Skateboard Design by Local Toronto Artist - Juliana NueFeld

Fundraiser project for Freeskates. Hand Painted deck with watercolour, acrylic and spray paint.

http://www.juliananeufeld.com/

http://freeskates.wordpress.com/about/

Come Up To My Room

It's baa-aack!

The Gladstone Hotel is hosting the 7th Annual Come Up To My Room design event starting on Thursday, January 21st. Featuring 11 rooms and 16 public space installations from over 50 designers, it's something to get those creative wheels a-turning. More info here.

Coffee, Table

Awesome Coffee Tables by Made in Hollywood. More info here.

Alex Andreyev

Awesome illustration work of a Separate Reality, all the way from Saint Petersburg:






View more here.

Street Installations: Mark Jenkins

This man fully understands the potential of a mannequin.
More here.

Anagrama

Anagrama are a specialized brand development and positioning agency providing creative solutions for any type of project.

Snowing Ice Cream: The Cloud Project

I am still very confused by this very yummy process and will do my best in trying to explain it.

This is an icecream truck:



It likes to shoot liquid nitrogen particles out to the sky that are flavored like icecream in order to produce icecream flavored clouds, which [according to some beautiful, heavenly plan] will start to snow icecream:



My understanding stops here, but I am more than prepared to give all my tax money to support this project.
For the rest, I hand you to the scientists. I'm off to get some icecream.
For more info, click here.

L'illustration: Alice Jarry and Jason Cantoro

Happy was the girl who stumbled across Jason Cantoro's booth at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.

Cantoro houses his prints with the equally as talented Alice Jarry in the lovely Montreal. Check out their site here - the Poster section is second to none.

Bored? Try Windosill...

Click on the image above to try Windosill.

Walking The High Line

It's official! New York is the super coolest.







Welcome to the High Line, a raised park in the sky! Built on an old freight train track constructed in Manhattan in the 1930's, the High Line opened on June 8th, 2009. For more info, click here.


All images courtesy of the High Line Blog.

Tattoo's got a new look!

Check out our new website here.

Only the best for company

God bless the Dirty Mug. To view or purchase, click here.

Helvetica!

On a recent visit to London's Design Museum [which if you're ever planning on visiting, don't. Save your £8.50 and go to the gift shop instead], a friend of mine and I agreed that the only thing remotely exciting about the museum were the stark white walls with occasional directions painted in gigantic, Helvetican text. "WOMEN'S" was definitely a fave, as was "EXIT".

Even though that was the most exciting part about the museum, I couldn't help but feel that that was also the most dated. Negative space has been huge in graphic design across the last 10 years; minimalist styles always seem to go hand in hand with some sort of Helvetica Bold / Helvetica Neue / Helvetica Neue Black Condensed / Neue Bold Condensed combo. Helvetica essentially is the Starbucks of the font families. Uber trendy, functional and would probably own a home in the Beaches if it could afford one, you can order your Venti Helvetica Neue Ultra Light, and bold it if you're feeling a little bit on the gluttonous side. But one has to ask, with over fifty years of use, when will Helvetica be done with being the trendy trend?

So far there are no signs of the font slowing down [the signs written in Helvetica themselves], so we might as well give in to the celebration. Our own TA2 logo is in Helvetica [shames, shames], I've also named my first born after the font*, and the truth is is that there just ain't a font out there as purty.

* I'm lying a terrible lie, but Helvetica Fletcher does have a certain ring to it.



So here goes the celebration of Helvetica! Because without it, the Design Museum would just have white walls [which wouldn't be a bad thing, considering the rest of their exhibits]:



Lars Muller's 2005 book on the typeface showcases over 400 uses of the font. For more info, click here.



Gary Hustwit's feature length documentary coincided with the 50th anniversary of the font in 2007. Learn more here.


Photo of the Design Museum from The Curated Object.

3D Design

I've been interested by 3-D lately, and this table called "Stereovision" by John Nouanesing really caught my eye. Great design!

New Favorite Store: Boudoir, Vancouver

I love this store for many reasons. For one, their clothes! The casual funk of their garments still manage to be ladylike and tailored, emulating the opening statement on their website: "we’re bringing pretty back". Damn straight. I've also got a love for their bunch of sass when describing their collections: "there’s a good chance the girl you love to hate won’t be wearing the same thing." Up top with the claws out! Snap!

Ten points for braving the cold Vancouver forests to shoot their very own LookBook - an online photo gallery of new stuff for spring 2009. Boudoir's got guts, girlies... whoever takes couture to the mountains is definitely a friend of mine.


Images are from Boudoir's 2009 Spring LookBook.
To view, click here.

Web Designer Wall

And speaking of Portfolio Night, Web Designer Wall is a great website for those design enthusiasts looking for some free tutorials and general design advice. Check it oot here.

Portfolio Night 7

Y&R Toronto have announced they'll be hosting this year's Portfolio Night 7 in the T Dot, woot! Designers, get them portfolios all shiny! The fun kicks off on June 11th, 2009. For those of you who've never heard of Portfolio Night, it's the brainchild of our friends over at ihaveanidea; an evening where aspiring Art Directors or Copywriters [i.e. students] are given the opportunity to show their portfolios to 3 different Creative Directors. Each student spends roughly 20 minutes with each of their 3 CD's. This is a great opportunity to get some feedback on your work, and for potential recruiters to see what's out there, so please try to check it out.

Not in Toronto? Don't worry. Portfolio Night is happening all over the world. For more information, click here.

Pod Castaway

Can I have one?




For more info on Free Spirit Spheres, click here.

Ad Video: Skype - 4D Conversations

We love Skype's first ever global TV campaign. Talk about Art Direction at its finest:



Agency: Albion London
Art Director: Liz Moss
Copywriter: Aimee Lewis
Production: Stink London

Watch it go up in flames!

I'm really fascinated by the creative things that people do with their workspaces. Chew on this one. An office designed almost completely out of cardboard. Nothing is a commercial creative agency based in Amsterdam. Created by designers Joost van Bleiswijk and Alrik Koudenburg

The best part of all is that visitors to the agency are encouraged to leave their mark behind on the surfaces. What a great interactive workspace. I wonder if anyone has drawn a penis yet??

Via CR Blog