Artist Geneviève Godbout is 22 years old and orginally from Canada. She graduated in the traditional animation of Vieux-Montreal and then the Gobelins in Paris. These days she’s a freelance artist, based in London. We came across this great illustration of her’s by way of Veerle’s blog and just had to share it with you all. HAPPY HUMP DAY!
I sometimes think of myself as the ‘Johnny Appleseed’ of web design. I go forth and plant seeds of knowledge with potential clients and I do it not because I want to seem like a know-it-all but because it helps them down the road, which in turn can help me. Sometimes as web designers we forget that we’re working...
When I get tired of leafing through current award books, it’s often more productive to reach deeper into the past for ideas to steal inspiration. That said, here are some classic advertising and design archives. Key things to think about as you browse the archives are: • the graphic history of iconic brands • the evolution of the relationship...
To have continued success as a web designer, you must diversify your skill set. Not only do you need to know how to create a web site but you should also know how to create and edit themes for various content management systems, know how to design blog templates and possibly even design Myspace pages. This sometimes means downloading...
Kermit told us that it wasn’t easy bein’ green, where green obviously stood in for many aspects of identity, including race/color. Green was the new black, at the time. So what to make of this ad for Mucinex? “Mucus is beautiful” echoes the famous Black Is Beautiful slogan, but while Kermit was our hero in his fight for equality,...
The New York Times writes about Andy Warhol’s grave located in quiet Bethel Park, PA. Imagining the design of memorial marker for any famous artist seems like a worthy conceptual activity (or at least a feature in MAD Magazine), but something about Warhol’s work itself seems to almost demand he be given an parodic (at worst) or referential (at...
Holly Becker, décor8 As a freelance writer and interior design consultant, Holly Becker has created a very loyal readership to her blog, décor8. Holly is an Interior Design Consultant practicing in New Hampshire, Boston and the surrounding areas. She’s also a published freelance writer, having 10 years of combined writing and design experience, working for Fortune 500 companies and...
If you’re considering a career in special effects for film, it may be news that fire-breathing dragons and futuristic fight-scenes aren’t all that lie in store for you. More and more directors are relying on digital editing to add drama to the telling details of actors’ onscreen performances. Though actors have traditionally been paid the big bucks to cry...
AdAge named the VW “Think Small” advertising campaign (1959) as the #1 campaign of last century. It’s interesting to see how they’ve continued to reference the original work in their advertising for the new Beetle and even other lines. It’s almost revisionist, though, with today’s car image being prominent, and the messages directly opposite the original, which saluted economizing....
The 20th annual HOW Promotion Design Awards is now accepting entries. The recently re-tooled HOW’s Self-Promotion Design Awards, has been given a new name — (the Promotion Design Awards) and better-defined categories to make it easier to enter your work! Winners will be featured in the October 2007 issue of HOW magazine and one Best of Show winner will...
