On Design

Of Occupy Wall Street, Art and Design

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The top news for the past cou­ple of days has been Steve Jobs’ pass­ing away, and the #Occu­py­Wall­Street move­ment. The move­ment started Sep­tem­ber 17th and is still going on. There’s been cov­er­age about it but one can tell that its not the full-coverage that we are all receiv­ing. Though, that is a story for another time and place.

Mean­while, from all of the recent devel­op­ments of it, there has been a surge of pas­sion­ate story-telling be it in a form of a tweet, an inter­view,1 or a writ­ten, poetic “offi­cial state­ment” which was recently read out by Keith Olber­mann.2

Another prod­uct of this, I must say, has been the print-design work that has been made avail­able to the pub­lic by Adbusters. The one that stands out the most to me is the visual-art piece with the dancer on the “Charg­ing Bull”.

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  1. Watch Jesse LaGraca, from Occupy Wall Street, talk to Fox News here. [↩]
  2. Here’s the post of Keith Olber­mann read­ing out that state­ment by the NY Gen­eral Assem­bly, video and tran­script. [↩]

Daft Punk x Coca-Cola

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We’ve seen a lot of col­lab­o­ra­tions lately. Biggest one I recall would prob­a­bly be KAWS x Hen­nessy this past late-July. Recently, after the first set of bot­tles this past Feb­ru­ary1, the new col­lab­o­ra­tion between Coca-Cola and Daft Punk rebooted.

Cre­ated by dress­ing two bot­tles of pre­cious met­als, like their hel­mets: gold and sil­ver. All lim­ited to 20 signed copies.

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  1. The asso­ci­a­tion between the French duo Daft Punk and Coca-Cola with the pack­ag­ing and the bot­tle “Daft Coke” recall­ing the sym­bolic col­ors of Daft Punk hel­mets. Lim­ited edi­tion and was avail­able in two col­ors (gold and sil­ver) only in France. The first ones shipped out March 2011. [↩]

“ill-ocano” — An Adobe Illustrator Warmup

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I’ve been doing some exper­i­men­ta­tion with Adobe Edge this past week since it’s pre­view release on Mon­day. I fig­ure to have a break, and do some exer­cises with Adobe Illus­tra­tor. Hence, the above: “ill-ocano”.

The Ilo­cano or Ilokano peo­ple are the third largest Fil­ipino eth­no­lin­guis­tic group. Aside from being referred to as Ilo­canos, from “i”-from, and “looc”-bay, they also refer to them­selves as Sam­toy, from the Ilo­cano phrase “sao mi ditoy”, mean­ing ‘our lan­guage here.’ The word “Ilo­cano” came from the word “Iloco” or “Yloco.“1

Yes, it looks like the spelling is off, but the expla­na­tion of why it is so and the exer­cise is right after the jump.

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  1. Source via Wikipedia [↩]
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