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SeptemberSep 4 Thursday 08
Olympics 2008 Review: The Chinese Brand
It wouldn't be my blog if I didn't talk about the branding of nations.
This year's Olympics were touted as China's "coming out party." Here they are, showing the world what they can do -- showing the scale, precision, technology, tradition, coordination, planning, and …
AugustAug 31 Sunday 08
Olympics 2008 Review: The Graphics
Having been writing about the Beijing branding for well over a year, I almost feel like I have nothing left to say. I mean, you all saw it, right.
When I was watching the games I was obviously watching the sports, but I had a keen eye on the background graphics, the …
AugustAug 28 Thursday 08
Olympics 2008 Review: Media Coverage
Now that the dust has settled at the Bird's Nest Stadium and the Olympics flame has been extinguished, I can finally collect my thoughts and comment on the global circus that was the media coverage. This year's coverage was bigger, more intense, more global, more …
AugustAug 26 Tuesday 08
The Final Week of Summer
With the unofficial end of Summer only one week away (!) I had take a moment to post and simply explain why this has been the sparsest month on this blog since I started actively blogging back in 2006. I hope I haven't turned anyone off with my lack of witty graphical …
AugustAug 20 Wednesday 08
WTF Wednesday: Branded Lip Balm
This one happened to fall into my lap via the always-insightful Randy Ludacer. Randy has a knack for digging up interesting and forgotten packaging designs, but this one totally knocked me back.
Have you ever seen branded lip balm? I'm not talking about Barbie products …
AugustAug 14 Thursday 08
Thnk CMYK
Designing with limited colours is a unique challenge for designers. Corporate colours, production budget, and other logistical limitations often mean that we have to dig deep for ideas on how to make an eye-catching design using only a limited palette.
Sometimes we'll …
AugustAug 9 Saturday 08
I Met The Walrus
I stumbled across this and it blew my mind.
The following is an animation to accompany a recorded [audio] interview with John Lennon, from 1969. A young Canadian sneaked into John's hotel room in Toronto and quizzed him on the subject of Peace. The results are …
AugustAug 6 Wednesday 08
WTF Wednesday: Olympic Cheerleaders
Since this is the final WTF Wednesday before the Beijing Olympics kick-off on Friday, 08.08.2008, I figure I'd post my reaction to the oddity of Chinese cheerleaders for the Olympics.
I'm saddened to learn that we Americans are exporting this silly, and some would …
The World in Bubbles
This is by far the coolest interactive info graphic I've seen in recent memory. And yes, it has to do with the Olympics.
From the New York Times comes an interactive visual display of all the medal-winning nations by year. I really don't need to explain, you should be …
AugustAug 1 Friday 08
The Chain Brands of New York
There are a ton of chain stores in New York. Most of them serve food. While New York, with its dynamic and on-the-go lifestyle, prefers coffee to sit-down meals, the news still doesn't sit well (no pun intended).
The top brands are outlined in a new study from The …
JulyJul 31 Thursday 08
Max Payne Movie Posters
Max Payne, the instant cult classic video game of recent years, is to become a movie. Go ahead and sigh, and then take a look at these posters.
Max Payne, the game, introduced a very gritty and dark style of art direction to the small screen. Based on the not-for-kids …
JulyJul 25 Friday 08
More Obama-Inspired Movie Posters
JulyJul 24 Thursday 08
The New Starbucks?
People are talking about Starbucks lately. They're close locations, laying off staff, losing money, facing the same old sniping from labour and trade groups, and fresh whipping from coffee lovers. (no pun intended) So maybe a brand overhaul is in order.
JulyJul 23 Wednesday 08
WTF Wednesday: If Fonts Were People
I find the wit of College Humor to be decidedly un-funny. Even when I was in college, I was never ruled by the lowest common denominator of comedy, which they've fully embodied for years now.
But these folks have cooked up something semi-relevant, namely a short video …
Off to Puerto Rico
In a matter of hours, I'll be on my way to Puerto Rico. It's been 4 years since my last visit to the island and more than 2 since I had a proper vacation of any sort, where the sole purpose was to relax and do vacationey stuff.
I'm looking forward to seeing family, …
JulyJul 22 Tuesday 08
New Design for pf.c
Holy Crap! Yes, I re-designed my site. Or at least, updated it.
This is officially version 7 of perez-fox.com, which dates all the way back to March 2001. But forget that, what do you think? I'm planning to tweak and add, but it's yours for the viewing. Please leave …
JulyJul 18 Friday 08
On Lapel Pins
The 2008 political campaign has thus far been marked by all sorts of petty nonsense
JulyJul 16 Wednesday 08
WTF Wednesday: Contest for Iraq's New Flag
Iraq is on the hunt for a new flag. That's according to the AP, who are reporting that a design contest will be held to find a replacement for the old red, white, and green.
a committee will select three designs to be presented to the parliament, which will vote on a …
JulyJul 15 Tuesday 08
WordPress 2.6 broke my blog
UPDATE: I fixed the problem. Turned out it had something to do with cookies. Many folks have the opposite problem, wherein they were using Firefox as their primary browser with Safari as the working backup. Whatever.
It no longer lets me log in with Safari. What the …
Packaging Inspiration Series
If you're on the hunt for packaging inspiration, as I have been lately, than head over to Veerle's blog for the packaging inspiration series.
A number of these have been featured on The Dieline and other blogs, but if you haven't seen 'em, they're brand new. Right?
And …