"Light Hearted"

The winner for this year's Time Square Valentine design competition is "Light Hearted" by Lauren Crahan and John Hartmann, of Brooklyn-based Freecell.

The heart will be in Duffy Square from Feb 10-20 and it depends entirely on volunteers to actually work. The heart is composed of 6 pairs of metal rings held in the air by volunteers and any extra Time Square visitors who want to participate.

Freecell beat out finalists BIG (Bjarke Ingles Group) - City Pulse & Marc Fornes Design - Fluttering Hearts for this year's Time Square Valentine. You can see their entries on the TS Valentine Competition website.

I certainly hope enough people volunteer to keep it in the air the whole time! If you're interested in volunteering, you can sign up on the website - www.lighthearted.us

BE VERSATILE

This is my video from last semester showing the making process of my letters for this poster. The idea was to create a self promotion piece showcase various techniques and visuals. The video is a super super high speed version of about 50 hours of video. It really is meant to serve as a form of transparency for the piece...proof theres no faking, photoshopping, etc. I wanted to try to blend my various experiences like architecture modeling, printmaking, packaging and now communications design all into one cohesive piece.

This will serve as a part of a self promotion piece Ill be mailing out for potential jobs after I graduate :)

Song: Where Damage Isn't Already Done by The Radio Dept
Thanks to Mike for helping get this small enough to get online!

How Would You Like Your Graphic Design?

This is hysterical - and so so so true! I wish I could just email this to potential clients so they can decide what they want and we can all be on the same page from the get go :)
























Designed by Colin Harman and available for purchase here for $28.50

Via coolinfographics.com

Sneak Peek

Sneak peek of the main characters for my new stop motion animation for class










First it will be a flip book, then a video will be done week after next...get excited :)

Here's how-to make these ridiculously awesome cotton ball sheep, although mine will be much smaller than these guys

REDU "Manifesto" Animation

LET'S REDU from Redu on Vimeo.

Umm I love this... I mean, really? Stop motion with WOOD! And such a great voiceover...love it :)

Also, I have a new obsession with Hunter Gatherer, the designers of this video, and you'll be seeing a LOT more from them :)

Here's how the company explains the video:
"REDU is an Education Reform destination resulting from a collaboration between CAA, Bing, Task Force and Good Magazine, among others.

The video is a 2-minute stop-motion animation explaining what REDU is all about. It was created almost entirely in-camera, and hand-made from literally thousands of individually cut blocks. Narration by Davis Guggenheim."

Should I Work For Free

Check out this fun decision flowchart (seem to be all the rage these days) by Jessica Hische, designer of beautiful typography, on "Should I work for free?"

She gives some pretty fun scenarios and as a desperate grad student, I've been in way too many of them haha

Also, not to be missed, she did it in html so that you can translate it using Google Translate into like a million languages. Its also available for download in English as a jpg.

Via Daniel & Cool Infographics

The Noun Project

Hours and hours and hours spent finding good, free vectors for projects in the past now compiled neatly into one website...my goodness this is wonderful :)

The Noun Project is project by Edward Boatman to compile high quality, free vectors that make up a universal visual language and make it accessible for anyone and everyone.


















He got his funding using KickStarter and will now work to upgrade the site to include a search feature as well as categories with batches of common images.

Here's a few of my favorites!






















Via Swissmiss & Shannon

Buffalo Run Productions

I love when I have awesome friends doing awesome things!

Evan Bauxbaum's Buffalo Run Productions has put out some pretty cool short films and now a new feature length film called La Linea will be coming out soon. Its about the story of illegal immigrants crossing the Mexico/US border and looks awesome. Here's the trailor below:



Evan is the writer, director and producer all the films. Many of his short films have won awards at film festivals all over the country. Here's the trailer to one of his short films, "The Roofer" below.

The Roofer - Trailer from evan buxbaum on Vimeo.

If you like his work, or just like supporting talented people, check out his new Facebook fan page for updates on videos, awards and photos from the filming or follow him on Twitter.

Meet Steve Duncan

Urban explorer extraordinaire

He climbs bridges, explores sewers and sneaks down subway tunnels to discover beautiful places all over New York City (and tons of other cities) He takes amazing pictures of all the places he goes like these below. They are all available for purchase on his site undercity.org



















































Here is a video of some of his New York exploring with videography Andrew Wonder. He goes to the Old City Hall Station, the first subway stop in NYC, into the sewer, the Lincoln Tunnel and CLIMBS the Williamsburg Bridge. Its amazing...you should watch it :)

UNDERCITY from Andrew Wonder on Vimeo.

My love of Moleskine will never end

Totally obsessed with this...



and here's how it was made :)