The task for photo, fine art and graphic design students at Finger Lakes Community College was a challenging one: Take words and phrases and express them as images. Those photos, as well as works by fine art and graphic design students, are now dressing up vacant storefronts in downtown Geneva. As Advanced Photography student Mitchell Austin, 21, of East Bloomfield, discovered, taking photos that reflect a word is not so
As a creative, and therefore (by nature and inclination) independent, you’re probably well aware that having a website is a good idea. Some would go as far as saying that it’s a necessity. You’re building up your personal brand, perhaps looking for a job, and you want something that shows you off – just you. Not your agency. Not your current or former colleagues. Just you. Well, the good news
A child laying down the rules of a new playground game to his peers, a restaurateur planning the theatrics of plate delivery in a new high class restaurant and a parent planning the annual holiday all have something in common. They’re all experience designers, writes Nicolas Roope, founder of Poke. They all have to carefully manage structural and operational consideration being careful to pre-empt cause and effect relationships to make
“In an age in which every brand touch-point is under the microscope to find opportunities for optimization, it’s only natural to start with typeface. As the voice of the brand, typeface can bring brand strategy to life through every written message.” At the Transform Conference in New York City, I attended a session entitled “Bringing Brand Strategy to Life with Typography” and presented by Fabio Haag, creative director of the type foundry
Carter Gibson, Senior Community Manager of PicsArt, wants to teach everyone how to make our pictures look good enough to share. PicsArt is all about “Capture. Create. Share,” instead of the usual capture and share routine. This year, 78.8% of all photos will be taken on mobile phones. Carter suggests that we think of our phones as a blank canvas, which can be intimidating. To get started, inside the app
Montreal’s redesigned Bonaventure expressway will be crowned with works of art. The city is set to launch a cross-Canada competition for public art to install at the northern edge of the new gateway for motorists entering downtown from the South Shore in time for the city’s 375th anniversary in 2017. The $142-million replacement of the elevated Bonaventure Expressway with a street-level “urban boulevard” is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2017. On Wednesday, the city executive committee authorized
Shortly after Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four students at Kent State University in 1970, prompting demonstrations nationwide, a group of activists joined forces in Berkeley, California. Their goal: use art as a protest weapon. The Berkeley Political Poster Workshop quickly began churning out silkscreen prints that embodied the outrage against the perverse politics of the day, creating an estimated 50,000 posters using 600 individual designs, few of which
Plans to hire ‘ambitious, detail-oriented journalists’ to work on recently-unveiled app, but what happens when Apple becomes the news? That news story you just read on your iPhone: did Apple pay the editor responsible? Actually, from this autumn, it’s possible that the company did. Apple is hiring a team of editors to work on the Apple News app unveiled during the company’s recent WWDC event, before the app’s launch as
