COPICMARKER.COM » Design http://www.copicmarker.com U.S. Distributor of Copic Markers Mon, 21 May 2012 18:04:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copic at American Institute of Architects (AIA) http://www.copicmarker.com/copic-at-american-institute-of-architects-aia http://www.copicmarker.com/copic-at-american-institute-of-architects-aia#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:49:12 +0000 admin http://beta.copicmarker.com/?p=2692 Oregon Copic representatives, Ken O’Connell and Ashley Haskins attended AIA, Northwest and Pacific Region Conference in Eugene, Oregon. At the Copic booth were products to share with the 200 attendees from the western United States, Hawaii, Alaska and Canada.

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British design studio We Are Young has a cool doodle based project going on. Submit a random fact and they will use the best one in a poster illustration each month. The simple drawings are great. Check them out Learn Something New Every Day. Check out the We Are Young site as well if you want to dig on some top notch print design.

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This was sent to me via our Myspace page by one of the artists behind the film. It comes from the Baden-Wurremburg, Germany based design studio Fly with the Spaceship. Great combined use of technology and traditional media. Their website has some cool typefaces for free download and at least one of them makes some really cool electronica music. Busy guys.

UPDATE:
Artist Enormal sent me a brief note describing the video:

“There is nothing special to say about DOUBLE SESSION except that it was pure improvisation, and we were freestylin for maybe 2 hours. and then [sped up the film]….
I’m drawing in front while Chrispy Christal is in the back, kicking some styles and shapes in illustrator, thats it :) ”

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Last year Graphic Designer Jessica Helfand released a “Scrapbooks, An American History“. National Scrapbooking day was back in May (5.03) and we didn’t have a blog at the time so I had no place to point this out. She wrote a short essay on the subject at her blog Design Observer. In the clip above she describes her book and the process of her work. The book is available at Amazon and on that page you will also find some other short clips that walk the viewer through some of her favorites she examined during her research.

I personally find it interesting, as part of the art industry and one that supplies scrapbooking enthusiasts, how much has changed and how much is similar. Motives for making them remain, but the execution largely has been affected by the industry that has developed around them. There are those that love the latest tools and embellishments and create a polished look and those who want the aesthetic qualities of old journals and scrapbooks and strive to achieve the same weathered affect.

Hopefully the history of these books can shed some light on the contemporary activity itself, personally and artistically.

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