Archive for November, 2008

So here I am writing my marketing paper and I come across this word in an article i found in the NY times. This word really made me feel like there is a silver lining to every thing and that people will continue to make up silly things even in the roughest of times.
Recessionista. (Its [...]


Here we have another screen printing post, this time on T shirts. Tim and I deceided to print a shirt and film it for our video class and doument the process from pattern making to printing. I created this pattern based on some concept packaging I did last year. We thought it would be pretty [...]


Excuse us for our lack of posts. We are on the verge of exploding. 

But we still love you,
 
Blaahgers.


non-graffiti

19Nov08

Posted by: Raine
Here’s another thing I’m going to do to Vancouver while in my ninja outfit… reverse graffiti! This concept fascinates me. Partially because it looks so stunning but mostly I think because it makes you realise how much grit and grime is coated over cities. But I love that there are people out there [...]


Posted by: Raine
Check out these cool storm drains! I wish we had stuff like this in Vancouver. It would make our frequent rainy days a little more tolerable. The ‘famous artist’ drains made me laugh, too. And I didn’t add it as a pic below, because I’m sure you’ve all seen it already, but the [...]


I hope you read that in a robot voice. If not, read it over. We love you but we want your input.
Cheers,
GDMA 4th years


Posted by: Nae
Just in case the four of us disappear because crunch time is upon us, I thought I would mention that we love you but we love you even more when you love Blaahg.
While we remain scarce for a while, visit I love you but for beautiful illustrations and funny quotes from Alex Holder [...]


Posted by: Raine
The other day I looked out my window and saw this:

I have therefore concluded that nature is brilliant and the best designer out there.
Ps. sorry for the not so awesome pic. I snapped it through my window.


Posted by: Raine
When Shinead posted the flipbook music video, it reminded me of a music video I once saw that uses a similar process – essentially flipping through a bunch of polaroid photos.
Name of artist: Sia – Name of song: Breathe Me.
UPDATE: so apparently the relatively good quality video on youtube doesn’t allow embedding. rather [...]


Flippin’

13Nov08

Posted by: Nae, via Changethethought
Kraak & Smaak, a DJ group out of Holland have a dope video for Squeeze Me. Are you ready….ok. Flipbooks. FLIPBOOKS?! It truly is amazing, the video I mean… and it came at a good time too since the GDMA folk have some serious completing-video-projects on our agendas. Enjoy!
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