Who (or what) do you want to keep close to your heart?! Laura Tarrish of Bridgetown Papers is offering a free customized pendant just in time for Valentines Day.
You can order your and your mate’s names and include a gold heart or, like one of Laura’s clients, celebrate your favorite city. Customers have ordered their children’s names, even the name of a beloved pet! Or perhaps a secret message is more your style.
If you love this type necklace as much as we do, simply visit Laura’s shop and add it to your favorites list, then come back here to the HOW Blog and tell us what tiny silver paper letters you would like to fill your bottle with in the comments section (be sure to include your email address so we can contact you if you’re a winner. We’ll draw a random winner on Feb 3rd at 8am EST and Felt & Wire will ship it to you (or your sweetie) by Feb 14th.
Senior Graphic Designer
Pivot, Washington, DC
In conjunction with the Art Director and under the supervision of the partners, the Senior Graphic Designer executes original designs based on creative concepts of direct mail and Internet programs of multiple clients. The Senior Graphic Designer is expected to demonstrate strong attention to detail working within the internal process of Pivot. Among the responsibilities commonly handled by the Senior Graphic Designer include layout of direct mail and print collateral, logos, interface design for landing pages and banner ads, photo manipulation, and support for the production process including pre-flight duties. Additionally the Senior Graphic Designer will take an active role in mentoring junior designers and work with the Art Director to raise the level of Pivot’s creative product.
The Senior Designer will work with Creative leadership to develop smart, strategic concepts across a variety of platforms including branding, print, broadcast and digital. This position will work collaboratively with the internal team and external vendors to produce polished, attention grabbing campaigns and materials. We are looking for someone who is obsessed with great design, is a strong communicator and strategic thinker, and a proactive, detail oriented partner.
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Well check your mailbox, because the HOW Design Live Design Revolution Manifesto has mailed and will be hitting your desk soon! It’s already made it into the hands of designer Christopher Simmons who posted a picture on Facebook yesterday. Simmons of MINE in San Francisco is a design revolutionary himself and will be speaking on the topic of “What is ‘Good’ Design,” meaning design that does good in the world.
What does the word “revolutionary” mean to you? Is it questioning the status quo, finding better ways to get the work done, choosing a challenge over something tried-and-true? We’re looking for design revolutionaries to showcase in the run-up to the conference and seeking personal stories from past conference attendees detailing how HOW Design Live events have affected your career and/or personal life. If you have a story to share, please contact us at howdesignlive@fwmedia.com.
And if the Manifesto doesn’t appear in your mail, you can request one by emailing howdesignlive@fwmedia.com.
Don’t be shy! It’s natural to want to know how your paycheck compares to that other designers’. Plus, it’s smart to arm yourself with knowledge of how your salary stacks up.
HOW’s 2012 Design Salary Report will answer that question and much more. We’ll outline salaries for creative positions in regions across the U.S. and also compare raises, bonuses and benefits. Plus, find out what types of designers are seeing the biggest bumps in their pay. You’ll find all of this in the November 2012 issue of HOW.
But we need your help to compile our report! Please participate in our 2012 Design Salary Survey by May 31. It’ll take just a few moments of your time, and you’ll be contributing to this important effort to gauge the design marketplace for salaries, benefits, bonuses and other perks. (PLUS: We’ll be giving away a free DesignInsider membership to three survey respondents drawn at random.)
Please take the Design Salary Survey today!
Big Spaceship just upgraded their Corpsify game to HTML 5 to give the social design game more versatility and interaction across more screens.
Corpsify is a social design experience that was created and curated by the agency to reinvent the “exquisite corpse” game as a simple social game that allows three different users to collectively create a digital drawing without knowing what the other users have drawn. A user will start the first portion of a drawing by using a simple set of drawing tools. They then invite others to add to the drawing based on cues revealed from the original artist. When complete, the drawing can be shared or uploaded to the Corpsify gallery.
Creative Director
Commerce House, Dallas, TX
We are looking for a Creative Director with an art direction background who can co-lead the creative department at a sophisticated, award-winning boutique agency in Dallas. We are interested in conceptual thinking abilities, experience with different media including tv, print, ooh, radio, and interactive, and strong design skills and sensibilities. The successful candidate will be a true player/coach – able to play a hands-on role with assignments in addition to managing a team and an active and dynamic workload. This person will be part of the overall agency leadership team and contribute to the agency’s direction and growth.
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Instructions:
1. Stare at the red dot on the girl’s nose for 30 seconds.
2. Turn your eyes to a plain surface (your ceiling or blank wall).
3. Blink repeatedly and quickly.
4. Mind = Blown!
Here’s an explanation of how color vision works that pretty much explains this trick:
Human color vision relies on special cells in the retina of the eye called cones. There are three types of cones. “Red” cones are sensitive to red light, “green” cones are sensitive to green light, and “blue” cones are sensitive to blue light.
When we look at a beam of light that stimulates only the red cones, but not the green or blue cones, we see pure red. Light that stimulates only the green cones, but not the red or blue cones, is pure green. Light that stimulates only the blue cones, but not the green or red cones, is pure blue.
But can see many more colors than just red, green, and blue. How can we see other colors? All the other colors that we see result from the stimulation of combinations of red, green, and blue cones. For example, if we look at a beam of light that stimulates both the red and green cones equally, but not the blue cones, we see yellow. Light that stimulates the blue and green cones equally, but not the red cones, results in a blue-green color called cyan. Light that stimulates the blue and red cones equally, but not the green cones, results in a bluish-red color called magenta. Light that stimulates all three types of cones equally is white or gray. All of the thousands of colors that we can see are the simply the result of weaker or stronger stimulation of the red, green, and blue cones.
These three colors red, green, and blue are called the primary colors for human color vision. (Primary colors are any set of colors from which all other colors may be derived).
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Creative Director/Design Director
StoryDesk
StoryDesk is changing the way ideas are expressed. We help businesses bring their sales and marketing materials to the tablet – transforming static content to make it interactive, mobile, and transactional. Our clients range from major fashion brands to financial services companies.
We’re looking for someone help us imagine how presentations can be delivered on the iPad – taking full advantage of the tablet’s native technology. There’s an accelerometer, a touch screen, wireless internet, and all sorts of other awesome stuff waiting to be used. Help us make use of it in a disciplined and thoughtful way.
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Andes, available from T.26, is a new display face designed by Latinotype, a digital type foundry established in 2007 in Concepción, Chile.
Andes, designed by Daniel Hernández, is a display typeface that has neo-humanist characteristics. Its different terminals, among other elements, give it a look of mixed typography. It comprises 8 variants, ranging from Thin to Black, each of the same x-height. This typeface contains additional italic glyphs (a, y, z, g) that help to emphasise text or words. Andes is based on the design of Merced and both of them share several features. This type is well-suited for use in retail, magazines, logotypes, books, etc.
Designer Christopher David Ryan has redesigned his online poster shop and you can now find 80 different prints of his work for sale.
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