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 Monday, June 15, 2009
Power Hungry
Design writer Michelle Taute just posted a link to a New York Times article about the massive amount of power that server farms use. The Internet may seem green because it's paperless, but it's consuming more and more electricity as it expands.
Data centers worldwide now consume more energy annually than Sweden.
And the amount of energy required is growing, says Jonathan Koomey, a
scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. From 2000 to 2005,
the aggregate electricity use by data centers doubled. The cloud, he
calculates, consumes 1 to 2 percent of the world’s electricity.
Posted by Megan
Industry News | Thought Provoking
Monday, June 15, 2009 6:49:54 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) 
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Job Of The Day
Visual Designer
Tivo Inc., Alviso, CA
Help us develop the product that is revolutionizing Television! TiVo is
the Emmy award-winning experience that continues to enhance and expand
how consumers watch and access home entertainment and personal media.
We are looking for a visual designer to help develop the look of our
next generation products.
Description
Designing TiVo's
user experience presents unique challenges from making a depth of
content and functionality remarkably easy to use, to designing for a
platform that combines television with the broadband capabilities of
mobile devices and traditional computers.
Our goal is to create
an interface that presents itself as extremely straightforward,
consistent, and simple to use for the wide market of family, in-home
use. We work very closely with Customer Support, Product Marketing, and
Research teams to gather information on our products. We have a
collaborative, team-oriented, consensus building approach to design,
and believe in taking input and feedback from a wide variety of sources.Posted by Megan
Industry News
Monday, June 15, 2009 1:01:16 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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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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