Friday, May 25, 2012

AGideas 2012 - Day 2

David Berman Canada [communications strategist, graphic and environmental designer]



 Eco font - white dots uses 25% less ink

Salvation Army poster which can be taken down and used as a blanket then put back up the next day for someone else to use.

Bookshelf which can be turned into a coffin for when you die.


 Design for the extremes (disabilities) and everyone benefits colour blind traffic lights










What is good design?
- Fix, improve, help the world/community
- protect society and environment

Daizi Zheng had the idea to distribute things, such as condoms to disadvantaged countries placed in the empty spaces between coke bottles

Don't just do good design... Do good

Carine Thevenau Australia [photographer]


Worked at the corner store in Fremantle, Perth, with her sister Kylie

















'If you want to be extraordinary then you shouldn't take advice from ordinary people.' 
Went on to work at monk media 

Love Tilly Devine restaurant in Sydney


















Palomino












Elise et Pablo












Gala Curious


















Bien Jolie


















Gorman


















Huldras Wood



















Vladimir Chaika Russia [


Did not speak, he stood on stage while his video played which contained images similar to these.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alex Stitt Australia [graphic designer]

Stitt Autobiographics

















al et al studio
Alexander Stitt and partners
Made an ad for christian television association in 1960s
life be in it campaign
- Norm: Normal man











everybody and their dog on the net campaign
film house
silent reach
the Removalists

Johannes Kuhnen Australia [Materiality design]


















Jenny Grigg Australia [book cover design]


Thursday, May 24, 2012

AGideas 2012 - Day 1

Dana Arnett USA [branding]













Cole Haan (owned by Nike)
 
Converse
 
Harley Davidson
IBM
Original by Paul Rand

Shaun Tan Australia [Illustration]

The Rabbits by John Marsden, Illustrated by Shaun Tan
 The Red Tree
The Arrival (about immigration)
 
The Lost Thing
 
The water Buffalo
His work has no clear answer, and he believes it is only successful when it has no clear answer.

Kerrie Stanley Australia [Milliner]

Began as a hair and makeup artist
Find your yoda (mentor). Kerrie's mentor was Benni Tognini
Collaborate! - Build relationships that energise and inspire

Jon McCormack Australia [media artist and computer scientist]

 'No design can exceed the knowledge and imagination of its designer'
A machine cannot originate anything
The designer creates a process that creates designs
Evolution is a generative process that creates design
Developed Evolve software (1991)
When will computers become creative?

Turbulence (1994): an interactive museum of unnatural history  morphogenesis series

Bloom (2006): Spliced digital flora
 

Art Paul USA [graphic designer]

Art director of Playboy magazine
Was originally going to be called Stag Party but there was already a magazine call Stag Magazine which were threatening to sue so the name was changed to Playboy.

Anthony Battaglia Australia [creative director BoxTM]


 Ross Didier Australia [furniture design]


Vue de Monde

Used all parts of a kangaroo (kangaroo on menu)
Functional pets and working companions

Apex Lin Taiwan [fine art]

'Drifting taiwan'
'Colourful world'
 My Homeland project - began 2004: photos of objects in the shape of Taiwan
Calmly observe and everything becomes self evident

Jeffery Copolov Australia

Worked on royal childerens hospital signage and way finding with buro north
Different colour scheme and animals for each level as it gets higher (begins  underground and works its way up)
Desk short enough for children to see over

Dale Herigstad

media interfaces (3D)

Life after Fabrica


Adam Callen (Katana)

Made in Katana
Music - apps, facebook, twitter stc.

Directs music clips - video clips are mainly seen online now so they must discover how to extend them beyond youtube
 

 

Justin Robson Australia [Body casting]

began as a graphic designer













Heart - auctioned for charity

Auto Bahn Netherlands [graphic design, typography]

experimental typography
Toothpaste and tomato sauce for pecha kucha

twitter stone carvings (how sending and communication of messages has changed, much faster now, previously no room of spelling errors as it took so long to carve)