Red Pill

the Vega Lounge - Happy Hour - 5/30

Happy Hour at the Vega Project is a special time, it's a time of reflection. An opportunity to meet people, some special, some interesting. All with a common goal of eating processed food and drinking excessively. If this sounds like your type of self-destructive behavior, please join us!

This month's entertainment includes paper airplane races and euchre. Also, take our new color laser printer for a spin!

This month's poster was influenced by our favorite multi-purpose designer Elliott Earls. First 10 people get prints.

Press ready high res poster here

RSVPs appreciated, hope to see ya!

Baracknaphobia? Your welcome Daily Show.

Some of you may know about my Baracknaphobia* (fear of CHANGE) T-shirts and bumper stickers I've been peddling. Well last night while watching the Daily Show, to my amazement the first segment was dedicated to Barak Obama and was named Baracknaphobia! John Stewart even went on to say "Baracknaphobia, A fear of change.."

John, If you needed my help all you had to do was ask. Do you need more ideas? Are your writers a bit lazy after after their long vacation? Ok, here are some more... Hows about "Obama Mia!" Italians protesting Obama? Could be funny.. Or maybe "Brak Obama"? Space Ghost is Obama's running mate! Oh, that's good! I have more, just call me if you need em dog! Peace out!

Get the original Baracknaphobia t-shirt and bumper sticker right here..

New David Hopkins video - If it starts getting dark

Our good friend and client David Hopkins has a beautiful new video dedicated to the first of eight women he shagged, her name was Jemima. If you like what you see, get the album.

Design for the Information Age

Whether it's global change or aiding a major corporation with pedaling products, the use of strong and innovative, Information Design can add dramatically to your message. Most designers have at one time or another created graphs, charts, timelines etc. But how many actually enjoy and excel at it while incorporating the same level of creativity as in other areas of design?

I feel there are new opportunities to innovate in Information Design, mostly in the United States where we have relied so heavily on pre "Information Age" methods and processes.

Hitting your audience in both lobes is key today, we have mere seconds to get our message through those synaptic gateways. Putting big bold copy in the viewers face is no longer the answer, in my opinion this trend is quickly becoming cliche and therefore less impactful. When visual information is partnered with a strong concept it will only enhance the message and open new opportunities to be creative in the delivery.

I actually ran into this amazing site while exploring my thoughts, their work is not only powerful but its very creative and beautiful. They are Information Design Studio, located in Amsterdam.

Here are a few projects that stood out for me:
2008 – UNITED NATIONS – YEAR OF LANGUAGES
FILTER THE WORLD
MILESTONES OF INFORMATION DESIGN

Fill your guitar with dairy nectar baby...

Why is it that Dairy Farmers are so willing to take chances with edgy ad campaigns while the rest of corporate America settles for mundain cliche filled oatmeal??? This video is genius! Sung by one of my favorite artists, Dick Valentine of the Electric Six.

Isabella’s wild-side

Check out Green Porno by Isabella Rosellini
A series of short films inspired by the bizarre sexual practices of insects and other creatures. Simple in design, fun, interesting and odd. Enjoy!

PS - I am very glad I am not a snail.

Project M 08 - Rat Skull Video

Project M'er Smead wants to make sure the dead rat's skull doesn't taste like chicken.

Caster the RatsaC video

Caster the RatsaC from Miles Kittredge on Vimeo.

A good friend of mine Caster the RatsaC just put out his first video, even with a micro budget he still pulls off a entertaining video, complete with horse heads and skateboarders! Great tune, definitely worth a look/listen.

Project M 08 - Dig'in In!

This morning we started off at Flava for some biscuits and gravy and cheese grits. Afterwords we headed back to the studio for some discovery time. Though it's only been a week it seems that we have already defined goals, projects will follow soon. We came to the conclusion that there are so many little projects and design tasks it would be much more impact-full to dig in and create some sort of design lab in downtown Greensboro. This way Project M could become a year round endeavor, with rotating students and advisors. We would provide design services for HERO and possibly the Rural Studio plus be able to create larger more visible projects through out the year.

Now that we have the goals roughly defined the challenge will be meeting them in three short weeks. We already have a few volunteers who are willing to stay longer than a month which shows the dedication of these students. I personally wish I could stay through the end of the month to help see that project through, but I'm sure the next round of advisors will do just fine in my absence.

This years group of students has been just as fun to get to know as last years, they are once again a very unique bunch. They have grown so much in just the short time that I have been here, I can't wait to see where they land! I'm looking forward to my next trip to Alabama which will hopefully be sooner than later now that Project M will hopefully have a more permanent presence. This is Project M, and you never know until the end what will come of it.

Check out the gallery for more new photos

Project M 08 - Day 2 Photos

I finally uploaded my first round of photos, I visited the Hale County Animal Shelter which is now complete. Last year while it was still under construction, the four students on the project weren't sure if it would ever be completed. Now that it's done, the challenge is to get the county to fund employees so they can open to the public.
I had a chance to see the "bird tower" this year, it was an exhilarating going to the top! I never thought I would say this about Alabama, it's beautiful! We also visited the Boys and Girls club were we helped the Rural Studio workers push the giant gantry into place. We ended off with "20k houses" which will definitely hit the national spotlight once they are completed. Each unique, one completely experimental, all under 20k!! Today we are going to the flea market and exploring a few other new Rural Studio projects, followed by a pot luck for the Emery school.. Check back soon!

Check out day one photos here