March 8th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Design, Great Creative
Jarratt Moody is awful good at time-based typography. For one of his classes there was a project where he was supposed to take some audio from wherever (movie, song, poetry reading, answering machine) and then represent that audio on screen using only type.
Jarratt chose a famous scene from Pulp Fiction as his subject matter. The […]
November 5th, 2006 | by Tommy | published in Advertising, Design
NewsDesigner has an interesting post on how newspapers, in an effort to stop their sagging ad sales, are moving to "Adscpaes." Newspapers are moving away from their traditional square and rectangle ads to something that is integrated more with the text. About time, but is it too late? Many more examples here (PDF file).
July 20th, 2006 | by Tommy | published in Design, Great Creative
Veerle’s Pieters personal blog is without a doubt the most amazing design I’ve seen on the web.
In addition to being an exemplary use of CSS and standards-based
web design, it explodes with creativity and stylistic
detail at every turn. Veerle is a graphic/web designer living in Belgium. She is also the CEO of a company she founded […]
July 13th, 2006 | by Tommy | published in Branding, Design
Sprite plans to launch their first product packaging and logo update in more then a decade. You can read more about it here.
Mastercard has rebranded itself and updated their name to Mastercard Worldwide. There is a really nice story of the history of Mastercard’s logo through the years here.
Fujifilm is working on reorganizing their corporate […]
May 16th, 2006 | by Tommy | published in Design
This is just so cool. From the Web site The Cool Hunter:
The two photos above were taken at Volkswagen’s new storage facility in Wolfsburg, Germany. The actual space that the facility occupies is approximately only 20% of a comparable facility with the traditional design that is used primarily in the US. Not only is the […]
March 23rd, 2006 | by Tommy | published in Design
I’ve got nothing against tuaw.com, they are a wonderful resource for Mac users. But I am sick and tried of these type of logo treatments. Come on people, try to come up with something a little more original.
December 31st, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Branding, Design
Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, will launch a new corporate slogan and logo this week as part of the company’s shift towards the general consumer marketplace. The "Intel Inside" tagline is out. The company will now encourage consumers to "Leap Ahead".
The revised logo with replace the one featuring a lowered case "e" with one showing […]
December 15th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Design
This is both interesting and lazy on Microsoft’s part. According to a post at the Microsoft RSS blog they asked John Lilly and Chris Beard from Mozilla if they could use the Firefox icon in IE7. I wonder what Bill Gates thinks about this, since Firefox is taking away Internet Explorer marketshare every day.
November 30th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Design
The folks over at Zinoo Park have some pretty neat projects they are working on, like the above 5 Minute Candles. Not sure excatly who they are, but it looks like they are pretty creative and having more then a little fun at the same time.
November 27th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Design
The AIGA has posted a new podcast with Eric Meyer. Eric is a CSS wizard and comes at things from a practical and intelligent manner. His blog and books are a resource I couldn’t live without. Go get yourself this free podcast, it is worth a download and a listen. Thanks AIGA.
November 23rd, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Branding, Design
The new AT&T logo I mentioned in a previous post has been unveiled. I’d like to comment in more detail, like explaining how much the new logo sucks, but I need to run to a meeting with my firm’s new advertising agency. Plus I’ve got a lot of shopping, cleaning, and cooking to do in […]
October 28th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Books, Design
Although I spend a ton of time online because I work for a virtual company and blog I still have close to a thousands books. Even in a busy week, I usually read at least one if not more books. In fact, I have a single room with six bookcases. They’re a hodgepodge of colors, […]
October 25th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Design
This design from 360 Electrical is amazing. At many levels it is so darn simple it is hard to explain why nobody thought if it before. Heck I had a need for this type of item just a few days ago. I bet they are going to sell millions of these.
October 9th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Culture, Design
Artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset recently unveiled their newest sculpture, entitled Prada Marfa. The work is located on the outskirts of Valentine, Texas (pop. 120) near Marfa on desolate land with no other visible trace of civilization. It looks to be a luxury boutique with a display of Fall 2005 Prada shoes and bags. […]
August 23rd, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Blogs, Design
Jeffrey Zeldman’s venerable online design magazine A List Apart has relaunched with a new design, interface, servers, CMS, you name it. It is simply stunning. Jason Santa Maria was the designer and Eric Meyer did the coding. And as always the content is stellar. Of special interest for me was an article by Jim Coudal […]
