{ ESAD:Personal Views }

Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD) is an insitution for the creative souls in Matosinhos, Portugal.

Personal Views, now in its 4th year, is a unique series of conferences that brings together an unparalleled group of designers, writers and educators from the world of graphic design. Held by Escola Superior de Artes e Design in Matosinhos, Portugal, the series aims to examine contemporary definitions of graphic design by asking these professionals to talk about the values and objectives that have value for them. It's an attempt to explore where the boundaries of contemporary practice lie, to discuss what we might expect of ourselves, and to examine what social and cultural objectives we seek to fulfil.

So far, a total of 45 well-known creative individuals had their ESAD Personal Views conference. Famous Designers such as Adrian Shaughnessy, Ellen Lupton, Neville Brody and Erik Spiekermann had made their speeches, answering and inspiring young designers with their point of view. I must say it's a MUST-SEE video conference series for all design-enthusiast.

Specially brought to you by ESAD Matosinhos:





For more videos on ESAD: Personal Views, click here.

{ Press Printing in the 40's }

I am so glad that I lived in this Era....Check how it's like way back in the 40s!



Specially brought to you by Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc.

{ Fight the Current }

Finally
managed to scan
one of my illustrations.

Enjoy!

{ Tokyo Design Week '08 }

Tokyo Design Week 08 held from 30th Oct - 3 Nov, was an annual event during fall for the design/arts enthusiast.

Showcasing the latest and hottest stuff in artful design and designful art in the heart of Japan. Design/arts installations are featured around the town with main exhibition held at the 100% Design tentage located at Jingu Gaien Aoyama. Some of the internationally-known designers and artists exhibited their latest works for this special event, as well as collaborations with companies.


Here's a peep at the event:




The DesignTide show held in Roppongi, incredible interior design developed by Architect Makoto Tanijiri.


Queues to get into one of the exhibitor's container show at 100% Design.


Natsuki Otake's psychedelic collage "Michiko Kannon".


Close-up of Natsuki Otake's collage.


British designers Peter Liversidge and Asif Khan's Tetra light.

Hopefully next year I could attend TDW in Tokyo.... :)

*For full info on the TDW click here.
**For more images on TDW click here.

• Special thanks to PingMag, Tokyoartbeat and Wallpaper Online for the info and images.

{ Whatever you think, think the opposite }

Yet another fantastic book by Paul Arden....

Paul Arden, author of the international bestseller It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be (see former blogspot post), is a former executive creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi and a legend of British advertising....

Seriously I feel that this book isn't just meant for people in the creative field, it about Life in general for everyone out there....How to live a Life differently and be successful. I like the fact that Paul Arden always uses his sense of humor as he look at things supposedly to be serious. As I am more of a visual person, this book appeals to me considering the mass usage of images and not-to-long copies.

Taken from The Book:

I WISH.
I wish means: wouldn't it be nice if.....
If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

Always wishing life was different

I WANT.
I want means: if I want it enough I will get it.
Getting what you want means making the decisions you need to make to get what you want. Not the decisions those around you think you should make.
Making the safe decision is dull, predictable and leads nowhere new.
The unsafe decision causes you to think and respond in a way you hadn't thought of.
And that thought will lead to other thoughts which will help you achieve what you want.

Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being.

{ ABC3D - Marion Bataille }

I am always amazed by children's pop-out books. How designers can ever thought of such amazing and faultless mechanism of doing the 3D pop-out illustrations to make it so damn interesting to children and also 'children-at-heart'.

I managed to grab hold of a fantastic 3D book at Basheer last Friday. Was blown away by the simplicity of the book, just by showing alphabets A to Z. The complexity of the mechanism was inspiring, I wonder what went on author/designer, Marion Bataille's mind when she is doing this book, ABC3D.

Let's take a peep at some of the alphabets in it: