Maybe this is old news if your in the “know”, but I stumbled upon this site discussing some really interesting topics and products. Interesting stuff.

Interesting piece called Styrofoam Hummer highlighting waste and consumption in North American culture. The piece is made from styrofoam recycled from the dump.

Interesting new campaign for Sony created by Juan Cabral who also if you remember did the really awesome Sony Bravia Plasticine balls advert. Really love the way the new campaign is shot and the concept is interesting to boot.

Alright New York Huggers. If any of you are around on November 5th between 6 ñ 8 PM and happen to be in New York City this event looks interesting to attend. Wish I was in the big apple the first for this event. If anyone goes please let me know how it is.

Picked up an interesting book. Haven’t read it in depth yet, but will post a full report when I’m finished. In the meantime a brief description: ” Austin Howe is a creative director, writer, advocate, and cheerleader for design-but not a designer. He believes ìin the wonder and exuberance of someone who gets paid-by clients to do what he loves.î Howe places immense value on curiosity and passion to help designers develop a point of view, a strong voice. He explores the creative process and conceptualization, and delves into what to do when inspiration is lacking. If thereís a villain in these elegant, incisive, amusing, and inspiring essays, itís ad agencies and marketing directors, but even villains serve a purpose and illustrate the strength of graphic design ìas a system, as a way of thinking, as almost a life style.î Howe believes that advertising and design must merge, but merge with design in the leadership role. He says that designers should create for clients and not in the hope of winning awards. He believes designers should swear ìa 10-year commitment to make everything we do for every client a gift.î If this sounds like the designer is the clientís factotum, not so. Howe also argues in favor of offering clients a single solution and being willing to defend a great design. Organized not only by topic, but also by how long it will take the average reader to complete each chapter, Designers Donít Read is intended to function like a ìdaily devotionalî for designers and busy professionals involved in branded communications at all levels. Begun as a series of weekly essays sent every Monday morning to top graphic designers,Designers Donít Read quickly developed a passionate and widespread following. With the approximate time each chapter might take to read, Designers Donít Readís delight and provocation can be fit into the niches in the life of a time-challenged designer.”

A good friend of mine turned me onto this photographers work. His name is Bae Bien-U and his images are for lack of a better word, stunning. He has a book published and I highly recommend if you like what you see that you pick up the book to add to your collection. Online images don’t do his work justice, because the printing quality of the book is really wonderful; dark darks, beautiful desaturated colors, texture and sharp images. You can pick up the book at Amazon or your local bookstore. Enjoy.

Interesting speech over at TED talks with Stefan Sagmeister.

I don’t know about you, but I’m always scared to upgrade my OS X for fear of incompadibility with Adobe Products. Below are links to CS3 known issues. Link to all CS3 application issues. Link to CS3 and CS4 Photoshop issues.

We’ve seen this “glitch/error” theme on earlier posts on GraphicHug (Buamai iPhone App), but thought I’d share this visually interesting book made by a collection of designers. There are some interesting forms and colors contained within the book. “This book presents a really colorful and vibrant variety of unusual visual glitch artwork from some very talented people.”

Enjoy.

I came across this interview recently of Paul Rand. There are some interesting thoughts Paul Rand has to say over the course of this interview. Specifically some issues that I’ve been thinking of recently, doing fashionable or trendy work for the sake of doing visually “cool” work without any form of communication. Moreover having esthetics and to consider content first and formost when you design. I’ve also found another interview of Steve Jobs speaking about Paul Rand here. Please disregard the late 80s set design in the interview. :) You can see more work by Paul Rand here.