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graphic design

• advertising, advertising industry, cause marketing, graphic design, online community, social activism

  “If we knew how connected we are, how would that change everything?”

  12.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is the question posed by Digital Family Reunion (DFR). jungle [8] has taken on the task of bringing the molecular level into a unified visual field. It began with Creative Director Lainie Liberti giving the visual interpretation of what a tech holiday party would want to stir in the consciousness of its attendees.
  You will [...]

• Conscious Thoughts, Design with Intelligence in Mind, advertising, color, graphic design

  Well, color me [insert emotional trigger here]

  10.08.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  It’s time to talk about color, or, for our audience across the pond, colour.  Color: the derivation of those primary pigments red, yellow, and blue and made visible due to the light receptors in our ocular apparatus discerning the reflection and refraction of the color spectrum’s various visible wavelengths.  But more simply — color is [...]

• graphic design

  Web 2.0 is NOT a design aesthetic

  08.21.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: futureofwebdesign fowd)

  This is a brilliant slide show of what Web 2.0 is and what Web 2.0 is not. Let’s get it straight, it’s NOT a design aesthetic.

• graphic design, green & environment, online community, sustainability

  needy hands are better than landfills

  08.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Sunday afternoon shadows are falling across your front yard, and you’re staring at the mounds of stuff your garage sale’s best efforts didn’t eliminate. Next step:  a quick trip to Goodwill, then the dumpster, right?
  It’s Monday morning at the office, and you’re standing in front of a large pile of old monitors and telephones, [...]

• Design with Intelligence in Mind, graphic design

  The business of cards, high on creativity

  08.07.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I recently came across this amazing collection of very creative business cards posted on the Toxel.com blog. (be sure to visit their site to see the entire collection) Below are a few of my favorites, high on creativity, but unfortunately I do not see the cradle to cradle philosophy employed in any of the designs, [...]

• Branded Adventures, brand strategy, graphic design

  “Me too, me too!”, ie Tagalong brands.

  07.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Creating a powerfully-branded product is hard, and more often than not, the success of a certain product is followed by a tide of poorly-designed, copy-cat products literally rushed onto the market and resembling something designed by someone’s perpetually high, video game-playing, jobless younger brother.
  Now, we understand young Jimmy needs to make an extra buck so [...]

• Branded Adventures, brand identity, graphic design, jungle [8], jungle [8]- client updates

  Jungle Mom

  04.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  We at jungle[8] are proud to announce our work in creating and refining the identity of one of the newest additions to the video-blogosphere: MomBrain.tv. We were excited to play an essential role in refining our client’s already strongly-conceptualized original vision into a working, vibrant, accessible form. The site features an entertaining video site for [...]

• Branded Adventures, graphic design

  brands “2.0″!

  03.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This clip is fabulous. Asks the question, If all brands were Web 2.0-ized, how would they look? See if you can pick out the key identifying aspects that make up the web 2.0 logos: I can count about 6….

• Branded Adventures, brand experience, graphic design, jungle [8]

  another j[8] design featured!

  03.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  … this time in the LA Times! jungle [8] proudly branded the First Fridays series at the Natural History Museum and produced all the season’s graphic pieces from the flyers to the brochures, to the graphics projected on the walls of the museum to the signage for the event. It’s a fun series of events, [...]

• Conscious Thoughts, Design with Intelligence in Mind, advertising, advertising industry, brand identity, brand strategy, graphic design, political activism, politics and design

  Can Obama Make America “Cool” Again?

  03.05.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  It has become a widely accepted reality that American presidents are reelected for no other reason than positive performance of the American economy. You needn’t look further than the last 32 years to see pocketbook voting is the most constant factor in deciding an election or reelection. At the end of Jimmy Carter’s reign, stagflation [...]

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