Visual Culture

Moxie Sozo, the organizer of the 2005 Hurricane Poster Project has teamed up with Josh Higgings to produce a call for entries exhibition to benefit the victims of the earthquake that hit Haiti a few weeks ago. For more info go here.

Kian, an agency out of Russia developed an interesting solution to packaging Soy Milk. For more milk packaging concepts peak below: (more…)

The Louis Vuitton shoulder bag that is being described as utilitarian has an obscene price tag of $1960.00 a piece. The only place these bags belong is the garbage.

Design students of professor Sylvain Allard have developed an amusing, empathetic series of tissue packaging explorations, much like the ones pictured above by student Corinne Pant. Head over to UQAM for the full series.

Shepard Fairey, in collaboration with Studio One’s Cleon Peterson Casey Ryder, have designed this print for Artists For Peace and Justice. Sales start February 6th at Obey Giant with all proceeds of the sale of the print going to Haiti.

We recently received a copy of the 2010 Think Green Calendar by EIGA, a design firm out of Germany. The calendar shows contemporary “Eco-typography” and special “green works” of designers from various disciplines worldwide. “Think Green!” creates a stimulating visual inventory of the fusion of ecology and design. For more on the Think Green Calendar you know what to do.

Image by David Oberholtzer:

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Cruz Roja - Vagabundo from Javier Iñiguez de Onzoño on Vimeo.

This campaign by 4 students from the Miami Ad School in Madrid is worth a gander:

Every time we go to museums, we spend hours in front of paintings. Not just because of what is on the canvass, but also because of what is behind them.

Thanks for sharing Anaís:)

GOOD magazine, has teamed up with PRE and Studio X to launch a design competition that seeks to rebuild Haiti. The call for entries asks creatives to come up with strategic, organizational, institutional, and/or architectural solutions to assist Haiti in their recovery efforts.

The winner of this month’s competition will receive half of the pooled entry fees, while the remaining half of the entry fees will be donated to the Haitian relief effort. Submit your ideas here.

Hmmm… We’re not so sure about these peculiar mitts…

You heard it.

“Sometimes you have to make it really cool.”

Project M is now accepting applications for its next session in Hilo Hawaii. Deadline for submissions are February 26th. Find out more here.