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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
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
A Little Back-Scratching Action!
2007-04-10 19:03:00 We just found out that our lil’ muse header was deemed Creative Design worthy by David Airey himself in his inaugural Creative Design Awards. To say we’re deeply honored is an understatement. Thanks David! Definitely check out his other Awardees: Jen Huls’ Pop Stalin Design website (I already subscribe to this one and it’s worth the read) Aaron Russel’s iPod ... More About: Action , Back , Scratching , Little , Litt
Putting the Restaurant in the Aquarium
2007-04-05 15:41:00 Phil got this email from a friend of his about an underwater restaurant in the Maldives. 15 April marks the day that the first ever all-glass undersea restaurant in the world opens its doors for business at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa. It will sit five meters below the waves of ... More About: Branding , Aquarium , Restaurant , Rant , Putting
Paragon as Villian? Say it ain?t so!!
2007-03-27 16:02:00 Just found this gem of a pilot from the creators of Acceptable TV and Ben Stiller. It’s a star studded cast and a crazy premise. Just not too keen on their interpretation of the origins of Para gon. Though we did get our super human powers from an electrical shock through a vintage radio, the rest of ... More About: Paragon
TV 2.0: Programming for the ADD Gener? ooh is that a new pilot?
2007-03-26 16:37:00 For those of you who haven’t watched cable over the last few weeks, VH1 has launched a new type of TV show called Acceptable TV. Think SNL meets American Idol. The basic premise is that viewers vote for their favorite short skit (called pilots on the show) to be continued throughout the rest of the ... More About: Programming , Hat , Prog , Program , That
Where?s the Next Top Graphic/Web/Motion Designer?
More articles from this author:2007-03-15 17:24:00 I just watched my very first episode of Top Desi gn, the latest in the list of design-related reality shows on Bravo. Watching the usual inter-personal drama ensue made me think, Are these shows really about searching for the next best thing or is it only about entertainment? I used to like watching Project Runway, not ... More About: The N , Next , Designer , Sign 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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