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Breast Cancer Awareness

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Packaging doesn't have to be some crazy shape or form for it to be interesting or even successful. The branding and the colour design is just as important for the product to be successful. The idea that the packaging has to catch the eyes is well known but to keep the eye on it for even a couple of seconds for the brain to register the product and desire to take place is crucial.
Minimalistic packaging like the Polaroid's early 1960's instant film packaging was the most successful packing of its day with its striking rainbow colours that emulated the 60's was an instant hit and even today the boxes are collectors items for camera geeks around the world. Whats more interesting is what came next, with the Polaroid camera been regard as the ipod of its day it was kind of ironic that apple should follow similar direction in the design of their logo. As Polaroid started lose steam in the mid 1970's, Apple started to build and released their famous rainbow apple logo. It was thought that Apple had many meanings for their design choice one being Knowledge (apple) Hope (rainbow) and Anarchy (rainbow not in order). Even though i like this i feel that this next reason is more suited, on the tail end of Polaroid they create a logo that makes people stop and think, ask where have i seen that before, Dajavu. And its that time that keeps you thinking. enough time for desire to step in. 

Graphic Type

First assignment is complete this week for the 1st year Graphic designers, and after 3 weeks of making and investigating the materials processes and techniques they have come up with some great looking illustrations using 3D. Here's just one of the bunch, well done guys great works, keeps it up.



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3D Type

carefully cut into the graphite, some people have to much time.  

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Bend Desk

Microsoft have been playing around with a interactive desk for years now, i saw the first one 5 or 6 years ago but the beauty of open software is that people can have a go and get creative themselves instead of waiting around for it to be released or paying through the nose. The Bend Desk is project by a small media company.

BendDesk is a multi-touch desk environment that seamlessly combines a vertical and a horizontal surface with a curve into one large interactive workspace. This workspace can be used to display any digital content like documents, photos, or videos. Multi-touch technology allows the user to interact with the entire surface using direct manipulation and multi-touch gestures. We took special care for ergonomics

Watching the video its clear its a DIY job and yet i seems to work quite well and looks pretty good. Having the understanding of how things work and the knowledge of design obviously goes a long way whether its be with engines, biology or technology its all the same to me.

Waiting For The End

A new year starts for me in a week when I return to work, and looking at some of my regular site I found this music video by Linkin Park. I like Linkin Park anyway but their new video uses digital imagery of themselves in a way that reminds me of project last year by one of our students. Using Kinect technology to scan rooms, objects and even people gives you a rather crude but very effective digital 3D image. Viewed from different perspective you get a distorted/ alternative view that have been used well throughout the video. investing in this hardware last year is definitely going to create creative opportunities this year, we could do with two more though (hands rubbing together).

Snappy Cheat Sheet

This is kinda of useful to those starting and those who have been playing around with photography for a long time. Its also a really nice layout with its oldy 1950's style. i might print this out and stick on the wall.

Cool Packaging 1

To buddy up with the posters a series of cool packaging designs, ideas and concepts.

Cool Posters 1

A Little series to go along with the blog will be a cool posters for movies, album, books and generally cool shit.

Anna Astvatsatryan

Came across Anna Astvatsatryan  on Coroflot and get a reall buz out of her work. The cigerette packs are worth a look.

How we make sense of what we see?

Perception refers to interpretation of what we take in through our senses.
The way we perceive our environment is what makes us different from other animals and different from each other.

The German word “Gestalt” roughly translates to “whole” or “form”.
Gestalt psychology believe that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
We percept the form first and then the content.