Great archive of Pelican covers

Dozens and dozens of classic Pelican covers can be found on the Things Magazine web site. Categorized by decade with decent resolution scans. Fantastic to see these all in one place.

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Liza Ryan - SPILL

Some shots of the recently published catalog that I designed for the Liza Ryan - SPILL show are now up in the Plazm portfolio. It was truly great to collaborate with artist Liza Ryan and Cooley Gallery curator Stephanie Snyder on this project.

View here.

The catalog edition is 500.
We have a few copies for sale in the Plazm store.

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Envisioning Information: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Lust put this together for De Volkskrant newspaper. It's quite an amazing semiotic analysis and re-categorization of the sea of information we swim in.

The Oogle search engine queries Google search and determines the semantic orientation of each word in the returned results. To determine semantic orientation the program searches every word in the title and description of each result. By comparing the number of returned Google search results for each word to the ratio of returned results for a set of positive and negative words to the number of returned results for the positive/negative words paired with each word, the program can determine the degree of positivity or negativity. Essentially word score is determined by how often it is found paired with other words known to be positive or negative. Each word in the returned results is then colored by score, and the scores visualized per result title, result description, and then for the whole page, showing the overall semantic orientation as determined by Google. Oogle is a tool for digital anthropology in that it gives insight into the relationship between language and (primarily western) culture and shows how, at a certain moment in time, words are being read and valued.

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The Potential of Web Typography

Firefox 3.5 is out now- go get that sucker!

The Mozilla Japan team asked that Craig Mod and I jointly write and design this demo page of what is now possible using Firefox's new @font-face, a CSS rule implemented in Firefox's latest 3.5 release which allows web designers to reference fonts not installed on end user machines.

(In other words: it allows web designers to store fonts on their server and reference them in CSS , regardless of what fonts the user browsing the page has installed.)

Look at it in Firefox- it is designed for that. It looks OK enough in Safari, but we'd rather have you see it in all its glory. Click around a bit and see what the future of typography for the web looks like....

We lucked out in getting Underware to agree to being our foundry partners in making this demo happen. The demo coincides with the release of their new typeface, Liza.

Original referring page on Mozilla's site is here.

Thanks to Craig for dropping crazy hours with me on getting this project together. Shoutouts to Mozilla for their support, encouragement, and sheer radicalness!

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The Great Design RIp-Off

Is it fair for global corporations to ask designers to create spec work on the promise of recognition and a potentially small payday? That appears to be what is happening on a mass scale. Doubleday posted a logo contest for a new Chuck Palahnuiuk project on Crowdspring, netting pages of responses. What happens to your work once you submit it? Who decides the outcome? And does the "client" need to select any of the choices? Where is the meaningful dialog between client and designer? As Wooster Collective points out, the majority of these competitions require artists to hand over all rights to their work, without compensation and regardless of if they are a lucky winner. From the April 12, 2009 Wooster post:

The Italian fashion brand Ellesse just launched a design competition called CREATE TENNIS ART in celebration of their 50th anniversary. The competition has a grand prize of €4,500.

And here's bullet point #6 in the Terms and Conditions.

6. Ellesse shall own the entire copyright and all other rights in and to all of the entries to the Competition. By entering the Competition, entrants irrevocably grant and assign to Ellesse all rights in their entries and agree specifically to Ellesse's unrestricted use of the same for Ellesse's own purposes in all activities including, without limitation, marketing, promotion, distribution and sale worldwide as Ellesse sees fit, without any further payment or acknowledgement to the entrants. All copyright, intellectual property rights and all other proprietary rights whether now known or in the future created shall vest in Ellesse which it shall be solely entitled to register or otherwise protect at its own expense. By entering this Competition, you irrevocably assign to Ellesse all right, title and interest in and to all such intellectual property rights. You will co-operate fully in obtaining such registrations or other protection and shall execute such documents as Ellesse requires in order to give effect to this paragraph.

Know your rights.

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Psychedelia Hits Denver

Over 300 objects including Victor Moscoso's poster "Chambers Brothers, Matrix, San Francisco" (1967), pictured above, are on view in "The Psychedelic Experience." It opens Saturday at the Denver Art Museum and runs through July 21.

For more details: Denver Art Museum

A nice preview here in the Denver Post.

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Ride 2 Live

From May 31st through June 6th, graphic designer Sean Deyoe of The Royal Academy of Nuts + Bolts will be riding his bike from San Francisco to Los Angeles as part of AIDS/Lifecycle 8. But going those 545 miles is the easy part. As a participant, Sean has committed to raising $3000 for the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center.

The Center provides an array of important services to the Los Angeles community, including low or no-cost medical treatment for those struggling with HIV infection; access to free medication; developing multi-language educational materials and training for other community-based organizations; as well as testing, counseling, education, and advocacy.

With the economy in its current state, it is much more difficult for one to give, but, unfortunately, these hard times have also meant that the Center has seen its state funding significantly cut -- at exactly the time when its services are more and more in demand, since so many people are either losing their health care or having their benefits greatly reduced.

To donate or for more information, go to:

http://www.teammidnightridazz.org/sean

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