Posts tagged design

A few weeks ago, Gary Vaynerchuk put up a contest to design the cover of his new book, The Thank You Economy. I really should have posted this before to prove that I made it before the June 18th deadline, since I didn’t get an email acknowledging my submission.  Either way, here it is, my first attempt at a book cover design!!! And here’s the cover of Gary’s 1st NYT + WSJ bestseller, ‘Crush It!’ for comparison.

A few weeks ago, Gary Vaynerchuk put up a contest to design the cover of his new book, The Thank You Economy. I really should have posted this before to prove that I made it before the June 18th deadline, since I didn’t get an email acknowledging my submission. 

Either way, here it is, my first attempt at a book cover design!!! And here’s the cover of Gary’s 1st NYT + WSJ bestseller, ‘Crush It!’ for comparison.

While this whole quote is totally true, I (and I think we can all) relate with that first sentence. That said, however, too many people try to randomly hit on creativity without paying attention to that need for life experience. texturism: creativity is just connecting things – steve jobs [ via sebastianwaters ]

While this whole quote is totally true, I (and I think we can all) relate with that first sentence. That said, however, too many people try to randomly hit on creativity without paying attention to that need for life experience.

texturism:

creativity is just connecting things – steve jobs [ via sebastianwaters ]

I love great design. Above is the best example I’ve seen all week.

And as long as we’re on cool furniture, can I just say how increasingly disappointing Ikea is? Every time I go there the design and build quality go down, though I’m undecided on the prices. 

They still have really cool lights + accessory-type things, but that seems to be it. 

(video via engadget)

So all-caps, non-serif writing is the new official way to get people to notice that a film has a star in it? Cool. I bet there were a bunch of meetings to decide on that one, a.k.a free market research for all of us. The above hard-to-see image is from Apple Trailers.

So all-caps, non-serif writing is the new official way to get people to notice that a film has a star in it? Cool. I bet there were a bunch of meetings to decide on that one, a.k.a free market research for all of us.

The above hard-to-see image is from Apple Trailers.

Ben Burtt's Awesome 30 min. Presentation on the Sound of Wall•E

Video of Ben Burtt - sound designer of the lightsaber, Darth Vader, and Indiana Jones giving a 30 minute presentation at Pixar on how he crafted the sounds of Wall•E. Includes a great Q&A session as well.