After 1968 features Hank Willis Thomas' "Unbranded"

This summer at the High Museum of Art
After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy
June 7–October 5, 2008

Hank Willis Thomas
Hank Willis Thomas, born 1976, appropriates images and language from advertising, exploring the intersection of commerce with the cultural ambiguity underlying African American experiences. His 2004 thesis, Swoosh: Looking Black at Nike, Moses, and Jordan in the ’80s, explores the process whereby a myth or image can become attached to a graphic symbol. His soon-to-be-completed Unbranded series is an exploration of racial typing in capitalist culture. Reproducing 80 images printed between 1968 and 2008 in popular magazine ads targeted to black audiences, “Unbranded” presents text-stripped images, meditating on the creation and dissemination of stereotypes.

George Lois Esquire covers

Here's an article on CNN.com about an Esquire covers exhibit, with an interview with George Lois whom we discussed recently in class.http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/04/25/esquire.coverart.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

The story of stuff

I highly recommend you guys to watch this. It's amazing!

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Roots Rebranding

(above image was taken from this BrandNew post)

So in case anyone missed it on BrandNew, Starbucks is revisiting its old logo for an undetermined amount of time.

Huge mistake, or great use of nostalgia? The new/old CEO is trying to focus on a major rebranding effort to bring Starbucks back to its origins. I personally don't like to go to Starbucks unless it's the only thing around...mainly because I don't really like their coffee, it's always kind of burned when I go.

But...I'm going to admit, I'll probably go just to check it out, since this does peak my curiosity as to why a major brand would do this...since it's one of the most recognizable logos in the United States, I'd venture to say.

NYT article on Obama's typographic approach

To the Letter Born
by Steve Heller

Milestone Logos

Hey guys,

I made some logos for the Milestone Academy. I was wondering if you could take a look at them and tell me what you think.

They're here at my blog: www.designbylauren.blogspot.com

Thanks,
Lauren

Blackletter exhibition catalogue - $10 to students

If you would like to see this booklet let me know - Liz

The exhibition "Blackletter: Type and National Identity", curated by Peter Bain and Paul Shaw in 1998 at Cooper Union, sparked a reassessment of blackletter typefaces. The exhibition was reviewed twice(!) by the New York Times and the accompanying monograph (edited by Bain and Shaw) won design awards from the AIGA, TDC and Communication Arts. Princeton Architectural Press, the publisher of the monograph, has sold the remaining copies to the editors. In an attempt to make"Blackletter: Type and National Identity" more widely known outside of the type world, Mr. Shaw is making his copies available to design educators and students at the special low price of $10 (plus $2 shipping domestically). The price for non-design educators is $15 (plus $2 shipping), the same as that formerly offered on Amazon.com. Those interested should send checks made out to “Paul Shaw” at Paul Shaw / Letter Design, 785 West End Avenue, New York City 10025. Inquiries should be directed to paulshaw@nyc.rr.com.Â

See on Amazon

Claim your cyberspace

Claim your cyberspace

YOUR GSU LOCKERBOX: Each GSU student has 20 mb of storage in a digital locker. Items in that lockerbox can be displayed as your own website. Your web address will be like
www.student.gsu.edu/jdoe8

UPLOADING TO YOUR LOCKERBOX
Use the IE (Internet Explorer) browser on a PC, Firefox on a Mac. To sign in, go to
elocker.student.gsu.edu

You should get a popup window (if popups aren't blocked) that ask for
Username and Password. These are the same as your student email logins. Uploading is similar to uploading an attachment to an email message. Choose the "File" pulldown menu and you can navigate to files on your hard drive. Put items for a webpage in the "Public" file. You can put other items in a file called your name.

TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT YOUR LOCKERBOX
From GSU mainpage, choose "Current Students"

Choose "Student Computing" (lower right)

Choose "Computing" (Center of screen)

Choose bulleted hyperlink "Lockerbox"

or click here

SHORTCUT WHILE ON CAMPUS
You can upload directly to the server while in CMC (AM460) and other campus
locations.

Saarinen @ MODA Thursday Jan 31

You are invited to the Public Opening Reception of The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Everyday Living at the Museum of Design Atlanta.

January 31st, 5 pm - 8 pm
This exhibition features the furniture designs of Eero Saarinen, who was one of the foremost prominent architects in the 1950’s. Designs for Everyday Living presents examples of Saarinen’s early furniture designs, sketches, photographs and descriptions of each of Saarinen’s furniture designs and collections. Knoll International has provided archival examples and pieces of Saarinen’s timeless designs from current production.

The New South needs you!

Submit work for publication in the new NEW SOUTH, formerly named The GSU Review. It is published twice a year and is dedicated to creative work by GSU students. They want submissions of art work for the front and back covers and for portfolios inside.

New South

Stefan Sagmeister Interview

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WCxXqRwaNu8

Ebay Motors: Everybody needs something

Toyota: look taller and slimmer

Prius ad: Jason?

art marries technology

In Class Slides

Will you be posting the slides that you use in class on the blog?

"Czech Dream" -Documentary filmmakers dupe entire nation in critique of consumer culture and advertising

Student film makers Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda orchestrated a multi-million-dollar marketing campaign for the grand opening of a new superstore that didn't exist, creating a powerful commentary on consumerism that became a media sensation in the Czech Republic. The video is the trailer for their film, Czech Dream . Blurb from the Village Voice. Available at Videodrome. What is really amusing about this film is they use the firm BBDO for the advertising and marketing. How did they do that? The pair was bankrolled by the Czech Republic government!

Video of Lawerence Lessig explaining how the law is strangling creativity

see it but it isn't there

The blue and purple letter is actually on the server at
http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop

and this is just a reference to the original image.

To create an image reference on a PC, right-click the image and select "Properties". Then copy the Address(URL) from the resulting gray box. On a Mac, right or control click on the image and select "Copy Image Address".

We'll discuss whether this violates copyrights.