Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Paranoia

This photo is by Peter Scanlan, who wrote, "The concept for this piece for the Village Voice was to show how anyone can fall under suspicion in the climate of fear we find ourselves living in. In the background, I included the husband from American Gothic, taken from a Voice cover featuring paranoia in America, which I'd done several weeks earlier. It seemed appropriate."
From Society of Illustrators 47.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

It's All in the Eyes

I like this design, the way it directs attention to the eyes. It fit well with the article it accompanied in Computer Arts, which discussed different designers.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Care for the Cure

It's hard to see here, but this was a clever use of typography: Care for the Cure in Typography 32. Substituting the u for the a just as in DNA changes the word from cure to care. The double helix is apparent.

Design: Knut Maierhofer
Motion design: Gabriel Weiss
Expert motion design: Cecil Rustemeyer
Brand company: KMS TEAM GmbH
Client: Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

The Poser

I like this ad because it reminds me of buddhist paintings. However, it is not a very good ad, because I don't really understand what the software they are advertising does or what it has to do with creativity. Below is an example of a buddhist painting that shows what I mean.
I found this image because the painting is for sale on ebay. It's the six armed tara.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Integration

The text that came with this photograph by Spencer Lowell comes with this text: "'Google's go-to AI guy,' an interview on AI with Peter Norvig, Google's director of research. Norvig's take on AI is that it is already very much integrated into our lives; this image integrates him into a representation of technology."

That really says it all. I thought it rather clever. The photograph certainly communicates that he is integrated with technology. His face rally stands out ... along with his arms.