November 2007 Archive

One from the attic - 1961s “The Elements of Design” by Donald M. Anderson surveys the graphic landscape encompassing pretty much all modes of representation from the modern mathematic to the archaic organic, commercial to the avant garde through its 218 pages of largely black and white illustrated text. By treating visual matter in formal categories such as colour, shape, line and texture, the illustrations on any given spread cut across both time and culture to make some often surprising juxtapositions.
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No new pin-up for 2007 - but that didn’t stop over a thousand people adding one of the earlier halloween cover images to each others social-networking sites (and in one case an ebay listing!).

It’s been a few weeks now, and everyone has had their spooky fun, so I taken the steps to replace it with an alternative message - in my own geeky game of trick or treat. Of course, I’d thought about spamvertising before, but decided this time to promote a good cause - cancer screening. It can’t be certain that old threads get read or noticed, so designed it with a strong use of (oldschool computing) colour and plenty of space around it and the competing area - whilst keeping the file-size extremely low (lots of hits = lots of bandwidth). Perhaps it is garish and attention seeking, and perhaps it might be noticed and maybe make a difference.

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