Wednesday, February 25, 2009
They Definitely Hit the Spot!!!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Shock Value
Design Boom profiles a photographer who looks to create shocking images. Robert Gligorov's images usually focus on politics, sexuality, or other hot topics.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Sitting Green
Going Green seems to be catching on in every aspect of life. Design Boom featured pictures from The Stockholm Furniture Fair, showing creative designs in the green house exhibition.
The lights are made of plastic bags. I love seeing what people can do with old materials!
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Show V. Story
Seth tells the difference between product ads that are all show, glitz, airy and a product that has a story. The story is much more important than how you tell it. He criticizes super bowl commercials as a waste of time and money, only focused on the way to tell the story (apparently they think the best way is spending millions of dollars on mere seconds!).
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Color Matters
This article from Core77 notes a study printed in the Times about effects of color on people.
Some points:
- "Red can make people's work more accurate, and blue can make people more creative."
- Athletes wearing red win 60% of the time over those wearing blue.
- Men found women hotter in photographs containing red.
Then there is is a study on how the color of the bar people were in made people do different things (be more social, eat more, etc).
I really don't think tests like these can be accurate, there are too many outside variables. But the results are interesting still, but I just wouldn't read them as fact.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Logo and Colors
Here is our logo! I really like it because it's even to read even with the bit of erosion feel the font has to it.
THE SITE SHALL BE CALLED...
AJ : Acid Jazz
While acid jazz often contains various types of electronic composition (sometimes including sampling or live DJ cutting and scratching), it is just as likely to be played live by musicians, who often showcase jazz interpretation as part of their performance. The compositions of groups such as Jamiroquai, The Brand New Heavies and Incognito often feature chord structures usually associated with jazz music. The Heavies in particular were known in their early years for beginning their songs as catchy pop and rapidly steering them into jazz territory before "resolving" the composition and thus not losing any pop listeners but successfully "exposing" them to jazz elements in "baby steps".
The acid jazz "movement" is also seen as a "revival" of jazz-funk or jazz fusion or soul jazz by leading DJs such as Norman Jay or Gilles Peterson or Patrick Forge, also known as "rare groove crate diggers" or "Cataroos".
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Don't let them get to you.
Seth and Bullies
Here Seth talks about bullies and 'taking away the ball' but is referring to bullies in the workplace.
Designs that save
Vestergaard-Frandsen is the creator of this product and others that seek to improve the lives of the poor (like PermaNet, a net with insecticide to keep away bugs with diseases).
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
See Through Table!
Don't Wait
Generation Y, Echo Boomers, Twentysomethings, Millenials
- Generation Y
- Also known as iGeneration.
- Growing up Later: USA Today Article
- A Blog site for twentysomethings
- Twenty somethings - how to 'make it' corporate
- How to talk to us!
- Twentysomething NEWS sites.
- Understanding Gen Y.
- Echo Boomers, kids of baby boomers
- E.B. in Search Marketing
- Millenials, more about politics
- In the workplace
- Negative article about the generation
- Project Millenials
- Differences between Gen X and Gen Y
- Gen Y in the election
- myspace
- facebook
- twitter
- bebo
- photobucket
- perezhilton.com