GOOD Transparency Food: Waste, Not Want Not
Good morning everyone, hope you enjoyed the holiday! After a long weekend of delicious food I ran across a video put out by GOOD and Mark Owens that seemed an appropriate followup to the festivities. It is a simple, well designed video with a clear message I think you’ll enjoy.
Happy Turkey Day!
Happy Thanksgiving loyal OE followers! As a Thanksgiving Freebie we wanted to offer something you can use if you find yourself in a dinnertime pinch this holiday. Here are two recipe cards containing recipes for pumpkin and apple pie on one side and a list of ingredient substitutions on the back side. Simply print the card on [...]
Wayzgoose
That’s right, Wayzgoose, not to be confused with WYSIWYG. It is actually a gathering happening this coming weekend at the Hamilton Wood Type museum in Wisconsin. It comes from a printer’s dinner given by a master printer to his workmen at the end of summer according to Wikipedia. It also means stubble goose (harvest goose) [...]
Living Climate Change with Ideo
We love following the creative work of Ideo and were excited to learn about the mission behind their Living Climate Change project. On their project page they say: Living Climate Change is a devoted space for the most defining design challenge of our time. It’s also a place to support fresh thinking and share provocative [...]
Freebie Friday
Hungry? These little monsters can’t wait to gobble up some turkey grub soon. Download over 10 Orange Element Monster photoshop brushes. Download here Simply drag the .abr file into your Photoshop > Presets > Brushes and then ‘Load’ the brushes from your palette or restart photoshop.
The Toyota Flower
Car companies today are doing more than ever to create more energy-efficient cars, cars that get better gas mileage, and cars that rely on emerging technologies like fuel cells, hydrogen, and electric motors. It’s very exciting–and Toyota has taken innovation to a whole new level and decided to make a great effort in reducing CO2 [...]
365 days with Lester Spence
Last week I met Political Scientist and Johns Hopkins Professor, Lester Spence, a very energetic and enthusiastic individual who introduced me to a photography project he has been working on for the past 122 days. He says he is not a photographer but for his 40th year he wanted to take one photo of himself [...]
Tim Brown on the shift to Design Thinking
Thank you, to all great designers, for again making and thinking “big” design. Tim’s presentation is well worth 15+ minutes of your time.
1 of 1500
“1 0f 1500″ is a 10-Year retrospective book highlighting the collaboration between JDK (Jager Di Paola Kemp) Design, Higher Ground, and the Iskra Print Collective. It showcases over 120 silk-screened music posters and features comments by the designers and the bands themselves. The cover is silkscreened and hand-numbered out of 1500 copies (hence the title [...]
20 year anniversary of the Berlin Wall
Today marks the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall—uniting East and West Germany for the first time since 1961. Do you remember where you were? Below are several images of what has become know as The Berlin Wall East Side Gallery. It is a stretch of the wall near the center of Berlin [...]
Freebie Friday: 5 Secrets to Problem Solving
Here’s a wallpaper to use as a reminder of Michael Bierut’s 5 Secrets to Problem Solving, featured in EJ’s blog post yesterday, which you can read here. Click a link below to download! 1024×768 (best for standard) 1680×1050 (best for widescreen) Andy www.orange-element.com
Art Chantry says “Take a Nap!”
Jumping right on the heels of yesterday’s post about problem solving I wanted to share some design advice I received from punk designer Art Chantry a few years ago. When I was in school I had the opportunity to participate in a visiting designers workshop that was run by a selection of noteworthy designers with [...]
Michael Bierut: 5 Secrets to Problem Solving
How does the designer solve a problem? Michael Bierut of Pentagam says that he doesn’t consider himself creative but he is someone who people come to for solutions to problems. He works out these problems in his notebooks, which are filled not with paintings, or cartoons but problem notes, requirements and free-flowing ideas. After 86 notebooks [...]
TEDx comes to Baltimore
If you’ve even be half way awake in the last year, you’ve probably noticed a flurry of new ideas being generated, discussed and shared. Regardless of the economic climate, or maybe because of it (thoughts?), it is more apparent than ever that we as a culture have turned a corner. The era of idea sharing [...]
Stages 09: Design for Cause
STAGES is a global art exhibition to raise funds and awareness for the fight against cancer. It is a partnership between Lance Armstrong and Nike, and all of the work in the show is available for purchase with proceeds directly benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation. STAGES features work by Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha, [...]
Corporate Social Responsibility
We’ve started design development for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs for two of our clients. We’re currently underway with vision mapping, briefs and timelines. What we’re finding most enjoyable about this process includes the importance placed (and needed) in designing a program and implementation strategy. Creating benchmarks and empowerment initiatives, as part of a program, [...]
