Tag: Design

At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago on thursday, September 23, Piero Lissoni an Italian designer/architect gave a talk “DESIGN MATTERS” on graphic design, product design, and architecture. His english was quite broken, and at first I was starting…

What do you think the red stuff in this photo is? ïÝPhoto at regular size ï Photo blown up in one section (photo by Lisa of Mount Prospect, IL)

The last post about Designer conversation questions to ask a design firm reminded me of this list of questions to ask while interviewing: On a typical day in this position, what do you do? What training or education is required…

The AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) has a series of discussions called the Small Talks. Each small talk is held at a different design firm. The design firm gives a half-hour to hour-long presentation about their company. Background information,…

Creative Behavior had an interesting article, “Creativity (unrelated) Edges” here’s some excerpts: [Creativity] is located in the brain supra √´fuzzy√≠ center and we are invited to travel, poke and dwell on its edges. Fuzzy Intangible. Just the name itself makes…

Here’s a list of upcoming chicago events I’m considering attending. Anyone interested in coming with, just lemme know. Wed 9/22, 7pm, Free Establishing yourself as an indepedent artist. Practicing Chicago artists share their experiences and perspectives about professional success in…

Here’s a nice growing/rooting/soil metaphor on the Zun Partners website. (I’m a potato, so I gotta like it) What distinguishes zun partners from other design and communication firms? We work from the inside out. Our work grows directly out of…

A time and a place Capturing a certain feel of a time period Extreme Lots of hand lettered type squeezed into one space Industrial Strength –Dymo (those Dymo stamp machine things) -Stamped in steel (dog chains, phone booth) -Industrial Strength…

1) Take any 3-d object. 2) Look at this object without moving the object or yourself. 3) Pretend that this object is now a 2-d painting. Look at the very edge of the object where it meets the space around…

Here’s what was selected into the 2004 Graphic Design:usa 2004 annual The Zap2it Consumer Ad campaign: Zap2it Ad 1, Zap2it Ad 2, and Zap2it Ad 3 and the Lola folder Background on the awards: Every year the Editors of Graphic…

At the time of this folder, Lola the comic strip had been around for five years. It’s in over 100 newspapers and we wanted to bring it up to the next level. So a new sales folder was to be…

A logo for my fantasy football league team, the Flying Onion Attack! Client: Me Fonts: Holiday Ranch from fontdiner.com Clip Art: Art Explosion 750,000 images

Chicago’s Review Aug 30 – Sep5: Tranformers Transfigured at Rotofugi. Summary: Nice effort, but disappointment. Cool stuff, but there were like only a handful. And they weren’t even of the real Transformers. They were of some Japanese anime robots. Granted…

Hey, will this be another feature on spudart.org? Every monday or tuesday (yeah, i’m late today is thursday) a preview of what’s upcoming this week. And a review of what happened the past week. I try to make this blog…

If you are using a new version of DropZip (i’ve been using 8.0)… Let’s say you compress a bunch of files with fonts in it. When you go to uncompress the files, the fonts will be zero k. But if…

The owner of IA Collaborative gave a talk for the AIGA on July 20, 2004. It’s a designer firm that strongly emphasizes designers doing research. Their designer go rock climbing when designing a new watch, visit Wrigley Field when doing…

While at the Chicago Cubs game in Milwaukee yesterday, anyone with a fluorescent colored shirt in the stands really stood out. There should be a professional team with fluorescent green as one of their team colors. Then their fans can…

Photoshop CS would not allow me to open up the scans of the 20-dollar bills from the previous post about Thoughts on money. This was the error message: This application does not support the unauthorized processing of banknote images. For…

I’m thinking about taking one of my blog posts a week and making it into a comic strip. There are some really nice comic strips out there that are inspiring… Daily comic strips: √Ø American Elf by James Kochalka: Cute…

My brother was telling about this personality test that tells you what job you should be in. Each of the 71 questions presents three options. You have to pick what you most want to do and least want to do…

GoLive is for the creative individual and Dreamweaver is for corporate cogs… Both web design programs Adobe GoLive and Macromeda Dreamweaver have windows that control a site. These windows have a side for local files on your computer and a…

Of all the sports from baseball (MLB), basketball (NBA), football (NFL) and hockey (NHL) I’ve recorded the team color combination for each team. Each team got two colors: a primary color and a secondary color. What would you say is…

Invented by the Swiss George de Mestral (1907-1990), it was patented in 1955. While walking his dog one evening, he bacame annoyed by the burrs that stuck tenaciously to his clothes and dog. He examined them under a microscope and…

What is it with people who call “Adobe Acrobat” just “Adobe”? i.e. “I used opened that pdf in Adobe.”

At Wrigley Field the Chicago Cubs are bringing the brick wall behind homeplate closer to the field, creating 213 extra “Dugout Box Seats”. The cost of the seats are: * $50: value added games. * $100: regular games * $250:…

OS X have a ba-jillion font locations, and you end up with this super duper long font list menu. Here’s how to make the font list smaller. Read more.

News in Motion sells computer-generated animation clips to TV stations and websites. Here is their folder and a sampling from the 12 different sheets included in the kit. The previous marketing collateral for them involved lots of full-bleed photoshop work…

I don’t know how many graphic dorks we have on here (I know we have a few), but what is your favorite pantone color? A folder solid flush with 021. Bam! talk about bright!

I’m designing a label for a foam rocket, and recently did some research at Walgreens. Small cylinder products that lay down horizontally almost always have the main logo on both sides of the product. i.e. candy While larger cylinder products…

Why aren’t there any pens with gray ink? Because gray ink would look like the pen is running out of ink? Isn’t gray type easier to read than black?

You know you’ve been playing with photoshop brushes too long when you’re outside in public and you start to see all these textures that you could create with a photoshop brush. “Dude, look at the sidewalk, that’s totally like a…