Why Design?

Watch Phillipe Starck giving his TED talk.

Huh?

This is a fabricated website that, sadly, captures contemporary "eBusiness" with a satirical, yet tragically accurate depiction of modern design/marketing consulting firms (I'm trying to sound educated- hope all my mad SAT vocab skillz aren't confusing you). Oh, and my favorite section is the "About Us."

Face it, this is awesome.

Ok, so if the pantone coffee mug is a bit out of your price range... I'm just putting it out there.

the NEXT word it

The "Word It" for December has been announced (visit link to find out what IT is). And, as an added incentive to participate, I'm offering to buy the first round at our DUI event for those who post.

Also, I'd just like to give a shout out to those who posted in November (Elaine).

Cuppa Joe (not Chaffee)

Brilliant! Just thought I'd put an item from my holiday wish list out there... you know, in case you're interested and feeling charitable...

marketing Simpsons

Create a Simpon's character in your own likeness!!! (example shown of Kelly, me, and Melissa... i created the incubator backdrop in illustrator though).

Awesome - Inexpensive Marker Board

We made this from a $50 piece of glass, some vinyl and spray paint.. saved us $800

Click here for more info.

Russian Visual Artist + Photoshop = Weird Imagery

2008 Color Forecast - Click Here

The Color Association of the United States

2008 will be a year in which Americans will without hesitation embrace colorful attitudes. As the election year approaches, there is an expectation of change and a new optimism in the air. Dull or predictable neutrals appear to belong to the past, just as a vivid, full-spectrum palette seems to define the future.

Cool Light Grafitti

You can see more by clicking here.

Finding Colors in Illustrator

Most of you probably know, but for us "Illustrator newbies" this might be of interest:

The color swatch "find field" is not on by default so if you want to find colors just by typing a number (as you do in Photoshop) you need to activate this function.

The image is self explanatory, I hope.

Some Linkage

Here are some of the links from yesterday:

Bembo's Zoo: typographical-animal-animation

UnderConsideration: graphic design forum, complete with illustrated word of the month... PG postings only ;)

Armin Vit's self-analysis of failed designs

"Make the Logo Bigger": song

Designers Anonymous: Pulp Fiction animated conversation is there too

Dave Werner's Personalized Online Portfolio: featuring Kanye White

Graphic Design Crowdsourcing

An Australian media company that targets web professionals, lets companies hold design contests and gain access to the creative talents of the global design community.

How does it work?

you can find out by clicking here.

First Meeting

Thank you Nikki for your efforts in putting this first meeting together, and thank you all for participating. I hope we can make this an ongoing process that enriches our experience at Little.

Give it a shot and post something (links or information) you would like to share, and if you run into problems I'll be happy to help, just shoot me an email.

Here are the ideas we discussed:

Workshops
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Sharing Tips/Short cuts
Crash courses/Training of programs
Design Challenge (competitions)
Photoshop Tennis (Exquisite Corpse)

Inspiration
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Share work and portfolios
Bring "Hit or Miss" designs for discussion
Guerilla Design
Events
Outings

Work
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Pin-ups and critiques
Site Visits/audits

Blog
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Calendar of events
Sharing cool links/information