IBM Smart Planet

Check IBM's Smart planet website. Not only see beautiful icons and posters, but also motion graphic.
Joe Makower from The Energy Collective wrote an insightful story about this IBM ad campaign that explains its goals and strategy and includes interviews with Rich Lechner, IBM’s VP of Energy and Environment and John Kennedy, VP of Integrated Marketing Communications.
also check it from DataVisualization.ch website

Mixtape Club (YG7)

Too technical for the arts, too creative for the sciences, YG8 Jurors Chris Smith,
Jesse Casey, and Michelle Higa funneled their collective love of music, computer
science and semiotics into the world of animation, and Mixtape Club (YG7) was
born.

Happy Birthday Art Chantry

Today is the birthday of Tacoma/Tacoma based graphic designer Art Chantry
"Mr. Chantry is probably best known for expanding on the bristling low-tech aesthetic of punk music, in posters and album covers..."
"These works reflect an omnivorous talent for the incisive recycling of vintage images, usually with a handmade look that Mr. Chantry calls roughed up."
"Among his sources are 60's psychedelic posters, wholesome 50's advertising (including pages from tool catalogs and grocery store circulars) and Monty Python's gloss on Edwardian illustration -- usually presented with a sense of clashing social values. These are underscored by techniques like torn-edge collage, taped images, messy script, punch-printed lettering, startling juxtapositions and endless variations on the possibilities of photographic graininess achieved by repeated photocopying."
Read the whole review from The New york Times
Check his book: Some People Can't Surf

Vintage Illustrations by Kareem Rizk

Vintage Illustrations by Kareem Rizk - http://bit.ly/dnFOiL

Is AT&T updating its logo again?

Is AT&T updating its logo...again?
"AT&T is undertaking an ambitious rebranding effort under the banner "Rethink Possible" that includes a redesign that updates its trademark logo." Read More from ADage
also check History of the AT&T Network and Bell Logo History

Dali calls himself a bad painter

"I'm a very bad painter. "
"Because I'm too intelligent to be a good painter. To be a good painter you've got to be a bit stupid."
!!!!!?????

Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids

Derek Sivers: How to start a movement

Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics

minilogue - hitchhiker's choice

minilogue - hitchhiker's choice from ljudbilden on Vimeo.

Your turn

Zonnatura - circle of life from ljudbilden on Vimeo.

http://www.popscreen.com

KOBRA - a compilation

KOBRA - a compilation from ljudbilden on Vimeo.

Behind the scenes

Sony Ericsson MH907 - Behind the scenes from ljudbilden on Vimeo.

There was a time

There was a time from ljudbilden on Vimeo.

A_breif_History_of_communication

A breif History of communication from ljudbilden on Vimeo.

15 Surprising Logos

15 Surprising Logos really make you surprise. Have fun.

Visual Flow

I was talking about music being a great metaphor to describe the flow with graphics and design, Noah Kareus sent me the perfect sample after class. Thanks, Noah.

Book for infographic

Dona Wong: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics

"In today's data-driven world, professionals need to know how to express themselves in the language of graphics effectively and eloquently. Yet information graphics is rarely taught in schools or is the focus of on-the-job training. Now, for the first time, Dona M. Wong, a student of the information graphics pioneer Edward Tufte, makes this material available for all of us. "

Wong began her visual jouralism career at the New York Times in the 1990s as the business graphic editor and worked as a graphics director at the Wall Street Journal from 2001. Recently, She has been appointed the strategy director for information at Sigel+Gale.

Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages

Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages, a video looking back at the pictograms of Olympic games. To know the evolution and hear Steven Heller 's criticism about the design. Source form New York Times.

albatross chicks

A picture is worth a thousand words. New work from photographer Chris Jordan .
Chris Jordan is best known for larger scale photography that depicts mass consumption and waste.
You might see his work in our main gallery. Last December, he was one of the artists in "Waht's the rush? Topics on Convenience" exhibition. One of his works was a large scale digital print depicting two million plastic beverage bottles.

Abandoned his "pop art approach", Chris Jordan's new work was less about form but more intense and shocking. Work was shot in 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny island near the middle of the North Pacific. In order to documented the phenomenon as faithfully as possible, Chris did not make any artificial rearrangement: "not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent." Check those pictures from his web site.



Chris Jordan's also been called the "it" artist for the green movement. "It chages the way you view the world."
Embedded below is a video of Chris Jordan speaking at the prestigious TED conference.