Saturday, November 21, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Advance Australia fair...
Inkahoots, "New Anthems" variations, 2009. Photos: Stefan Jannides
Pedestrians in Brisbane, Queensland, are invited to rewrite Australia's patriotic songs by sending text messages to an installation in the windows of the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts on Brunswick Street. Commissioned from the Australian design studio Inkahoots, "New Anthems" consists of illuminated typographic sculptures with temporary gaps left for others to fill in. The first installation, which was displayed from July 22 to August 20, quoted "Advance Australia Fair," the country's official anthem: "Australians all let us ____ for we are young and ____," omitting the words "rejoice" and "free." Variations of the line supplied by onlookers via cell phone were, “Australians all let us ditch the Queen, for we are young and she’s so Elizabethan," and “Australians all let us fixate on celebrities, for we are young and they are digitally enhanced.” A full complement of revisions can be viewed at this website. The next "New Anthems" installation, which is adapted from Sydney-born Dorothea Mackellar's 1904 poem "My Country," will be on view September 14–28. It will read, "I love a ____ country, a land of ____ plains." (Original words: sunburnt/sweeping.)
Excerpt from changeobserver.com
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Stolen post from boingboing.net
#17 posted by hallpass , March 12, 2009 8:35 PM
On one of my first nights working in a newsroom, a copy editor was overheard muttering something to the effect of, "I wish someone would die, damnint."
She needed one more obit to make the page fit nicely.
On one of my first nights working in a newsroom, a copy editor was overheard muttering something to the effect of, "I wish someone would die, damnint."
She needed one more obit to make the page fit nicely.
The new news
http://www.socialsearchmarketer.com/1535/future-newspaper/
Y Combinator, a venture firm specializing in seed funding startups, recently released startups they would like to fund including a “New News”. The partners of Y Combinator asked this year’s crop of applicants to consider what a newspaper would look like now if it was built from scratch...
Y Combinator, a venture firm specializing in seed funding startups, recently released startups they would like to fund including a “New News”. The partners of Y Combinator asked this year’s crop of applicants to consider what a newspaper would look like now if it was built from scratch...
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Creativity and discipline
Starbucks’ boss Howard Schultz has a great piece of advice which I believe applies to newspaper designers and artists.
In an interview with Forbes’ magazine, he says there is a fine balance between creativity and discipline.
At many newspapers, design and graphics discipline often get thrown out the window in the name of creativity. Designers and artists like to think they are giving their creativity full flight when they dabble with all sorts of colours, styles and typography, among other things. Often, these become decorative rather than informative.
Gradually, the design philosophy and principles are thrown out and the paper begins to lose its identity.
So Schultz’ principle of creativity and discipline must work hand in hand.
Courtesy of PeterOng.com
Thanks Peter
Friday, September 4, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
From Viz Editors... Not sure if this really works?
http://visualeditors.ning.com/forum/topics/number-of-columns-for-front?page=1&commentId=1985197%3AComment%3A39446&x=1#1985197Comment39446
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Coolfulness...
Hey APNWorld, for my inaugural post I give you, the humble pizza box. A little somethin' somethin' that caught my eye...Caleb at the Herald
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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