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Motion Graphics in Music Videos: Love Stoned
2007-08-28 07:23:00 I know I’m late but I just saw this Justin Timberlake video and was floored by the sleek use of a simple visual device: The audio waveform in black space. This literally gives you an idea of what the song looks and feels like and it managed to keep my attention all the ... More About: Videos , Graphics , Music , Love , Music Videos
Books We Recommend: Alpha Dogs
2007-08-10 14:29:00 Alpha Dogs by Donna Fenn. The thought (or maybe fantasy) of opening your own studio has probably crossed your mind a time or two. Maybe you’ve even bitten the bullet like my friends and I actually followed through on that fantasy. If so then you’ve probably experienced what I call “artists’ brain freeze” when you try ... More About: Books , Branding , Book Reviews , Alpha
Read anything GOOD lately?
2007-08-03 04:00:00 Just found this magazine’s site while perusing Inc.com’s best 30 under 30 list. In a media landscape saturated with all that’s bad in the world, it’s refreshing to find an outlet that’s out to project the Good News. I especially liked this piece of motion graphics on the U.N. Millenium Declaration. Subtle and informative, played over an ... More About: Read , Anything
Local Design: @Home
2007-08-02 05:04:00 I was having lunch with the wife yesterday at a local bakery and this little item caught my eye. It’s for a local home accessories store called @home. Taking a cue from Elbow Room and their Design around Calgary series, I thought it was worth giving props for a bit of local Savannah design work. (Or ... More About: Home , Local , Loca
Why I Love Living in Savannah: Reason 20
2007-07-29 20:08:00 Where else could you go Kayaking in the morning and then preview the new Shakespeare movie in the evening of the same day? Drifting along the Ogeechee river with some friends in the morning… …then it’s off to an evening of Shakespeare Thanks to the Savannah Film Society, Savannah was one of 3 other cities that got to ... More About: Living , Love , Reason , Ving
Why I Love Living in Savannah: Reasons 215a-c
2007-07-23 21:13:00 a) Where else would you get this kind of reception for a Power Point Presentation about an economic study? Last week I had the pleasure of sitting in on the presentation by Randy Cohen of Americans for the Arts on the economic impact of nonprofit arts and culture on Savannah . It was held in the beautiful ... More About: Living , Love , Reasons , Ving
Shameless Promotion Vol2: TCCi Blog Design
2007-07-19 20:56:00 How busy do you have to be to have another blog post about your own project before you do? Thankfully, pretty darn busy. But it was a great opportunity to offer our services to The Creative Coast Initiative by designing their blog’s new theme. Coding expertly done by Chris from the shiny new Nicasio Design . More About: Promotion , Blogging , Blog , Romo
Favourite Spots Review: His Potential
2007-07-09 16:04:00 Just found this one on 30gms More About: Review , Spots , Commercials , Tent
Favourite Spots Review: Microsoft, Condoms and Beer
2007-07-05 16:15:00 Just curious about what’re some of your favorite TV spots. here are 3 of mine. Microsoft Condoms Carlton Beer More About: Review , Spots
Books We Recommend: ?Why We Buy?
2007-07-02 15:25:00 Every marketer, merchandiser, brand specialist or anyone involved in the art (or science) of convincing people to part with their money needs to read this book by Paco Underhill. Mr. Underhill’s the founder, CEO and President of Envirosell, a company that basically watches people shop and then makes recommendations on fine-tuning the retail experience around ... More About: Books , Branding , Book Reviews , Comm
?My Ninety Days? - A Friend?s Journey
2007-06-29 16:19:00 One of my favorite of Craig’s photos: “Drying in the Souks” (Marrakech, Morocco) This is just a quick shout-out to my good friend Craig who has just embarked on a 90 day journey around the world (well mostly Asia anyway) and decided to blog (myninetydays.com) about it. We’ve been friends for quite a number ... More About: Journey , Friend , Days , Inet
God Bless Horatio Caine
2007-06-28 21:47:00 Around here, we have a deep and abiding love/respect/admiration for the TV show CSI:Miami, not because of the action, crime solving techniques or orangey-blue glow of every scene, but because of the sweet genius that is every word that falls from the lips of David Caruso’s character, Horatio Caine . Horatio is a man, nay a legend, ... More About: God Bless
The Great Ice Cream Run: Savannah recap
2007-06-25 21:39:00 June 9th was the perfect day for eating ice cream…and by perfect I mean it was 102 degrees here in Savannah . It was also a fun day to find yourself in the vicinity of Leopold’s Ice Cream on Broughton street, for the arrival of around 40 Mini’s as they participated in The Great Ice Cream ... More About: Recap
Why I Love Living in Savannah: Reason 85
2007-06-25 02:17:00 The Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah THE place to watch the films, documentaries and fringe movies you wouldn’t otherwise see in the theaters. A Couple nights ago the wife and I saw “Ralph Nader:An Unreasonable Man”, a bio doc on the man on whom a lot of people seem to have a lot of strong opinions. ... More About: Living , Love , Reason , Ving
Why I Love Living in Savannah: Reason 68
2007-06-18 17:52:00 The annual Savannah Asian Festival , held this past weekend at the Civic Center. As a designer I’ve often thought that inspiration’s everywhere but sometimes it doesn’t jump out and bite you, you have to go looking for it. For those of us who don’t have the luxury of a travel budget it’s always ... More About: Living , Love , Reason , Ving
Why I Love Living in Savannah: Reason 32
2007-06-14 15:59:00 Where else could you see a 30 Mini motorcade, eat home-made ice cream and get the skinny on the upcoming Star Trek movie all on the same day. We were fortunate enough to witness the opening leg of the Great Ice Cream run here in Savannah , an event important enough to draw, producer of MI:3,Stratton ... More About: Living , Love , Reason , Ving
Corporate Culture
2007-06-13 18:10:00 It’s disappointing how many examples of corrupt corporate culture appear to be in the world. I know nothing can be perfect, and god knows I certainly don’t claim to be the perfect at what I do, but it means a lot to me that my 2 business partners are the same folks that I love ... More About: Business , Culture , Corporate , Corporate Culture , Rate
Battle Fatigue through Motion Graphics
2007-06-12 17:14:00 Here’s a great example of the power of motion. The ability to transform sketches and prose into a reenactment so vivid you understand the emotions of the text more clearly. Found via adgoodness and zinzi_linkz The text was written by Colby Buzzell, the drawings by Christopher Koelle and the amazing animation by The Law of Few. More About: Graphics , Motion , Battle , Graph
We Scream for? Minis?!!
2007-06-08 18:40:00 We’ve been absent from the blog for a while but so it goes when the pressure is on at our day jobs. Anyway, among the cool stuff going on in Paragonia is an upcoming event tomorrow for Mini enthusiasts called The Great Ice Cream Run. We’ll have a video about it soon but here’s a little ... More About: Scream
Graphic Activism & Sustainability
2007-05-18 23:18:00 “Sustainability ” seems to be the buzz word these days. My focus, so far, has been on environmental sustainability, but I attended a panel discussion last night that opening my eyes to another angle on the whole sustainability issue. It started with the moderator’s use of Lester Brown’s definition of sustainability: “The ability of a society to ... More About: Activism , Bili , Graphic , Graph
Photoshop Tidbit: Compound Vector Shapes
2007-05-10 17:06:00 As my first attempt at writing a tutorial I figured I’d start small and share a simple little tidbit using shape layers. I used to try and achieve this effect by using masks but that was too final for me. I wanted the freedom to play around with the shapes, and come back later and mess ... More About: Photoshop , Shapes , Vector , Shape , Pound
A Truly Renewable Resource: Advice
2007-04-25 18:37:00 Within the last week Paragon has had the privilege of going to 2 student portfolio reviews. The first at the annual Jacksonville AIGA review, and the second last Friday at Georgia Southern. First of all, I was generally impressed with the quality of work I saw. The kind of impressed that makes you want to ... More About: Advice , Graphic Design , Resource , Renewable , Vice
Videos Worth Spreading
2007-04-24 17:25:00 Thanks to Bruce Nussbaum for this link to some TED conference videos. I’ve been listening and watching these all morning. I found of particular interest the talks given by Alex Steffen (amazing design solutions to the sustainability issues like a straw that filters water as you drink through it), Jeff Bezos (suggesting a new analogy ... More About: Videos , Worth , Spread , Wort
Must See GD: Graphic Design Cage Match
2007-04-19 15:00:00 More proof that a show about Graphic Desi gn would be watchable. Here’s some video that I found on a business vlog about an event called Cut& Paste where Designers go head-to-head in 15 minute rounds. More About: Events , Graphic Design , Match
Wear Your Art
2007-04-18 20:51:00 I’ve found 2 great outlets for wearable art via brdcast and COLOURlovers. (COLOURlovers, by the way is up for a Webby award so make your voice count and vote for them!.. they didn’t pay me to say that… they don’t even know who I am). Anyway, both T-shirt sites not just sell other people’s work but ... More About: Your , Wear
The Conversation Economy as I see it
2007-04-13 18:18:00 Still trying to parse the myriad of concepts thrown out at the DJ Spooky lecture ( and inspired by the great diagrams of David Armano) I started to scribble. I was trying to tie together the thoughts Paul presented with some of the stuff I’ve been reading about the “Conversation Economy ”. The following diagram ... More About: Marketing , Branding , Advertising , Sati
Embrace your Inner DJ
2007-04-12 16:20:00 Like Susan said, we recently went to a DJ Spooky lecture. Although it’ll take more than this simple post (and this simple mind) to digest the volume of information he dropped that night, I thought he brought up a bunch of interesting and relevant thoughts about the convergence (or collision) of the individual and the ... More About: Marketing , Events , Branding , Race , Your
Designers can Change
2007-04-11 20:14:00 I’m encouraged whenever I hear of new initiatives to tackle the sustainability issue, and am especially proud that fellow designers are not wanting to be left behind. I just saw this on Graphic Desi gn forum about a new initiative helping Designer s make a difference by adjusting our practices. It’s called Design can Change and if you’ve ... More About: Sign
DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Rhythm Science
More articles from this author:2007-04-11 19:20:00 Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid gave a fantastic lecture last night at SCAD, titled Rhythm Science after his book by the same name. I?m not sure what I was expecting, but I was definitely not prepared to be THAT inspired and intellectually stimulated. First of all, he handed out CDs as gifts ... More About: Hat 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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