Blog ReDesign

Yes I've done it again - redesinged the entire blog. But I think it's cleaner and more organized. That's what was bothering me the most the fact that there is so much information and not enough space to place them. Hopefully this 3 column template will work out better. Or until I find a better way to Preseant the blog.

Building Consumer Confidence in Your eCommerce Web Site

The Internet has changed the way people do business. But as the Web becomes more central to consumers' lives, online fraud continues to evolve—and concerns about identity theft persist. Thus, your future in e-commerce depends on your ability to instill consumer trust in your Web site.

To find out how you can do just that, join this live ZDNet Webcast on April 2nd.

The Liquidlibrary Identity Challenge 5

Identity Challenge 4, which involved the creation of a business card and letterhead for DreamOfProvence.com, concluded recently. We're still judging the many fine entries, which we encourage you to browse and comment on.

The fifth challenge is a bit different, in that the emphasis is on typography. The client this time is GlobalThanks, a Web 2.0 startup that's about to launch its new web application designed for social networking sites. The creators of three winning designs will each receive three-month subscriptions to liquidlibrary.

The Photos.com Philter Phrenzy 1

We're pleased to announce a new Graphics.com design contest. The Philter Phrenzy differs from the existing three in that each iteration is based on the use of a different free or commercial Adobe Photoshop-compatible filter plugin. Participants begin by downloading and installing the current plugin, and then experiment to see what it's capable of and how they can best employ it within either an original work of their own, or one they have permission to submit.

At the end of each round the entries are judged by Graphics.com staff, with three that best make use of the capabilities of the plugin selected as winners. They'll receive three months of access to Photos.com, as well as copies of Plugin Galaxy, from The Plugin Site. So we encourage you to... work yourself into a Phrenzy.

A Brief History of Grids

Adapted from Grids: Creative Solutions for Graphic Designers (RotoVision)

This whole business of grids is so difficult for graphic designers. Most of us love them. But we’re scared of revealing any nerdy or, worse still, despotic tendencies so we jump nervously from foot to foot, simultaneously belittling and venerating the grid. We’ve got to appear to be casual about it—but not so much so that our peers think we’re grid lightweights.

The problem is partly one of association. A grid is generally a series of straight vertical and horizontal lines so, if you’re interested in grids are you "straight" in other ways too? Ultimately, it’s not the notion of the grid that is important—it’s the hand that constructs, the brain that computes, and the perspicacious eye that exploits these invisible structures. Read More Graphics.com.

Mod your computer keyboard, steampunk style

Mild-mannered IT manager by day, mad modding genius by night, Jake von Slatt demonstrates how to build a computer keyboard -- steampunk style. Read More TechRepublic.

Color Control Freak ’08

Control what inspires you.

Come and see how easily you can create, communicate and control color from inspiration to output.

Sponsored by HP, Pantone, Eizo, and X-Rite, this one day interactive seminar will teach you how to capture, create and specify color that will remain consistent from screen to print.

Our national seminars are well known for their quality content and easygoing style. We make the learning experience fun and productive by demonstrating easy-to-follow examples. You'll walk away with a thorough understanding of controlling color supported by exercises, take-away materials, and best practices you can incorporate into your business immediately.

FREE Course Materials
Everyone who attends an X-Rite seminar will receive a comprehensive workbook that also serves as a reference tool back on the job. In addition, many seminars include valuable gifts, discounts, and information on the products and services used during the seminar.

Expert Instructors
Our team of speakers and instructors are considered industry leaders and have accumulated years of hands-on practical experience and expertise in their respective fields. You’ll learn from experts in areas such as digital photography, color management, printing, textiles, plastics, and more.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
If you are not completely satisfied with an X-Rite seminar, we will provide you with a training voucher to attend a future seminar.

You will be amazed at the amount of material you absorb in a day’s training.


Register Early!

To register for Color Control Freak ’08 today, CLICK HERE or call: 888.439.4403.

Ample Sample Call for Entries

Enter Ample Sample and create a design idea that will transform carpet samples into a fixture, a personal accessory, or any other product you dream up!
Check out our new categories for students and Tryk samples.
Winning designs will be promoted at NeoCon, in Floor Focus Magazine and available as a free download to forward-thinking designers from around the world. More Info go to Ample Sample.net

Wallpaper From the Coolest Cats

It's time for a little digital redecorating. Make your computer or iPhone homier with The Desktop Wallpaper Project. It's high design for the low, low price of free. Every Wednesday a new desktop pattern goes live from one of 60 different artists. The first offerings include a mesmerizing tableau from McBess, a captivating character from artist Tim Biskup and a bright, cheery haunted forest created by illustrator Andrew Groves.
http://kitsunenoir.com/blog/2008/03/05/the-desktop-wallpaper-project/

Uniquely Recycled From Gouthier Design

And now that you've saved a few pennies sprucing up your digital environment, you can splurge on the 3D one. The clever folks at Gouthier Design turned printing plates from the firm's design and business journal, Graft, into compelling pieces of art. They brushed 6 x 6-inch sections of aluminum printing plates with separation colors—cyan, yellow, magenta or specialty metallic. Black plates received highlights in white. These limited editions are mounted on 3-inch-deep frame casings and sell for $75.
http://www.gouthier.com/reprint.html

Step Inside Design ISSUE PREVIEW

Here's what you're missing if you haven't read the new STEP:

“The debate over whether the spirit of the age sets the tone for design or if design determines the zeitgeist is not about to be settled anytime soon. The relationship is intimate, and no matter how one sorts it out, this year's STEP Design 100 competition was surely a product of our time." { Read more }


In This Issue: Mar/Apr 2008
1: STEP Design 100
2: Insight: Branding for Communities
3: Q&A With Bungalow Creative's Christopher Huelshorst
4: Color Is ... Blue
5: Pro Practice: Setting the Standards

2008 Adobe® Design Achievement Awards

The 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards gives higher education students from around the world the creative license to propel their careers in the future. Enter in 12 categories in 3 media areas endorsed by the industry, over 60$K US in cash prizes will be awarded in New York City.

Submissions close May 2, 2008.

Ready to submit, click here.

CafePress & Design It How

I have opened up a shop at CafePress and I'm hoping my viewers will check it out. You don't have to buy anything (it would be a nice gesture though), But I would like your input. As You know Comments are alway welcomed. So far I have about 6 designs and working on more. Here is an example.


















SHOP DIH sells gift ideas for graphic designers. Graphic pictures, designs and portraits on t-shirts, mugs, sweatshirts and more. Designer lingo and jargon can be found on clothing and unique custom gift items.

Suggested Reading

Business and Legal Forms for Illustrators



Business and Legal Forms for Illustrators
3d edition

The 3d edition of this popular guide contains 25 of the most essential business and legal forms to meet the everyday needs of today’s successful illustrators. Each form is accompanied by step-by-step instructions, advice on standard contractual provisions, and unique negotiation checklists to guide in making the best deal. Read the Reviews Allworth Press.

Wind-Powered Lighting

We've written before about small-scale wind turbines that consumers can use to generate their own power, and now a new device uses wind power to create mesmerizing outdoor light.

The Firewinder, also known as the Original Windlight, is a decorative and completely wind-powered outdoor light from the UK-based Firewinder Company that transforms the ebb and flow of the wind into an upwardly spiralling glowing light. Read More Springwise.com

Webcast: Storage Is Changing Fast--Be Ready or Be Left Behind

Sponsored by HP
April 16, 2008 (2pm EDT, 11am PDT)
The storage landscape is headed for dramatic change, thanks to new technologies like Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), pNFS, object-based storage and SAS that will affect everything from NAS and SANs to disk drives. Join us for this enlightening webcast that will arm you with the knowledge you need to make the most of your storage environment, now and in the future. >>Register now!

ReGeneration: International Green Computing Technology Design Competition

About the Competition

Invitation
We invite design students and individuals to create a broad range of design concepts and innovations for technology products that demonstrate refreshed approaches and responsible solutions for green computing technologies.

Our goal is to facilitate an open exchange among all peoples of the Earth and contribute to the body of knowledge that advances the practice of environmentally responsible product design for current and future computing technology products.

ReGeneration
What does it mean to be a truly green product when thinking about computing technology? Considering the global scale of computing, this is a big question, the answer to which can make a big difference in improving the Earth’s environment that we all share.

In the spirit of ReGeneration, this competition invites you to rethink what it means to be a truly environmentally responsible computing technology product. With your participation, and through this design competition, we hope to begin a new dialogue, refresh awareness, and explore new directions in sustainable, environmentally responsible product designs for computing. Read More Dell.com

Suggested Reading

Licensing Art & Design
by Caryn R. Leland

Whether you are a designer, illustrator, photographer, or fine artist, you can increase your income by licensing your creative images.

This book will show you how by providing expert coverage of the following areas: how to protect your ideas with copyrights, patents, and trademarks; model licensing agreement; a negotiation checklist to evaluate deals; how to maximize royalties; how to find manufacturers and distributors; and licensing in cyberspace. The revised edition now covers the licensing of multimedia and electronic rights. Read the Reviews Allworth Press.

While-you-wait editing service

Online editing service Gramlee claims that the average email runs about 150 words, and charges under a dollar to edit a document of that length, returning a polished version within hours. Read More Springwise.com

Advertising: The New Creative Agency

A panel discussion on how to incorporate new media into interactive campaigns

As consumers embrace new media, businesses are developing new messages and tools to communicate with them. Emerging technologies offer seemingly limitless possibilities for both massive reach and precision targeting. But after the dust settles, which platforms will still be standing?

Find out what really excites our panel of innovators and experts in interactive media and digital advertising, what they think is dead in the water, and what they're betting on right now and further ahead. >> learn more

Montage: Unmonumental Online

Through March 30, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York hosts an online exhibit, Montage: Unmonumental Online. It features digital collages from 14 artists that mash-up images, sound and programming know-how without a creative brief to play referee.

View Exhibition

Quark Makes a Comeback -

Did anyone notice they were gone?






QuarkXPress isn't ready to run up the white flag and surrender to InDesign just yet. In a clever bid for popularity—and software budgets—the company recently flipped the switch on www.ilovedesign.com. You can create a profile, upload design samples and rate other people's work. Or just watch videos featuring David Carson, Peter Saville and Chip Kidd.

Campus Violence Poster Project

The shootings on the campuses of Northern Illinois University and Louisiana Technical College this past week and the tragedy at Virginia Tech University last April brought a shocking reminder of how an ordinary, daily event can turn into tragedy. This tragedy illuminates, however, the generous human impulse to want to help those who have suffered loss.

In response to this tragedy, UCDA is orchestrating a poster project. We are asking members and designers to design a poster that reflects some aspect of campus violence--the shock of the event itself, the heroism of the survivors, or the importance of crisis preparedness.

This summer, UCDA's Designer magazine will feature the posters, and include them on the UCDA website. Each one-of-a-kind poster will also be on sale through an online auction.

How to Enter
To contribute a poster, please complete the entry form and email your poster file to info@ucda.com.

For More Information UCDA.com

AbleStock Design Brief 8

Project: A design for a mailer to promote a new sushi delivery service.

Client: The client, Blazing Sushi, is a specialist in home delivery of sushi, busily opening up new markets across North America.

Audience: Sushi has broad and growing appeal across generations and income categories. Consuming sushi at home or at the office makes perfect sense, since there is little the traditional restaurant experience can add to it.

Design Requirements: This will be a full-color mailer on card stock sent to residents and businesses near new Blazing Sushi franchises. The design requirement is only one side of the mailer, with the client adding various details regarding the product and ordering on the other side. The dimensions of the design should be in a ratio that will work for the mailer size of 8 inches wide by 4 high. The client prefers a colorful approach that conveys the brand message of trusted quality, nutritious ingredients and speeedy, reliable delivery. Photos illustrating concepts related to the product have been provided from the AbleStock.com collection, but alternative or supporting imagery from the stock.xchng site, or other sources for which the designer has permission, may also be used. The following text must be included:

The brand name: Blazing Sushi
Other text
Handmade with the best fresh fish, vegetables, spices and seaweed.
Free local delivery
New dish: seaweed salad. Free with orders over $50.
Small text along the bottom of the mailer
Tuna fanciers take note: We don't use the endangered blue fin tuna. We use only yellow fin, which also provides leaner meat for both sashimi and nigiri.

Deadline: Designs must be submitted by April 17, 2008.
View the Design Brief 8 entries and submit your own.

Suggested Reading

Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer
by Michael Fleishman


For anyone who wants to establish a new career as a freelance designer or illustrator, here’s the definitive resource! This valuable guide is packed with expert tips and success techniques for getting started, selling your work, promoting yourself, and even what to do once you’re working.

Up-and-coming freelancers will also discover practical guidance for creating a portfolio, making initial contacts, developing a financial plan, acquiring supplies and equipment, pricing work, and even marketing on the Web. Plus, special chapters are devoted to selling work to magazines, ad agencies, book publishers, greeting card companies, small businesses, and more.

Beginning professionals, working professionals who want to make a change, and entrepreneurs who want to go out on their own will find everything they need in this friendly, easy-to-use guide. Read Reviews Allworth Press.

A Type Design Process

Sign up now for Dynamic Graphics magazine's next webcast:

A Type Design Process

April 15, 2008; 2 pm ET/1 pm CS
Registration is free, but space is limited for the live event - Act Now!

Since the advent of the personal computer, typefaces—or "fonts"—have moved increasingly into the public consciousness and more people than ever before are making some of the typographic decisions which designers have made for decades. A look into one type designer's process reveals not only the optical and strategic considerations that go into the design of type, but also provides graphic designers and type users with a "behind-the-scenes" view which can inform their own design process & help them use type more effectively.

Presenter: Mark Jamra of TypeCulture is a type designer, typographic consultant and associate professor at Maine College of Art. He has designed and produced typefaces for over 20 years and is the founder of TypeCulture, a digital type foundry and academic resource. Mark also designs books, creates documentary films and is a partner in a collective of communication designers in Portland, Maine. His lettering and typefaces have been in numerous exhibitions and have received recognition from the Type Directors Club and the Association Typographique Internationale.

Art and Writing Competition

US $10,000 prizes and the opportunity to be published.

Inviting entries for the RedBubble publication — “Gaia – The Living Planet”. $2,000 for best image and written work and over $6000 in other prizes plus the opportunity to be published.

» The Publication

“Gaia – The Living Planet” is RedBubble's 2nd Issue. A premium journal containing the finest selection of writing and art on the net.

“Gaia – The Living Planet” will explore our precious foothold in the universe. This publication is for all of us who live on and love this earth. Submit writing and images about our sustaining world and our complex relationship with her.

» The Prizes and Categories

$2000 cash for the top written work and top image work.

There are five main categories:

1. Poetry: Poems of under 500 words.
2. (very) Short Stories: Short stories of under 500 words
3. Photography
4. Non-photographic digital images: includes digital art and graphic design
5. Originals: scanned paintings and illustrations

» How to Enter

• Sign up to RedBubble or Login if you're already a member.
• Add your work to RedBubble
• Join the group “Gaia – The Living Planet”
• Add your work to the group “Gaia – The Living Planet”

LinkedData Planet Conference & Expo

The concept of linked data is gaining mindshare with developers, users and the more than 200 software companies developing semantic tools.

Come join the system architects, enterprise architects, web site designers, software developers, consultants and technical managers, all looking to learn more about linking the growing collection of available data sources and technologies to get more value from their data for their organizations.

Who should attend

• Database and Information Architects
• Metadata Specialists and Semantic Strategists
• Venture Capitalists, Industry Pundits and Investors
• Enterprise Architects and Senior Developers
• Database Designers, Managers and Administrators
• Researchers, Analysts and Data Consultants
• Web Software Developers, ISVs and SaaS Providers

What you'll learn

• Linked Data Technology Strategies
• Industry-Specific Linked Data Applications
• Connecting Local Data with Public Data
• Building and Using Ontologies
• Lessons Learned
• Linked Data Search and Query
• Business Cases for Linked Data Technology
• Government Use of Linked Data Technology

Sign up online by May 20 and you'll save $100 on the price
of your Full Conference pass. Be sure to use Customer Code: JEM1

LinkedData Planet
June 17-18, 2008
New York City

Eco-Friendly Nikes

Back in 2006, Nike generated copious amounts of street cred with techies when it partnered with Apple and released its Nike + iPod Sport Kit, which allowS gadget-loving runners to synch their iPods via a special sensor placed inside their Nike shoes.

Now, the US athletic shoe manufacturer seems determined to win over green-minded customers, too. In January, Nike introduced the Air Jordan XX3, which uses eco-friendly materials. Then in February Nike went a step further with Trash Talk. From the sole to the shoelaces, this shoe is produced not only from ‘environmentally preferred’ materials but also recycled waste, with much of the latter coming from Nike’s own production facilities—scraps that would otherwise have been discarded.

Read More Springwise.

Layers Back Page Design Contest

How It Works:
Beginning with the March/April issue of Layers, you'll find a design element (a picture, image, illustration, etc.) on the last page of the magazine or on layersmagazine.com/designcontest. Your assignment will be to download the file then use your imagination (and any Adobe® application you want) to create a magazine cover, a movie poster, a Flash® banner, a short movie clip...whatever you can imagine, it's entirely up to you. Then all you have to do is submit your final work for a chance to win a $300 shopping spree!

So, crank up your computer and get creative...it might just win you something!
For a complete listing of contest rules, click here.

Sixth Annual Marketing Forum

Mastering Brand and Marketing Strategies in the Digital Era
San Francisco
Tuesday March 11th 2008 - Wednesday March 12th 2008

Current high speed shifts in media consumption and consumer behaviour are nothing short of spectacular. Digital advertising has exploded. Social networking sites are all the rage as marketers look to obtain eyeballs in places they've never gone before. At the same time, marketers must craft messages that resonate globally as they try to extend their brands and capture their share of the digital marketplace.

If you only attend one marketing event this year, make it Economist Conferences' Marketing Forum: Mastering Brand and Marketing Strategies in the Digital Era, March 11th-12th 2008 at The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Now in it's sixth year, Economist Conferences' Marketing Forum will shine the spotlight on:

• Successful global digital brand strategies
• Creating an efficient and effective marketing team
• Marketing's role in containing product and corporate mishaps
• Beating the two year CMO tenure odds
• Capitalising on marketing megatrends to 2013
... and much more.

For more information or to reserve your place, please contact:

Rosemary DiDomizio
Customer Relations Executive
Tel: (1.212) 554 0627
E-mail: americas_customerservice@economist.com

National Student Show and Conference

Start sprouting ideas. Because all college-level designers, art directors, illustrators, photographers, and even budding writers are invited to submit their finest work and compete with visual communications students from around the country.

Entries in 22 Categories (plus six Scholarship Categories) will be judged by an esteemed panel of nationally acclaimed creatives.

Display of the National Student Show
The complete Student Show will be displayed during the 4th Annual National Student Show and Conference, April 3 – 5, 2008. A full list of accepted entries, along with images of the Best of Category, Best of Show and Scholarship winners, will appear on this website.

Official Student Show Certificates
Winners of Best of Category, Best of Show, Judge’s Choice and Scholarship awards will receive official Student Show certificates. Once the winners are posted on this website, winners can download an Official Selection seal for their portfolios.

STEP’s Best of Web 2007

CALL FOR ENTRIES







Deadline for Entries: April 1, 2008
Enter your great web designs in STEP’s Best of Web Design Competition sponsored by Jupiterimages Unlimited and get the recognition you deserve. Winners will be interviewed and prominently featured in the Best of Web Annual [September|October 2008 issue].

Enter your ...
• Entire Website
• Web Advertising [web banners, pop-ups, etc.]
• Motion Graphics

... in these categories
• Business
• Consumer
• Self-promotion
• Nonprofit | Public Service

HOW Design Conference

You're invited to join HOW magazine in Boston for the 2008 HOW Design Conference. Packed with expert advice from some of the brightest minds in the design industry, the Conference provides everything you need to: get your creative juices flowing, become an expert in the design software you use every day, and get your career on track, whether you freelance, work in-house or in a studio, or run your own firm.

This is one Conference you won't want to miss. You'll hear from Robynne Raye and Michael Strassburger on poster design, Allan Haley on type, Ilise Benun and Peleg Top on pricing your work, and more.

For complete session descriptions, speaker info, and the quick and easy registration form, go here.

Cut&Paste presents: The Adobe Photoshop "See What's Possible Challenge"

Do you have what it takes to show Adobe® what's possible with their own software? Rock out a 15-second or less animation or motion graphic video of the Photoshop brand logo that illustrates the theme of "See What's Possible." The winning work must incorporate and close with the Adobe Photoshop logo and will be used by Adobe as part of an upcoming Photoshop marketing campaigns.

Enter at swp.cutandpaste.com where your work will be shown off in front of fellow designers, fans, recruiters, and potential clients.

Grand Prize
$20,000 and Adobe Creative Suite® 3 Master Collection

Five Finalists
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection

People's Choice Prize (public online voting)
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection

Prizes announced at Photoshop World on April 4, 2008
Check the site for deadline details.

Disclosure

27 Undiscovered Letter finalists. 50 Future ADC Young Guns. One little known fact. Come kick off the launch of ADC Young Guns 6 and see the work of the Undiscovered Letter's 27 finalists.

Guests are invited to disclose a little known fact about themselves - facts will be exhibited anonymously throughout the gallery during the party, and the coolest fact will win a stupendous Adobe prize! Fax anything long or short to 212.643.4266.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
7:30-11pm
@ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC

Tickets $20.00
ADC members $14.00

Sponsored by Adobe.

RSVP online by going here.

ADC Young Guns 6 Call for Entries Opens!

Do you want to join the ranks of Stefan Sagmeister, James Victore, Rei Inamoto, floto+warner, Christoph Niemann, Mike Mills, Bonnie Siegler, Emily Oberman, Todd St. John and the like? Prove it.

If you are age 30 or under and have been working for at least two years in graphic design, illustration, photography, film and video, packaging and environmental design, experimental fashion, interactive media, and/or advertising and publishing, you are eligible to enter ADC Young Guns 6.

Enter your best work April 3-June 2, 2008, through adcyoungguns.org (launching soon!).

Need more? Check out the work of past winners here. Questions? Email noemie@adcglobal.org.

PSFK Conference New York 2008

PSFK presents a day of trends, inspiration and creative ideas on Thursday, March 27 at the Art Directors Club. Ideal for senior creatives, planners and strategists; PSFK has invited a select group of inspirational speakers to investigate the most pressing themes of 2008.

ADC will invite the audience to brainstorm for social causes, develop programming for Designism 3.0 and unveil Designism Social.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
8:30 am-6:30 pm
@ ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC

Questions and RSVP: http://www.psfk.com/psfk-conference-new-york

U-Printing International Poster Design Competition

Fire up your computer, open the design software of your choice and summon whatever vices aid your artistic genius. iStockphoto has teamed up with UPrinting.com and YouTheDesigner.com to launch the U-Printing International Poster Design Competition closing on March 21.

We’re kickin’ it iStock style with three rounds of visual voraciousness. Round one features vectors courtesy of iStock, round two is photos and round three is fonts. Artists will build upon the previous winner’s art.

Prizes include a 16GB iPhone, $250 U-Printing credit, 300 iStock credits and after three rounds the winning artwork will be published in a full-page ad in Print Magazine. Judges are from behance.com, designrelated.com, beautifuldecay.com, designfloat.com, freelanceswitch.com, colourlovers.com and rikcat.com.

Check out discussion about the competition on iStock’s forums or get straight to work on your masterpiece. Good luck!

NEXT: Design Industry News That Matters

The last time STEP checked in with our 2006 Emerging Talent alumni Andre Andreev and Dan Covert, the two had launched dress code, their New York-based graphic design partnership, on top of their day jobs at MTV. But as Andreev and Covert left MTV last June to focus exclusively on their fledgling firm, they pondered a puzzling question: Where were all the books to help young designers like them get started in the real world? "Coming out of school, we found there was little material on getting a job and the transition to professional practice," says Andreev.

Read More Jupiter Images

Still Working on the Logo

If you've seen my blog in the past 3 months, then you know I've changed it's look several times. I've changed the template, the color of the template, the font and a bunch of other things. Well I've finally decided to keep this template and add a logo (easier said then done).

After several attempts at creating a logo - I finally decided on a simple text logo. Choosing the font was easy enough since I have an affinity for Optima. Now if only I could settle on the colors. If you go through the other pages of my blog, you'll notice they all have different color scheme. I am still working on it. Oh well, what is life if not a work in progress.

Animal Planet Logo Redesign

Did anyone notice when Animal Planet Redesigned their logo?
I don't know how long ago it was done, but I never noticed it. In fact I didn't notice - someone else had to tell me. In any case not to sure I'm liking this new logo. See for yourself. What do think?

Shango Rum Liqueur Bottle Redesign

Adapted from Design Evolution: A Handbook of Basic Design Principles Applied in Contemporary Design (Rockport)

By Tim Samara
Dateline: February 22, 2008




















Premium luxury spirits are a dime a dozen. Consider, for instance, all the brands of high-end vodka currently available. Fighting for attention on a strictly visual level used to work, but within the crowded field of spirits cloaking themselves in subculture and lifestyle, the visual had better have backup. Shango is a brand of spiced rum liqueur whose brand traded on a cultural mystique to build loyalty among its target demographic, but wasn’t telling its story. To do so effectively, the brand needed to be addressed from a new vantage point— one that Wallace Church, Inc., a New York strategic branding and packaging firm, discovered when they began their research.
Read more Graphic Design articles

Grand Prize Winner

EnerJar
- Matt Meshulam and Zach Dwiel
The EnerJar took top prize of the design competition—both a favorite of the judges and the crowd at the Greener Gadgets Conference in New York City. The EnerJar is an easy-to-build, DIY device that accurately measures the power draw of electrical appliances. Sitting between any wall outlet and the appliance (think blowdryer versus laptop), the EnerJar helps users gain an understanding of power draw, investing them in the knowlege, and leading them to reduce their electricity use.
View Entry

March 2008 Photos.com Challenge

The love of pattern is something all cultures have in common and it has fascinated creatives throughout history. Part of pattern's appeal is that it's typically based on natural motifs, as expressed so well in the work of the Art Nouveau era. We're getting the jump on Spring this month, thanks to our selection of six floral patterns from the Photos.com stock photo collection. The challenge is to use part of any five of the six pattern images below in a new composition. You can download the medium-resolution versions individually or an archive containing high-resolution versions of all six.
View the March entries and submit your own.

Mediabistro Circus

Learn more and register at www.MediabistroCircus.com

Mediabistro Circus will feature sessions about:

• Digital publishing
• Social media
• Online video
• Mobile technology
• Blogging, podcasting, vidcasting
• User experience design

Who should attend:
Professionals from publishing, broadcasting, public relations, advertising, marketing, design, interactive media, video, and music.

From Paper to Pixels

How to build an online brand for print publications

Register today for this upcoming mediabistro.com Webcast
From Paper to Pixels: Building Your Print Magazine's Brand Online
March 20, 2008 - 2:00pm EDT, 11:00am PDT
Speaker: James Daly, Editor In Chief, Edutopia

Registration is FREE. For more information and to sign up today visit- http://solutions.internet.com/index.php/4616_default/

It's a challenging time for magazines as publishers face the task of transitioning from traditional media to an always on, 24/7 model. Edutopia, a magazine focused on innovation in education and published by the George Lucas Educational foundation, has transformed into a successful digital publication without sacrificing the printed product.

In mediabistro.com's first Spring webcast, James Daly, Editor In Chief of Edutopia, will discuss their print-to-online integration that has enhanced the exposure of the magazine content, expanded their customer base and built a community around the brand.

Don't miss this important webcast - attendance is limited. To sign up today visit http://solutions.internet.com/index.php/4616_default/

Make-My-Own-Monster Custom Design Kit

Make all those imaginary monsters come to life with the Make-My-Own-Monster Custom Design Kit. We've partnered with the talented designers and artisans at the North American Bear Co. to offer this extraordinary chance to design your very own one-of-a-kind monster.

Over Priced: Yes
But Undoubtedly Unique.
FAO.com

ASPP FILM SERIES

LOOKING FOR AN ICON a film by Hans Pool & Maaik Krijgsman

LOOKING FOR AN ICON examines the process by which photos become icons, revealing that once a photo is published, social forces are at work beyond the photographer's control. The film focuses on four World Press Photo winners, including Eddie Adams's 1968 photo of the public execution of a Viet Cong prisoner, an anonymous photographer's last image of Salvador Allende during the 1973 coup, Charlie Cole's 1989 photo of a lone student confronting tanks in Tiananmen Square, and David Turnley's 1991 photo of a grieving soldier during the first Gulf War.






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March 6th at 7:00 pm
Doors open at 6:30 pm

WESTBETH COMMUNITY ROOM
57 Bethune Street or 155 Bank Street - enter through courtyard

CONTRIBUTIONS OPTIONAL
POPCORN AND BEVERAGES AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

BRING A FRIEND!

RSVP REQUIRED

For more information contact:
aspp_ny@yahoo.com

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