Hugo Graphic Design Contest
May 25th, 2009
Entry deadline is 11:59 PM, PST – June 30, 2009.
Hugo Boss is asking for submissions from design fans, professionals, and students for concept ideas for its Hugo Create contest. Hugo Boss specializes in fragrance products for men and women.
The competition selects 10 winners from each contest round. One winner from the group will have their artwork published in the international urban magazine, i-D. All winners receive a $500 cash award. Other winning designs will be painted on New York building walls during the month of September.
The Hugo Create contest wants advertising poster designs that feature the HUGO Man bottle. The contest theme is “Summer Time.” Examples for this theme are favorite holiday moments, travel locations, or outdoor activities.
All visuals must be submitted electronically as RGB or JPEG files no larger than 500kb. Illustration, photography, painting, or any other medium applicable for visual design is acceptable.
The final format used to publish visuals on the Hugo Boss website is 672 pixels wide by 960 pixels high. Submissions can be in portrait or landscape orientation. If your entry is selected as a winner and is in landscape mode, you will need to turn in a version that is in portrait format.
Entries are judged on the most daring, expressive, and clever designs. Judges will be taking into consideration the uniqueness, quality, wit, and product relevance of submissions.
The deadline for this contest round is June 30, 2009. For the official contest rules, click here. For more information, the official entry form, and other contest materials, go to the official website by clicking here.
Topics: Ad, Advertising, Art, Art, Artwork, Building, Competition, Contest, Contest Theme, Design, Design, Entries, Events, Fragrance Products, Graphic Design Contest, Hugo Boss, Hugo Create, Illustration, New York, Photography, Submissions, Summer Time
YouTube Shorts by Joaquin Baldwin
May 24th, 2009
The National Film Board of Canada, in association with the Cannes Short Film Corner and partner YouTube, welcomes you to this NFB competition, now in its fifth year.
Director: Joaquin Baldwin
Running Time: 4’06
Country: U.S.A.
Category: Drama
A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.
Joaquin Baldwin is an Annie Award nominee director and animator from Paraguay. Living in Los Angeles, he is now finishing his MFA in animation at UCLA. He has received over 50 international awards for his animated films Sebastian’s Voodoo and Papiroflexia, and also several grants including the Jack Kent Cooke full Graduate Scholarship in 2006.
Papiroflexia (Spanish for “Origami”) is the animated tale of Fred, a skillful paper folder who could shape the world with his hands.
To see a higher-resolution version go to http://www.pixelnitrate.com
Created by Joaquin Baldwin at the UCLA Animation Workshop, 2007. Original Score written by Nick Fevola.
Topics: Animation, Art, Art, Canada, Cannes, Film, International Awards, Los Angeles, National Film Board, National Film Board of Canada, UCLA, Video, YouTube
Check Out the “Mæve” Installation…
May 23rd, 2009
At the Venice Biennale, the mæve installation connects the entries of the EveryVille student competition and puts them into the larger context of MACE content and metadata. By placing physical project cards on an interactive surface, the visitors can explore an organic network of projects, people and media. mæve is designed and developed by the Interface Design team of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.
Mæve installation @ Venice Biennale 2008 from Maeve installation on Vimeo.
Mæve table application from Maeve installation on Vimeo.
Topics: Application, Applied, Biennale, Clip, Design, Design, Experimental, Innovation, Interactive Surface, Interface, Mace, Mæve, Metadata, Movie, Organic Network, Potsdam, Project, Project Cards, Student Competition, Table Application, University, University Of Applied Sciences, Venice, Venice Biennale
Yahoo! Site Explorer – Back Links
May 17th, 2009
Checking Back links to your sites. This is good help to see how many back links your site is getting.
William McDonough: Designing Cradle to Cradle
May 17th, 2009
Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account “all children, all species, for all time.”
In Cradle to Cradle, McDonough and Braungart argue that the conflict between industry and the environment is not an indictment of commerce but an outgrowth of purely opportunistic design. The design of products and manufacturing systems growing out of the Industrial Revolution reflected the spirit of the day-and yielded a host of unintended yet tragic consequences.
“To use something as elegant as a tree. Imagine this design assignment: design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, accrues solar energy as fuel, makes complex sugars and food, creates microclimates, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates, then say why don’t we knock that down and write on it.”
- William McDonough – TEDtalks 2007
Today, with our growing knowledge of the living earth, design can reflect a new spirit. In fact, the authors write, when designers employ the intelligence of natural systems—the effectiveness of nutrient cycling, the abundance of the sun’s energy—they can create products, industrial systems, buildings, even regional plans that allow nature and commerce to fruitfully co-exist.
Cradle to Cradle maps the lineaments of McDonough and Braungart’s new design paradigm, offering practical steps on how to innovate within today’s economic environment. Part social history, part green business primer, part design manual, the book makes plain that the re-invention of human industry is not only within our grasp, it is our best hope for a future of sustaining prosperity.
In addition to describing the hopeful, nature-inspired design principles that are making industry both prosperous and sustainable, the book itself is a physical symbol of the changes to come. It is printed on a synthetic ‘paper,’ made from plastic resins and inorganic fillers, designed to look and feel like top quality paper while also being waterproof and rugged. And the book can be easily recycled in localities with systems to collect polypropylene, like that in yogurt containers. This ‘treeless’ book points the way toward the day when synthetic books, like many other products, can be used, recycled, and used again without losing any material quality—in cradle to cradle cycles.
Topics: Architect, Art, Building, Change, Commerce, Cradle to Cradle, Design, Design, Designer, Energy, Green-Minded, Industrial, Innovation, Prosperity, Revolution, Talk, TEDtalks, Theory, Time, Video, William McDonough, Wisdom, YouTube
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