Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

May 12, 2010 0

Child is Lone Survivor in Libya Plane Crash

By Van in Design, Headlines

One 8-year-old boy survives, while the other 93 passengers and 11 crew members were killed in the tragic plane crash. Talk about miraculous. I suppose the word “miraculous” should be used if they all survived the crash. He’s a lucky boy nonetheless. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/05/12/libya.planecrash/index.html

Tags: , , ,

May 12, 2010 0

Angel Takes To The Street…

By Van in Design, Headlines

Police in Switzerland have hired a man to dress up as an angel as part of a campaign to encourage drivers to slow down. I have no idea why I immediately pictured an 80′s metal, three-wolf moon inspired poster when I read the title. It’s not my usual, but it feels nice doing something different. [...]

Tags: , ,

May 10, 2010 0

Insanity

By Van in Design, Inspiration

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein A great poster design by Alex Koplin, in collaboration with David Meiklejohn. Please do check out the great work and blog he has going at http://www.h34dup.com/. That diagram is so easy to understand but so difficult to embrace. I’m sitting [...]

Tags: , ,

May 8, 2010 0

America’s Favorite Birth Control Method Turns 50

By Van in Design, Headlines

It’s interesting that we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the birth control pill on Mother’s Day this year. It’s not a subject I, or any other guy, would really keep up with. “Prevents pregnancies?” I think the discussion ends there. At most, it probably would extend to an exclamation of, “What?! I [...]

Tags: , , ,

May 6, 2010 1

In My Mind’s Eye

By Van in Design, Dreams, Inspiration

I rarely get the opportunity to sketch and doodle these days. My computer at work has the most difficult time working. It takes a lifetime for it to boot up Photoshop or InDesign. Today, I decided to use the loading time to sketch. I told myself, I’d keep the pencil on the paper and don’t [...]

Tags: , ,