YOU CAN'T MISS: The Wooster Collective
AIGA interviews the founders of the Wooster Collective, a web site that showcases "ephemeral art" from around the world. A lot of the time, this means graffiti.
Marc Schiller explains why he started the web site and how quickly it picked up speed
"After a year of literally taking pictures of ephemeral art—documenting something that really doesn’t last more than a day or two, maybe a week, a month if lucky—I was going to delete [them] off of my hard drive. Then I found a little piece of software where I could very quickly, easily just put them on this webpage. I emailed probably 20 of my friends—all designers or they were artists themselves or they were involved in creative work. They emailed their friends, and then after a couple of weeks, I was curious to see if anybody was looking at these photographs of all this street art, and there were tens of thousands who had."
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/ephemeral-arts-lasting-impression
It really is amazing to see the things people do that are just going to be thrown away... designing for magazines?
http://www.woostercollective.com/
RESPONSE: logos
I think today we encountered a problem that won't happen to often and one that will happen all the time: overly positive clients and clients who are ambiguous as to what they want.
It's great that the convergence representatives were so positive, but without any direction or any negative feedback, it's really difficult to know what they want from us. Sometimes it's nice to be freed from any sort of boundaries, but their stated needs were very nebulous, which makes it difficult. Sometimes I've been able to solve this problem by asking a question that only has two options. However (as with boomer) this can also be problematic, should the client decide that really what they want is something inbetween the two points. On the other hand, this can lead to unique design solutions.
CRITIQUE: Sex Myths
I can really only reiterate what I said last week. I was so excited to do this, but the myths are so varied that it's been really challenging.
Last week I was working with the idea of hear-say. Here is what it looked like on thurs.
Now, I'm thinking maybe I want to create something that looks a little phallic, but it not quite working out.
at all.
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