Some Curb Appeal for Our Corner of Fells
If you’ve driven by our office in the past few months you may have noticed some changes happening to our storefront. This summer we put our intern, Irene, in charge of wrangling vendors and measuring dimensions to get the project underway. Here is a sneak peak at the process. Left: The original storefront… and even on [...]
Something Real in Times of Hunches
Through these economic times, one trend in advertising that we have seen surface is the attempt to communicate a message of either support, “we’re there with you”, or longevity, “we’re not going anywhere”. We saw some of these ads surface after last year’s super bowl such as Saturn’s Total Confidence Ads. News stories point to a nearing [...]
Trip to Globe Printing
Remember those sweet screenprinted pinball posters we gave away last year for the five year party? Ever since having them printed we have promised ourselves a trip to see where the magic takes place at Globe printing and last week we finally got the chance to go behind the scenes and experience the hands on [...]
Freebie Friday Returns!
It has been a while since our last freebie friday but a few weeks ago our intern Irene had some fun with type and put together this nice composition of Caslon ornaments to liven up our desktops. Happy Friday, enjoy! 1024×768 (best for standard) 1680×1050 (best for widescreen) — EJ Hall www.orange-element.com
One month on, one month off
In case you read the May Local Challenge piece, please see below if you are curious how the experiment panned out: Week One: Lesson learned—Hunger $90 and a few dinners later is all we walked away with the first week from our local farmers’ market. We definitely learned that you have to plan ahead, look [...]
Welcome Pete!
There’s another new face joining Orange Element this summer so we’d like to take the chance to welcome Pete Owen to the team. Pete comes to us as a Senior student from MICA studying graphic design and his talents have already shown through on several projects we’ve tossed his way. We first learned about Pete when [...]
Visit Mexico Campaign
Minister of Tourism, Rodolfo Elizondo of CPTM (Consejo de Promocion Turistica de Mexico) has launched a multi-million dollar campaign to promote tourism back to Mexico. It is a massive campaign that involves several famous Mexican actors and actresses as spokespersons for Mexico. Comparable to the “visit California” Campaign we’ve been seeing on tv. This new Mexican tourism campaign is interesting because [...]
Goodbye Rabbit Ears
As today marks the official switch from analog to digital broadcasting, I figured a quick post of some of the old TVs we wont be seeing any more seemed fitting. From here on out things are looking flat screened, high contrasted, and “32, no 52, oh may as well go for the 72 inch!” Times are [...]
Engrave Your Book
We recently discovered a really cool website called Engrave Your Book. Engrave Your Book curates an artist series of engraved leather covers for Moleskine® notebooks, and you can even get custom covers engraved for yourself or your company! There are some really cool designs available for purchase, including the one above by Option-G. Take a [...]
Welcome Irene
Hello out there, happy June! It has been a while since our last oed update post but alot of exciting things have been going on at orange element. One highlight is that we would like officially welcome Irene Carcache as our first summer intern. Irene comes to us as a Senior graphic design student with a strong [...]
Pop-up Video
Who said pop-up books were for children? Check out this video showcasing Marion Bataille’s brilliantly done ABC3D pop-up book. Marion is a graphic artist and illustrator living in France. Debuting in October of 2008, ABC3D is her first book published in the UK. You can find it online and at Target. While the video is [...]
Compostmodern # 4
Last Thursday was the final night of four compostmodern meet-ups through the Baltimore AIGA. The final video for discussion was of Nathan Shedroff who addressed a few key strategies for becoming a more sustainable designer. Here is a brief sum up of some of the biggest points to consider for your next design project: 1. [...]
Maryland Film Fest Week
The filmmakers are coming! In just a few days, May 7-10 to be exact, Orange Element will be attending the 11th Annual Maryland Film Festival. In celebration, we will be giving away 2 limited-edition silkscreen posters designed by OE and printed by VGKids. The first national or international reader to respond will be mailed a [...]
It’s Friday. Enjoy and relax.
Combining two completely unrelated objects, in this case a plant and a chair, can provide a stunning, unexpected new design. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec teamed up with Vitra to create the “Vegetal”. Watch this video and enjoy! ande www.orange-element.com
Compostmodern Convergence #3
I really can’t say enough about Emily Pilloton. We watched a 30-minute speech given by the 27-year-old last week at AIGA’s Compostmodern gathering. I was blown away. She is clear, driven and above all else, carries a humble disposition about her position in the world. She believes the more the merrier when it comes to [...]
The May Local Challenge
A few weeks ago, my husband Dan and I were driving down Harford Road discussing buying our food through local channels. It led to the idea of challenging ourselves for one full month to buy nothing but locally (or regionally) produced food. We would set a budget and see how well we could stick to [...]
Compostmodern Convergence #2
Happy Earth Day. I had the privilege of attending AIGA’S second of four sessions geared toward the 2009 Compostmodern Workshop in SanFran. If last week was about scale, this week was definately about statistics. We watched two videos, one from Michel Gelobeter and the other from Saul Griffith. You might know of Saul through wattzon.com. [...]
Compostmodern Convergence #1
Last night I participated in the first of a 4 session meetup through AIGA to discuss the role of the designer in sustainability. The discussion was based around a serious of videos from the 2009 Compostmodern Workshop in San Francisco and the focus of last night’s discussion was scale. To start off the evening we [...]
The Maryland Film Festival : Inspired Magazine
The Maryland Film Festival has just been featured by Inspired Magazine as having one of the 33 most inspirational Twitter backgrounds (@MdFilmFestival). Thanks Inspired! Be sure to keep an eye out for all of the other materials we have designed for the Festival around town…building banners, posters, bus shelters, stickers, and yard signs have been [...]
Orange Element Website Launch
We’re live! That’s right, Orange Element has launched a redesign of www.orange-element.com. The new site offers a low-fi, visual snapshot of OE, partners and friends. The launch would not have been possible without the collaboration and partnership with the team over at Fastspot. Fastspot was able to take the idea and enhance it by building [...]
Hand Painted Type
A little bit Rauschenberg, a little bit Basquiat, a little bit Jasper Johns, and a whole lot of talent. Peter Tunney, a New York artist, paints large scale type by hand. Layering paint and found objects, all come with a simple and direct message. His latest book can be found on lulu.com. Ande www.orange-element.com
Pentagram Papers 39
If you happen to be in Austin, Texas tomorrow night around 7 p.m., you would be one fortunate person to attend the Pentagram launch party for Papers 39. The Pentagram Papers are always inspirational for designers, but this edition, created by DJ Stout, delivers a strong message that everyone can benefit from—awareness of the homeless [...]
Why just use Helvetica?
We ran across a typography site today that could have easily occupied our entire evening. Handmadefont.com is an Estonia based design company that specializes in exactly what their name implies: making fonts by hand! They make fonts from grass, wood, wire, water, dust, donuts, petals and the list goes on. You name the material and [...]
Strathmore Paper Redesign
Strathmore Paper has just undergone a brand refresh by Pentagram and illustrator Marian Bantjes. Their task was to reinterpret Strathmore’s “thistle” symbol and apply it across all of their materials. Marian Bantjes, known for her highly-detailed calligraphic illustration style, applied her design to a pattern that appears all over Strathmore’s new paper reams. Elegant and striking [...]
