Nov 30
We’re Back!
Posted in: UncategorizedHey Visual Culturists! The intersection of varying forces have temporarily diverted our energy but we’re thrilled to say that we are gearing up to bring you fresh material for the new year.
Stay tuned……
Jul 08
Call for Entries: The Design Activist’s Handbook
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Noah Scalin over at ALR Design is looking for submissions for The Design Activist’s Handbook a book that he is working on with writer Michelle Taute and is being published by HOW Books next year. Here’s what their looking for:
Artwork and interviews: Socially conscious design projects, both self-initiated and client projects, with good stories to go with them. We’d like to hear about failures and successes:
• Your first efforts at socially conscious design.
• Projects/situations where you struggled with ethics.
• How you manage to pursue socially conscious design and still pay the bills.
• What socially conscious design means to you.
• Situations/projects that helped you discover your power as a designer.
Referrals: Know someone else we should talk to? Or something you’d really like to see in the book? Please let us know! We’re especially interested in talking with in-house and agency designers who are working to affect change at their companies from the bottom up.
For more info submissions and referrals go here. All entries must be sent by July 16th of next week.
May 03
Does Oil Spill damage BP’s brand?
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“There has been a massive global expansion in green marketeering. BP, a.k.a.,“British Petroleum,” has spent tens of millions of dollars to develop and sell its green street cred” says Paul Taylor from the LA Examiner. I think it is safe to say that BP has an uphill battle to reclaim its environmental credibility.
For the latest news on the clean-up efforts head over to the Huffington Post
Apr 22
Grown in a Lab
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Photography and cell manipulation: Frank Conrad. Lab assistant: Bastion Ridley.
Creative Review seems to always come up with something new for their conceptually driven covers. Previous issues have taken them as far as Mumbai, while their February issue enabled subscribers to ‘grow their own tomatoes’. This month Creative Review literally grew the cover in a lab (as seen above). For more on how the cover was executed go here.
Apr 22
Brand New: Class is in session
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The folks over at Under Consideration have expanded Brand New—their informative branding blog into the classroom. The focus of Brand New Classroom “will be as much on the final result as the process to get there. All of our readers are encouraged to provide constructive feedback, whether you are a student yourself or a seasoned professional.” Find out more here.
Apr 19
A visual showcase of coffee lids
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It’s Monday morning so we felt this Flickr set by sarcoptiform was appropriate. It is a great series that showcases the subtle differences in an average ‘coffee lid’
Feb 15
Innovative Recycle Containers
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The city of Barcelona with the guidance of their Environmental Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Ros Roca and Nord Engineering, now have public recycling containers that are thoughtful in design, and intuitive usability.
The containers include identification elements to make it easier for all people to locate and distinguish between them in public spaces. Each waste category is associated with a color: organic—brown, general waste—grey, cardboard and paper—blue, plastic packaging—yellow and glass—green. Containers are lined up in the same order everywhere, making it easy for the blind or visually-impaired to identify them.
For more innovative recycling containers see below:
Feb 11
The evolution of Charlotte in Stop Motion
Posted in: UncategorizedMetropolis by Rob Carter – Last 3 minutes from Rob Carter on Vimeo.
Rob Carter’s film Metropolis charts the evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, through an amazing stop-motion paper animation. The full film will screen at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City through April 4, 2010.
Feb 11
The ABC’s of Paper Cups
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Nicely done by IaM Design out of Seoul.
“ABC Paper Cup puts an end to the boring design of disposable paper cups, which are easily confused with one another and thus users often have to take a new one. The ABC Paper Cup makes it easy to remember your cup, because it has a unique design in 14 variations, including the alphabet from A to Z. Apart from the cups with their colourful signs and letters in simple, cheerful designs there are also fun suggestions on how the ABC Paper Cups can also be used.”
Pop the hood for more images:
Feb 05
Misery Loves Company; Kleenex With a Heart
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Design students of professor Sylvain Allard have developed an amusing, empathetic series of tissue packaging explorations, much like the ones pictured above by student Corinne Pant. Head over to UQAM for the full series.
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