Don’t forget, early registration for KERNSPIRACY and Marketing Mentor’s “Nuts and Bolts of Winning Proposals” ends this Wednesday, March 18th. So, if you’re inclined to go I’d highly advise you register now and save yourself $20.
link » Nuts and Bolts of Winning Proposals: A Hands-On How-To Workshop for Creative Professionals
I’m very excited to announce that KERNSPIRACY has collaborated with Marketing Mentor co-founder and design industry vet Peleg Top to offer a unique and valuable workshop experience for creative professionals.
In addition to learning a ton of practical advice, tips and tricks culled from Peleg’s nearly two decades of experience running a successful design studio, this [...]
NYTimes.com Design Director Khoi Vinh’s take on the Tropicana packaging scandal is notable primarily because he’s the only person I’ve seen addressing the usability problems introduced by Arnell’s revisions to the brand:
link » Subtraction: Orange You Sorry About Tropicana?
link » NYTimes.com: Tropicana Discovers Some Buyers Are Passionate About Packaging
In conjunction with this week’s MacWorld Expo, Linotype has released the latest version of their widely lauded font management application, FontExplorer X. The newly rechristened “FontExplorer X Pro 2.0″ now features CS4 auto-activation and connectivity with the equally new FontExplorer X Server, but unfortunately for current users the formerly freeware app is now going to [...]
Valleywag is reporting that Microsoft is already bailing out on the hotly debated ads featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld as wacky pals having crrraaaaazzzy adventures. Microsoft is claiming that’s it’s always been the plan to have Seinfeld appear only in the opening salvo of it’s new marketing initiative, but given Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s [...]
Not sure exactly what these are, but they’re supposedly from an IBM presentation circa 1975. Hard not to love the design sensibility on display here, for which I suppose we can thank Paul Rand .
link » It’s 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future
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Aussie surf brand Billabong announced last week that it had acquired longboard makers Sector 9 and, subsequently, Sector 9’s truck brand, Gullwing. I’m stoked on this otherwise standard industry news because I designed the baseplate type for Gullwing’s Charger model. The Charger itself was designed by Neil from Carver Skateboards.
I think these Battlestar Galactica propaganda-style posters designed by Quantum Mechanix are a really fantastic example of smart licensing. Whereas most of attempts to do this kind of thing are foiled by brand managers who insist on slapping a huge logo right where it doesn’t belong (hello Napoleon Dynamite’s “Vote for Pedro” tees), these demonstrate what [...]
I’d like to think that one of these years I’ll do a holiday promotion for Tokyo Farm that’s as smart as R/GA’s Tattoo Santa.
Spotted this on a snowboarding trip to Colorado a few weeks ago. What can I even say?
