Holy cow…thank you for professor Maniotes for showing me this.
Craft craft craft craft CRAFT!

Pictorial Webster’s: Inspiration to Completion from John Carrera on Vimeo.

a guy i work with passed this on to me and now i to you:

Hi everyone – I haven’t posted to this blog in a while, but here’s some good information about being a creative professional by Nick Campbell from Digital Kitchen. Be sure to check out his blog, portfolio, and the five second projects on video (all linked below):

How to Be A Motion Designer and GET PAID from Nick Campbell on Vimeo.

Blog post for this video :http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2009/02/09/presentation-how-to-be-creative-and-get-paid/

His personal portfolio :http://www.creamyorange.com/template.php?page=home

five second projects on vimeo :http://vimeo.com/channels/search:five%20second%20project

Digital Kitchen :http://www.d-kitchen.com/

-Alan

Here’s an interesting flier / pack of lies about the famous Sheppard Fairy Obama posters. They claim/lie the Obama poster is a rip off of Soviet and Mao posters…proving once again how a lack of design history can be a dangerous thing!

This group “Americans for Visual Literacy” doesn’t have a web page nor did they sign their names…it’s basically conservative lies in a Presidential debate. Shocking, in this day and age, I know…

Here is the entire article and Sheppard’s well written reply.

So yeah…be educated voters AND graphic designers, please.

Take a look at moo.com, since it seems like the next step in cheap specialized printing after lulu. I wonder why all these online printing services have names that sound like infants babbling, or other incompete words. Anyway, They offer business cards with a a unique image on each, or sticker packs and other types of small media. They’re very reasonably priced (b cards are ~$20), but they suffer from the same wait time as lulu (up to two weeks after you place an order).

I haven’t seen these prints personally, but I’m thinking about ordering a package of stickers with my url on it just for fun.  Now all I have to do is get www.alanlanguirand.com to fit on a 1×1in sticker!

So, there’s this organization based in the Ann Arbor area that is trying to start a television show fostering conversation attempting to more completely define what is involved in a k-12 “21st century education.” I was asked to make a logo, so this is what I did… (more…)

Book making the old fashioned way (it looks so complicated) . . . .

Printing a Book, Old School from Armin Vit on Vimeo.

or : http://www.vimeo.com/1063458

just found this guy (or guys – i have no idea) on the fwa page.  really cool style that uses a 70’s palette and has the feel of those old 7 inch records.  everything has a yellow tint that gives it an aged look as well.

Hey everyone, just looking for a little feedback on new brochure elements/designs.

Go here and look at my work, tell me what you think:

http://www.emugraphicdesign.com/aiga/462/brochure/artd.php

thanks

-Alan

For those who missed the very entertaining Chip Kidd last night I found this Dwell video/interview.

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