Ceramics have had a renaissance lately–there’s Spanish surrealist designer Jaime Hayon’s work for the venerable porcelain manufacturer Lladró, Atelier NL’s gorgeous locally-sourced Drawn From Clay series, or Vienna’s 250-year-old Augarten porcelain factory partnering with new-school designers like Marei Wollersberger.
As funky as those projects look, they’re all made with traditional methods. Today’s ceramics might look cool, [...]
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A few weeks past, NPR had an interesting story about Chrysler going after a Florida High School for using a logo very close to the Chrysler Ram. What they forgot to mention is that the school’s logo in question is exactly the same as Chrysler’s.
Someone obviously got the piece of art (either legally or downloaded [...]
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2010/01 Michael Bierut from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.
How should clients view creatives? Better yet, how should we view clients? There is and always will be a tention between creativity and corporate. But It should be no surprise that Michael Bierut of Pentagram gave a very insightful presentation at the January 2010 CreativeMornings on the subject of [...]
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Scott Hull Associates weird-o in residence, Grant Gilliland, was recently interviewed, photographed, and cajoled (it didn’t take that much) by the Sharpie Blog into making custom illustrated “Sharpie-art” you can personally order online for only $20! Sounds too good to be true, we know. But it’s not. This one-of-a-kind artist who describes himself as “1/2 [...]
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As the decade I like to call the twenty-oh’s ends, think what a transformational change we have all witnessed in our culture. We are moving from selling facts to buying benefits. We all know where we are. But I think many of us have forgotten where we were, and just how dramatically things have changed [...]
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