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 Friday, June 12, 2009
Charming
Julia Icenogle is a Kansas City-based illustrator. While her drawings are often charming, funny and adorable, I'm most enamored with her photography series "Lauren the Tyrant."
 Posted by Megan
Creativity
Friday, June 12, 2009 2:53:56 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) 
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The Week's Industry News
• We were glad to get word from FOH Steve Hartman about the 10th anniversary of his firm, Creativille Inc., which is proudly based in Edwardsville, IL. Steve's a real champion of his hometown, and he's celebrating the milestone by curating an exhibit titled "Impressed by Design: Letterpress in the Heartland" at the Edwardsville Arts Center. He aims for the exhibit to raise $10,000 for EAC; it features work by Amos Kennedy, Jim Sherraden and Brady Vest, among others. The exhibit opens August 26 and runs through early October. Learn more here.
• AIGA's Center for Cross-Cultural Design has announed a new design competition, Celebrating the Role of Culture in Design. Submissions can include print design, photography, interactive media or video. Entry deadline is June 26; winners will be announced in July. More details and an entry form here.
• StockFood hosts the international FAB Futures Award to recognize outstanding design work in the food and beverage category; the 2009 winner of the "most promising designer" award is the young Portuguese advertising copywriter/designer Miguel Castanheira.
• FontShop released Ian Party's lovely and delicate SangBleu, created by the photography and culture magazine of the same name. Their super-thin nature make the Hairline weights of SangBleu useful for headlines.
• Quark announced a product bundle aimed at students that pairs QuarkXPress 8 and the VisTablet Graphics Tablet for a combined price of $259; the offer is good through October 30 for students and educators. View a demo on YouTube here.
• Minneapolis design studio Larsen has created a website documenting an amazing project: Calligrapher Donald Jackson is creating a handwritten and illuminated Bible for Saint John's Abbey and University. Jackson's project began in 1998 and is scheduled for completion next year; the site shows his process, progress and tools and includes a page-view look at the book itself. The Saint John's Bible is a modern work using ancient tools and materials: quills and paints made of ground lapis lazuli, vermilion and 24-karat gold. See the Saint John's Bible website.
Industry News
Friday, June 12, 2009 2:35:46 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Job Of The Day
Senior Design Manager
The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta
The Coca-Cola Company is currently conducting a search for a Senior
Design Manager for Coca-Cola North America. The position will be
located at our corporate headquarters in Atlanta, GA. Areas of focus
include: packaging graphic design, point of sale creative design, brand
identity and design management.
The Senior Design Manager is
responsible for developing innovative strategies to drive inspiring
design development programs for Coke Zero, Dasani water and Minute Maid
brands.
The Sr. Design Manager has the ability to influence
and drive design communication both internally and externally. The role
provides design guidance to internal clients across packaging, retail
and equipment platforms. This person will direct, drive and inspire
cross functional teams to achieve insightful design solutions and apply
strategic thinking to new and existing product platforms based on brand
and consumer insight.
This role will also direct the creation
of 2D and 3D Visual Identity systems to align all markets on Global
Design programs. This person will seek to continually develop new
methods to define design opportunities through both consumer
understanding and defining core 2D/3D communication principals for
brands. A significant portion of the role will be to manage agencies on
projects, on an ongoing basis. Posted by Megan
Industry News
Friday, June 12, 2009 1:04:41 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Tantoo
Janine Rewell is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland who pushes the idea of what graphic design means with this project called Tan the Man. Vinyl stickers + tanning bed = cool temporary tattoo.
via OK Great
Posted by Megan
Designers | Just for Fun
Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:34:22 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Cute But Creepy
J3Concepts is Jared Nickerson, a 26-year-old illustrator based in
Seattle, WA, who specializes
in character, editorial, videogame and art direction. His work is often cute but with a creepy edge like these posters, which are part of a series of promos he created for Culture Club, a nightclub in Belgium.
 Posted by Megan
Illustration
Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:48:13 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Your Logo Makes Me Barf
Yourlogomakesmebarf.com is a real site where you can submit the world's worst logos and make fun of them. Good times!
via Boing BoingPosted by Megan
Just for Fun
Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:30:23 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Job Of The Day
Junior Graphic Designer
fusproject, San Francisco, CA
Want to re-invent what design can do? For the most diverse leading
clients in the field? See your work at retail and in people’s lives?
At
fuseproject, we do this every day, and we want you to do it with us:
cut through the corporate mind-field with good strategy, follow-through
with the most innovative designs, and launch with more creative
direction and design.
fuseproject’s approach combines the
application of new technologies and unique functions with a humanistic
perspective. By fusing poetry with pragmatism, new approaches are
discovered and applied: bringing story and message into the product
experience. This unique approach has contributed to our unsurpassed
global creative reputation, landing fuseproject to be recognized by
critics and museums around the world (NYMOMA, SFMOMA, Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum, Munich Museum of Applied Arts and many others.)
Our designs and creative positioning is contributing to areas
as diverse as technology, furniture, sports, lifestyle and fashion, for
clients such as Herman Miller, MINI, Nike, Cassina, Microsoft,
Swarovski, Birkenstock, Toshiba, Sony, One Laptop Per Child, Target,
Magis and Coca Cola.
What we look for is the most enthusiastic, talented, idea driven, and delivery focused designers around the world.
A
keen understanding of the relationship between brand and product is
key, as is the ability to directly participate in design efforts, along
with driving them. This means that you will be responsible for
delivering top-notch substantive creative output with Photoshop,
Illustrator, InDesign, etc.Posted by Megan
Industry News
Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:57:08 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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