A photo is worth a thousand...

tons of garbage.

What are we THINKING?

This amazing series is by artist Chris Jordan, of Seattle.

He calls it "Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait."

As astonishing as his statistics are, what he has done with them is even
more astonishing.

via email forwarded to me by Connie Torii; courtesy of Karl K

Pepsi Logo Response - artwork by Lawrence Yang

A fun interpretation of the new Pepsi logo. Now, when I see the new Pepsi logo I can’t help but see the same thing.

Pepsi Logo Response - artwork by Lawrence Yang

Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament

via email from Roland

One of my colleagues invited me via Facebook to the Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament

Although I've never heard of it, it looks interesting.

It is happening in San Francisco:

WHEN:
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Doors open 5:30 PM
Show starts 6:00 PM

WHERE:
The Galleria
101 Henry Adams St.
San Francisco, CA 94103

San Francisco will host competitions in 2D, 3D, and Motion Graphics for Digital Design Tournament 2009. See the Competition Formats page for the rules and details of each of these platforms. When you're ready to roll, enter the Call for Competitors here. Judges from all three design disciplines will be announced in the coming weeks. Check back soon to find out who will be hovering over our competitors' shoulders onstage.

Roland

The I Love Typography Blog

While perusing WordPress implementations, I found this blog. And on this blog I found this page.

Flickr Found Type

Quite pretty and interesting. Maybe there's food for the muse here.

Obama logos ideas that weren’t chosen

The title says it all. Just reposting “Obama logos ideas that weren’t chosen” from Logo Design Love.

In the end, I think they chose the right one.

via Daring Fireball

Wanna get cubed?

Why didn't I think of this?

via boingboing

(UC) "OP communications consolidation moves forward"

9/29/08
The Office of the President just announced a new communications department.

Housed under the External Relations division, this newly created department will bring together editorial and creative design services in print, Web and video under one organizational umbrella. This department will also be responsible for media relations, speechwriting and marketing and branding efforts, all under the leadership of Alan Hoffman, newly appointed senior vice president of External Relations.

The consolidation will bring together communications functions being performed by 34 positions spread out over the existing Strategic Communications department, Human Resources and Benefits, Student Affairs and other UCOP departments. The new communications unit will hold 27 positions, which will be filled on a competitive basis beginning with the leadership positions.