Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
In the future, the world will be one giant iPad.
Why are we still sitting here? We need to get on the horn with our stock brokers right now and do some serious investing in glass.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Angry Birds Birthday Cake... That you can Play!
Major props to this dad. Great job.
BONUS: Here's his step-by-step instructions on how to make it:
http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2011/02/21/bake-your-own-playable-angry-birds-cake/
Always First
A brilliant concept for FedEx by students Thomas Ilum, Zoe Vogelius from the Hamburg campus of the Miami Ad School.
via Adsoftheworld
via Adsoftheworld
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Trompe L'oeil - by Tyson James Dale
For his final thesis film, Tyson James Dale created this beautiful short film entitled Trompe L'oeil.
A business inspector is sent to inspect an old theatre. When he arrives on location, there's no theatre, only an empty lot with a charismatic mime who is looking to perform for him. The mime now has to perform various theatre positions, in order to convince the inspector that his "theatre" is up to code, and indeed real. But as the title suggests, everything is not what it seems...
A business inspector is sent to inspect an old theatre. When he arrives on location, there's no theatre, only an empty lot with a charismatic mime who is looking to perform for him. The mime now has to perform various theatre positions, in order to convince the inspector that his "theatre" is up to code, and indeed real. But as the title suggests, everything is not what it seems...
Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
My favourite Super Bowl Commercial
Probably would have voted VW/The Force but I didn't count it cuz I'd seen it earlier in the week.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
What would Times Square look like without Ads?
Help Morgan Spurlock and his gang show us what the world would look like without ads. In this installment he tackles Times Square.
www.noadny.com
Here's the frame I did...
Here's the frame I did...
Saturday, February 5, 2011
The Coenfographic
UK Design firm Muller has put together this awesome infographic showing some of the favored actors spanning the remarkable Coen Brother's career...
Via Fast Co.'s Design Blog
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Via Fast Co.'s Design Blog
Friday, February 4, 2011
A Magazine Is Born - the making of "Little White Lies"
A short film that captures some of the love, care and hand-crafted passion that goes into the making of an issue of LWLies.
Darren Aronofsky's musical collaborator Clint Mansell kindly offered them use of the track 'A Swan is Born' from his Black Swan soundtrack, and so they called their short film 'A Magazine is Born'.
View the final work here:
www.thechurchoflondon.com/work/in-house-publishing/little-white-lies-33
Darren Aronofsky's musical collaborator Clint Mansell kindly offered them use of the track 'A Swan is Born' from his Black Swan soundtrack, and so they called their short film 'A Magazine is Born'.
View the final work here:
www.thechurchoflondon.com/work/in-house-publishing/little-white-lies-33
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Three Dudes, Six Keyboards, One 80's Medley.
Once you get past the fact that these are not the offspring of the FUBAR guys, this is actually kinda entertaining...
Part way through, I was saying to myself, "Man, they should play Final Countdown", and then as if they heard me...
Note: the verdict is still out as to whether that is a hash brownie on the chair.
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Part way through, I was saying to myself, "Man, they should play Final Countdown", and then as if they heard me...
Note: the verdict is still out as to whether that is a hash brownie on the chair.
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
The Moncton Hawks - A Logo of Champions!
If you haven’t heard... I’m so happy to share the great news that Moncton’s own Pee Wee AAA Hawks are coming home with Gold Medals from a hard fought American Cup International Hockey Tournament in Lake Placid, NY.
As a huge hockey fan, hockey dad and coach myself, I appreciate what you must have gone through to win. I know that hockey is as much a mental game as a physical one. Everything must come together perfectly to win at that level. No detail is unimportant... right down to how you look.
Your Head Coach, Dr. Gord Reid knew this too back in the early Fall when he contacted Razor to help create a new logo and team identity for the (now International Champion) Pee Wee AAA Moncton Hawks. I have created sports logos and team identities in the past... but when Gord outlined this project, I knew it had to be special.
In Moncton hockey circles, the name Hawks has a tremendous legacy with famous teams at various levels dating back to the 1930's and on to the days of the professional AHL Hawks teams through the 1970's, 80's and 90's.
Whatever I developed had to compliment and stand on the shoulders of these great Hawks teams of the past. It had to be a perfect blend of modern, confident, professional, tough, cool... and most of all excite a team of 11 and 12 year olds (those of you with kids appreciate how difficult this can be sometimes).
To add to this, "Hawks" as well as just about every other bird known to mankind - including of course Penguins, Ducks and yes, Mud Hens - have teams named after them. That means literally hundreds of cool bird logos already in existence.
Like any branding assignment, it’s all about the homework. I did a ton of research on what was out there now and current trends in sport design, all the while remembering who it was I was ultimately trying to please (the kids) and what it could mean to them. I found some great reference poses of actual hawks (and some eagles for comparison), then started sketching, and sketching, and more sketching. Dozens of different doodles and drawings were used to help hone in on where I knew I wanted to go, until I ended up with a traced, vectorized and coloured version of the final logo...
Once we had that in the bag, we moved on to the sweaters and uniforms and everything else. It all came together pretty quickly after that. We knew we had something pretty good but it was the OOOH's and AAAAH's when the sweaters were revealed for the first time to the players that we knew we had nailed it.
So congratulations once again to the team and coaches for an outstanding victory and a pretty cool banner to hang in the home rink. I know Razor never made a pass, stopped a puck or scored a goal, but at the very least I'd like to think we helped make you look good in doing so.
Here's to good luck and continued success with the rest of the season, and many more seasons to come.
Go Hawks!
Well done guys. All of us at Razor Creative are extremely proud of you and this great accomplishment.
Your Head Coach, Dr. Gord Reid knew this too back in the early Fall when he contacted Razor to help create a new logo and team identity for the (now International Champion) Pee Wee AAA Moncton Hawks. I have created sports logos and team identities in the past... but when Gord outlined this project, I knew it had to be special.
In Moncton hockey circles, the name Hawks has a tremendous legacy with famous teams at various levels dating back to the 1930's and on to the days of the professional AHL Hawks teams through the 1970's, 80's and 90's.
Whatever I developed had to compliment and stand on the shoulders of these great Hawks teams of the past. It had to be a perfect blend of modern, confident, professional, tough, cool... and most of all excite a team of 11 and 12 year olds (those of you with kids appreciate how difficult this can be sometimes).
To add to this, "Hawks" as well as just about every other bird known to mankind - including of course Penguins, Ducks and yes, Mud Hens - have teams named after them. That means literally hundreds of cool bird logos already in existence.
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| Some of the 100's of bird logos I dug up in my research. I'm sure there are thousands. |
Like any branding assignment, it’s all about the homework. I did a ton of research on what was out there now and current trends in sport design, all the while remembering who it was I was ultimately trying to please (the kids) and what it could mean to them. I found some great reference poses of actual hawks (and some eagles for comparison), then started sketching, and sketching, and more sketching. Dozens of different doodles and drawings were used to help hone in on where I knew I wanted to go, until I ended up with a traced, vectorized and coloured version of the final logo...Once we had that in the bag, we moved on to the sweaters and uniforms and everything else. It all came together pretty quickly after that. We knew we had something pretty good but it was the OOOH's and AAAAH's when the sweaters were revealed for the first time to the players that we knew we had nailed it.
So congratulations once again to the team and coaches for an outstanding victory and a pretty cool banner to hang in the home rink. I know Razor never made a pass, stopped a puck or scored a goal, but at the very least I'd like to think we helped make you look good in doing so.
Here's to good luck and continued success with the rest of the season, and many more seasons to come.
Go Hawks!
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