Happy Meat
By Marc van Gurp on 7 January 2013Read moreNice project from type-b. They combined food with toys in this animation. type-b: “While the meat processing industry strips all features and personality of their product, the toy industry simply magnifies and exaggerates these characteristics. Combining efficiency, functionality and...
0Love Issue now in print: What Do You Miss?
By Marc van Gurp on 6 January 2013Read moreOur regular visitors know that I’m a fan of Oitzarisme, the blog from Constantin Nimigean about photography. And from his magazine Love Issue. It is about Love & Issues. Recently he published the first Love Issue edition in print....
You can hide your packs but you can’t hide from the effects of smoking
By Marc van Gurp on 20 December 2012Read moreSince the beginning of this month, all packs of cigarettes in Australia are decorated with smoking warnings and diseased body parts. Regardless of the brand. Australia is the first country in the world where tobacco brands are forced to...
Destroy mines with creativity
By Marc van Gurp on 24 November 2012Read moreThis project is the proof that creativity is a very important key factor in doing good. It is a project from Massoud Hassani, a designer raised in Kabul in Afghanistan and now living in the Netherlands. As a boy...
A review of “Goodvertising”
By Reuben Turner on 13 October 2012Read moreA review of ‘Goodvertising’, a new book about ‘good’ advertising compiled by Thomas Kolster and published by Thames & Hudson. It’s a good book –a bit like Osocio, printed out. Goodvertising is a heavy book. It’s a thorough look...
Color Adds Depth: Celebrating diversity in marketing and media industries
By Marc van Gurp on 2 October 2012Read moreAs working in the European advertising and media industry with a lot of contacts in the similar Anglo American world I know that it is a predominantly white business. That what this new campaign from the AdColor Awards is...
Continental inequality, as shown by the Olympic rings
By Tom Megginson on 31 July 2012Read moreMother London Creative Director Gustavo Sousa has manipulated the iconic rings to create an animated infographic to highlight, in the words of The Drum, “the global issues which can be forgotten in the excitement of the Games”. Originally from...
Redesigning cyber wars
By Tatjana Vukic on 25 July 2012Read moreThe eternal Middle East conflict is now spreading on the battlefield of the 21st Century – the Internet. With fundamental fervor, some Arabic hackers have called for a “cyber jihad”, and the Israelis are preparing to defend against “cyber...
Making A Do-Ference at The Design Ethos Conference 2012
By Noah Scalin on 30 April 2012Read moreI recently had the privilege of being invited to speak and participate in the 2012 Design Ethos Conference/Do-ference at Savannah College of Art and Design. The creator of the conference, Scott Boylston, is a longtime friend in the relatively...
Stefan Sagmeister creates with open perception
By Tatjana Vukic on 2 April 2012Read moreHe is one of the most innovative contemporary graphical artists, the sage, the thinking man’s designer: Stefan Sagmeister. His most radical work was a poster he created for his lecture in Detroit 1999. The invitation text was scratched into...