August 17, 2009 • 10:47 am 0
Gotta give credit for some awesome creative work on this one. This is by one of our own AAU instructors and alumni, Eric Flynn, for Ubisoft. Great work! make sure to follow the link to a larger version of the shot, I bet this was an awesome shoot to be on!
Filed under: Advertising & Branding, Arts & Culture, Design, Industry news, Print, School related
June 29, 2009 • 10:47 am 1
June 28, 2009 • 12:35 pm 0
June 27, 2009 • 12:46 pm 1
We recently discovered a community of designers competing in a sport known as Layer Tennis. This is a battle of wits, design know-how, and time management. And yes, you can get injured. Here’s our inaugural match of Layer Tennis.
The rules of Layer Tennis are simple. Competitors are given 15 minutes to design something on the fly according to a theme. With each subsequent round, each designer must take an element or two from the previous round and embellish upon it. Usually matches last 10 rounds, but since this is our first time, we made it a four round bout. Essentially, this is like a freestyle rap battle where both sides trade jabs with hot keys instead of rhymes.
Our theme: Summer.
Let’s battle.
Round 1: Derek
Round 2: Justin
Round 3: Derek
Final Round: Justin
And there you have it. A relentlessly stressful and intense match of Layer Tennis. Decisions were made until the last seconds. Blood, sweat, tears, and Red Bull were shed. The time constraint made us cut corners, resulting in shoddy photoshop jobs, stupidity, and hilarious ideas. We’re happy with the results.
Lessons learned from Layer Tennis:
1. Have your favorite fonts fired up and ready.
2. Making selections will kill your clock.
3. So will your futile search for stock images.
There will be more matches to come. Thank you for watching.
Filed under: Competitions, Design, Humor, Inspiration
May 18, 2009 • 9:48 am 0
Cool article and pictures of a fashion show Puma did where the clothing was projected onto the models. I believe target did something similar…pretty neat!
Article Here
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Design, Humor, Ideas, Industry news
May 7, 2009 • 10:56 am 0
Source: ICv2 – Inside Pop Culture
Viz Pictures and the J-Pop Center Project will open New People, a new 20,000 square foot building in San Francisco’s Japantown, this August as a retail, restaurant, gallery, and theater complex showcasing Japanese pop culture. Three and a half years in the making, the new center represents a $15 million dollar investment by Shogakukan, one of the largest publishers in Japan and a Viz Media parent. The J-pop Center Project was launched by Seiji Horibuchi, founder of Viz Media and founder and CEO of Viz Pictures.
A striking three-story all-glass façade will present an imposing edifice to the street.
Horibuchi said of the project, audacious in its scale, “New People… will become a cultural destination unlike any in the United States.”
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Design, Event
May 7, 2009 • 1:47 am 0
Astronaut, doctor, art collector, dancer, … Mae Jemison shares her wish to create bold thinkers by teaching arts and sciences together.
This TED made me think of how I consider “the big men” of the history people like Leonardo da Vinci and Louis Pasteur. [read more]
-the apopotamus
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Design, Ideas, Inspiration
May 5, 2009 • 11:36 pm 0
Brand (re-brand) Samsung = AWESOMENESS (Extreme Sheep LED Art & Samsung SSD Awesomeness)
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Great viral for Samsung!
Filed under: Advertising & Branding, Design, Humor, Ideas, Viral
May 5, 2009 • 12:25 pm 1
About Me: “Working on becoming a photographer instead of somebody who just takes pictures.” (Norby)
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Design
April 28, 2009 • 12:28 am 0
A couples of weeks ago, young designers Riccardo Nannini, Domenico Orefice and Emanuele Pizzolorusso presented a waste paper basket made of recycled paper at the exhibition Dismettiamola! in Milan, Italy.
Creativity: original ideas that add value. (C.M.)
Filed under: Design
