A Secret That Should Be Told

Secret Wars takes the concept of battling and puts it in the spotlight surrounded by tons of viewing eyes as it features two competitors squaring off in a 90 minute art freestyle session. Each contestant is given a huge 20 foot mural with no prior knowledge of themes and must then put something together in an interactive environment where you are encouraged to feed off the other competitor and crowd members to create complete domination. No sketch-books are allowed effectively ensuring that this is truly on the spot ingenuity. Winners are determined via a three point system; two judges, as well as a crowd-component measured via a decibel reader are used to determine a winner. After visiting the site gallery and watching the videos I can hands down say that in some way, shape, or form I will be at this event when it makes its way to New York City. Visit the site and view the galleries, I'm pretty sure you will want to join me at Secret Wars.


On another note but same concept, if you more on the Photoshop skills side of things you should totally check out Cut&Paste.

I LOVE TYPE

So if you truly know me you would know that I am a HUGE typography nerd. I don't know if it leads back to my days of graffiti or the hardcore designer inside me, but I could totally just hand draw and make typography for the rest of my life. So when I get the chance I love to create my own personal type, I have done this in two of my portfolio projects thus far.
Well enough about my nerdy interior, lets get down to the reason that lead to this post.
I found this book at a bookstore and fell in LOVE with it. So one day I went into the library at school to see if they had it and they did. I was so excited I read the whole thing in one sitting and then got inspired to make some of my own fonts. It had great imagery of hand drawn type and tons of links to artist websites on top of all the artist write-ups. If you are a typography fan like myself you should totally go get this book.

New Blog Name, Same Blog Feel

It seems there has been a few complaints about the name of this blog and the problem of remembering the blog url cause of its crazy long title, or something. So I decided that it would be a smart decision on my part to change it to something a bit easier. This new name also tends to give me a variety of different names I can play with to link it to my portfolio website.
Without further adieu, I would like to welcome you to the new and improved, but slightly used "Forever Untitled".
www.foreveruntitledat.blogspot.com

I might be awhile before I can get around to changing the overall look but that is just a minor detail.



On other news; this years Super-Bowl advertising spots totally sucked, a bunch seemed unoriginal, to many ads already viewed, and there were way too many movie trailers. The quality and number of different advertisements seem to be dwindling more and more every year. Being an aspiring ad man this is very disappointing and sort of pisses me off since I only watch the game for the ads.
Well anyways, If I had to pick a top 3 they would be: (in order and with my own titles)

1) Audi: Chase Scenes
This ad had amazing cinematography and when you think about it, it seems all the cool new action movie chase scenes involve an Audi.

2) Pepsi: Refresh Through Time (time lapse comparing like things)
Another great cinematic advertisement and I liked the comparisons, but I disliked the Black Eyed Pea spot and song.

3) Coca-Cola: The Heist (bugs steal the Coke)
Just hands down great design work and it seemed like it had a bunch of thought behind it. Would have taken #1 on my list, but the other two just made a better consumer connection through personal feels and memories.

If you haven't seen these you can view them on Hulu.
So watch them all and lets chat advertising.

Mustache Relapse

The DriftMechaniks guys just could not hold out any longer, so it was time for a DMGGMASD mini-relapse. The crew gathered on January 31 at Turner Field for a full day of blowing out tires and crazy events, with another dress code implied, rep your best stache.

photo gallery will be up soon............