This blog has been neglected lately. I apologize on behalf of myself only. I am quite preoccupied these days with a full schedule. designAsshole is just lazy. Anyway, this is just a quick thought, but my classmate sent me this link the other day and I immediately fell in love with it. Original link to… [Read more…]
October 14, 2010
by designAsshole
Oolong likes the Target brand’s packaging. She wrote an article about it. I do not agree. Here’s my response. Target’s Up & Up logo on a package = The person obstructing your view at a sporting event. Take a look at these Target branded items, take note of the arrow’s positioning. You see what I… [Read more…]
October 4, 2010
by designAsshole
So I was minding my own business. You know, urinating into the toilet in the bathroom. When suddenly, I noticed the bottle of mouthwash on the shelf, Listerine, staring me right in the face as I was peeing. As I finished unloading my stream of yellow refreshment into the bowl (t.m.i.?), I realized how shitty… [Read more…]
Just a bit of a quick design thought because the Red Bull I drank at 2AM is still in effect. designAsshole and I were discussing the [not really] new up & up Target brand logo. He’s not very impressed, but I think it’s pretty cool, considering what their previous logo looked like. It’s just a… [Read more…]
September 29, 2010
by designAsshole
I was talking to someone about how wack the iTunes 10 icon was, but didn’t really care since my macbook still had the iTunes 9 icon in the dock. Then, as if the Mac gods (Steve Jobs?) heard me, the iTunes icon on my dock changed to the new iTunes 10 icon. Fuck. I thought… [Read more…]
For my first post, I decided to do a comparison between Japanese and American design. I tried to look for a magazine ad, but holy crap, it’s hard finding two ads of different countries that I could critique in a fair manner. So instead, I chose website layouts of two very popular and international clothing… [Read more…]
September 28, 2010
by Oolong
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Salutations, internet. My name is Oolong (actually not really, but I shall be referred as so on the web) and I am a new author on this blog. I am a BFA graphic design student, double majoring in Japanese. So I will be contributing design-related thoughts and discussions to this blog that piques my interests,… [Read more…]
September 22, 2010
by designAsshole
NOTE: This post idea was saved for before the movie was suppose to come out, but I stopped updating this fledgling blog for a while, so I’m just clearing out the old “things to complain about” box before moving on to newer topics. Just a quick post about this movie’s poster. As you all might… [Read more…]
September 20, 2010
by designAsshole
NOTE: I started writing this post in December 2009. Think I had more to say, but I do not recall now. Deal with it. Recently, the New York public library system has changed its logo. Now I know what you might be thinking. You assume that I dislike their new logo and am about to… [Read more…]
December 14, 2009
by designAsshole
“I hate comic sans” “I can’t believe people actually use Comic Sans” “Comic Sans stole my girlfriend and slapped my momma” That is the general consensus about Comic Sans from a majority of people who considers themselves in any way a graphic designer. Anytime Comic Sans is mentioned in a conversation, the sight of it,… [Read more…]
November 4, 2010
by Oolong
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