With a little more than 3 weeks left in sunny California, I can’t help to start making mental lists of stupid shit I’m going to miss in the South. OK, my Mint.com account already reveals a very scary shopping trend; in the fact that 90% of my purchases are food or booze from Trader Joe’s. Maybe this needs to be part of a larger thought – “shit I’m gonna miss from SoCal” list….
If I thought I had an obsession, this guy actually made a video about it…. LOL, he’s so correct about hot soccer moms in yoga clothes: http://www.thesneeze.com/2009/the-tjs-song.php
Charleston, living
Charleston, shit I'm gonna miss, Trader Joes
I don’t often think too highly of all the hoopla that goes into events, but it’s a bit different when you’re involved in the planning! I’d given my notice w/ my current job after 5 years, so I think I’ll just consider this one big ass party for Brad!
Months of work and planning, and we have Depeche Mode rocking “Personal Jesus” in front of the billboard I designed on the W Hollywood. Fucking outstanding.
Charleston, randomness
Spent a portion of my morning re-building Depeche Mode’s “logo” for an upcoming event my agency is producing for W Hollywood Residences. Quite crazy, but I never thought of rock music as needing branding or really what might go into a band’s logo. Perhaps this is common in the industry, but the logo and “brand” seems to shift for each album that’s produced. I guess there is a bit more at stake with a headline band than the garage-band w/ album art designed by someone’s brothers friend.
While I can’t say DM was ever a band I truly dug back in the day, the Violator album cover is burnt into memory. The juxtaposition of the title “Violator” next to the stark visual of the red rose creates incredible tension and was brilliant. More so, it speaks towards the music.
The new brand appears a mash of 80′s glory – large abstract bars of colors – with abstract images and colorful gradients that are the pop-art of ’06. Much like the new music is almost more 80′s now than it was in the late 80′s. The logo cleverly uses these to “bars” to try and spell the “D” and “M” of the band name, but not quite legibly. One aspect I don’t know the answer to, is how much influence the actual band members have over establishing this look, or if it’s cooked up by their record label and stylists behind the scene.
In all respects, a coherent brand. And while I’m personally not in love w/ the aesthetic, it does do an excellent job of leveraging the old glory of a band who’s been out of the loop for a while aggressively trying to make their look contemporary.
Design, Visuals, big thoughts, living, randomness
branding, logo, rock, w hollywood
Found this alarming over this morning’s cup-o-coffee and the accompanying design reads, Digital Web Magazine is no more.
The landscape of web writing has changed. The value of well-edited and reviewed content is giving way to faster, less-refined posts on blogs, comments, and services like Twitter, and it is clear that many writers prefer to draw traffic to their own sites.
It’s a resource I’ve read and used many a time in my learning process, as well as keeping current with some of the bigger ideas that flow behind my profession. The founder statement that refined writing is being replaced the sporadic diarrhea of the mouth that blogs and twitter represent is a scary reality – especially as I sit here blogging about it. Also, it would appear that the increasingly selfish attitude as we all try to curate our “digital persona” are making it hard to get participation in new articles.
In my way, I’ve found myself using this blog increasingly as a vehicle for reflecting on the events that surround me; As a means to continue writing, even if the subject matter varies and is often fuzzy logic. A result of my sporadic writing attempts has been a greater respect for those sites and authors, like Digital Web, who pursue a refined goal with more structured writing. Not sure how to conclude this thought, so I’ll just leave it hanging here with the hope of returning with some brighter conclusion.
Design, living, randomness
blogs, coffee, reflection, twitter sucks
