Design

I can’t send cards to everyone, but I thought I’d post the image I created for my holiday card this year. It’s the first time I’ve made a physical card and I’m quite happy with the results! I’ve posted some process and photos of the end result under the cut. (more…)

Steve LeCouilliard contacted me on the weekend asking for a little help on a cause that I’ve increasingly been worried about. SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act is a bill aimed at fighting online piracy in all shapes and forms. Which in itself is not a bad thing. Creators deserve to be paid for what they do, and protections against out right theft should be in place. But in it’s current form SOPA goes too far. (more…)

Saw this video and had to share! Created by Rethink Communications for Design Currency: Icograda Design Week In Vancouver. It’s a beautiful piece and kind of blew my mind when I first came across it. Here’s the blurb:

Design Currency 2010 is a conference taking place in Vancouver April 26-30. To promote the conference we developed a stop-motion video showing the value of design. Using 2218 individual bills, 1 money counter and 1 long night of filming we came up with the following. Have a look.

There’s also a great set of behind the scenes photos on Flickr! Lots more just like the one above. I’m still trying to figure out if they filmed a short stack at a time, or if the whole thing was stop motion like it mentions in the description. Either way it’s a really cool animation. The technical trial and error must have made the project a blast to work on.  Sadly a lack of funds (curse you mortgage!) won’t allow me to register to get past the velvet rope of the event itself and meet other creative people like these! I wonder if they take design currency?