More to life than a cubicle...

Bouncing Cats Trailer from Bouncing Cats on Vimeo.


It is great see that things like art, design and in this case dance and music can make such a big difference in the quality of life.

Gorgeous Wings

A collection of pilot wings from various airlines and how they have evolved over time.
Fly the Branded Skies

Tension

Design is not about the arrow hitting the target. It is about the power of the space between the arrow's razor sharp tip and the dead center of the bull's eye.

There's a Soldier In All of Us

This is smart. The Medal of Honor (MOH) series will always be one step behind the Call of Duty (COD): Modern Warfare series. While MOH is till showing you game play shots as their trailer, COD is offering you an experience. They are connecting with gamers on an entirely different level. If you did not notice, they also slip a few celebrity endorsements in here in a believable and not forced down your throat kind of way. Insert Kobe Bryant and Jimmy Kimmel. The chef/fry-cook at the end definitely stole the show. I love to watch video game branding, advertising and marketing grow and become more intelligent every year. Well played guys. Now, can you drop the cost a bit so a young graphic designer can afford to play?

Thrush – A Relationship Through Pictures

Thrush from Gabriel Bisset-Smith on Vimeo.

ESPN Ole Miss Star Wars Commercial

LeBron "Rise"

WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson

Really: New Windows Phone Ad

Mothers Against Climate Change

The Future of the Book

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

Beautiful Errors

I have started collecting some screen shots of my computer when it glitches. Some of them are really beautiful. Eventually I hope to collect enough to create a poster out of them.

How Coca-Cola Got Back to Basics

Best Speech, Best ad – Steve Jobs

Design Is History

Click Here to go to Design Is History

New Post on My Website!

Just uploaded a new project to my webpage.


Design Fellowship

When Legos became more than Legos.

LEGO CL!CK Case Study from Pereira O'Dell on Vimeo.

Chaos Concept Manufacturing

I have always loved these guys work:

Click to see their site: Chaos

Keep on making me feel good about drinking Shiner!!!!!

Expectations

"you get what you pay for." and that's true. you can spend $140.00 for a 1964 ford fairlane which may or may not even start, or you can pay for audi at market value...which had you rather have your clients see you in? which would you rather rely on? that's a great metaphor to ask a potential client when approaching them a prospect for their business—and this has worked for me in the past.

Waiting for ‘Superman’

TakePart: Participant Media - Waiting For 'Superman' - Infographic from Jr.canest on Vimeo.

Levis Viral Video

One day I will figure out how to fix the window so you can see the whole video.

How Corporations Design Stop Signs

Sorry I can't figure out right now how to make the whole video fit.

Also, Havent posted in a while. Been helping develop a new blog here: the desert dessert

Beautiful New Aol.

Aol Phase 02 from Universal Everything on Vimeo.

On Clients

Some people want Lucky Charms when all they have in their pantry are Cheerios. Now you can add sugar to your Cheerios but you will still be missing the marshmallows. 


– Chris Jones

Pentagram's Marks

More Proof for Old People

Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh) from Erik Qualman on Vimeo.

The Evolution of the Batman Icon

Ying & Yang

"Without strategy design cannot last. Without design strategy cannot come to life. It is like yin and yang."


– Read on Brand New

Don't Worry

FOUND ON:

http://blog.iso50.com/2010/04/19/dropular-reboot/

What they don’t teach you about identity design in design schools…

By: Paula Scher

One of the most often repeated refrains on design blogs, in the critique of a new logo, is “Any design student could do a better job.”  This ubiquitous comment is especially amusing to me because, well, it’s mostly true.  If you judge virtually every new logo designed today by classical design school standards, the kids in school are doing a better job. This is because of the way logo and identity design are taught in so many schools, and what that exercise is meant to accomplish. 

Full Article:
http://www.identityworks.com/forum/logo-design/what-they-dont-teach-you-about-identity-design-in-design-schools/

“Don’t try to be original. Just try to be good

“Don’t try to be original. Just try to be good.” That sounds sort of naive but it’s true.Paul Rand, quoting Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


Full movie:
http://www.logodesignlove.com/paul-rand-video

Michael Bierut on Crowd Sourcing

CB: Pentagram are well known for their identity design work, what is your opinion on the recent rise in ‘crowd sourcing’ for logos?

MB: The truth about logos is that they are not that hard to do. If you ask people in the US what logos they like and recognise, they’ll name Target or Nike. Target for example, is just a dot with a circle around it, that’s all it is, so if you want a logo like Target, you don’t need to hire a designer, you barely need to know how to operate a computer program, the logo may as well be anything. God knows we do a lot of them here, but I think the best work in the area comes down to what most designers would agree on: the obvious thing, it’s not the actual logo but how it is used. The Nike swash that cost $30 and was designed by a Portland State University art student was probably worth that when she first showed it to them. At that point it had no equity at all. None of the guys commissioning it particularly liked it, they all wanted the Adidas three stripes and they thought that was a good logo. In the meeting she said “these guys don’t want a new logo they want an old logo, the Adidas logo, but they can’t have that”. So finally, because they were guys and they were embarrassed talking about logos, they said screw it, we’ll take ‘example number three’ the one that looks like a check mark. They just built so much messaging around the logo and associated it with a lot of good products as well; then it became a ‘strong’ logo. The logo itself is really nothing, it’s just two curves, and it’s not hard to do. The way identity firms earn their money is in guiding a company into making a decision about one of these things and giving them a plan for actually using it so they can start to create value around it. That’s one of the reasons I think I like old logos. Someone has already ‘picked’ it and they may have forgotten they did, but we’re not going to argue which is the right logo, we’re just going to say you already have one, here it is! I’ve done that with a few companies. I think part of the reason I like doing that is because I actually don’t think that brand new logos are worth that much or mean that much in and of themselves. So why not have a class of third graders compete to design your logo?

Full AMAZING interview:

http://facingsideways.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/interview-with-michael-bierut/

If Pixels Attacked the World

Just watch and be amazed.



link:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcv6dv_pixels-by-patrick-jean_creation?start=1

Eames – By House Industries

I love this typeface. The unique way the black stencil face is handled makes it even more amazing.

Check it here:

http://www.houseind.com/fonts/eames/fontspecimens

Google’s Doodles

image courtesy of google

Let’s deal with a) first. Apple’s apple symbol is a tribute to Isaac Newton, and hence to science and innovation. It has been bitten on one side, bringing to mind the computer byte and the sexual frisson of Adam and Eve succumbing to temptation by eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. Does everyone get all of that? Probably not. Google’s doodles say similar things (minus the sex) but so clearly that more of us notice.

Now, b). Whereas Apple’s consistency reeks of old-school corporate control, Google’s ephemeral symbols seem timelier. Whether by accident or design, they’re one of a new wave of constantly changing “dynamic identities” that feel right for our frenzied, febrile era. If dynamic identities are too slick, like AOL’s, they risk appearing formulaic — but Google’s clumsiness makes it look sincere, even to its critics.

“For a long time, I hated that logo,” Saville admitted. “But now that Google is so ridiculously powerful, it seems so wrong that I’m starting to quite like it.”

Full article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/t-magazine/02talk-rawsthorn.html

H&FJ's Techniques for Combining Fonts

Article:

http://www.typography.com/email/2010_03/index_tw.htm

The Creative Taste Debate

Rule #2: Understand the difference between art and graphic design

In his book, Website’s That Work, renowned creative guru Roger Black wrote, “Design shouldn’t be mere decoration; it must convey information.” Black wrote that book in 1997, a lifetime ago, yet the principle still rings true today. That’s because graphic design is all about communication, not art. Yes, there is an “art” and a “science” to crafting messages that are relevant and meaningful to a target market. But let’s be clear, art is something we admire in an art gallery. In our homes, we use art to decorate. It’s personal. What it means to me may not mean the same to you. In marketing, graphic design is only good design when it communicates a strategic objective (usually to sell something). If it doesn’t do that, it will not matter how cool it looks, it will not resonate. In other words, no sales. Just mere decoration.

Full article: http://blog.sterlingklor.com/?p=155

The 8 Types of Bad Creative Critics

Milton Glaser on Art

"Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be so persistent. It wouldn’t be in every culture. We wouldn’t know about it…

How does art help you survive? It helps us survive by making us attentive. In a simplistic way, when you go past a forest and you look at it and you say, ‘that looks just like Cézanne.’ And you realize Cézanne has made you see the reality of the forest in a way that you never could have seen before. He’s made you attentive. Every work of art that you care about makes us attentive. And if it doesn’t do that—it ain’t art."

Paula Scher on Bad Work

I think a lot of people would be surprised to hear you describing some of your work as bad. Would you share an example of something that falls into that category? And is it something you felt was bad at the time, or only in retrospect having arrived at a “breakthrough”?

I was really talking about bad periods of work, not individual pieces of design. My “professional” work is rarely “bad”, it’s mostly mediocre or a “B”. That’s because I am too experienced to deliver a terrible job, and I know how to create something appropriate for a given milieu that will function appropriately. There is a TED talk I gave on this about “serious” work versus “solemn” work. Serious work takes place in extraordinarily rare circumstances. That’s when real breakthroughs are made. Sometimes the breakthroughs aren’t that well crafted because when something is new, it isn’t totally refined. It takes the second or third version of it to get the kinks out. Then it just becomes “solemn” work. For example, I think my early work for the Public Theater was “serious” and my work for the Lincoln Center institutions was “solemn”.

The “bad” work I was referring to is process work that the public never sees. To make change, I try things that are just horrific. Sometimes I feel like I don’t know how to design anymore. I put together techniques and genres that don’t really work. I lose my sense of scale or color, I try things that are awful by any standard. If I’m working on a project with a deadline, I’ll finally abandon the failed experiments and fall back on something I already know how to do (solemn work). You can coast through a career like that, but you won’t grow.

Sometimes amidst the bad stuff I see something in a new way. That’s what I’m looking for.

Full Interview:

http://prttyshttydesign.blogspot.com/2010/02/ps-interviews-ps.html

Silhouettes, Sex, and Communication

Found here:

http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/02/who-says-youre-great-lover.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChaseJarvis+%28Chase+Jarvis+Blog%29

Problems: Jay Z vs Tiger Woods

“Not having a girlfriend for Valentine’s Day is kind of like a mail-in-rebate: you’re saving money but you don’t care”

– not sure who said this

found it here: http://whatuptokyo.tumblr.com/

The END, and a new beginning... sort of.

Now that I have my website up and running I will be changing things around here a bit. Which is not to say much since I did not do much here to begin with. This will now serve as a place for me to dumb creative things I find online. It will serve as my digital sketchbook.

My new site: www.onlyjones.com

Color & Association

This is article articulates the value of color and its power over association. It uses the simple analogy of holiday colors to prove why color is so valuable for a brand.

I wish the author had explored the relation ship of holiday colors in other cultures. Is red and green viewed as Christmas colors in Europe? Do foreign countries have as strong of a bond with their country colors as America does with Red, White and Blue? Do they associate Red, White and Blue with America? Some research is in order.

Full Article

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ken-carbone/yes-less/guilty-association-colors-christmas-and-other-holidays

The Devil In Typography

I think if the devil was a font it would be Arial.

Sagmeister Speaks

http://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_the_power_of_time_off.html

Inspiring talk about life and design by Sagmeister. He just jumped ahead of his time in my opinion. This is along video, but a great investment for your future.