Bless those Oxfamites

Oxfam full stop. (why arn't the charities in OZ producing the same standard of work?)

Beyond the 'D'

Design is Adobe. For the rest of your life you will be sitting in front of a computer, putting together other peoples dirty work with other peoples dirty work. The problem is that all this dirty work is so incredibly clean. Once upon a time you worked in a busy little place called a studio - a magical fun place where you could make all the mess you ever wanted. But with every impatiently waited astronomical techmogaget jump we delve deeper into the realm of being a glorified office worker. You might not have to wear a suit, or even a collar, but like every body else you are shackled to your desk bounded by the strongest of all human made substances, time.

Alas, a new breed of designer is emerging from the crevices where once magnificent studios were plastered over, bringing with them a new hand crafted aesthetic that does not happen in an office. William Morris eat your heart out. This stuff goes beyond the dimensions of clean Adobe created trends of vector or grunge, and actually involves the most gutsy of tools - a steady hand, one false move and you are starting again where no 'ctrl z' will save the day. Illustration, amateur photography, collage and sculpture are all areas within the visual realm making a comeback in a big way.
Art directors everywhere are leaving their desks and looking beyond Adobe for different tools for solving design problems.

Unfortunately for many, unless you can convince your boss that handicraft exploration is required for the betterment of human kind, or the budget is large enough to cover your mess, there is little chance that you are going to be given anytime to explore yet alone master this forgotten realm (tell them to look at the latest orange or nokia campaigns - uk). So like all great things of the design world, its going to be up to you and your own time, but at least its away from the computer and those darn stock libraries.

- all you have to do is think about it.


www.monaux.com
www.chrissiemacdonald.co.uk
www.siscottstudio.com
www.psyop.tv/main.php

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Brillance! Lets all take note - this is how to make saving the planet cool. Go Oxfam!

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Good oil addiction

A great animation on the state of oil usage and the general state of the world from goodmagazine.com. Sure the same old rhetoric but its animated god damn it. For those of you who didnt know animation = cool. P.S starts well but loses punch towards the end.

The new facebook has stepped into the past.

The old facebook design was the wheel. Why try and reinvent it. Because unfortunately our society tells us that everything will oneday be obsolete, and hence can be improved upon. This has obviously not been the case with the new facebook. Thank god (through some miracle) the same stylistcally inept people who approved the new design had some common sense not to put it online one morning with out warning, instead opting for a secondary url for where ones account could be accessed. Had they not surely it would have provided the largest ever case study as to how design directly influenced the complete inhilation of one of the webs greatest success stories (surely much to the delight of the fading myspace fanclub).

In the beginning there was ...

Click and sniff to start. I have decided that I cannot hold back any longer. It is time that I told you all what there is to know about what from the perspective of the buf.