Blickfang Vienna 2008 – an international design, furniture & fashion event – had many highlights this year with the Sydney Corner leading the way.
The Australian brands selected represent the diverse spectrum of innovative design in Australian from fashionable, eco-friendly Envirosax bags to award winning NEOZ lamps. Other participants included Djaafar, Steven Harkin, F!NK & Co., Husque, Marc Pascal, Third Drawer Down, Zaishu and Luisa Clare.
Shout out to Chloe!
posted by Oberholtzer Creative Staff at 8:36 am
Blog Action Day was a huge success with a total of 13,498,280 viewers overall. Visual Culture contributed 5 posts in the quest to raise awareness of global poverty. To learn more about last week’s event click here.
We’ve included our salute to Blog Action Day below:
Wangari Maathai on Poverty
Advocates for the Impoverished
Statistics on Global Poverty
Extremely Worthy Goals
A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Words
posted by Oberholtzer Creative Staff at 6:10 pm
Pepsi is redesigning it’s circular logo to resemble a smirk. According to Advertising Age:
The unofficial logo will now loosely form a series of smiles. A “smile” will characterize brand Pepsi, while a “grin” is used for Diet Pepsi and a “laugh” is used for Pepsi Max.
PepsiCo today said it will pour some $1.2 billion over three years into a push that will include sweeping changes to its brands, including what Chairman-CEO Indra Nooyi characterized as a revamp of “every aspect of the brand proposition for our key [carbonated soft drink] brands. How they look, how they’re packaged, how they will be merchandised on the shelves, and how they connect with consumers.” (more…)
posted by Oberholtzer Creative Staff at 1:25 pm
Well done poster series by Graphic Designer Toby Ng that’s well worth acknowledging. The series takes a simplified look at the world’s statistics with the use of clear iconic visuals.
posted by Oberholtzer Creative Staff at 10:25 am
To view at larger size click here.
posted by Oberholtzer Creative Staff at 10:20 am
Coöp is a collective design agency that’s consistently produced quality work through the years. Check out their new look right here.
posted by Oberholtzer Creative Staff at 9:30 am
If you haven’t caught wind of these already, Design for Obama has a great line of election posters. Check them out on the other side… (more…)
posted by Oberholtzer Creative Staff at 8:54 am
The 10th International Mexico Poster Biennial is set to begin on October 27th in Mexico City. The conference will take place in Xalapa, Veracruz. Click here for more info on the Biennial.
via Icograda:
posted by Oberholtzer Creative Staff at 9:04 pm
Designed by Derrik Wang, this particular piggy bank has an interesting way to keep one from dipping into one’s savings all willy-nilly. If the bank is broken open, gross little pig innards come flying out.
posted by Oberholtzer Creative Staff at 8:50 pm
Here’s an artsy bar code exploration we rather like. (more…)
posted by Oberholtzer Creative Staff at 8:30 pm
