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Each term Art Center has a really great lecture series with three design professionals. I've had the privilege of attending two now. They are great catalysts for inspiring and informing young designers. Practical in a word. Which we all need sometimes. Not just a slideshow of a career. That's what books are for.

Illusions / Delusions

Greetings

From Copenhagen.

Yesterday I received a copy of Designing Water's Future a small book produced for the INDEX: | AIGA Aspen Design Challenge. A challenge where Michelle and I were one of seven finalists out of 250 international entrees for our project Rethink Your Green.

I'm in print!

Actually not the first time, but this feels more official.

CalArts BFA Show

Tonight at CalArts is the BFA design show.

ILLUSIONS / DELUSIONS

Yes, the BFA show, not the department show.

Go check it out.

You Are

I have no idea who did this or where it's from, but a friend sent it to me and I think it's hilarious.

Destination...

Images Property of Justinvg
Copyright 2010

While scanning the pages of Geek Central Station I happened upon this set of amazing Star Wars posters. Each for a planet or moon in the Star Wars universe. Design conscious travel agency a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...

Not much is said about the designer who made these, except that you can view his work on his Flickr page.

These posters could easily fit in at Disneyland's Star Tours attraction, although there is something I love about the old 80s posters already on display.

This or That

Images Property of Toby Ng
Copyright 2010

During my search for the Creep poster set I came cross another set of posters for the London Horror Film Festival.

Now, while I like the idea, I will say that I don't think they're the most amazing pieces of design.

Basically the posters were meant to show the dichotomy of a horror movie viewing experience; a dichotomy of extreme opposites.

Creep

Images Property of Face37
Copyright 2010

Recently while visiting Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra I came across the book Design: Play and discovered in it a set of posters that I just absolutely fell in love with. The set were for a Horror Film Festival in Manchester, England called Creep. The festival featured all the usual fare, but the posters were just a little bit more than what you would expect for the genre.

Done in the Swiss style, it's not exactly what you would expect for a horror festival, but they're effective. Not necessarily for their typography but their simple gimmick of revealing an image of any particular film's iconic killer. When the lights go out, the glow in the dark screen printing ink reveals a glowing menacing face peering back at you. Very cinematic if I do say so, although it's not exactly where the designer was looking to connote the idea. His hope was that cropped type at the top and bottom would help you refer to scrolling credits at the end of a movie, but it turns out that the image appearing after turning down the lights comes off more as the opening of any movie experience.

Just For You

Images Property of Non-Format
Copyright 2009

Today was the day I saw something I didn't think I'd see.

When visiting the Non-Format site I came across a recent cover and opening spread piece they did for Print magazine. The cover was a man being tattooed with the phrase "I Made This" and the corresponding spread ended with "Just For You". This strikes a chord in me because of a piece I produced for a student show at Chaffey College that simply read, just for you. The piece was a play on language, viewer and artist relationships, culture, and class. It was intended to create a dialogue about why we do anything. Is it just for you or is it just for me or neither or both? What are our true intentions and do they really matter?