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Name in Lights was a competition to find a name that will be created in giant illuminated letters and installed on a prominent UK landmark building. The competition is part of the Fierce! Festival 10th anniversary commission to artist Joshua Sofaer, who devised the concept and will be doing the installation.
The idea is to find the name that will be created. Entries were taken for names, alive or dead, and up to 150 words as to why they would want to see that name in lights.
The contest is closed now and next week a panel of judges will pick the lucky winner. Then that name will be fabricated as a massive illuminated sign (as you see below) beaming out across the city, from Birmingham Central Library.
Go ahead, get your name in lights too and share it with a friend. Flash is required.
I got my name in lights with notcelebrity.co.uk
VIA: Larry Hnetka
The idea is to find the name that will be created. Entries were taken for names, alive or dead, and up to 150 words as to why they would want to see that name in lights.
The contest is closed now and next week a panel of judges will pick the lucky winner. Then that name will be fabricated as a massive illuminated sign (as you see below) beaming out across the city, from Birmingham Central Library.
Go ahead, get your name in lights too and share it with a friend. Flash is required.
I got my name in lights with notcelebrity.co.uk
VIA: Larry Hnetka
Labels: blogging, graphics, misc
At AIGA's national conference in September 2005, Jessica Helfand of Winterhouse Studio presented ABC's John Stossel the three
most important design mistakes Americans make. Jessica, a
media consultant of very good standing, holds a B.A. and M.F.A. in
graphic design from Yale University.
Jessica, noticing Stossel's disconcern over the matter, added:
Paul Rand was mentioned in the report. Rand was a well-known American graphic
designer, best known for his corporate identities (logos, if you will) for IBM, ABC, Cummins Engine, Westinghouse, and UPS (original UPS logo has since been replaced).
See the report via YouTube.
most important design mistakes Americans make. Jessica, a
media consultant of very good standing, holds a B.A. and M.F.A. in
graphic design from Yale University.
Jessica, noticing Stossel's disconcern over the matter, added:
"In the 27 years that (20/20) has been on the air, you have never done a story on graphic design. Why is that?"Apparently, Stossel pondered the question, and it prompted him to produce an in-depth report the following season. The report included some font selection guidelines that, up until now, I have been completely oblivious to.
Paul Rand was mentioned in the report. Rand was a well-known American graphic
designer, best known for his corporate identities (logos, if you will) for IBM, ABC, Cummins Engine, Westinghouse, and UPS (original UPS logo has since been replaced).
See the report via YouTube.
Labels: design, graphics, logos, web
Core PHP has a cool little script for making easy reflections that will take any image and create a reflection of it. Options include caching, height of the reflection, tinting, and fade start/end.While this is something easily accomplished in something like Photoshop, it could come in handy to automatically display reflections for user-uploaded images in a public gallery site for instance.