Surviving in a Design World: What Every Student Should Know


By: Amanda Montgomery, guest blogger

Each year, countless students enter into highly competitive design programs in universities around the world with the intention to develop an invaluable skill set that ‘supposedly’ lays a strong creative foundation and will help them to become better professionals.

However in a recent article from Fast Company Magazine, notorious designer Gadi Amit voices several concerns not only about how he continues to see design student portfolios lacking the quality they once offered, but more importantly if this lack of quality is stemming from the very institution in a position to correct this trend.

Even prior to the economic recession [Read more...]

Twitter Global Conversation: World Cup Final Was Our Biggest Event EVER

Andrés Iniesta, the man who scored the winning goal for Spain with the World Cup trophy

The FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa came to a close last week, July 11, 2010.

If you happened to be on Twitter for the month prior, you may have noticed downtime.

Not just some downtime — a lot of downtime. The Fail Whale appeared more often than not.

This is because the global ‘event’ drove record traffic to the social media outlet, resulting in trends their servers were not at all prepared for.

But, more interesting than the intensity folks online, were the staggering results that the Twitter analytics produced.

Twitter announced [Read more...]

Top South Africa World Cup 2010 Moments

…according to me :)

This list isn’t scientific, it’s not only the best or only the worst, but it’s what I, personally, thought stood out. [Read more...]

{iStyle} Who’s That Guy? World Cup Eye Candy

Cannavaro 2006 World Cup in Germany

The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa is one-quarter way through and we’re sure you’re wondering by now, who’s that guy?!

David Beckham at 2010 World Cup in South Africa

Well, allow us to educate you on football guy candy [Read more...]

{ADbitious} ESPN and the AMAZING World Cup Murals

Click to Enlarge, Magnify on Picasa.

When ESPN decided to go all-out, full-out for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, they designed a unique and truly artistic advertising campaign with the help of  the American-based Wieden + Kennedy (New York) who enlisted the talents of AM I Collective Studios in Cape Town, South Africa.

Their promotional efforts include 33 original pieces of artwork each representing one of the participating nations and one general World Cup piece.

The look and feel of the pieces are a mirror the hand-painted signage and [Read more...]

NSFW {ADbitious} – Frightening French and German AIDS Adverts

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WARNING: NSFW — this post contains content of a dubious nature, that may be unsuitable for persons under the age of 18. If nudity, sex, psycho dictators (Hitler, Stalin, Sadaam), insects and AIDS offends you, walk away from this post NOW. You have been warned.
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I have no words.

But I will say this, because today is World AIDS Day, there is no time like the present to show you some seriously frightening, borderline disturbing, anti-AIDS advertisements.

They certainly got my attention.

You be the judge [Read more...]

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