Stunning

Simple. Beautiful. Stunning.

This is like perfection to my OCD, organization and mapping obsessed design brain.










I love the differences between the right side layout of these two cities. The New York City grid I love (and appreciate daily) becomes so very straightforward and dull when you restructure it like this, where the intricacies of the Paris city plan become far more evident and endearing. Its hard to find much evidence of any right angles at all.











These and many other maps were designed by Armelle Caron, a French artist and designer. The series is entitled Anagrammes graphiques de plans de villes and includes seven cities - Berlin, Istanbul, New York, Tamarac, Paris, Le Havre & Montpellier. Also check out some of his other work.

Favorites of the Super Bowl Ads

Here's my favorites :)



Black Beetle Volkswagon
Love the concept and the song :)



Bridgestone Carma



Darth Vader Passat

Brought to you by the letters S & W

Here's the follow up to my earlier post showing a sneak peek of cotton ball sheep. This is a short and quite silly stop motion I did to try to illustrate (in a very small part) a bit of Newtons First Law of Motion (as per assignment instruction) while making it mildly education just for fun :)

The idea is that falling letters are used to introduce all of the narrative elements. Using this same concept, two more videos will be forthcoming :)

Here's the photoshoot set up - highly technical as you can tell haha I didnt even have a tripod so I had to tape my camera to stack of moleskines - oy















Here's the shoot from a little further back where you can see how the cloud was actually suspended from, yes, dental floss taped to the lights. Again, highly technical right here haha. It refused to stop spinning, so I had to take each shot only when the cloud faced the right direction.















This is one of my stills for the video, before the post processing I did to add the eyes and emotions.

"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