A Brief History of Title Design

A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.

Live the language - Paris, London, Beijing, Barcelona

Such beautiful typography in so many languages

Nice Rebrand Video

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

Design Is History

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New Post on My Website!

Just uploaded a new project to my webpage.


Design Fellowship

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.

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

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/

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/

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