Over the holidays, I saw my fair share of ads and great deals. I’m very interested in getting an LCD TV this year, one, because I love shiny new gizmos and two, the displays are just gorgeous. So I kept my eyes on all the specials this past holiday season. I saw some great buys … Read more Ad Goofs
As a creative, I make prints of my 2-d illustrations and have my designs printed, which is great. Ponoko takes it to the next level and allows you to turn your creativity loose on making real objects! Whether it’s a one-off prototype or special gift, this is just really cool! I don’t know what I’m going … Read more Ponoko: Make Your Own Products!
I honestly can’t remember how I found this page of Olympic Stamps for the 2010 games. I was going through my morning ritual of reading my RSS feeds. I typically open like 20 windows in my browser. I had forgotten how I got here, but finding these beautiful stamps was a delight to my eyes. … Read more Sweet Stamps!
I’ve seen the following ad twice over two issues in National Geographic without giving it much thought. After all, I’ve trained myself to overlook ads, and this advertorial didn’t spark my interest…until I gave it a second look: Let’s take a closer look: WTH? I’ve seen some bad Photoshop jobs before, but what on Earth … Read more Friday Fun: Amish Ad
I’m so stoked about wireless electricity and I know it is a ways off from becoming a reality in my home, it just took a giant leap forward and I just had to share this link from Fast Company. Enjoy!
Seen on the HOW Blog: TinEye, the visual search engine. This is not Google image search, TinEye actually uses your uploaded image and compares it to other images on the internet, even variants. Perfect for logo and infringement research, a must-have tool for any creative!
There’s been quite a lot of discussion on the new direction Pepsi took with their latest rebranding. Most designers seem to think it is a step backwards and just generally don’t care for it. Well, I’m going to respectfully disagree. Pepsi’s former branding was looking very dated, busy, and definitely in need of a refresh: … Read more Reflecting on Pepsi’s Rebranding Refresh
I’m starting off 2009 with a story from the folks over at Mental Floss on someone who’s designed a product for the greater good. Here’s someone who’s designing a practical way to help the homeless: EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof) it’s a military-grade one-person shelter for homeless people who don’t want to stay at a … Read more Design for Good: Everyone Deserves A Roof
I’ve been on Facebook for several months now. Generally I ignore any ads on it. However, it finally started to dawn on me that all the ads were singles ads. I assumed this was because my status of “single” in my profile. So I turned off my relationship status and looking for, yet I continue to … Read more Strange Singles Ad
I hope that you have a Merry Christmas! Here’s a cool link from the folks over at Mental Floss on about the first Christmas Card. Want to give a meaningful gift this Christmas Day? You could always donate to one of my favorite causes and donate to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. (I don’t work … Read more Merry Christmas!
Here are a few great design inspiration links: Archive of Postage Stamps by Type Designers Great Book Covers from 2008 Smithsonian’s Flickr Page Lee Sutton’s Flickr Page Time Life Photo Archive (hosted by Google) Enjoy!
So I’ve been planning this year’s holiday card since last year. I had a few too many sketches from last year that I felt were cool enough, so I made life easy for myself this year and started from these sketches from last year: I decided to “zoom in” on the what I call the … Read more My Holiday Card – O Christmas Tree
Eric Karjaluoto from smashLAB has an interesting essay on his ideas on ideas blog about how to streamline your creative process to be less rigid and more agile while keeping it efficient and productive. While the changes he suggests are small, I believe they make sense for the most part and I’m willing to give … Read more Agile Design Tips
I was out shopping the other day with a friend and we were looking at the Christmas stuff. Along with the typical Christmas lights, candy, and displays there was this: I call him “Gansta Rappa Spuds Mackenzie”, and he sings and lights up. He has either a gold or silver plated “grill” in addition to … Read more Just what they didn’t want for Christmas!
I saw Madagascar over the Thanksgiving weekend. The original movie was good, not great, but it was entertaining. So I figured the second could be fun to see. I think it is one of the rare cases where the sequel is as good as, or in some ways, is better than the original. I really … Read more Great End Titles
I was in Wal-Mart the other day buying Christmas gifts and I wanted to buy some chocolate for my dad. I went over to the holiday candy section and was browsing the selection when I came across this: (apologies on image quality, I only had my cell phone camera handy) What the heck? Who in … Read more Poopy Packaging Idea
So as I ripped open my latest box of Kleenex® tissues the other day, I noticed that the strip with the tissue count said “180”. I was a bit confused because I recently started buying the larger packages that I thought came 280 in a box. So I went and got another box. And sure … Read more Friday Fun: Kleenex Typo
I found this on Boing Boing the other day…Target now has gift cards with a built-in 1.2 megapixel digital camera. I’m not sure how practical this is, but it just sounds really cool and appears to be well-designed.