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It's a competitive market out there, and getting your work noticed can be tough. As a winner of the Applied Arts Student Awards, more potential employers will see your work than in any other awards program or promotional effort. The deadline for entries is May 18, 2012. |
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Starting in 2012, the Applied Arts Creative Excellence Awards will add a special twist to all our Awards programs, selecting the very best of the best in our Design, Advertising, Photography, Illustration, Interactive and Student contests. Do you have what it takes to be an AACE? Find out more in a Q&A with Applied Arts Founder and Art Director, Georges Haroutiun |
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Montrealers Frank Lam and Zema met eight years ago through mutual skateboarding friends, and soon discovered a love for cutting-edge graffiti, urban art and each other. Inspired by filmmakers Tim Burton (Zema) and Spike Jonze (Lam), the couple began collaborating on a wide variety of commercial and personal projects, switching seamlessly from photography to motion, from spray paint to acrylic paint, from traditional animation to digital compositing.
The creative partners most enjoy combining elements of each other’s visions to produce memorable, quirky art that has made their tag names well known throughout Montreal’s underground scene.
Montrealers Frank Lam and Zema met eight years ago through mutual skateboarding friends, and soon discovered a love for cutting-edge graffiti, urban art and each other. Inspired by filmmakers Tim Burton (Zema) and Spike Jonze (Lam), the couple began collaborating on a wide variety of commercial and personal projects, switching seamlessly from photography to motion, from spray paint to acrylic paint, from traditional animation to digital compositing.
The creative partners most enjoy combining elements of each other’s visions to produce memorable, quirky art that has made their tag names well known throughout Montreal’s underground scene. . . . Read the Split Run Portfolio.
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Red Stripe, the Jamaican beer, recently commissioned Scottish artist Spaceboy to create an animated installation at Edinburgh’s Newhaven Harbour. Spaceboy’s stop-motion illustrations were brought to life by production company Blac Ionica and graphic design students from Edinburgh College of Art. As part of Make Art on the Street, Spaceboy transformed a set of waterside shutters in ... Read the full article. |
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Do They Understand What They're Buying?
by Ilise Benun
Nobody loves to do proposals, but often, it’s the only way. If you want the job, you have to write one, especially when your “dream clients” work only via Request for Proposal (RFP), such as in government and higher education sectors. But how do you decide which proposals to do and which are just a shot in the dark and therefore a waste of your time? . . . Read more. |
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Mr. Rogers Meets Mao Zedong
by Will Novosedlik
When brands appropriate art, the decontextualized result is generally meaningless. But when art eats brands for lunch, the result is almost always sublime. For example, while surfing the web recently for some heavy-duty cleaning products (don’t ask), I came across an ad for Downy Unstopables “in-wash scent boosters,” I was immediately struck by a highly recognizable dot pattern in the background . . . Read more.
BP: Resurrection of a Brand, or a Requiem for Branding?
by Will Novosedlik
Back in November 2011, Interbrand’s online forum, brandchannel, published a piece by senior media executive Sheila Shayon about BP’s recent efforts at reviving their "battered" brand. After almost completely caving over the disastrous 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, in which 11 people died and millions of barrels of crude spilled into the waters off Louisiana, BP is planning to start drilling a 6,000-ft. well in a field about 150 miles further out. . . . Read more.
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Training. In All the Unexpected Places
by Karen Howe
Cathy Whelan Molloy, one of my clients, likes to recall the words of a marketing mentor who was asked what the heck we do for a living. Apparently he paused, then answered, “We sell stuff.” Talk about boiling it all down to a burnt pot. Whether it’s coffee, tires and tax returns or behavioral changes (don’t drink and drive) we do indeed peddle stuff. But before we get to the selling end of our job, there are a myriad of other practical skills we need to hone and deploy. . . . Read more. |
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