James Garvin’s inspiration
NO ! SPEC
I keep feeling that some companies and people undervalue what we as designers do for a living.
The thought was reinforced when I heard that the Indianapolis Colts of the NFL held a contest to design a new secondary logo (www.colts.com ). The "prize" for the contest is $1,000 and a pair of season tickets. The NFL is a money generator with a large portion of their billion dollar profits come from merchandise sales which will feature this logo, the "prize" is an insulting attempt at fair compensation for services.
I found proof that I am not the only one that felt insulted and undervalued by this "contest". Today I stumbled upon a website that is part of an online campaign to stop spec work. It was inspiring to see that others like myself are against this unprofessional practice.
I keep feeling that some companies and people undervalue what we as designers do for a living.
The thought was reinforced when I heard that the Indianapolis Colts of the NFL held a contest to design a new secondary logo (www.colts.com ). The "prize" for the contest is $1,000 and a pair of season tickets. The NFL is a money generator with a large portion of their billion dollar profits come from merchandise sales which will feature this logo, the "prize" is an insulting attempt at fair compensation for services.
I found proof that I am not the only one that felt insulted and undervalued by this "contest". Today I stumbled upon a website that is part of an online campaign to stop spec work. It was inspiring to see that others like myself are against this unprofessional practice.
Link: NO ! SPEC
Design Police
Found this site yesterday. It gave me a good laugh, and then I realized even I am guilty of one or two of these (though, I will never confess which ones), I am sure some of you are guilty of one or two as well.
Bring bad design to justice.
Link: Design Police
"One" by Matthew Adelman
I attended an art show this weekend in the city of Jupiter Florida. The show had a couple of hundred booths ranging from typical bad 1980's palm tree art, to crafts disguised as art.
However, there was one booth that was perhaps one of the most conceptually sound and innovative displays of modern art that I have seen in a long time. The piece was entitled "One" created by Matthew Adelman. The Painting is 50 inches tall by 20,000 inches long (when completed). Visually the painting is composed of abstract shapes and strokes creating a seemingly collage aesthetic.
What makes this art truly unique is that Matthew then cuts the painting into one inch squares. Each square is signed numbered and dated and is for sale individually for a few dollars. It seemed like such a novelty at first but as I thought about it I realized the truly inspiring part about the work. An individual could buy a square, a few squares, squares grouped together, squares with no relevance to each other, squares of their choice. Or the patron can buy as much as they wish assembling a large or small piece depending on their budget, making art easily attainable.
I also learned from Matthew that he intends to keep a record of all the people that own pieces of the painting and somehow make it even more interactive via the "One" website. He even mentioned that people will be able to purchase pieces via the website.
This piece was Interactive, customizable, intimate, intimidating, visually complex yet beautifully simple. I urge everyone to seek out this piece of work if it comes to an art show or gallery near you. Check out the website for his schedule.
I attended an art show this weekend in the city of Jupiter Florida. The show had a couple of hundred booths ranging from typical bad 1980's palm tree art, to crafts disguised as art.
However, there was one booth that was perhaps one of the most conceptually sound and innovative displays of modern art that I have seen in a long time. The piece was entitled "One" created by Matthew Adelman. The Painting is 50 inches tall by 20,000 inches long (when completed). Visually the painting is composed of abstract shapes and strokes creating a seemingly collage aesthetic.
What makes this art truly unique is that Matthew then cuts the painting into one inch squares. Each square is signed numbered and dated and is for sale individually for a few dollars. It seemed like such a novelty at first but as I thought about it I realized the truly inspiring part about the work. An individual could buy a square, a few squares, squares grouped together, squares with no relevance to each other, squares of their choice. Or the patron can buy as much as they wish assembling a large or small piece depending on their budget, making art easily attainable.
I also learned from Matthew that he intends to keep a record of all the people that own pieces of the painting and somehow make it even more interactive via the "One" website. He even mentioned that people will be able to purchase pieces via the website.
This piece was Interactive, customizable, intimate, intimidating, visually complex yet beautifully simple. I urge everyone to seek out this piece of work if it comes to an art show or gallery near you. Check out the website for his schedule.
Link: a piece of one
VECTOR MAGIC
Anyone remeber or work with Adobe Streamline?
It was a program that would take a BMP image and vectorize it into an EPS file. I know alot of people that had mixed results with this program, they either loved it or hated it.
I stumbled upon this fantastic web based app that vectorizes a BMP image with great precision and has great features. Vector Magic is a brainchild of a group of people at Stanford university and is currently a FREE app that anyone can use.
Not only does it give great very precise vector based imagery. The only down side is it dosen't recognize holes in shapes, it will create a white shape on top of a dark one. The best part about it is that It can also vectorize colored imagery and seperate the colors into individual objects.
I drew an image by hand, photocopied it, wrinkled and distressed it, scaned it, and then played with contrast in photoshop. I then uploaded it to Vector Magic and 15 minutes later I had a great piece of vector art.
If you check out the website it can even vectorize COLOR PHOTOS with great results
ABSOLUTLY AMAZING and FREE!
I am curious to find what other people in this community can do with it.
Anyone remeber or work with Adobe Streamline?
It was a program that would take a BMP image and vectorize it into an EPS file. I know alot of people that had mixed results with this program, they either loved it or hated it.
I stumbled upon this fantastic web based app that vectorizes a BMP image with great precision and has great features. Vector Magic is a brainchild of a group of people at Stanford university and is currently a FREE app that anyone can use.
Not only does it give great very precise vector based imagery. The only down side is it dosen't recognize holes in shapes, it will create a white shape on top of a dark one. The best part about it is that It can also vectorize colored imagery and seperate the colors into individual objects.
I drew an image by hand, photocopied it, wrinkled and distressed it, scaned it, and then played with contrast in photoshop. I then uploaded it to Vector Magic and 15 minutes later I had a great piece of vector art.
If you check out the website it can even vectorize COLOR PHOTOS with great results
ABSOLUTLY AMAZING and FREE!
I am curious to find what other people in this community can do with it.
Link: Vector Magic
Madrid 2016 Olympic Logo?
With all the fuss about the recent London 2012 logo (which has grown on me... slowly) and the replacement of the Chicago 2016 logo. I thought this might be interesting.
Madrid Spain has been having a competition to design the 2016 Olympic bid logo. They are now having a public vote to determine which of the ten logos will survive the cut. The top three will then go in front of a delegation from the organizing committee, they will then choose the logo to represent the bid.
It seems they are going to great lengthes to publisize the competition as a way to gain public support. They may also be using this competition to make sure they don't have problems like London or Chicago. Some of the ideas are fantastic, others I am not a fan of, either way it makes me think.
UPDATE:
The winning logo is the hand with multicolored fingers and the black M in the palm of the hand.
With all the fuss about the recent London 2012 logo (which has grown on me... slowly) and the replacement of the Chicago 2016 logo. I thought this might be interesting.
Madrid Spain has been having a competition to design the 2016 Olympic bid logo. They are now having a public vote to determine which of the ten logos will survive the cut. The top three will then go in front of a delegation from the organizing committee, they will then choose the logo to represent the bid.
It seems they are going to great lengthes to publisize the competition as a way to gain public support. They may also be using this competition to make sure they don't have problems like London or Chicago. Some of the ideas are fantastic, others I am not a fan of, either way it makes me think.
UPDATE:
The winning logo is the hand with multicolored fingers and the black M in the palm of the hand.
Link: Madrid Olympic Logos?
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