Category: Inspiration
I was lucky enough to be invited along to the opening of a couple of exhibitions at Craft Victoria including the work of Melbourne installation artist Aimee Fairman.
Wonderful rolling time-lapse video of Japan by American Director Brad Kemer using the Canon 5D MarkII.
K-Swiss recently hired Keith Schofield to put together a fairly awesome commercial with the tag line 'Have an Awesome Day. Which is timely, because 2010 has turned out to be the year of the word Awesome. Personally I'm hoping the word 'splendid' makes a revival in 2011.
I came across this conceptual art piece by British artist Fiona Banner which is currently on display at the Tate in London.
Some labour-intensive identity work from Dutch designer Roald van der Meer using forced-perspective to bring the MTV logo to life.
In keeping with the last few updates on branding and Identity design I've scanned in some excerpts from this book of Japanese family crests and heraldry.
The first post on this blog is more than a year old now and it was a link to the 'World of Logotypes' book published in 1976 and re-discovered and scanned by designer Eric Carl.
Europe is filled with Cathedrals built centuries ago that were designed to inspire awe and show off the wealth of the church and the city-states that helped finance them.
Tomorrow is the last day of the Peace of Wall exhibition being held at Until Never gallery in Melbourne.
NotJones.com is the web portfolio of UK Graphic designer Aled Williams and he's also not half bad.
I'm having trouble keeping up with all the web aggregates and feeds and enewsletters and cryptic notes I've written to myself. I'm digging up and stumbling upon things while stuff is buzzing and tweeting so I can't be sure how I came across Magpie Studios but I'm glad I did.
I think most people are a little suspicious of the high price tag attached to large commercial re-branding and logo design projects. They look at something like this three letter wordmark for Nokia's 'Nex' division and wonder why something so simple cost so much to develop. Surely an experienced graphic designer could knock that out in an afternoon.
Sometimes a good, simple idea is like a gorgeous girl on the arm of some average-looking bloke. You're jealous but at the same time you can't help but stare. I think this logo was a bit like that for me.
Found some great satirical packaging design on LovelyPackage.com.
Came across this terrific motion graphics piece by German artist Sebastian Lange
American designer and artist Dan McCarthy has an exceptional portfolio of poster illustrations on his site.
The good thing about living in Melbourne is that there are very few suburbs suffering from the sort of urban decay that you find in some European and North American cities.
I come across a lot of high-quality infographics in publications like New Scientists and I'm continually impressed by how designers find new ways to present information.
With digital video cameras becoming more and more sophisticated there's an argument that, when it comes to sports coverage, still photography will soon be obsolete.
There are some truly remarkable places to work in this world but few opportunities to really see them up close. Corey Arnold is a Photographer who has worked for most of his adult life as a commercial fisherman and his images of life onboard these ships are powerful and frightening but also shot through with humour.