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Color Inspiration

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:32:36 +0000

COLOURlovers is a great resource for a quick hit of color inspiration. I came across the site while searching for 1940s era color palettes (not the one shown).

Described as a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles.

Another nice resource I found on my IPhone is the free Sherwin Williams ColorSnap iPhone App.

I love the feature of snapping a photo of a something and creating a custom palette of complementary Sherwin Williams colors.

Marland Lottery

Alexey — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:09:05 +0000

Here is a Maryland Lottery commercial for Medal Madness that does a spoof on the “kiss and cry” moment of Olympic figure skaters. I designed the Olympic style graphics on the ice rink barrier and the medal moment backdrop. The graphic was printed on multiple small panels that had to match up, repeat and look like one large fluid pattern. It’s no Vancouver graphic identity, but serves its purpose. And of course I didn’t want to upstage the actor.

Content is King

Alexey — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:08:14 +0000

The 555 KUBIK is a fresh approach to architectural facade projections. A great combination of contextual relevancy and artistic abstraction.

A collaboration of many including urbanscreen.com and Daniel Rossa, and located at the Hamburger Kunsthalle on O. M. Ungers’ Gallery of Contemporary Art.

Watch the video…

Art Basel vs. Frieze Art Fair

Alexey — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:39:16 +0000

I ventured down to check out Art Basel | 08 after last being there in 06. The exhibits were great. Some better than others. Well, anything and everything could have been seen on the exhibit walls, or floors, of the convention center, but after only a few hours I was dizzy, confused and had a headache. Half the problem was that I didn’t know where I was or where I had been. A simple color coded wayfinding system would have helped like the one above at the Frieze Art Fair in London done by GTF. Either way Art Basel is always inspiring!