POSTED BY HIM: Wednesday, June 03, 2009
D’OH - THE HISTORY OF THE DUNKIN’ DONUTS LOGO
While we were home for a family event last week, I found out something amazing. My grandma's cousin, Jerry Meyer, told us all about his days of being a graphic designer. He spent 25 years as a designer in London and New York. His claim to fame was that he designed the original Dunkin' Donuts logo. Currently he resides in Minneapolis and is retired as a designer. As he was leaving that job, he took with him the original artwork from the job jacket, rescuing it from being filed away in a storage facility. Now that I know him, I hope to talk more and find out what else he did, look for more posts in the future.
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POSTED BY HIM: Wednesday, June 03, 2009
FONTSTRUCT - PRODUCTIVE TIMEWASTER
I stumbled upon one of the funnest timewasters today called Fontstruct. It is an online font creator that allows you to make your own and browse other's creations. There are a bunch of great free fonts for download. After spending about an hour in it today, I realized that it's a lot harder to make a typeface than I thought.
Fontstruct
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POSTED BY HER: Tuesday, June 02, 2009
WOMEN’S FOODSERVICE FORUM
While working with Olson last August, I partnered with Chris Henderson and team to develop a new identity for The Women's Foodservice Forum. I built an icon system and a set of illustrations for their collateral pieces. The lovely Miss Amanda Ward put it all together beautifully.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
He Says: I don't think I remember a movie that I've been this excited about. We Love You So is an ongoing look at the things that have inspired the movie posted by Spike Jonze and others. I love seeing behind the scenes of the creative process especially with artists I admire. Terrible Yellow Eyes is another collection of artwork inspired by the book, this one is my fave.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
She Says: More in anticipation for the Where The Wild Things Are movie. I just can't get enough. The We Love You So blog highlights inspiration for the film. I particularly love the entry of the 1 year old watching the trailer. We had a similar experience at home. There was much howling done. Also awesome... Terrible Yellow Eyes, featuring artwork inspired by Maurice Sendak's masterpiece.
POSTED BY HER: Tuesday, June 02, 2009
LETTERPRESS I
My hubby got me a very thoughtful gift certificate for letterpress at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts for my birthday. It's something I've always wanted to learn, but never found the time. It was a little like meditation, setting the type by hand, adding little bits of leading, testing, changing, tweaking. Loved it! I set this little poem for my son. And as a nice little reminder for me too.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
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POSTED BY HIM: Wednesday, May 06, 2009
CHRIS WARE’S QUIMBY THE MOUSE ANIMATION
I've loved Chris Ware for a long time. Recently with This American Life, we get to see it all come to life. The print version of the Quimby the Mouse cartoons aren't my favorite, but the way they are put together in this video is amazing. All the scenes feel very much like the comics themselves. My favorite part though are all of the title screens. Great song by Andrew Bird too.
Watch on Vimeo | Another great one
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POSTED BY HER: Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Krafty Kym
The perpetually inspiring Kym MacFarlane has recently launched an Etsy store featuring these awesome onsies and shirts which she has been working on in her spare time (which, I find amazing since she's a full time designer/art director AND mother of 3). I'm thrilled, because I seriously doubt that my son will tolerate the clip-on tie I had planned for his Easter best. If you want to see more of Kym's pieces, check out her Flickr page too.
KraftyKym's Etsy Store | Kym's Flickr
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POSTED BY HER: Thursday, March 26, 2009
LET THE WILD RUMPUS BEGIN!
Great story, perfect director, only 7 months to wait. I'd better start on my son's Max costume now...
Where The Wild Things Are Movie Trailer
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POSTED BY HIM: Thursday, March 12, 2009
SCREEN PRINTING WALLPAPER - FLAVOR PAPER
I've worked at a few screenprinting shops as well as some smaller studios but I'm blown away by the production process of printing wallpaper. This video shows how the people of Flavor Paper go from design to printing on giant sheets of wallpaper. Amazing.
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POSTED BY HER: Thursday, January 22, 2009
OH, ORLA
I've long been a fan of Orla Kiely's beautiful print and pattern (how could you not be with the sweet simplicity and fresh color), so I'm pretty excited that she's doing a whole slew of products for Target. I feel like I'm going to get that cabage-patch-grab-all-you-can shopping anxiety. Weee.
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POSTED BY HIM: Tuesday, January 20, 2009
PHIZZPOP
A few weeks ago, Colle+McVoy was invited to join in something called PhizzPop which is a 72 hour design challenge sponsored by Microsoft to promote their newest interactive software. In a lot of ways it was the very nerdy version of Project Runway. After 3 long days in training, we were given a challenge to figure out interactive solutions for a retailer to help retain more customers when people are spending less money. We focused on the shopping list with extensions from the website to mobile to social networks and an in-store experience on the Surface table that brought many things that are great about online shopping to the store. In the end Zeus Jones won with a strategy that rethought the problem to be a "retailer of retailers". Also, Space 150 brought a great design feel to extensions from the store to home. In the end it was a great event and a fun opportunity.
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POSTED BY HIM: Thursday, December 04, 2008
YAHOO! EMOTICAROLERS
For the last 2 months, I've been working on this project for Yahoo! Messenger. They came to Colle+McVoy after seeing YearbookYourself.com, looking for holiday promotion ideas. There were tons of great ideas and we ended up producing this one called The Emoticarolers. Embracing the messenger emoticons, we wanted them to come to life and sing at everybody's digital doorsteps this holiday season. The greatest part about this is the ability to write your own custom lyrics. and share them with all of your nearest and dearest friends. We gave everybody the ability to send it however they want – embed, send a link and most importantly, send via Yahoo! Messenger.
www.emoticarolers.com
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POSTED BY HIM: Thursday, December 04, 2008
SNOWDIN 3D MAGIC
Coming up on the holiday season, Colle+McVoy needed a holiday site. We hid away for a few weeks and made a giant model of a snowy valley in our store room. Then we photographed it and converted the photos to 3-D. The site is a collection of games, downloadable tchochkes including a digital cuckoo clock, icons and a font. Lots of fun to make, even more fun to waste time on around the holidays, enjoy.
Snowdin
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POSTED BY HIM: Wednesday, December 03, 2008
FISHINGTON POSTCARDS
For the launch of takemefishing.org's social network for fisherman, Fishington, I created these postcards to announce to media, bloggers and other stakeholders. Originally inspired by vintage vacation postcards, I took a different spin on that by letterpressing them. This was technically my first letterpress project and Studio on Fire did a great job.
More images here:
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POSTED BY HIM: Tuesday, December 02, 2008
JULIAN KOSTER PLAYS THE SAW FOR CHRISTMAS
As it's now the homestretch to the holidays, I'm really getting in the spirit. I've always been intrigued by people that play the saw as an instrument. Now there's a whole album of Christmas songs put out by former Neutral Milk Hotel saw player, Julian Koster called, "The Singing Saw at Christmastime".
Check it out here
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