Pretty cool ideas to keep those computer wires organized with bread bag snaps and binder clips.
Monday, May 16, 2011
The 50 Things Every Graphic Design Student Should Know
50 awesome tips and tricks for the aspiring designer.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/3E3qLq/www.jamiewieck.com/visual-essays/the-50-things-every-graphic-design-student-should-know/
Source: Jamie Wieck
Musikame Dj Player
This site allows you to search any song on the web, through sound cloud, and then manipulate it through this player. Pretty bitchin'.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2HSmIT/soundcloud.musikame.com/
Computer Arts Magazine's 10 Ways to Improve Your Portfolio
10 ideas for a better portfolio
Struggling for ways to present your work to potential clients? Here are 10 ideas to make your online portfolio stand out
1) Shoot with care“If you photograph your work, invest time and resources into making the images as good as possible,” advises Emmi Salonen, creative director at Studio EMMI. “Just as spelling mistakes do, images with no contrast, bad focus and so on take attention away from your work, and make the viewer focus on how the presentation could be improved.”
2) Be selective
“Curate the work you put up carefully,” says London-based illustrator Malika Favre. “Online folios need the same rhythm as printed ones: you need to tell a story, and order your projects so that they feel fluid and complement each other. If it means that an old project has to be removed to fit the new story, so be it.”
3) Make it easy to update
“By far the most important thing for me is making it easy to put new work up there,” reflects illustrator Laura Barnard, who uses the Squarespace platform. “You could have the fanciest site in the world, but if it was last updated five years ago it looks a bit lazy.”
4) Add some personality
For Mexico-based designer and illustrator Christopher Mooij, regular updates are crucial – and not just those showing finished work: “Let people know what you’re working on, or what you’ve done over the past few weeks,” he says. “Obviously those posts shouldn’t be filled with your personal diary: make it smart.”
5) Tailor it for the purpose
“Think about the goal of your portfolio,” advises Seattle-based illustrator Jared Nickerson. “In the beginning I just wanted constructive feedback, so would only post one image of the core work. Nowadays I try to showcase different usages of a design or placement on products, and give some insights into the process.”
6) Cater to diverse tastes
“One of my best-selling prints is quite frankly one of my least favourite pictures,” admits Stan Chow, who sells his work online through Big Cartel. “Potential clients and buyers look for different things, and sometimes you have to put up images you don’t like so much, because the chances are that somebody else will.”
7) Put your work in context
“One of the biggest challenges is figuring out how to display printed material on screen,” points out New York-based designer Derek Chan. “While digital versions of your work will help, photography is definitely the best way to show these off. It’s all about the context, and showing your designs as they were intended to be seen.”
8) Set out your stall
“The work that you choose to showcase should be the type of work that you want to be hired to produce,” reasons New York-based designer and type artist Sasha Prood. “Be selective, and only show the projects that you can really stand behind. A great way to develop your portfolio further is through self-initiated projects.”
9) Keep it maintained
“Completed projects can start ganging up, and it ends up being a project in itself to get your portfolio sorted,” admits Jeff Knowles. His solution is to make a versatile template, and a concise system for naming and describing your projects: “At the end of each one, simply select your best images and populate the templates.”
10) Blog, and stick with it
For Jonathan Edwards, a regularly updated blog keeps people coming back: “Set yourself a task, like updating your blog every day for 100 days,” he suggests. “It may seem a pain to have to find something new to post every day, but in the long run you’ll thank yourself. You’ll have 100 new drawings, for a start.”
Source: www.computerarts.co.uk
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Supra Rasta Pack
For Summer 2011 Supra presents the Rasta Pack. The Vaider and Vaider Low come with Hemp uppers, on gum rubber outer soles and of course the iconic three-color rasta branding. Look out for a release soon. These things are ill.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
New Era Fitted lookbook
In conjunction with the release of their Spring/Summer 2011 collection, New Era is also releasing a book to highlight some of its key pieces and shed more light on the brand. Published by TRANSWORLD JAPAN, the book includes a brief company history, several features, a product lookbook and a store locator. The publication will come as a free supplement in the June issue of WARP Magazine Japan.
“Disassembly” - Todd McLellan
“Disassembly” is a series of intricate, disassembled items from our past, arranged carefully and shot beautifully by Canadian photographer Todd McLellan. The series features relics such as a rotary phone, typewriter, lawnmower, wind-up clock, camera and recorder, all neatly displayed, reflecting nostalgic elements of eras that have long since been left behind.
Impossible Launches Vivid ‘Color Shade’ Film for Polaroid
If you want to shoot Polaroids, forget about Polaroid. The company is now little more than a label slapped onto plastic junk, which it then tries to make palatable by paying Lady Gaga to say nice things about it.What you need is to find an old Polaroid camera (the proper ones that spit out the iconic square photos) and load it up with Impossible film. And analog-retro fans are in luck today, as the Impossible Project has launched a new film pack, the PX 680 Color Shade.
PX 680 is much like Instagram for real photos. The colors are vivid and sometimes rather skewed, and odd things can happen thanks to the fact that the emulsion remains sensitive to light for the first few moments after it pops out into the world. If you shield it from bright light after its birth and coddle it for four minutes, you’ll be rewarded with stunningly bright colors.You have to follow the instructions, though. These suggest shooting straight into a box, shooting in a warm place to get brighter colors, and overcranking the exposure slightly to saturate the colors. And the pictures will continue to change for a few days after shooting. Try getting that kind of thing out of your digital camera.
The film works with Polaroid 600 cameras, as well as the SX 70 if it has a neutral density filter (the speed of the film is ISO600). A pack of eight shots will cost you $22. Available now.
PX 680 is much like Instagram for real photos. The colors are vivid and sometimes rather skewed, and odd things can happen thanks to the fact that the emulsion remains sensitive to light for the first few moments after it pops out into the world. If you shield it from bright light after its birth and coddle it for four minutes, you’ll be rewarded with stunningly bright colors.You have to follow the instructions, though. These suggest shooting straight into a box, shooting in a warm place to get brighter colors, and overcranking the exposure slightly to saturate the colors. And the pictures will continue to change for a few days after shooting. Try getting that kind of thing out of your digital camera.
The film works with Polaroid 600 cameras, as well as the SX 70 if it has a neutral density filter (the speed of the film is ISO600). A pack of eight shots will cost you $22. Available now.
Source: Wired.com
NewspaperWood - New Green Design with the Earth in Mind
Mieke Meijer of Design Academy Eindhoven has set out to reinterpret the concept with the creation of the material NewspaperWood. Reversing the whole technique and concept, she set out to take stacks upon stacks of newspaper and through a gluing process was able to create a relatively robust material suitable for industrial design. Her efforts were recognized by Vij5 who helped bring NewspaperWood to the world of lifestyle products, as several pieces of furniture were subsequently created and showcased at Ventura Lambrate during Milan Design Week 2011.
Shepard Fairey in Chicago
The Art Chicago Fair played host to the REVOLUTIONS show – an exhibition of Shepard Fairey’s rendition of intricately designed album cover artwork. To complement the show’s interior, an oversized extension decorated to the streets in the form of a 11 by 130-foot mural under Chicago’s Grand and Lakeshore underpass.
Photography: D. Katz
Pharrell Williams Named Creative Director of KarmaloopTV
Rapper/producer Pharrell Williams is expanding his focus to include a new TV network aimed at the online generation. KarmaloopTV announced that Williams has been named creative director for the network scheduled to launch later this year. Karmaloop will feature original productions along with movies that have shaped the 18-to-34-year-olds who grew up with the internet. The Grammy-winning Williams, who has created hits for Jay-Z, Britney Spears and other stars, will have a significant equity position in KarmaloopTV, according to the company. In a statement, Karmaloop CEO Greg Selkoe said Williams will help create a brand that will get “cutting-edge youth culture” excited about TV, as MTV did in the 1980s.
New Kicks from Addict
Spring/Summer 2011 colorways of the Addict Scout. The mid top sneaker from Addict fuses sneaker and moccasin attributes into one shoe. Stichting details, popping color accents and just overall clean design make the Scout one of our favorite shoes in the still young footwear range of the UK brand. For Spring/Summer 2011 Addict offers the shoe in 4 colorways, all available now from their online store.
The Supra Skytop has been without a doubt the most popular sneaker to come from Supra and has pushed the brand from a niche following to a much wider degree audience. Still today you see other, sometimes much bigger footwear brands, imitate the popular design of the high top sneaker. The original first Skytop has been going strong for over 5 years already. The first announcement of the follow up model Skytop II was made in 2009 and now it is that time again – we introduce the Skytop III.
Chad Muska and the Supra team have teamed up again for this next chapter, mixing 90s and basketball influence into the new mid top sneaker. There is more rubber on the upper and there is more sole on the sneaker, resulting in once again a great shoe, that combines lifestyle and skateboarding in one. The sneaker will release later this summer in several canvas and suede options.
Recap | Shepard Fairey ‘The Print Show’ at Galerie Magda Danysz
Yesterday ‘The Print Show’ by Shepard Fairey opened at Galerie Magda Danysz in Paris.“Considered as “the most influential street artist of our time” by the Institute of Contemporary Art of Boston, Shepard Fairey (aka Obey) has always considered posters as a valuable form of art. Relentlessly he has pasted posters all over the world, renewing his visual codes through the years, building up a real language. Today his posters are world famous, became his graphic signature, instantly recognizable. In a show where about 200 prints have been gathered over a period of ten years, one ca, see the mazing amount of refrences and inspirations the artist uses. Mixing Soviet propaganda cause with heavy metal imagery, or psychedelic letterings makes it an incredible testimony of the rise of the graphic culture.”
The exhibition runs from May 7th until June 18th 2011.
Magda Danysz Gallery
78, rue Amelot
Paris 11
Photography: Mathieu Vilasco for Highsnobiety.com
10.Deep x Reebok Night Sky Mid
The 10.Deep Night Sky Mid is comprised of a soft camel suede upper with blue nylon rip-stop panels, a die-cut black and grey speckled EVA midsole and a darker high-abrasion rubber outsole. The sneakers feature black on black Reebok labeling, small 10.Deep hits and come with both blue and red hiking laces. Now available online through 10.Deep.
Adidas Originals LQC
Adidas has released the latest colorway of the still young adidas Originals LQC (Light Quality Comfort) high top sneaker. For Summer 2011 the German sportwear brand presents the lightweight trainer in a white/grey/neon orange colorway, featuring leather, patent leather and perforated leather on the upper.
The originals were released at the Sneaker Con event in NY. They draw inspiration from the timeless adidas EQT model. A trainer version has also been released, this shoe is simply a lower cut version of the previously-mentioned adidas Originals LQC basketball sneaker. It features a predominately grey upper which is highlighted with a red liner and a white midsole. As for the texture makeup, this shoe is composed mostly of a suede and other lightweight materials. The LQC Trainer will retail for $90 and officially released on April 20th at select retailers.
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