I always had a hard time explaining to my mother what it is that I did all day as a graphic designer… This is a great little video by DKNG studio on the process of creating a poster which from start to finish took about 40 hours. Enjoy!

The Black Keys – Poster Process from DKNG Studios on Vimeo.

Good design or just sex appeal? I’m not sure if I agree with using sex to sell ads but it’s been working since the beginning of time… and advertising like this still works otherwise no one would keep doing it. With everything around us these days though, does this really hold any shock value anymore?
Great comments and discussion on this on the imprint magazine site here.

Here’s a great little video to watch. An example of how you need to have multiple ways to advertise to your customers these days. Having an ad just on tv will not get the reach you need. Read Google’s full article on this here:

google-cpg.blogspot.com

New Media Manitoba is a great Winnipeg based company that spreads information and creates educational experiences for creative types who are interested in new media and technology. If you’re someone that will help do great things for Manitoba New Media Businesses – Apply!

To read all the job info please visit NMM’s website here!

A Digital Media Design student fundraiser is coming up soon!
What is this about? Check out some speakers, and spread great ideas and develop relationships among designers and entrepreneurs. The smartest thinkers and greatest visionaries will be inspired and have the opportunity to inspire others.
View full details and register at www.designingtomorrow.ca

Doowah is changing its web work and moving to WordPress and looking for someone to do freelance web work for them.
They are interested in talking to people, although they must be aware that this is freelance work and Doowah often work under tight deadlines. They can see resumes, but they’d really like to see working sites.

If anyone is interested please contact me (ildyck@rrc.mb.ca) directly and I will pass you on to Steven.

Danny Yount on Designing Film and TV Title Sequences, a great 45 minute video discussing production and design of title sequences with examples such as 6 feet under, kiss kiss bang bang and iron man…
See fora.tv for the full program.

Comparing Australia and America

Demo Reel

Personal Influences

‘Six Feet Under’: From Storyboard to Animatic

The Final Version

‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’

‘The Invasion’: Moving into 3D

The Final Versions

‘Fred Claus’

‘The Reaping’

‘RocknRolla’

‘Iron Man’: Going Retro

Danny Yount on Designing Film and TV Title Sequences from Australian Broadcasting Corporation on FORA.tv

A great article here from Ultranoir on the basics of how Google Panda will be changing the searchability of web sites and why.
How you can use a few basic rules to make sure your site still gets a high search ranking… Read the full article on their site www.ultranoir.com.

THE PRINCIPLES BEHIND PANDA

Nearly 12% of searches will be affected by the introduction of this new algorithm, but what will be the impact? Quite simply some sites will be taken off the list of results, which will lower their ranking. This will also lead to more pertinent sites appearing on the same results lists

For my students learning web, this site has great HTML and CSS tutorials with visuals to take you through each bit. These are amazing online tutorials for anyone just stepping into learning the basics of HTML and CSS!

Use @font-face to add symbols or icons to your web fonts. This font uses all frequently used icons and symbols.
Enjoy!

@font-face{
font-family: ‘WebSymbolsRegular’;
src: url(‘/fonts/websymbols-regular-webfont.eot’);
src: url(‘/fonts/websymbols-regular-webfont.eot?#iefix’) format(‘embedded-opentype’),
url(‘/fonts/websymbols-regular-webfont.woff’) format(‘woff’),
url(‘/fonts/websymbols-regular-webfont.ttf’) format(‘truetype’),
url(‘/fonts/websymbols-regular-webfont.svg#WebSymbolsRegular’) format(‘svg’);
}

Grab the typeface and more info on the site here: