GDC Manitoba - Design for Business Event...

GDCMB_Design4BizEvent, originally uploaded by Adrian J.K. Shum, CGD.

Design For Business: What To Look For When Hiring A Web Designer
Date: May 18, 2011 (12:00 pm - 1:00 pm)
Location: Anhang Room (2nd floor, Millennium Library, 251 Donald Street)
Cost: $20.00 (lunch included)

More information is available via the Manitoba Chapter on www.gdc.net, click here.

Limited spaces available! To register for this event, visit www.gdc.net

WICKED! Nokia N96 + Bruce Lee...

A very cool bit of video editing here... in this commercial for the Nokia N96 - Bruce Lee Limited Edition (I wouldn't mind having this phone). Watch the embedded video above or via YouTube, here - enjoy!

Via swissmiss - cheers!

WICKED! Type War...

Too cool. This typographic animation/ad was created by Optix Digital (Hamburg), for Inlingua Business English schools. Watch the video embedded above, on YouTube or via Motionographer, here - enjoy!

Thanks again to Mr. Simpson for the link - cheers!

May the 4th Be With You - Happy Star Wars Day...

(WARNING: Video may not be suitable for minors and is potentially NSFW - view at your own discretion)

Apparently, today is Star Wars Day... or, one of many Star Wars days/events which honours the epic Star Wars franchise. Well, in light of that fact, I offer you the above Youtube video, originally seen on Gizmodo.

May the 4th be with you... ;) Cheers!

COOL! Car Logos Quiz...

A great little bit of fun, Car Logos Quiz... guess the automotive logo with just a part of it showing. Try it out for yourself, here.


I ended up with 45/50, and I totally guessed on a few of them. ;)

Thanks to Marie-Aline Oliver for posting the link to the GDC Listserve - cheers!

Friday Fun: The Family – Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates Microsoft Ad...

Here's something fun to watch on YouTube, it's an advertisement for Microsoft featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. I found it to be rather humorous... hopefully, you will too. You can watch the embedded video above or on YouTube, here - enjoy!

Thanks to Craig Medwyduk for posting the link to the GDC Listserve - cheers!

Recommended Reading | ideasonideas - Running Your Own Race...

If you're a designer or working in the creative industry, I'd highly recommend that you take a few minutes to visit ideasonideas, where Eric Karjaluoto (of Smashlab) discusses design, brands and experience. In particular I recommend that you read one of Eric's recent posts entitled, Running Your Own Race.

I found the article to be quite interesting, and felt that Eric made some keen observations and raises some interesting points (thanks for sharing your thoughts Eric). Anyhow, I'll let you decide for yourself... go and read the article at ideasonideas, here. I'd welcome you to make a comment here after reading it. Enjoy!

Awareness Test... How Aware are You?

You have no idea how badly you'll actually do until you watch it - link here. I had to watch this twice just to be sure. Via Today's Big Thing - enjoy!

Recommended | 2008 Guardian Challenge Kyokushin Karate Knockdown Tournament – Saturday, November 15th...

The 2008 Guardian Challenge – Kyokushin Karate Knockdown Tournament is scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 15th at the St. Vital EMC (same venue as last year). You can see footage from last year's tournament on YouTube, here... and photos from the event on my Flickr, here (the photos were taken by my friend and local designer, Doug Fedrau).

More information will follow... check the Guardian Dojo website often for more info and updates (as they become available), go to http://www.guardiandojo.com/ - cheers!

WICKED! Ashley Wood's Nom de Plume...

Internationally acclaimed artist, Ashley Wood released Nom de Plume today, the faceless commander of the Dirty Deeds platoon. Limited to only 50, the Nom de Plume 12" figure was to go on sale on June 25th Hong Kong time and was available on Bambalandstore.com - apparently the figure was sold-out in 20 minutes! From Ash Wood's blog:

Re: Nom
Sorry for the folks who missed out, but remember before you get angry at the run size, these are not like books that are printed in mass very quickly, each Nom is hand made, there are no machines making the cloths on auto, the paint is not a quick spray job, it all takes time to make a cool toy. The logistics of Nom dictated 50, hopefully we can up the run's on editions as we move along.

Amazing... keep 'em coming Ash! Cheers!

Recommended | Free Rice... for the UN World Food Program

With the many recent natural disasters and war(s) making the news headlines on a daily basis, it's refreshing to see something online which could potentially make a real difference. www.freerice.com is a website which combines vocabulary training with the giving of rice.

The concept is simple, for every word that you get right, they'll donate 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program... to date, 31,214,178,130 grains (over 31 billion grains) of rice have been donated. I have to say that the game itself is rather addicting, and you could easily spend an afternoon expanding your vocabulary while donating to a worthy cause. I suggest you give it a try for yourself... I'm sure that you'll manage to donate at least 20 grains of rice! Visit http://www.freerice.com/ - enjoy!

Thanks to Rick Strong for posting this link to the GDC Listserve - cheers!

Recommended | Candy Collective E-mag...

Happy St. Patrick's Day everybody! In light of the fact that it's an Irish holiday I felt it was appropriate to draw your attention to Candy, the digital publication of the Candy Collective.

Candy is an independently produced digital magazine created to showcase the best in Irish and international culture, creativity and God knows what else (excerpt from Issue 1). I've been enjoying the publication for some time now and was quite excited to hear that they've just released the first two issues of the second volume. I highly recommend that you check it out, be warned, some of the issues are rather hefty downloads (40MB+) but well worth the wait.

Check it out at http://www.candycollective.com/issues.html - enjoy! Via Veer: The Skinny

Recommended | NEW GDC Website...

The newly redesigned Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) website has now gone live. Designed by Winnipeg's own, Tetro Design and powered by Smallbox Software (CMS), the new site is full of resources for business and designers. I highly recommend that you take a few minutes to check it out! Visit the newly redesigned GDC website at http://www.gdc.net - cheers!

*Note: As with any new website launch a period of debugging will occur/be required... if you come across anything that isn't working properly on the new site, please contact the GDC webmaster via the Contact link .

COOL! The History of Visual Communication...

Excerpt from the website introduction page:
This website attempts to walk you through the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication.

Wikipedia defines visual communication as: Visual communication is the communication of ideas through the visual display of information. Primarily associated with two dimensional images, it includes: art, signs, photography, typography, drawing fundamentals, colour and electronic resources. Recent research in the field has focused on web design and graphically oriented usability. It is part of what a graphic designer does to communicate visually with the audience.

I've only taken a few minutes to look at the site but, it seems to be quite a good resource for students of design/communication as well as for instructors. I highly recommend that you take some time to check it out, visit http://www.citrinitas.com/history_of_viscom/index.html - enjoy!

Via swissmiss' blog.

Sagmeister Interview on IdeasOnIdeas Blog...

One of my design 'heroes', Stefan Sagmeister recently did an interview on the Ideas on Ideas blog. It's an interesting look into the mind of Sagmeister and his work... read the interview here on the Ideas on Ideas blog. Want to see more of Sagmeister's work? Visit Sagmeister Inc.'s website - enjoy!

COOL! PSYOP - Adidas "Together"...

The incredibly talented folks over at PSYOP have gone and outdone themselves again with their latest project for Adidas. Working with the agency TBWA/China they've created an amazing piece called "Together", it's the anthem spot for a four spot campaign... the concept, Olympians literally being supported by their countrymen. You have to watch it! See more of PSYOP's works on their website at http://www.psyop.tv/ - cheers!

Via Motionographer... see the original post here.

Spotlight Ideas...

I recently visited http://www.spotlightideas.co.uk/ through a comment posted on my blog. Spotlight Ideas is a blog about Advertising, Media and Creative Thinking. The blog administrator, Eamon worked for some time as an Advertising Account Planner (in some of the leading advertising agencies in London and abroad), as well as a Researcher and Developer for TV and Radio. The blog seems to be full of useful information for anyone in the creative industries... check it out at http://www.spotlightideas.co.uk/ - Cheers!