New Blackhaus Poster

I'm really digging this redesign I did for my Blackhaus typeface promotional poster.

Jabba the Scott

From Blue Milk Special

"Back in ‘76 the original Jabba the Hutt was to appear in a scene right before Han transports Luke, Obi-Wan and the droids off Tatooine. Jabba was always meant to be a monster of some kind, and at the time the special effects just weren’t living up to Lucas’ filthy imagination. Northern Irish actor Declan Mulholland played the role of Jabba as either a stand in for a stop-motion creation to be added in post production, or to wear a mask over his head. Neither ended up happening, and Lucas scrapped the scene."

I didn't know this until I read it on their site so I thought I would share. :)

Fair?

I saw this in Baltimore last Sunday. The question is: Is guerilla marketing ethical? No question that Boost mobile may have to pay a fine for there work here but is it fair to graffiti artists that try to express themselves to in their work while some companies do work like this to sell themselves as "urban" and "cool?" Ji Lee uses graffiti work to point out the contradiction of personal vs. corporate work, not to sell it and he works for fucking google! No doubt I would love to work with Ji, we are completly on the same book.

Kiwi!

I had forgotten about this piece until a friend of mine had posted it up on facebook. I originally saw this sometime last year and it still amazes me.



Note the following is from the artist that created this piece (not me):
"My Master's Thesis Animation, which I completed while I was at The School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art, in New York City. Created using Maya, After Effects, and rigged using The Setup Machine by Anzovin studios. If you would like to download there is a small version at my website: www.donysanimation.com"

Clash of The Giants

Something I've obviously noted since coming back north is the rebranding of Giant foods.




The Original Logo




The New Logo

I can understand the need to rebrand especially in a market that wants more organic, natural foods and a more experience centered shopping environment. The cornucopia aspect of the logo isn't bad but the lettering just seems I don't know...generic. Many of the old stores featured signage in ITC Benguiat which in it's nouveau style at least felt organic. The new logo's lettering is emotionless and somehow doesn't capture the cornicopia essence of the mark. I think some hand lettering is in order and using the existing font as the brand's workhorse instead of it's logotype. But then again that's me, I could be wrong.

Non-Prophets Fresh Kinetic Typography

A motion graphics piece by my grad school friend Seth :)

Elizabeth Gilbert on Nurturing Creativity.

Snagged from Scott over at PVP Comics. A must watch!

Now On YouTube!

The Dark Knight

I went ahead and created a YouTube page so that I can put my motion graphics pieces up on it for easier hosting and viewing.

gregeckler on YouTube

The History of Web

This page mock up is by davelawrence8.
I love the idea of what would Apple.com look like in 1983. It has me thinking what if we tried teaching web design with parody? The history of graphic design along with it's importance in print. And often parody is used in the teaching of it. Why is the history of web design not as important? We would probably see even more progressive web visuals if more students knew the history.

Are You Serious?

What the hell? I'm sitting here pouring over different websites of design studios and seriously people some of this is just plain shit! As graphic designers we are visual communicators, information architects, the alchemists that merge words and images to create golden messages. But what does it say of what you do when your site looks like...well I was going to say crap but after seeing the poster for the upcoming Banksy exhibition which uses crap it would be an insult to the aesthetic nature of crap.



A few choice sites that have made me exclaim "Are You Serious?" are:
This apparent homage to a romance novel
The 80's called they said, STOP IT!
Marketing made simple = ugly
Cute for about .001 of a second then just annoying
It scares me that this is a dude. And next Yaoi!*
*note I only know the term Yaoi because of web comics making fun of it and still had to wikipedia it to know what it was.

I should seriously consider just opening my own studio that all I do is the websites for other design studios because it is obvious I could make a killing just doing this.