via Cool Infographics

Here’s the link to the actual, legible PDF on CMO.com.  It’s definitely worth a read, even as a refresher, but you might pull some insight out, too.

via Social Fish

A big THANKS to the awesome crew over at Pinball Publishing out in PDX for working with us on this project and taking these pictures for us.  Here’s what the regular Storyboard Book looks like, in case you’re new to the game.

You can buy these Disney Brothers Storyboard Books at the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio of San Francisco.

Like these?  More to be found on my wonderful, if one dimensional, Flickr page.

My new summer romance, the Sol Goldman Pool in Red Hook.

you’re still the bestest. love you lots.

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And lest you think that all the ultra big rigs are Japanese…. here’s a dose of Freedom for ya.

Check out the full website: Ultra Big Rigs of the World – they are awesome.

In the meantime, here is this weeks homework.

We had to redesign a 9×4 flier for a cheesy NYC tourist attraction.  We chose blindly from a batch the teacher had and I chose the NY Skyride, which is apparently a virtual aerial tour of NYC that is on the second floor of the Empire State Building.  Who knew?

The flier was terrible and cheesy and looks like I could have made it in MS Paint back in the 12th grade.  I redid this one showing just the front of the flier and what the users of the Ny Skyride would have in store for them.

Here is the link to the NY Skyride website — you can kind of see what I am talking about!

skyride.com

We Choose the Moon is one of the finalists in the 2010 Kelly Awards for Outstanding Magazine Ads and I do have to say that it is intriguing.  Maybe the most intriguing out of all of the finalists — this is the one ad that actually made me want to follow through and do as the ad suggests.  I went to the site for the 40th Anniversary of the moon landing, which also another great design — you should check it out — wechoosethemoon.org.

Check out the other finalists here: Kelly Awards

Went to this photography exhibit opening last night, and it rocked my world.  It was called “Moments Like This Never Last” and the photographer is Wyatt Neumann.  He chose to document the everyday life experiences he had so that he could remember the color, warmth, and people he shares his life with.  The exhibit was touching, funny, badass and, above all, inspirational.  I haven’t been taking as many pictures as I used to and I’m not sure why.  I guess I feel like my life hasn’t been all too interesting lately, but sometimes I guess you need to remember that often the good stuff is the sum of a lot of little moments that pass by quickly and if you don’t stop to smell the roses (or take a shot to remember) then you’re not really living life.  Right?

Continuing on a bit with my Greek pride from yesterday, I saw these amazing renditions of national flags done up in culturally respresentative foods and they made me happy.  Apparently they were put together for the Sydney International Food Festival.  Brilliant concept!!

Can you guess which countries these food flags represent?  Try hard.

Check out more here at the original post on WildAmmo.com.

(via @SmashingMag)

This Sunday is Greek Easter (and happens to be regular Easter, too) and we are hosting a slightly smaller version of our yearly Greek Easter (Greekster?) dinner party.  As usual, I am stoked to get out the Badavas/Lianides family recipes and have a great reason to head over to the Greek neighborhood of Astoria to do some shopping!

This year may prove to be the year that I actually get the traditional Greek Easter Red Eggs right!  The past few years have been plagued with light pink, hot pink (both from red dye packets), and reddish brown (red onion skins) eggs — but never truly the reds that my YiaYia always managed to pull off with little difficulty.   I realized too late into the game last year that the homemade egg dye was supposed to be made with YELLOW onion skins, not RED, and ended up pretty close to the mark, but with a slightly brownish tint.  This year I am quite determined to get the perfect red eggs, and have the giant bag of yellow onions at the ready!

And then of course, once you have the red eggs, you have the best part of Greek Easter, the part that all of our guests eagerly await, competition singing through their veins — the Greek Easter Egg Battle!!  WHO’S EGG WILL REIGN SUPREME??

Wish me luck!

Here’s a good recipe if you feel like giving it a whirl.

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Once again Courtney over at design work life totally nails it in praising this incredible hotel branding job done by Seattle design shop Urban Influence.  WILL YOU LOOK AT THOSE CUPS!??  They are perfection.  The logo itself, the color selection, the overall feel of the site and the brand is just divine, and as clear as they come.  This is definitely going up on my inspiration board.

This almost-too-amazing-to-be-real shot is from the streets of Tokyo, in the Nakameguro district, and the Sakura (cherry blossom) trees are in full bloom.  Although I don’t have a plane ticket to Tokyo in my hand, I luckily do live 1.5 blocks away from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden where the cherry blossoms are starting to gear up and will be hitting their stride starting next week.  Somehow last year I neglected to actually get into the Gardens themselves to witness the insanity, but this year it’s number 1 with a bullet on my list of must do’s in April.

1. See the Cherry Blossoms in Botanic Garden

2. Get a job.

At least I’ve got my priorities straight!

(thanks to Kinfolk on Hypebeast for the Sakura shot)

Investigation of form is a phrase that my graphic design teacher throws around when discussing out of the ordinary design for fairly standard objects — and this spinning wheel wedding invitation fits that bill to a T.  I love the idea of this, and see so many possibilities inherent in this particular incarnation.

ANNNND, seeing as my brother-in-law just got engaged to his kick-ass girlfriend last night (woop woop!), I see a lot of opportunity for design brainstorming and harassment of the happy, wedding-planning couple in the future.

(via Unstitched)