenient. But the most convenient doesn’t mean the most beneficial.

Something to think about.

AA Next Generation Business

Take a look at this animation, a really interesting way to show off American Airlines's Next Generation Business Class. (Speakers UP, the sound effects are kind of fun too)

Loosing Altitude

Well first, hello all! Its great to see you again. I hope your breaks were refreshing and enjoyable. Second, here is some INK Group catchup...

Info graphics! (I promise I didn't choose this one just because of the airplanes.)

Clean and economic, click the link for more from this group.

And the winner is...

(Emailed to me from Jeffrey Overstreet)
Hey, designers, you might enjoy this.

The 2008 IMP Awards


It’s a gallery of the year’s movie posters. If you have time to browse, I’d love to hear which posters impress you most.

NOTE: Jeffrey Overstreet has just recently updated his website. You can connect with Jeff at LookingCloser.org

Film Friday - Breadstick

Make your own typeface!

This site offers a way to make your own typeface by writing each letter on a template then scanning it and uploading it. I'm most curious to see how wacked the kerning turns out. It'll be fun to try though!

About a blog

I had nothing to do with any design on the blog I'm blogging about, but there's a lot of great stuff on it! Good resource.



Above is an example of the cool kind of stuff on the Graphic Exchange blog.

Transportation and Signage

Check out "The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway"

I came across this article on the evolution of signage/info design in the subway system, etc. and immediately thought of the 09 orientation theme as it's been discussed. The article itself is a bit long for anyone with attention disorders like myself, but may be useful in further discussions/brainstorming. Cheers!

I believe in...

During my meeting this morning with photographer John Keatley, he dropped the name of a blog that he has been following for awhile. John has been focusing on commercial work for the past year and has been using I Believe in Advertising as a constant source for inspiration and great tool to help evaluate trends in the commercial industry. I hope we will be able to find it as useful as he has found it.

T5

I found this image pool on flickr, hope it inspires something for the new orientation theme...

Heathrow Terminal 5

The Kingdom and the Gospel

I can't help but post this on our blog. If you can't tell, I've been inspired by the brand new University Ministry campaign. I've had so much fun working on these illustrations. My goal was to present the vast openness of space as the metaphor for the kingdom, and the familiarity of our planet as the metaphor for the gospel. My hope is to visually communicate UM's vision in connecting these two significant components of our faith. Together, we want to emphasize this beautiful union.

Justin's Trippy Transparencies

I came into work today to find a few images had been left on my workstation desktop-and it turns out they happen to be genius works of art by none other than the Justin Rusk. Brilliant work, schoolmate.

Film Friday - 2

This week we have an exciting recap of the office retreat that University Communications attended in October. It was pretty much as intense as this video portrays. Enjoy!