FUNNY GARBAGE!

Funny Garbage

From it’s name to it’s website, Funny Garbage stands out as a leader among web and interactive media design.

 

For the past ten years, Funny Garbage has specialized in digital business, entertainment, websites, and applications. Their clients range from ABC News to Comedy Central. The company was started by John Carlin and Peter Girardi; veterans of the art and design world. Eventually, Kristin Ellington, who brought with her a production process that is the current standard in the interactive industry, joined them.

 

Funny Garbage concentrates in web sites, applications, digital business, and entertainment. They have had much success with a wide variety of clients in each of these areas.

 

Within the entertainment section, Funny Garbage has worked to co-direct and produce TV shows on channels from PBS to Comedy Central to ESPN. One of their works, “‘Imagining America’ is a three-part PBS documentary exploring the transformation of 20th-century America, told through the words and work of some of the century's most significant artists.” It was co-directed by the president of Funny Garbage, John Carlin in addition to Jonathan Fineberg and Hart Perry. One of their newest projects, the ABC News Electoral Calculator was a huge success. ABC wanted an interactive map that would allow their web users to follow the election and “Calculate the Map to the White House.”

 

Funny Garbage has created websites for over one hundred successful companies. VH1, YAHOO!, Nickelodeon, Disney, IFC, AIGA, The N, and Fox News are just a few clients on Funny Garbage’s impressive list of clients. Cartoon Network was one of Funny Garbage’s biggest, most successful projects. They revamped the site to be interactive and have behind the scenes aspects to it. They were extremely innovative in their approach, and the average visit length increase to forty-five minutes. In addition, Funny Garbage created original animations for the TV Network. An example is Teen Titans title Animation.  They actually scanned physical objects and treated them in Photoshop and Illustrator to create many of the graphical elements.

 

Creating applications for the web, devices, and on-air is another specialty of Funny Garbage. They work with all types of target audiences. From teenagers, to adults, to children, Funny Garbage has no limits to who they can reach. An example of reaching out to children is the Noggin website and “Scribblevision.” Scribblevision is an interactive, on-line coloring book application. The color books contain characters from Noggin’s shows, and there is even the option of animating the characters afterwards.

 

Lastly, Funny Garbage works with companies to create multimedia projects, or “Digital Business,” that will enhance the clients’ visibility. Their newest project in progress is Lil’ John’s A’ Town. By creating animated shorts, they will be the “jumping off point for an on line business based upon DJ parties hosted by the L'il Jon's character and a community that will grow around the parties and the local jams that our regulars will create themselves. This will be a jumping off point for an on line business based upon DJ parties hosted by the L'il Jon's character and a community that will grow around the parties and the local jams that our regulars will create themselves.”

 

One of the things that leads to the success of Funny Garbage is their ability to keep up with the fast paced ways of interactive design and the web. For instance, one of the prominent links on their website is to visit their "flog," The Funny Garbage FLOG. Obviously, this is their attempt, as a company to keep up with media trends, like the trend of blogging. As you can see below, they have a humorous post entitled, "What if...Funny Garbage was a cereal company...?"

 

In addition to this, they have an attractive, unique, fun style. Their own colorful website with it’s bouncing flash animation and colorful graphics entices business owners to browse the site more to see the kind of work Funny Garbage produces.

Funny Garbage’s ability to work in array of media project and adaptability to work with any client for any target audience makes it one of the top media firms in the country.

Works Cited:

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comfiest chair EVER!

I had another post of chairs with a brick pattern, making it ironic that they were comfortable. This chair is the opposite! It looks extremely comfortable, and actually has foam pieces inserted into each "quilt" bit.

The factory is what need to GO GREEN!

This Core77 post talks about how these designers below have created a "greensulate." A material that is environmental friend and will help to insulate factories. Which made me think of the video above, The Story of Stuff. Check it out!

box chair!

It's great how people take inspiration from the most simplest of objects.

Take this chair, based on a cardboard box. I would love a chair like this, because I'm put my stuff all over the "flaps."

interesting exhibit.

jan fabre
fountain of the world (as a young artist)
granite, goldcolour, leather, cloth, silicon, human hair, fluid, electronics
0,80 x 4,25 x 10,5 m
installation view ground floor

Design boom features Jan Fabre's extremely interesting and unique exhibit. In addition to this one being installed in the flood, there's another (below) with legs hanging out of the ceiling!

It's really interesting to see exhibits that are installed all over in unique ways, instead of just paintings on the wall.

bike car?

This was interesting to me because my dad rides a recumbent bike and this is like a recumbent with a car windshield and protection. I think it would take awhile for people to get used to be so close to the ground!

Insane Statue!

designboom features an article on a proposed statue for zaabeel park in dubai.

"for their proposal visiondivision designed a statue based around al hakawati - a storyteller,
whose profession that goes way back in ancient arabic times and still is performed in the
arabic world today. the statue will be a home of stories; a children’s library in its base
and various spaces for performance and reading inside of the statue."

It's a TAD to much on the creepy side. With it's empty gaze and out stretched hand. Just a bit too much for me. In the proposal is also the fact that the statue can move! Which adds another aspect of creepiness. I giant naked man statue that can move also? It's a bit much. Although, the idea is cool. Espcially because it would not merely be a statue, but it would have floors functioning for things like restaurants, libraries, and more!

Furthering communication...

On the bike path!

the design blog features this new blue tooth communication device, the bike bug.
One part of the device connects to your helmet (which is smart, forces people who want to use it to use a helmet!). The blue tooth part is just like the ones used for phones. So when you travel with a group of people on the bike path you are now able to easily talk to your group!

SKETCHY!

Core 77 posted an article that really struck me as interesting! It's about a new book,

Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators and Creatives (Hardcover)

The book shows artist biographies then pages from their sketch books. After my drawing ii class, in which we had to keep a sketch book where we could put ANYTHING visual in it. This was probably my favorite assignment. And I realized I can you my sketches and random sketch book things for graphic design work! Take this flier for instance:
the background is made from playing with THIS image in photoshop. thats from my sketchbook. It's melted crayons.

Business Cards

Core 77 posts another 1 hour design challenge, to make interactive business cards.

Above is my favorite, a pin hole camera "business card"

Fantastic!