Designers are a lot like superheroes in the sense that we should be using our powers for good and not evil. We may not be fighting crime, but we are fighting bad design. So it’s refreshing to find a design studio that takes that concept to the extreme and designs items for the greater good. [...]
McDonalds has some of the most effective advertising strategies out there. Their designs promote colorful menus, toys based on popular movies, large portions for a small price, and that you are loving this. The fact that their commercials appear every five minutes definitely helps. You will think McDonalds every day and know that one is [...]
Ayn Roberts, AVT 395 For a struggling design student who feels the twinges of creative defeat on a near daily basis, surfing the web for craptastic design has always been a comforting pastime of mine. You know when you find a design that reeks of such a foul stench of suck, that the only thing [...]
Recently France has been playing with the idea of having a warning placed on images that have been photoshopped or retouched. Beauty is different to everyone, it changes with the decade and with the time. It morphs from person to person and with every nationality. Those of us in the AVT program are both designers [...]
Think of it as too much, but even busses are being decorated today for advertisement purposes. They are glued on all sides of public transportation busses and advertise anything from tooth brushes to the National Geographic. Usually interacting with the bus elements such as the wheels, doors and windows these designs are clever and inventive [...]
About a month ago, there was news all over television and online about the controversy cartoon drawing in the New York post about the stimulus bill. A photo of the drawing can be found at the below website. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/18/new-york-post-chimp-carto_n_167841.html The drawing is of two policemen shooting down a chimpanzee with captions saying, “They’ll have to [...]
Understanding the law regarding fair use can save your career. Not knowing the law is not going to excuse you if you infringe on someone’s copyrighted material. The financial penalties can be quite severe, not to mention the irreparable damage that can be done to your reputation. The four factors listed in section 107 of [...]
The use of photographs in graphic design has always been an important aspect of presentation. Today, many designers opt to make use of the millions of royalty-free stock photos readily available on hundreds of websites. While buying these ready-made images is certainly easier than taking the pictures yourself, there are certain drawbacks. First, the designer [...]
We have all seen the image, a black and white, cut-out rendition of former wrestler Andre the Giant’s face, with the word OBEY printed below. That is if you have walked down a few city streets across America, and some other countries. The sticker, wheat poster, stencil, screen-printed or spray-painted image has been popping up [...]
What do you think, which one is more effective to advertise with, animated characters or humans? The companies care more about their sales and profits and so they always tend to come up with new ideas to advertise. Many companies nowadays introduce an animated character to sell their products. Designing an interesting and appealing character [...]