A great slideshow by The New York Times showing how the typeface used on highway signs was improved to create better legibility. What’s really interesting is how they used a proportion-based grid system to create an overall layout system to be used across all signs.
Light Graffiti is a creative force that is causing a lot of buzz around the globe. These artists have been tagging everything possible but they’re not using paint.
Using an exposure of about ten-to-thirty seconds and a tripod for best results, they use Glowsticks, flashlights, reflectors, and even torches have been used as mediums to create all sorts of designs. Designs usually take less than a minute to complete, and any person, place, or thing can become a central piece of the art.
Light Graffiti recently made a mainstream debut in this ad for Sprint
Here’s the cool behind the scenes clip from the shoot
Our guys here at blue just installed graphics on a promotional vehicle for The Arizona SuperBowl Host Committee. This is a standard van install which took our guy Mike Tovar about 4 hours to complete. Yeah,..he’s quick but not this quick. I have compressed the install into a time-lapse for y’all. I even make a cameo at the beginning,…ahh Mr. Babyshambles!!
‘Every year on the small dutch island ‘texel’ there is a poetry competition, the best two poems are carved into truck tyres (by hand) and the poems are then written in letterpress all over the beach during the summer’ ¦ brilliant!
A recent article about “Bettering Your Shop’s Website” appeared on BigPicture.net
Check it out below.
Bettering Your Shop’s Website – Bluemedia Makes a Splash
How much interest does your home page evoke when it first opens? Ideally, your website’s home page should provoke interest, be easily navigable, and not too busy.
We like what Phoenix, AZ-based bluemedia (www.bluemedia.com) has done with theirs. A large dominant window allows examples of the shop’s work to rotate through it automatically, while directly below that window is a clear and concise description of the company and what it does.
The home page features a dual navigation bar: the top (darker blue) bar is application-oriented: vehicle graphics, environmental graphics, and signs. And just in case you’re not sure what these applications are, scrolling over each tab pops up a representative image. The bottom (light blue) bar offers the standard “about us,” “news,” “clients,” and “featured project” pages, all with drop-down menus.
“This is version 3.0 of bluemedia.com each one getting a little better than the time before,” says bluemedia’s Darren Wilson. “Some of the features we build into the home page and site include: a dedication to simplicity; it’s very user friendly and easy to navigate; it showcases our work; and we’ve made it easy to contact us if needed.” The company also recently launched blueline, its own blog (www.bluemedia.com/blueline)
Before now, printing and installing graphics on textured surfaces such as brick, stucco, and cinderblock was not popular because of how the vinyl distorted when installed.
Thanks to 3M’s new release of Scotchcal Graphic Film iJ8624 we are now able to turn textured surfaces into prime real estate! The new material uses a special gray colored adhesive that is designed to hide surface color from protruding through the graphics, and to remove easily with a heat gun.
The possibilities for application of this technology are endless!
Above is an example of removable graffiti installed on a stucco wall outside the bluemedia office. A photograph was taken of the wall to capture the color and texture of the surface. That photo was then digitally edited and the graffiti graphics were added.
If your application doesn’t call for a graffiti look, we can also use the material to make signage out of empty wallspace as seen here.
Bluemedia designer Jeremy Doty is one of 5 finalist in the Kodak ‘INK RYAN’S RIDE’ Contest. The contest offers the winner a chance to design the paint scheme and have their name appear on NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Ryan Newman’s No. 12 Kodak Dodge for the Series 500 race at California Speedway on Sept. 2. The winner also gets two tickets to the NASCAR Bush Series on Sept. 1 and Nextel Cup races, transportation, VIP access to the California Speedway and a Kodak EasyShare 5300 All-in-One inkjet printer.
The top five designs will be revealed live on Fox Sports Net’s ‘The Best Damn Sports Show Period’ in August and posted at the site. The public will decide on the winner with voting held from Aug. 3 through 10. Each vote earns an entry into the sweepstakes with the winner receiving a Kodak NASCAR-licensed replica helmet autographed by Newman and a Kodak EasyShare 5300 All-in-One Printer.
Jeremy’s design is shown below, look for the blue roof & hood . . . Go Vote Now!! Public voting ends in 7 days on August 10th!
Show your support . . . VOTE NOW CLICK HERE
Just when you thought the bathroom was a safe – manhood monitoring models invade the bathroom at the Sofitel Hotel in New Zealand. Armed with cameras, tape measures and smirks for the less endowed - a wallscape of girls above the urinals make the bathroom going experience a little more enjoyable.
Before I continue, I have to give a shout out to our boys Nick and Travis over at WorkBlast.com! they saw the potential and need for video resumes long ago and have since created Workblast to offer this service to both job seekers and employers.
Ok, back to the story.
Sean P-Diddy Combs is looking for a new assistant, but don’t even think about sending in a boring traditional paper resume. Instead, the hip-hopper turned mogul is accepting only video applications uploaded via YouTube.
Diddy, videotaped a help-wanted ad on the popular video Web site hoping to find a helper to replace his former assistant, who did everything from holding his umbrella in the rain to playing chaperone to his hip-hop group Da Band.
While Mr. Combs has not explained why he chose YouTube instead of a job-recruiting site like Monster.com, he offered some explanation in the video. ’It’s a new age, new time, new era,’ he said in his first posting, a minute-and-a-half clip of him yelling behind his desk. ‘Forget coming into the office and having a meeting with me and being all nervous.’
Hopefuls must audition by posting a video that is less than three minutes long explaining why they deserve the job. Initially, Mr. Combs opened it to anybody with a camera or a little creativity, but in a second posting, narrowed the applicant pool to only college graduates.
More than 600 people have already submitted videos.
John A. Challenger, chief of the recruiting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, said Mr. Combs’s online video search is more than a ploy to get attention. More applicants are adding video clips to their applications. ‘It helps put a face to all the faceless resumes,’ he said.
Viewers will pick the finalists on YouTube, but Mr. Combs has the final say on just who the winner is.
Google’s Gmail just launched a pretty neat campaign to show the world just how emails make their way around the globe.
They started with this video, and are asking that users from around the world upload their own add on videos.
When they campaign concludes, they will edit a selection of the top submissions together into a final video which will then be featured on the Gmail homepage to be seen by all.
Learn more about the project at http://mail.google.com/mvideo
