New ketchup packaging

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_bi_ge/us_heinz_ketchup

I can't wait to try it!

Architecture Christmas

Another relevant PostSecret

PostSecret

This was one of this Sunday's PostSecrets...just had to share =)

Great minds think alike

So I'm not sure if it's just because I was working with texting while driving for 2 projects that I've suddenly noticed all this texting while driving stuff or if it's just an increasing issue...probably a mixture of the two.

Trollback + Company

So a couple weeks ago Jakob Trollback came and spoke at the Hallmark Symposium. I thought he was very interesting, one of the better speakers for sure. Also his work was amazing!! You can check out a lot of his work on the Trollback + Co. website. Clicking through and watching his work at the lecture I realized I had seen a lot of his work before. It was so cool to listen to a designer that had stuff that I had actually seen.

Some things on the website that I especially liked were the Hippies video for the History Channel and video for the World Science Festival.

DSYL PSA

New poster:



Process poster:



Motion graphic PSA:

DSYL from Allie Brawner on Vimeo.

Don't over PhotoShop!

PsD
-Photoshop disasters blog, pretty funny.

Don't text and drive

Here are my final advocacy posters for Type

Type+image:



Type as image:

Project 1 Website

The Toy Store

Here is my website for The Toy Store!




Just in case...
http://people.ku.edu/~allieb/the_toy_store/splash.html

Inspiring blog & quotes

Ran across this blog today...

design wonderland

...pretty inspiring stuff. The blogger also had some quotes I really liked on her blog as well...

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." - Rumi

...and...

"I am going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life." - Elsie de Wolfe

Guess the Logo

Guess the Logo

Found this cool site today. Pretty fun, the TV logos were the easiest for me. Car logos and the web logos 2 were pretty hard.

Toy Store Sites

So while creating my website for The Toy Store, I thought I should take a look at other toy store websites.

FAO Schwarz
This one is well designed and easily navigable, adults or kids could easily click through the site. You can't do a whole lot on the site except learn about the store, but the way they have that all set up is nice.

Toys R Us
Set up well for a big company that sells a lot online. The Toy Store couldn't really benefit from this kind of design because it is such a smaller company, however, I'm sure there are ways this site could inspire mine.

Wooden Horse Toys
This site is set up pretty much exactly like The Toy Store. It's a little better designed, but is still pretty confusing and not easily navigable. I do like their "Best sellers" and "What's new" categories though.

Creative Ads

http://www.designer-daily.com/50-brilliant-creative-advertisements-for-your-inspiration-3169

Came across this website today. Love all the ads, so creative. Here are a few that I thought were exceptional...

Logo trends and interesting observation.

I stumbled across this article today on LogoLounge about current trends in logos. Kind of interesting. I really like the concealed logo trend... definitely show that special wink.

Also while working on my project for Type I came across another website that desperately needs redesigned: NHTSA Thought it was kind of funny that we're redesigning websites in graphics and the organization for my type project could benefit.

Eulogy for Robert F Kennedy video - Final

Type 2 - Journal 13

I found the presentation, Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangle by the law, very interesting. It was both insightful, as well as humorous. The issue of copyright vs. creativity is one that it very important. I can see why artists would want their work to be copyrighted, but I can also see how other people could use anothers work creatively to make something of their own. I think that Lessig's idea of balancing the two extremes by making work available more freely for non-commercial use. This idea would be successful because as long as you are not profiting from your use of another's work you should be able to use it for your own enjoyment (and the enjoyment of others). By using a popular song and setting it to images you are creating something uniquly your own, and are not doing any harm. The harm comes from using the popular song to profit without paying the creator their dues. Lessig's idea will encourage creativity of the youth, as well as protect the original creators work...and it sounds like a great idea to me.

Type 2 - "Final" video

Here's my "final" version. I'm thinking of adding the speech name and speaker to the beginning or made at the end. Perhaps the date Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the beginning? I think it needs something there. Let me know what you think...and anything else you have comments on. Thanks!

Eulogy for Robert F Kennedy

Here's my video... I have the whole speech in there except for the last sentence. My audio messes up when it gets to that point so I've been working on fixing it, but not having any luck so far, but any suggestions on what I have so far would be much appreciated. =)

Type 2 - Questions over Speech

My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.

Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world.

As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him:

"Some men see things as they are and say why.
I dream things that never were and say why not."

Spoken by Edward M. Kennedy

This speech is important because it was to console the world as we said goodbye to Robert F. Kennedy. I find it interesting because it tells about who Robert F. Kennedy was and what he tried to do during his lifetime.

There is a lot of emotion in this speech because it was given at the service for Robert F. Kennedy by his brother. The tone is somber.

Words that could be emphasized are death, life, good and decent, wrong, right, suffering, heal, war, stop, loved, pray, wish, all the world, touched, why, why not.

It is a sad speech because we lost a great man, but it is also inspiring. It makes people want to live like Robert F. Kennedy and be the kind of person that he was.

Edward M. Kennedy is the youngest of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Virginia Law School. Kennedy lives in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, with his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy. Together, they have five children – Kara, Edward Jr., and Patrick Kennedy, and Curran and Caroline Raclin. They also have four grandchildren. Kennedy is currently the Chairman on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Senate. He also serves on the Armed Services Committee where he is the senior Democrat on the Seapower Subcommittee. He is also a member of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and the Congressional Friends of Ireland, and a trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Senator Edward M. Kennedy has represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate for forty-six years. He was elected in 1962 to finish the final two years of the Senate term of his brother, Senator John F. Kennedy, who was elected President in 1960. Since then, Kennedy has been re-elected to seven full terms, and is now the second most senior member of the Senate. Throughout his career, Kennedy has fought for issues that benefit the citizens of Massachusetts and the nation. His effort to make quality health care accessible and affordable to every American is a battle that Kennedy has been waging ever since he arrived in the Senate. In addition, Kennedy is active on a wide range of other issues, including education reform and immigration reform, raising the minimum wage, defending the rights of workers and their families, strengthening civil rights, assisting individuals with disabilities, fighting for cleaner water and cleaner air, and protecting and strengthening Social Security and Medicare.

Sources:

http://kennedy.senate.gov/senator/index.cfm