Last minute reminder that tonight is our annual Banquet and Show (reception starts at 5:30). Come join us as we recognize the hard work and dedication of all our students. The show will be up in full for most of May, and in part throughout the summer.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza: Get closer, 1 | Ads of the World™
Jordan Hill and Fed Pacheco's work was recently featured on Ads of the World. Looks great guys. Good work! It's also featured with the senior portfolios and other student work in our annual Communication Design Show in the Lightwell gallery. Make sure you stop by to see all the work.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Summer Internship in NYC
V Magazine, Visionaire and VMan Magazine are currently accepting applications for our fulltime summer art internship program.
Art interns assist the art department with a variety of daily tasks as well as taking on projects to manage throughout their term. Art interns are expected to participate in weekly Visionaire brainstorms and manage their own projects under the direction of the art department. All applicants must have an interest in fashion, design, photography and art.
Software skills required include knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite of software, mostly notably Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator for layout, logo and type design, conceptual renderings and packaging design. Experience in web/interactive design and software is not required but an asset.
Applicants should have résumé and samples of relevant design work ready for review. The ideal candidate should be able to work from our Soho office fulltime, though a minimum three day week may be arranged. The candidate must receive school credits for their internship.
For more information:
visionaireworld.com, vmagazine.com, vman.com
To apply please forward a résumé and a tight edit of work in PDF format to contact@vmagazine.com. Links to online portfolio sites are welcomed if PDF's are not on hand.
The email subject should read: Attn: Jeff Burch, Summer Art Internship
Art interns assist the art department with a variety of daily tasks as well as taking on projects to manage throughout their term. Art interns are expected to participate in weekly Visionaire brainstorms and manage their own projects under the direction of the art department. All applicants must have an interest in fashion, design, photography and art.
Software skills required include knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite of software, mostly notably Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator for layout, logo and type design, conceptual renderings and packaging design. Experience in web/interactive design and software is not required but an asset.
Applicants should have résumé and samples of relevant design work ready for review. The ideal candidate should be able to work from our Soho office fulltime, though a minimum three day week may be arranged. The candidate must receive school credits for their internship.
For more information:
visionaireworld.com, vmagazine.com, vman.com
To apply please forward a résumé and a tight edit of work in PDF format to contact@vmagazine.com. Links to online portfolio sites are welcomed if PDF's are not on hand.
The email subject should read: Attn: Jeff Burch, Summer Art Internship
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
National Student Show Results
Award winners from the 8th Annual National Student Show and Conference, hosted by the Dallas Society of Visual Communications, were announced Saturday, April 14th. UNT communication design students performed very well, winning a total of 10 awards. A list of the winning UNT student's can be found below and the full winners list is on the NSSC website. Congratulations to you all!
Big Box Little Box Award for Best Senior Portfolio
Chad Smith
Stephen Zhang’s Judge’s Choice
Mercy Lomelin
Great Pacific Garbage Patch Poster
Eleanor Grosch’s Judge’s Choice
Natalia Zinser
Kong Harald Packaging
Barton Dalmer’s Judge’s Choice
Ryan Raschbaum
Office Supplies Packaging
Best Illustration
Mercy Lomelin
Great Pacific Garbage Patch Poster
Best Broadcast Piece
Lauren Bernal
Zoku Commercial
Best Print Advertising
Lydia Flores
Dallas Children's Museum
Best Website Design
Kelli Fischer
Tesla Motors
Best Brochure/Catalog
Bryan Lavery
Northwest Pipe Company Brochure
Best Letterhead
Jennifer Jennings
Shelburne Farms Stationery
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The smallest IKEA store in the World on Vimeo
via vimeo.com
I like that IKEA's new web banner isn't just freakishly dense with a full line of products to browse, but that it comes from a concept--saving space.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Smile on Vimeo: an animated like button by Animade
via vimeo.com
A simple animation that makes you smile. By Animade. Via Denver Egotist.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
BibliOdyssey: Architectural Stationery Vignettes
A great collection of historical stationery items from Columbia University's Biggert Collection.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Smart Car Drives Through Twitter in Brilliant ASCII Animation | Adweek
via adweek.com
An interesting use of twitter. Visit the twitter site at: https://twitter.com/#!/smartArg
A DRAMATIC SURPRISE ON A QUIET SQUARE
via youtube.com
As a followup to the Tic Tac flash mob, here's another interesting video.
via Denver Egotist
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
aigadfw design week 2012
via aigadfwdw.org
A lot of very interesting speakers being hosted at the AIGA DFW Design week (THIS WEEK)! Some of their events are free like the Design for Good Creative Think Tank on Friday in partnership with Good Magazine. Make an effort to stop by or go to all of the events
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Monday, April 9, 2012
Student Work for Dallas Opera - The Dallas Egotist
TDO: Call for Donations from Antonio Mondragon-Becker on Vimeo.
Antonio Mondragon-Becker's work featured on The Dallas Egotist. Nice work Antonio.
La Pire Haleine du Monde - YouTube
via youtube.com
One of the best use of flash mobs by Tic Tac France. Takes a little while to play out. And I often wonder if the people experiencing the mob can possibly be real. But even if they aren't it's quite fun.
via Denver Egotist
Phil Are Go!: Calvert Reserve - Details Matter
Phil Are Go! points out a vintage ad for Calvert Reserve with a nice illustration of a neighborhood party. I have to agree that the details in the illustration add a great deal to the ad, and are a good reminder that details matter. So don't forget the details as you push for the end of the semester.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Neue Haas Grotesk — Features
via fontbureau.com
The predecessor to Helvetica has been revived digitally. This is an interesting look at the differences.
Via quipsologies.
Kids Can’t Think For Themselves
This article by Pentagram partner Michael Beirut was first published in 1988, but I came across it again recently. Though a bit dated, it's worth rereading, as is the book from which it was excerpted, Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design. If you've ever wondered why the Experience Passport exists, hopefully you will get a sense of the answer here.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Graphic-Exchange
Graphic design senior Chad Smith once again had his work featured on the world wide interwebs. His identity and stationery system for Wild Harry were featured on Graphic-Exchange. Congratulations to Chad.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
How ‘Hunger Games’ Built Up Must-See Fever
A small crew with a tiny marketing budget made gradual use of social media to build interest in a movie with tricky subject matter. Hollywood reporter Brooks Barnes reports on Lionsgate’s new interactive marketing campaign for “The Hunger Games."
This is a interesting article about the advertising plan implemented by Lionsgate. Let's hope the move lives up to the book!
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Hipsta Marks
I found this funny post on tumblr and thought it a good visual commentary on the danger of copying style trends to excess.
As design students I think it's important you look at a lot of design (past and present) to expand your visual language as well as making yourselves aware of stylistic tricks of the trade. Keep in mind that when style begins to replace concept your work devolves and becomes merely superficial and decorative rather than original and hopefully memorable. If the majority of work in your book is full of stylistic trends that have all been done before, how are you going to stand out from a good number of other designers designing with the same visual vernacular?
You should continually challenge yourselves to take visual inspiration to a new place or better yet, go against the grain and try something you've never done before. If you've solved a design problem with a specific aesthetic, don't allow that aesthetic to creep into subsequent work. Take risks and challenge yourselves to grow with each project assigned instead of relying on safe visual cliches.
Ira Glass of This American Life talks about his creative process in the video below. He talks about why we make things and how that process is connected to our passions and taste. I like his analysis about the gap that results when skills haven't caught up to vision/taste.
Scrabble Typography
If you’re crazy about typography, the new Scrabble edition will not fail to entice you.
The popular boardgame company has just released the limited edition Scrabble Typography.
The new version features a beautiful storage case with a drawer, a matching six-panel magnetized gameboard as well as tiles that carry different and exciting fonts—all of which are made of solid walnut.
Manufactured by Winning Solutions, which is behind other classic Hasbro brands like Monopoly and Clue, the set will also include a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity.
Sophisticated and sleek, the Scrabble Typography will be available come August but you can pre-order one now at a price of US$199.
I so want this!
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
'Damn Good Advice' From One Of The Real 'Mad Men' : NPR
via npr.org
NPR did a recent story on Madison Avenue ad man George Lois. It's an interesting listen and picture of the era that inspired Mad Men. Oh, and Lois has a new book: Damn Good Advice (For People With Talent).
More Hint Fiction Book Covers
Graphic Design 1 sophomores, Laura Bradford (The Password), Silvia Erives (Better Than Divorce), Rayn Vonder Hoya (Tryst), Trevor Smith (Widow's First Year), and Rachel Felber (Blind Date) designed and illustrated book covers based on very short stories (25 words or less) found in Robert Smartwood's book, Hint Fiction. This is the second year we've given this assignment and I can tell you the results are as fun and unpredictable as last year. I'll be posting more covers in the next few days. Nice work guys!
