For the Animation devotees!
SYDNEY ACM SIGGRAPH presents:Animationese
What’s this all about?
A panel of animators from various cultures and countries talking about their experience working in animation around the world.
Featuring a panel brought together by producer and animator Rodney Whitham who has worked extensively at executive level in USA and Australia including:
o Nobuko Burnfield – Japanese
o Eugene Linkov – Bulgarian
o [...]
Pantone Cosmetics
Looking for some inspiration for package design I have found this at http://lovelypackage.com
I would love to have one of those! Actually… how come I did not think about this myself ;)
Designed by Renata Veiga
St Bartholomew’s Church by Maxim Velcovsky
This is not a new project, but it is certainly one of my favourites.
Completed in 2007 this church in the village of Chodovice in Eastern Bohemia, is a beautiful example of a contemporary baroque interior.
The quiet simplicity of this design has a sacred and ethereal atmosphere – it’s just lovely! The clean lines of the [...]
Onitsuka Tiger illustration
Heyyyy guys; as you might now, not everything can be just teaching and assessing other people’s work. I do have to create a few things now and then to keep my creative juices up.. The challenge is always there. In this case I was asked to design and Illustrate a few ads for Onitsuka in [...]
Designers look differently
Designers just have to play don’t they. Saw this and spent ages looking at it wondering what the thought process was that made someone do this.
I love it because of it’s randomness and I think we should all try to do more of this. I think the new Diesel campaign has affected me more than [...]
Competition** The Renovators- Network Ten
A Cast of Thousands has the exciting job of casting a new series for the Ten Network/Shine Australia called The Renovators- it will be one of the big shows for TEN next year. The best description would be to imagine Bravo Network’s Top Design program, on the size and scale of Master Chef.
They are looking [...]
Woodtyper
Woodtyper – Notes on large and ornamented type and related matters.
Woodtyper is an online journal focusing on wood type and related topics, such as large-scale lettering, decorative typefounding, letterpress printing, sign painting, penmanship, poster printing, engraving, etc.
This is a cornucopia of typographic goodness for those that get excited about letter forms.
Woodtyper.com
Monet Expo site
No introduction needed here. This is just the web site for the Monet show recently showing in Paris’s Grand Palais. I was lucky enough to catch this (cuz I’m so special and French) and if you’re planning to be in Paris before the 24th Jan. you show definitely check it out. You’ll be waiting in [...]
Briar Press
Briar Press is a community of letterpress printers, book artists, and press enthusiasts. The site is dedicated to the preservation of letterpress-era equipment and the art of fine printing.
The ‘Cuts’ section of this blog is a great resource for ornamental typography such as drop caps and the like.
www.briarpress.org
Stories with the Full Background
Here are a couple of billboards that CNN are using to promote themselves in Turkey. Advertising campaigns that are influenced by street art usually look quite forced, but I think that these are well conceived and realized.