2012 Pantone Color of the Year
Posted on 13 December 2011 Graphic Design No Comments
Pantone has released the colour of the year for 2012: Pantone 17-1463 Tangerine Tango – a spirited reddish orange. Explaining the reasons of this choice, Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute® commented ”We have to look at everything in the world around us. It’s not an arbitrary choice“. “Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic [...]
Unhate – Make Love, Not War
Posted on 25 November 2011 Advertising No Comments
Italian clothing chain Benetton has unveiled, on 16 November 2011, a new worldwide communication campaign showing many global leaders kissing. German Chancellor Angela Merkel with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, President Barack Obama and China’s Hu Jintao, even Pope Benedict XVI kissing Sheik Ahmed al-Tayeb, the imam of the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo. The “Unhate” campaign, [...]
The new Sydney Mardi Gras logo – Clear Message and Clarity
Posted on 23 November 2011 Graphic Design 1 Comment
The Sydney’s Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, started as a protest in 1978, has become one of the biggest events in Sydney, with a festival celebrating the diversity of the Gay and Lesbian community. This year the name of the organisation has changed back to Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras after almost 10 years as [...]
Infographics, the growing field of data visualisation
Posted on 17 May 2011 Infographics 2 Comments
For many it is often hard to understand at first what information graphic is all about. But we are surrounded by it every day: diagrams, maps, tables and signage are everywhere… from newspapers, magazines, television and the Internet to airports, train and bus stations. Information graphics transform the extensive, messy world of information and data [...]
A new publishing platform to create digital content for iOS devices
Posted on 10 May 2011 Graphic Design 1 Comment
Digital books continue to thrive thanks to Apple’s iPad, Amazon’s Kindle and other mobile devices, but they still adhere to many of the conventions and limitations of reading online. A new company, Push Pop Press, is developing a new tool which aims to push the envelope on what electronic books can do with a relatively new way [...]