http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign The latest news brought to you by MySpace! Sat, 17 May 2008 06:00:19 GMT http://newscdn.myspace.com/web.2.14/content/springwidget/graphicdesign.xml http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17479550 Places I’ve lived: Aberdeen (Scotland), Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei Darussalam), Bangkok (Thailand), Bay Area (Calif), Blenheim (New Zealand), Denver (Colorado), Fairbanks (Alaska), Fairoaks (Calif), Hot Springs (Virginia), Houston (Texas), Misawa (Japan), Palisades (Colorado), Pau (France), Designers Who Blog Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:38 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17479550 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17472781 I recently had a go at installing the excellent Wood Shelves Summerboard* theme on my iPhone, but found the process of adding a theme manually a blind stumble. It involves using SFTP to connect to the phone, but various tutorials had outdated information, and I had to cobble together the various hicksdesign Fri, 16 May 2008 19:48:47 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17472781 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17470027 Going beyond the touch-screen fantasy of Minority Report that has so influenced the last five years of interface design, in Iron Man, vision becomes reality through the subtlest of physical gestures: interfaces swirl and lights flash, keyboards are projected Design Observer Fri, 16 May 2008 14:23:04 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17470027 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17462336 George Lois’s cover designs for US Esquire from the early sixties are currently being exhibited at MoMA in New York, including the now iconic Ali cover, above. It’s good to see Lois being acknowledged like this, and some of the tribute covers stand up well, but it’s pretty hit-and-miss as each of magCulture.com Fri, 16 May 2008 15:14:10 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17462336 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17462192 Beginning this Sunday night, May 18, I'll be blogging live from the 2008 How Design Conference at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass. USA. First event: Networking Kickoff (aka breath mints and business cards) at 4:30pm followed by the Opening Keynote Speak Up Fri, 16 May 2008 14:34:08 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17462192 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17457679 UK-based Jordans Cereals recently launched new packaging that has the distinction of being the first completely bio-based cereal packaging. The new packaging is made from two films, a cellulose film from Innovia and a cornstarch-based film from Novamont. The bag was produced by Alcan in Dublin. The The Dieline Fri, 16 May 2008 12:29:58 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17457679 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17448532 Fresh off its premiere in 2007, the highly regarded art and design series from Asia - Dual City Sessions, returns with Art with Sound. Art with Sound is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between designers and musicians from Japan and Singapore. The exhibition will launch in Berlin, Germany, at the Kaliber10000 Fri, 16 May 2008 02:54:04 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17448532 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17358151 This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 10:58 am and is filed under Logo Design, Logo Design News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site Logo Design Tue, 13 May 2008 16:58:26 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17358151 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17367542 Try working at different times: maybe late at night or through your lunch break Try working backwards Instead of working from a plan, try to imagine what the final project would be, and then fill in the gaps. - Sort your papers - Put a few things away - Move the most pertinent notes into the Ideas on Ideas Tue, 13 May 2008 21:32:27 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17367542 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17430836 I was lead by my daughter, from one book to the next, as she explored the vast sampling at the Fondo de Cultura Económica bookstore in Mexico City. It was at this moment that I noticed a black, horizontal book on a side bookcase: The Black Book of Colors. In The Black Book of Colors, a child Speak Up Thu, 15 May 2008 16:59:46 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17430836 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17418414 Guest Observer Rosamond W. Purcell: Taking Things Seriously XII On a sunny morning in the early 1970s my neighbor, the small shrill widow of a minister and professor of theology at Harvard, dragged me into her house and opened the drawer of her late husband's Design Observer Thu, 15 May 2008 09:14:09 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17418414 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17413335 "We at Shatto Milk Company have decided to provide our milk in glass bottles. First, the glass bottle tends to keep milk colder, and colder milk is more desirable. Second, glass bottles are environmentally friendly. Our glass bottles can be washed and reused as many times as they are returned. The Dieline Thu, 15 May 2008 04:51:13 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17413335 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17412074 Depending on how you use it, Twitter can be a time waster. A resource where I met Meryl Evans. I’m not a huge Twitter user (too distracting). And this is where the rich resource comes into play. Clean and crisp, there are no frilly bits to distract. I just came across Stefan’s Designers Who Blog Thu, 15 May 2008 02:55:41 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17412074 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17448531 DixonBaxi updates: As part of their ongoing relationship with the Sci Fi Channel they've designed, directed and produced an atmospheric mood film on the theme of Sci Fi Movies. 'Anything Can Happen' is a 60sec film taking the viewer on a hyper condensed journey through live action, 3D, animation Kaliber10000 Fri, 16 May 2008 02:54:04 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17448531 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17327937 Back in March I did a couple of workshops in Hong Kong, and I promised I’d write about them here. 1) The contraction and combination of English terms/words is an easy source of humour, but there something charming about the venue for my workshops combining Innovation and Centre to come up with the magCulture.com Mon, 12 May 2008 20:15:28 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17327937 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17420689 Last.fm recommendations have turned up trumps for me this week. M83 turned up with the new album “Saturdays = Youth”, and I’ve been playing it on loop ever since. Incidentally, I’ve been buying music from Play.com. Graveyard Girl is a luscious 80’s flavoured song from hicksdesign Thu, 15 May 2008 11:57:36 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17420689 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17401675 The so-called "angel's a******" was designed by Anthony Kiedis for the Red Hot Chili Peppers sometime around 1984 Rock Band Logos Wed, 14 May 2008 20:42:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17401675 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17341240 The son of a Syracuse, New York, shoe magnate, Brannock became interested in improving the primitive wooden measuring sticks that he saw around his father's store. As the Park-Brannock Shoe Store became legendary for fitting feet with absolute accuracy, the demand for the device grew, and in 1927 Design Observer Tue, 13 May 2008 05:14:09 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17341240 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17400728 Next Tuesday, May 20th, during the HOW Design Conference in Boston, Debbie Millman will be interviewing Michael Bierut live, on stage and broadcast through her radio show, Design Matters. Since Debbie has interviewed Michael a couple of times — first, as a guest on Design Matters back in Speak Up Wed, 14 May 2008 19:34:05 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17400728 http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17410000 I've discovered luxurious packaging from Mari's New York - maker of gourmet brownies. It's no accident that the packaging is so gorgeous - founder Mari Tuttle went to school at Parsons, worked for Smart Design, has won numerous design awards and was design director for Cynthia Rowley's line for The Dieline Thu, 15 May 2008 01:14:31 GMT http://news.myspace.com/arts/graphicdesign/item/17410000