Adrian Frutiger is the third person to be inducted in the European Design Hall of Fame.
This is a distinction voted for, not by a panel of judges, but by the european creative community.
Unfortunately, due to health issues he wasn’t able to attend himself the ED-Awards ceremony to pick up his prize. Instead, Thierry Hausermann, publisher of the swiss magazine idPure paid him a visit and recorded his message to the community. Here you can see parts of this „interview”.
Along with Opera’s new acid test 3 beating browser Opera 10 (beta) and Opera Unitewebserver on a browser, there’s some other nifty features too. While 'another beta browser’ is not all that exciting, Opera are further developing their gesture based input options, enhancing their mouse gestures and now adding webcam 'facial gesture’ as a browser control method.
jMonthCalendar is a jQuery plugin for creating an event calendar which displays the calendar as a month-view.
Once the plugin is initialized & events array is mentioned, the calendar is ready. But jMonthCalendar offers extension points which makes it possible to interact with it like adding events, changing the month & more.
The calendar supports multi-day events & drag’n drops for updating event dates easily.
It can be browsed by months & years with the prev-next links. And, the plugin uses the beautiful DateJS library for date functions
Post pobrano z: Motion Graphics at Hyper Island Hyper Island came from nowhere and told us that their Motion Graphics Designer application is open for those who want to study in this amazing Swede college. As the deadline is really short, I would advice those who are close to Sweden to apply.
“Shoulda used Vicks. NyQuil is #1 pharmacist recommended. Available at your local supercenter.”
Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi X, Springdale, USA
Executive Creative Director: Dan Streety
Creative Director: Andy Tyer
Art Director: Vincent Straszewski
Copywriter: Sean O’Dell
Designer: Justin V. Leland
Released: December 2008
AMI is a NGO that sends doctors and nurses to areas hit by natural disasters or wars. To do so it always asks for the public’s contributions. This Y&R Portugal poster that is made of “your turn” tickets. The whole of the poster shows a picture of the destructed Sichuan town in China but when you take off a ticket you both eliminate the image and get a thank you message and the account number to where you should send your contribution. The poster appeared at pharmacies and drugstores.
Advertising Agency: Y&R, Lisbon, Portugal
Creative Directors: Pedro Ferreira, Judite Mota
Art Director: Pedro Ferreira
Copywriter: Judite Mota
Photographer: Corbis news
Released: October 2008
“No need to go to war zones to bring back pictures! During the latest conflicts in Iraq, Ossetia and the Gaza Strip, images were censored and distributed at the discretion of the military, while some war zones were even completely prohibited to reporters. See more than what the military wants you to see. Support Reporters Without Borders.”
Advertising Agency: Saatchi&Saatchi, Paris, France
Creative Director: Christophe Coffre
Art Director: Vincent Berard
Copywriters: Eric Auvinet, Vincent Berard, Amy Hollier
Illustrator: Paul Chan
Released: 2009
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