Clever

Cardon Copies

saw this a while back.. such a good idea.




http://cardoncopy.com/

funny Sagmeister presentation on sabbatical

brilliant BIC print ad

i like the simple thought and creativity behind this ad:) just thought I would share with anyone that still follows the blog

check this animation out.. crazy stuff:)

Designers on Design

A collection of "design-heros" talking about their work:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/fashion/03iht-design3.html?_r=1

Pretty cool videos.

ALSO - "Design Heros" sounds like a new video game.  Bonus points for nice kerning.

Growing Up

Growing Up from Jr.canest on Vimeo.

I've been working on a flash demo and this video was given to me to look to for inspiration, though my demo will be nowhere near as refined and visually appealing. This was created by a team of students from Vancouver Film School (who always churns out amazing work), using Photoshop, Illustrator, and AfterEffects. So...get to learning some video editing skills!

HTML5 and CSS3 resources

Hey everyone. I came across some great resource links from posts on Twitter about recently updated HTML and CSS version. Take a look, you can do some really powerful stuff (although you'll have to hope people use FireFox or Safari, as a lot of these updates won't work in IE.)

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/html-5-and-css-3-the-techniques-youll-soon-be-using/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/15/take-your-design-to-the-next-level-with-css3/

Logos Logos Logos

Hey everyone,

Here are a few logo resources passed on to me by a couple designers I'm in contact with:

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/80-creative-and-well-designed-logos/

http://www.logodesignguru.com/Logo-design-portfolio/portfolio.asp?cat_id=53&Page=4&tab=1#port

http://logoworks.com/

They're pretty good places to go to for inspiration...or just for browsing!

Keeping Contacts and RSS Feed Readers

Hey guys. I just realized this will be the 90th post here. Good job.

As we move on from BU, we're gonna read and post on this blog much less frequently. This is totally fine and natural. But what would be a shame is for this forum-disguised-as-a-blog to die completely, because it's the most convenient way for us to send little group shout outs and share links with our graduating class. Fortunately, there's a very easy way to prevent this from dieing, and keeping the outlet intact.

If you already use an RSS feed reader and subscribe to this blog (most of you I'll bet), then you don't really have to keep reading. If you don't use one of these, I'd really recommend it. You use it to subscribe to your favorite blogs and have the posts come to you rather than the other way around. Here's a list of reviews for the best RSS readers: http://lifehacker.com/390619/best-rss-newsreaders

So yeah, most of you already have this covered, but if you don't, it's how this outlet will stay alive (it's like getting emailed when someone posts here rather than going to the website regularly/randomly), and it's super convenient anyway.

Too Much Chocolate

for any of you who still look at this from time to time, here's a nice photo-weenie link:
Too Much Chocolate

The gallery is based off ‘collective curatorship’, where the photographer from week 1 chooses and interviews a photographer for week 2, week 2 chooses/interviews week 3, etc.

and
iN-PUBLiC

a collection of street-photography

A Marathon Pub Crawl

If anyone is bored and actually has money, Sorry for Partying is holding their first pub crawl this Saturday. Being that it is on Boylston Street, we're going with the whole runner/marathon theme. I know there's actually a lot going on this Saturday as far as festivals and parades and scavenger hunts, but if this is your thing and you're in town, come and join the fun and bring your friends. It starts at 3 p.m., but goes until 10 p.m. There will likely be a pub crawl in July and August as well. Link to a bigger poster and the facebook page inside. If I'm there it will just be to take photos for the website...

Hope everyone's summer is fruitful with...something?

P.S. Michael Deal, I often read the Alphabet Arm Design blog and was very proud to see you interning there! (and a little jealous, I love them!) Let us know how it goes.

Studio on Fire - Letterpress Goodness

Mayhaps you are bored today and need some inspiration. I came across these guys a few months ago, as I was asked to design some wedding invitations for a close friend. Frankly, I had to design a more traditional invitation, and if I had had an actual budget, I would've gone letterpress all the way. These guys do some stunning work on letterpress, and a lot of their wedding invitations are funky and completely different than what you normally see, just in time for the summer season! Aside from wedding invitations, their letterpress blog features all kinds of other work (a lot of course given to them by their clients/designers) and their own package designs and identity solutions are incredibly fresh and unique. Take a gander.

BoNE Show Reception

The reception for the BoNE (Best of New England) show is tomorrow from 6-10 pm. There's going to be a bunch of design folk there and an open bar! At MassArt, and you do have to buy tickets but it's definitely worth it. 

Info.

So Sleazy ...and Cool

http://www.thatsthespot.com/gallery.html

Epson Stylus Photo R1800 for SALE $200

hey guys I am selling my Epson printer it is a Stylus Photo R1800. It comes with all the original hardware, lot of spare ink cartridges and some paper that I have left over. I want $200 for everything.

e-mail me at info@antongeorgiev.com or call me at 401-215-4407

anton

Sorry for Partying?...

1) I thought it'd be funny to throw up a familiar face.

2) Shamelessly promoting this freelance project I've been working on, which is a college T-shirt lifestyle company named Sorry for Partying. And yes, I know, I am the poster child for that slogan, right? Let's just call it audience and marketing research for me...yeah...

Anyway, take a look around, forward to your friends, buy a shirt (or buy one from me for $15...much cheaper). Comments would be lovely. Also, it seems that the storefront looks pretty wonky in Safari, but I have no idea why, except that Safari is the dumbest and doesn't like CSS very much, so if any of you know what's up or know someone who would...that would be most helpful. Let me know if there are any other anomalies I'm not aware of...and if anyone knows of a flickr slideshow that plays automatically that can be sized that small, that would also be awesome.

Cheers. I mean, "Sorry for Partying! dudes..."

Justice - DVNO

one of a best music videos i've seen in a long time

check here for explanations of each logo and typeface

Justice - DVNO from Freedom Record on Vimeo.

FREE Stuff!

Hey guys, 

Paying for stuff sucks! That's why you can get some FREE foamcore from me, for FREE!!!!!

I have some foamcore scap from work...it's about 12x32"...big enough for tabloid mounting. 

First come first serve. Dibs in the comments

Links!

Kerri sent this list of links along to Doubleday to send to us... but it seems they didn't make it as far as me, anyway. So she gave them to me to send to everyone.
it's a long list, and I haven't had a chance to look at all of them as of yet, but there are some on infographics at the end for anyone interested.

http://www.mariohugo.com/

http://www.hugoandmarie.com/

http://www.mikeperrystudio.com/

http://www.ifyoucould.co.uk/

http://www.thesmallstakes.com/

http://www.non-format.com/

http://www.itsnicethat.com/

http://www.damiencorrell.com/

http://www.wordsarepictures.co.uk/

http://covers.fwis.com/

http://netdiver.net/

http://www.nationalforest.com/site.html

http://www.colourlovers.com/

http://www.frederiksamuel.com/blog/

http://www.studiocromie.org/index.php

http://www.hjgher.com/journal/

http://www.hjgher.com

http://www.anthonyburrill.com/

http://www.gmillustration.com/

http://www.n8w.com/image/art/day_of_the_dead/

http://tha.jp/

http://ffffound.com/

http://www.faesthetic.com/

http://www.fray.com/

http://www.oliverhydes.com/

http://typographica.org/

http://www.hudsonbec.com/

http://chadcrouch.com/wp/

http://www.carsonellis.com/

http://www.dootdootgarden.com/

http://www.jencorace.com/

http://www.jeanasohn.com/

http://www.ryanjacobsmith.com/menu_01.html

http://www.untitledprojects.com/index3.php

http://www.fecalface.com/SF/

http://johnsonbanks.co.uk/thoughtfortheweek/

http://printfetish.com/

http://www.paperboatboutique.com/

http://www.fontaineillustration.com/

http://www.rob-hunter.co.uk/

http://fleuron.com/

http://getconfused.net

http://micahlidberg.com/

http://www.cristinaguitian.com/

http://www.derya-landet.de

http://www.houseind.com/

http://printliberation.com/

http://www.jeremypettis.com/

http://www.seblester.co.uk/

http://www.gestalten.com/

http://www.brandspankingnew.net/

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/

http://thingstolookat.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html

http://www.alrdesign.com/

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Infographic links

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

http://similardiversity.net/

http://www.historyshots.com/index.cfm

http://flowingdata.com/

http://infosthetics.com/

http://www.johngrimwade.com/index.html

http://www.maxgadney.com/

tacky souvenirs

Michael Hughes is a photographer who is working on a project where he photographs cheap souvenirs in place of the real thing. Simple, lighthearted and fun thing to do while he travels the world, but he does it very well. He's got a pretty impressive body of work too.

Web Hosting and Domain Names

Hey Friends,

I'm sure as school ends and we all begin to freak out more, the question of hosting a website must have popped up in your mind from time to time. For those of you who don't have one yet and are looking for hosting and domains, my flash professor recommended Dreamhost.com. They are really straightforward and receive a lot of praise for their transparency when problems occur. Very customer friendly.  You also get a free domain name when you sign up, and they include a Wordpress app that makes setting up a blog under your domain a cinch. 

In any case if you use the  promo code: GAC   when signing up you will save almost fifty bucks on the yearly rate. Comes to about $5.80 a month. 

Look into it cause we could all use portfolio sites. 

Something Funny

http://nheerdesign.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/you-know-youre-a-graphic-designer-when/

check out this website, i'm sure it will make you smile :)

Books Books Books

Archive of book cover designs. Browse this forever

Little Red Riding Hood for Engineers

Sweet info graphics and animation

Design as a Social Agent Day

An event happening at the ICA this sat that looks like it would be interesting... if you have the 25 for the ticket to get in. There are a bunch of main stage talks including "The Obama Effect: what art did for advertising" "Culture and Resistance" and "Elegant Dissent and Anarchy."
As well as several other speakers, book signings, Discussions on Shepard Fairy's work, ect...

Design as a Social Agent Day

Self-Published Books

i can't believe i've never heard of this before, but you can self-publish books SO easily with this site:

lulu.com

i haven't really looked into this too much, but it seems like there are size limitations and things like that...but could still be very useful. and it's pretty cheap!

Urbanized Typeface

Urbanized Typeface PV (Complete ver) from yang02 on Vimeo.

a cool animation that my OTHER friend colin made...

pollen and wax from colin white on Vimeo.

kinda messed up but i like it and maybe i'm somewhat proud of him too...

Por Naomi

Reminded me a bit of the house interior...but stylistically different of course.

Its by Janine Rewell.  She's all kinds of good at graphic design.  Check her out here.

Degree Presentations

Hello Friends,

Is there anyone who would be willing to trade presentation days with me and go this wednesday? The mass tech people are expecting a lot from Meg and me on tuesday, and I won't have much time to work on my thesis before wednesday. 

I know it is a lot to ask, but if anyone would be willing that would be so very very excellent.

I thank you in advance, and let me know

-Conor

52 fonts you (I) could use instead of Helvetica

Saw this on Twitter. Particularly fitting for me.

Website here.

For You Lost Fans

These don't make much sense to me, seeing as how I don't watch Lost, but these retro ads are pretty sweet.

Check them all out here

Vampires = Awful

awesome ad though

Senior Thesis Space

Greetings all.

I talked with Doubleday and just wanted to let everyone know that the approximate space we will have in the Sherman Gallery is about 5.2 x 7.6 ft. If you have any more questions about it contact Doubleday because not everyone is going to have the same height apparently. 

PhotoWeaving

Untitled (Rose) Weave - Time Lapse from Todd M Duym on Vimeo.

SCIENCE!

Help a Buddy Out?

If any of you have a couple minutes, could you sit down and fill out this form for my project? I've decided to collect as many responses to my question as possible and use that as kind of an underlying structure for my book. It would be much appreciated. Feel free to write one sentence. Or one page. Or more. It's up to you.

The Form!

Vielen dank.

Lots of design links

I've compiled my design-related bookmarks onto a page on my website. Some of these will overlap with your own collections.

http://www.mattconvente.com/designlinks.html

Enjoy!

ARTAIC Mosaics

Hey Guys...I'm sending out this post on the behalf of Jane, Michael, myself, and the rest of the ARTAIC team.

As we announced to you guys in class today, ARTAIC is looking for artwork by artists and designers (much like yourselves) to make up their new "Artist's Line" of custom Mosaics.

If anyone wants to check out their website and some more examples of what they do, hit up:

ARTAIC.com

Everyone is welcome to submit any images they may have to us.  We would be happy to accept any appropriate and marketable designs, whether they be observational, abstract, or pattern based.

Accepted artists would get their own profile page in the catalog that will include a short "about the artist" statement and the mosaic piece(s), and monetary compensation if the design is purchased by a client.

This is an excellent opportunity to add a very unique project to your portfolio, and it pretty easy to do, just send us a .jpeg or .png (we can take pretty much any file format if necessary) of some artwork and we can do the rest.

If you are interested please talk to Jane, Michael, or myself via email @ deal@bu.edu.

(and of course you can talk to us in person, this blog, or facebook)

Once again the website is ARTAIC.com for some more examples

Thanks and take it easy

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10 steps to the perfect portfolio website

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/26/10-steps-to-the-perfect-portfolio-website/

make sure to check the links to other articles at the bottom.

Yay for Snow Days

http://www.design-police.org/

Röyksopp has some fun with typography

Happy Up Here from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

A Very Special Post for Mr. Michael Deal

if you haven't already, take a gander at 

WallStats.com

and their blog at

WallStats.com/blog

Graphic Design Panel

Hey buddies, an important announcement. Emily Wade, the SVA Librarian is actually organizing and putting together a discussion panel for the graphic design majors. The scheduled date is April 16th. At the moment she has two confirmed alums, and a long list of people she needs to contact. I think this would be a great jumping off point for next year's class if we were to co-sponsor the event (i.e. Presented by the Visual Arts Library and the Graphic Arts Council).

I'm asking for feedback on people you would like to see there. Maybe you work/intern for them, or there's someone in the area you really admire and would love to see them come talk at the panel. Emily's got a lot on her plate, and between all of us I think we can track down some people, and it would mean a lot more if there were people there we really wanted.

So:
1) Suggest anyone you would like to invite.
2) Get in contact with them yourself, or forward their information to me or Emily (ecwade@bu.edu).
3) Suggest any other things you'd like to do or see at this event.

It might be wise to handpick a few juniors to give the mantle to, and perhaps we can plan an all out end of the year GAC event. Post away please!

Sustainability

March 18-June 27, 2009
Sustainability:
1. An aesthetic exploration of sustainability.
2. The potential of art and new modes of art practice to emphasize the link between environmental concerns and social relationships.
Be part of the solution.

You've probably seen a couple posters around for this show, but Holland, the gallery coordinator of the Hillel Gallery asked if I could help spread the word and thus embody the idea of sustainability and save some trees. Check out the Hillel website for more details and to get some ideas and find some fantastic links on sustainability and sustainable art. It'd be great if we could help put some posters together or figure out some other ideas (information design perhaps?). 2d and 3d work are welcome, so if you even have some old landscape paintings or drawings, feel free to enter those and fill out the application. There are jury cash prizes and the reception itself will really just be one big party and celebration of sustainability.

The deadline is next week, March 2. This might be a great exercise for anyone who's bored, especially Jane, if you want to do a brief foray into this kind of social/environmental issue. The show is open to all students in the Boston area, so feel free to forward the link.

And as a sidenote, please check out Holland's band, Fly Upright Kite. Their music is yummy, and so is the band name.

Bookmaking guide by a designer

http://davethedesigner.net/booktut/

a detailed guide. now go hand-make your portfolio book.

ParaSITE shelters

For Jane,
here is a couple of things I thought you might appreciate.
paraSITE shelters
sedicious cross-stitching
the main cross-stitching site
Question Mark on public Urination
Reverse graffiti

And for Steph:
here's Phillip Toleando's Days with my Father

What Creative Directors look like while reviewing our portfolios

Writing about design

Saw this short article from a blog. It's concerns writing about our work. Great quick source to help us write about work for our online portfolio as well as when presenting work in person.

How (Not) to Write like a Designer

Facebook

After listening to our gracious alumni last week, here are 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know.

Clean up your acts. 

For the Metal Kid in All of Us

For Mr. Sean mostly, but everyone else too. My CD Baby newsletter just happened to have a feature list of super sweet metal album covers. I'm sure the music is just as good. Mmm, illegible logos and badass demons.

Oh, and for fun: http://www.yourscenesucks.com/

For Michael and Matt

long shot

anyone who's supposed to present their thesis on the 25th want to switch with me for the 18th? doubleday told me the wrong day(he said i was presenting on the 25th) so i thought i had a shit-ton-o-time but yeah it turns out i'm this wed. i doubt you guys wanna change, but if you do let me know!

crowdSPRING

As most of you have probably done by now, Bridget and I met with our company for the Mass Software Council project, and one of them mentioned this website called crowdSPRING. It's basically a site where companies and designers sign up, then companies put out a bid for what they need (logo, website, flash demo, etc.), and designers come to the call, and if their work gets chosen, they get the job, and the sweet monies.

It looks like the community is pretty lively and it would be a good motivator if you're looking to add more things to your portfolio, but want to actually design for a real client. You're able to upload your portfolio, and it generally looks like a great way to keep the creative juices flowing, look at what other people come up with, and maybe even make some cash on the side.

Sean?

This looks like sean

Blah!

...i'll just leave this here

Hi Colin

Now i want an iphone:


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/02/oregon-trail-ip.html

Old School Blank Tapes

See 'em all ya jerks

I Can Read Movies

Old School Movie Posters for contemporary movies.

....peep it

Siggi Eggertsson

Graduation Ticket

I sent a few people a message on facebook about this, but I figured it would be a good idea to ask it here. I need one extra ticket for graduation. I'm pretty sure we only get four and I need five. If anyone thinks they might not need one of their tickets please, please, PLEASE!!! let me know!

I really appreciate it guys.
See you in class,
Stefanie

Screenprinting

Here's a link to that screenprinting place I mentioned in class today for those in my section. It's called D&L Screenprinting, and they are based in Seattle. They charge a per color set up fee, and then each print varies based on how many colors you have. Their minimum run is 50 posters, so not really useful unless you design something that a number of people want to buy, but it's an option.

D&L Screenprinting

Walking at graduation?

Is anybody walking at graduation? My family was asking about it and I hadn't even thought about it.

3 Decades of Citroën

Get at all their brochures here: 

50's

60's

70's

Reviving the GAC

Hey folks, I talked briefly to a few of you about this, but I'd like to know people's thoughts on reviving weekly meetings for the Graphic Arts Council. If we want to reinstate the GAC as an official BU group, the deadline for SAO is January 26th. That would require electing some officers and picking and finding an advisor. The benefits of being an official group of course, would be the chance for us to apply for funding. With funding, well, comes fun, right? It'd allow us to cover travel costs if we want to organize trips to studios, type foundries, another New York trip like last year, or plan any other events. It'd also help to re-establish us and give a chance for the juniors to step in and take on some leadership roles for next year.

So, what I'm asking is, are you interested? Would you want to meet once a week, or every other week and what day? I'm sure the majority of us are booked for the week, which is why we had previously met on Friday afternoon/evenings. Who would you want as an advisor? What would you be interested in doing as a group? I'm thinking along the lines of trips to studios right here in Boston, portfolio reviews, outside critiques, bringing in guest lecturers, workshops, and putting together our own shows.

If we're going to do it, we have to get moving soon, so thoughts are welcome. Be as specific as you can in terms of what you want to do and what you would like to see happen in the short and long term. Restarting this group will be another step for us to create a stronger program and get the enthusiasm running again.

Cut&Paste

I sent out an e-mail about this but just to remind everyone....
Anyone interested should definitely enter or plan on attending the event as there will be designers from all over the Boston area which would be great for meeting/greeting, making contacts, etc.
This event is being sponsored by AIGA and planned by Kristin Groener from Street Attack and Brian Butler, check out his website he has some pretty sweet stuff: http://theupperhandart.com/

PHOTO COMBO???

Sorry this isn't very relevant to the blog but.... does anyone have the combo for the photo locker in 808 where can get our Photo 2 portfolios? Tanks.

Cummings & Good

Certainly a step in the right direction. Cummings & Good, one of the groups scheduled to meet us this semester, created in my opinion possibly the greatest sports logo ever. Behold the late grate Hartford Whalers. 

Radical Cartography

Hey everyone. I hope your breaks have been going well so far.

I wanted to introduce you all to a really cool website I found a while back called Radical Cartography. It features a whole bunch of maps in any topic you can think of, and a lot of them are really great references for any future information design we may do. My favorite are the income donuts (Projects, Scale Comparisons, Income Donuts) where I can see every place in the top 25 metro areas that I can't afford to live in.

Another favorite of mine is the set of images from the 1870 US Census. You can download the whole set at 300 dpi. (Yummy, Six Atlases, The Ninth Census) Forget information design, I want some of the images as art prints!