Nonsek Machine
Like cool t-shirts? Nonsek Machine is a fun and interactive way to create your own custom one-of-a-kind t-shirts based on art from popular artists and designers, such as Jesse Ledoux, Aesthetic Apparatus, Art Chantry, and more. Load an artist’s channel, select your shirt color, and then create your own re-mixes of their illustrations! This is [...]
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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Freebie (creepy-crawly) Friday
Don’t let is sneak up on you… Halloween that is. Since the holiday is just around the corner, our newest intern Nicolette has designed a Halloween freebie wallpaper that might make some readers’ skin crawl. Nice work Nicolette and happy Halloween everyone! 1024×768 (best for standard) 1680×1050 (best for widescreen) —EJ www.orange-element.com
Hexchange
Don’t miss Jasmine Sharp’s latest work at the upcoming Hexagon show. (She also designed the above promotional graphic!) October 10 – November 6, 2009: The Hexagon presents: Hexchange, an emerging artist printmaking portfolio with over 40 participants nationwide. Following the exhibition, Hexchange will become a part of the permanent collections at the International Printing Museum [...]
New Work: Seeds of Genius
Hot off the press! We just received the new company overview brochure for Seeds of Genius. The woman-owned IT solutions company, based in Columbia, MD, approached us with the goal to create an informative brochure that captured their human side. In a sea of acronyms, their name alone stands out among IT companies. But how do [...]
Origami with a Twist
Nicolas Terry is a psychotherapist by trade, but an origami master by craft. The Frenchman has a slight twist on constructing traditional origami. Instead of using text or cover weight sheets, he takes metal-coated paper and adds an outside layer of tissue paper to both sides. After constructing new, free-form shapes, Terry analyzes deconstructed versions [...]
Freebie Friday
This week’s Freebie Friday comes from the photos I took at Globe. Enjoy and have a great weekend! Click a link below for a downloadable image of the desktop wallpaper: 1024×768 Standard 1680×1050 Widescreen Irene
