Design that's so underground

Look closely next time you are riding the tube to see if you can spot any of these:

David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition

Last Friday, TDSF spent the afternoon at the de Young museum viewing David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition, the first comprehensive survey of Hockney’s 21^st century work.

First noted as a painter under the British pop art scene, Hockney sustained his fame through his oversize murals of the English countryside. Many of these were on display at the de Young, usually with just one mural taking up an entire interior wall. Hockney’s use of scale, color, and multiple perspectives gave typical landscape scenes a greater sense of grandeur and excitement. Experiments with other media were also on display, including Hockney’s work with iPad paintings and multi-frame “patchworks” of video. A corner of the exhibit was dedicated to showing the end-to-end process of his iPad paintings, giving the unique experience of being able to watch his images quickly build again and again.

Shout-out to Joanne for the green light on the tour!

photo courtesy of Dave-Pat's excursion to the de Young tower! (Dave- facebook photos are fair game, no?)

http://www.hockneypictures.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/arts/design/recent-david-hockney-work-at-the-de-young-in-san-francisco.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1390398236-n71KgxdLNBve4nII82Mdqg

MC

Thoughts that have been bottling up inside

Tuborg Design Manager, Sofie Moller (TD alum), and Design Director, Jessica Robinson, explain the Tuborg redesign.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAVvhPnVI9g

CG

Upscale Alcohol Packages using Sustainable Packaging Practices

Veuve Clicquot 
A 100 percent secondary pack for transportation made of potato starch.(Promo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3xe9KyzI0s)

Ippon Matsu beer 
A swing-top bottle aimed at raising funds for the reconstruction of post 2011 tsunami Japan. All profits from the sale of the beer go back into reconstruction efforts in Japan.

Hauswine
A boxed wine that eliminates the use of heavy and energy intensive glass and breaks from cliché wine imagery.

Jm

Santa Brand Guidelines

http://www.quietroom.co.uk/santa_brandbook/one

Awesome Santa brand guidelines. Andy found this, but he was to conflicted to blog it since he hates Santa but love brand guidelines.

BL

On this Day, (Last Friday) December 6

2011: Six Roseville, MN women accused a massage therapist of sexual touching.

2013: Liisa told me to put a teddy bear in Craig's birthday post.

2013: We celebrated Craig's birthday!

CG

TDSF spent a wintry lunch break at fuseproject, a local product design firm, gaining insight into their multi-disciplinary processes and viewing their brand-new studio space.

Curt Collinsworth and Logan Ray were on hand to walk us through their successful relationship with Jawbone, their recent overhaul of the Nivea brandmark and bottle design, and talked briefly of their soon-to-debut Public Office Landscape collaboration with Herman Miller, which they've been testing within their own studio since moving in during the Spring.

fuseproject offers a wide range of services under one roof, and their ability to craft an entire brand story holistically shows through in their work. A successful process to note as TD grows!

      

The Sayl chairs were used in the Hunger Games! And we sat on them.

MC

On this Day, December 3

1977: The original "Star Wars" was released in theaters.

2009: "Fifty Shades of Gray" became the top-selling Kindle book of all time.

2013: We celebrated Melissa's birthday!

CG

On this Day, (Yesterday) November 21

1985: Auburn's Southeastern Raptor Center released two hawks.

2012: Courtney Stodden opens up on social media about her boob job.

2013: We celebrated Mike's birthday!

CG

Ben Kwok

I know this packaging has been around for a bit but I don't think the illustrator hasn't been posted too much. His work is pretty interesting and definitely unusual for consumer packaging.

Well worth checking him out. Especially if you're looking to get a new tattoo.

JJ

http://www.bioworkz.com/

On this Day, November 13

1969: Gerard Butler was born.

2011: The Natural Olympia Bodybuilding Competition was held. Entrants received free tanning coupons from Sunsation Tanning.

2013: We celebrated Josh's birthday!

CG

On this Day, November 12

1985: The villain, Modulok, tried to join Skeletor's gang on a new episode of "He-man and the Masters of the Universe."

2010: The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association reported a study that cats falling from as high as 32 stories have a 90% survival rate.

2013: We celebrated Short Brian's birthday!

CG

creative catharsis

Ireland's creative community got together to release a lot of pent up anger and sadness through the medium of the A3 poster, all in aid of Temple Street Children's Hospital. 

Ad creatives, designers, animators, directors, illustrators and more took time out to dress up their favourite worst feedback from clients, transforming quotes that would normally give you a twitch, into a diverse collection of posters. 

 
http://sharpsuits.net/

On This Day, (yesterday) October 15

1959: TV Chef Emeril Lagasse was born.

2009: Falcon Heene, known later as "Balloon Boy," vomited on the Today Show while his family was being interviewed.

2013: We celebrate Wyeth's birthday!

SB

On This Day, (2 weeks ago) October 4

1923: Actor Charlton Heston was born.

1957: Leave It To Beaver premiered on CBS.

2013: We celebrated Jessica's birthday!

SB