Alex Wipperfurth, brand marketing consultant and accessory to hijack. Alex Wipperfurth is a San-Francisco-based marketing consultant who traffics in radical ideas. Through his agency Plan B, Wipperfurth has elevated grassroots marketing into something of an artform. Brands as diverse as Napster, Dr Marten’s, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Barbie have all benefited from Wipperfurth’s methodology, which often times flies...
Bruce Livingstone, Founder, President, CEO, iStockPhoto Bruce Livingstone, 35, is founder, President and CEO of iStockphoto, an innovative marketplace for imagery. Bruce started his design career in 1994, as a clerk in the mail room of Image Club Graphics, a Calgary company credited with being the first to put RF images on CD-ROMs. After a piece of software essentially...
The new iPod ads take place at a new club. I think I like the hip hop club better. The new club is a prog rock punky kind of stylized place with a Warhol-like 60’s feel. All the ads are addictive but getting tired. The most obvious shift is not the design but the change in target audience. Apple...
The Art Director’s Club is one of the most prestigious design awards you can have on your mantle. Their 86th Annual Awards design competition is open to pros and students, and includes a broad range of expected categories – interactive, illustration, photography, as well as the forward-thinking category called “Hybrid” which allows for submissions of designs including, in the...
This post is nothing more that a cry for help..for empathy. Have you seen the “Lower My Bills” tile ads. These ads are everywhere! As pervasive as the Giggle IQ test. You’ve seen the newest one right…the silhouetted dancing guy in a suit shaking his hips like Elvis. They are built in Flash. They are awful, ugly, poorly designed...
Tiphanie Brooke, a super talented graphic designer / industrial designer teetering on the edge between fine art and commercial art and her memoirs sometimes highlight that emotional struggle. Look at her work but click on “memoirs” and you’ll find a designer to empathize with. http://www.antigirl.com/ – From the NoD Sponsor: Sessions Online Schools of Art and Design is an...
Marc Schiller captures the ephemeral world of street art. Doesn’t matter if it’s New York, London, Tokyo, or Rio. Our urban environment is defined as much by street art (graffiti, murals, and installations) as by commercial graphic art (signs, ads, and billboards). Walk around any downtown and you’ll see that some of the best art is just …...
It’s not hard to persuade a designer that color matters. But persuading Fortune 500 companies? You might be surprised. Color consultant Leatrice Eiseman has carved out a major career in helping companies "make correct choices in colors that sell." "Color trends should never replace the inherent ability of a designer to create color combinations, but simply provide a...
