Tacky Typefaces

Right, so I've made some A3 collages of storefronts/facades. Each of them has a name or something to say. If you see it, then great! If not... then hopefully you see something else. Enjoy!

Bits and Pieces


















Bob Pace Matches Cox and Power


















Shady Duck


















Palm Beach


















The Natural Kitchen, Agnis B!!!


















Agnis B. Matches Coco Momo Of Course


















The Sunny Steps of Machu Picchu

And The People Said...

I decided last minute to go ahead and do a survey. I had been thinking about it from the beginning but I had a million reasons not to and why it wouldn't work. In the en,d I decided to do a short little online survey. I invited an array of people on facebook to just fill some things out. I wanted to just get some kind of feel for my hypotheses and the truth of the state of people's thinking.

 As far as the margin of error goes, I'm not giving a great deal of importance to the survey because it isn't the highest in quality. Good thing, because the site deleted a question and replaced it with a repeat question. Oops. BUT I did see some interesting things. 

People are thinking... just not enough. They aren't very critical thinkers. Few people are really mapping out their decisions. They are making them, but not cognitively. They have reasons, but they are more like excuses: tame and irrelevant. A few people REALLY thought things out. You can see it in just a few words. Others are only regurgitating what they've heard. And some even admit to not cognitively giving their choices a chance! 

So now my campaign is really motivated by getting people to CHOOSE to think cognitively. Not just a flashing whisper before it's gone to hardly ever be recalled again.

Think for yourself.

SO... I have been working like mad on my creative samples. After talking with Peter about the logo and ad pieces, I realized that I had already created a strong language, but I wasn't using it well. So after working on them, I finally re-worked the visual language. I think it's very strong and succinct. It has a natural hierarchy, and flows very well. Each piece does say a lot, but I think I have simplified them as best as I could. Let's face it, there's so much to say!

I wanted to to inspire people to really think with this visual language. It may be an ad, but I'm not jsut telling you something or giving you a small fact. Don't just file it away. Think about it! There is something to be learned, and there is something you c

an implement into your life. I will definitely defend this creative work because my goal isn't to just load people up with information and make them do what I want. I really do want to incite some introspection. If anything, I'm telling them NOT to buy into anything just because I say so. Go ahead... think about it.

Without further ado, here is one of my creative samples. This one is for "Think for yourself." This branch is about people taking care of things in their personal life: emotional AND physical health.

Logo Loco

At the request of some... I am posting some samples of my logotype work. I will post some creative pieces once I've refined them. But for the time being, just enjoy these tantalizing tasty tidbits. Mmmmm... 

Personally, I think I would like to go with the different colors for the subcategories. [It's got more flav-ah!] BUT feedback is always welcome...

P.S. I know the quality is a bit dodgy but they are a bit compressed. I promise I used more saturated colors and a much higher resolution :)

It's Not Over Yet

I noticed this weekend, that the Brits do Halloween just a bit different. In America... it's all about the build up. Decorations go up October 1st. There are haunted houses everywhere. The amusement parks get all decked out and pay actors dressed as ghouls and zombies running and hiding around the parks to give customers a proper fright. Comoe Halloween, it;s all about the parties and the trick-or-treating. People spend loads of money to get the best costume they can and party it out. But all of these activites have fixed dates. The fun starts October 1st, and people only where their costumes to trick-or-treat, or to attend the Halloween parties. There is no "Halloween Weekend." But here, I've noticed halloween-lovers Thursday to Saturday. There aren't very many decorations, but 2 nights in a row, I went out and saw people in costume!!! [I saw costumes on Saturday... November 1st!!!] So for all of the people who aren't ready for Halloween to end... here is a lovely mixtape from my favorite design blog. Enjoy!