Monday, June 29, 2009 12:15:57 AM
Hey everybody,
A while back I had stumbled upon the MountainFilm Festival at Telluride website. It is a four day celebration of the "indominatble spirit". All types of people get together, from film makers, photographers, designers, to mountaineers, and conservationists, who come together for a short week of art, celebrating our world and the human spirit. It's a place where people garner conversations for a better tomorrow, and I wish I could have been there this year. However my calender has already been marked for next year, and I'm saving my pennies to make sure I get out there.
But anyways, today I was gauking over their website again, imagining myself there for this past years festival and I found what I thought was a really cool sort of graphic history of the festival. It's a page that has 30 years of posters advertising the festival. It's kind of a bummer that you can't enlarge them, but even so I thought it was really interesting to see how a single event can be interpretted so many different ways over the years. It's also cool to see how styles change through time. Take a look and check out these posters.
And here is a cool video about the festival. It gives a brief history on how it came to be, and what it is today.
Check out MountainFilm and I hope you become as excited about it as I am, and maybe I'll see you there in 2010.
peace,
abk
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:46:34 AM
First off a big Thanks to Todd Bertsch for giving Alex, Joe, and I the opportunity to post our blogs on DesignDump!
Introducing myself, i'm Dave Lam, a Graphic Design student at the University of Akron. My minor is Professional Photography since I love photography nearly as much as Design, and it will be useful as I get further experienced and into the field.
I've studied at the University of Akron since 2005, first entering the Graphic Design Program as well as the Photography, but later had to drop the Photography. I was introduced to the idea of becoming a Graphic Designer by winning a logo contest as a Freshman at Twinsburg High School. From then I stemmed the idea and created not only the High School's website but the District's along with a now Akron Graphic Design Student.
Interest in Design not only stems from the output but in the theory and excitement I get when I know people will either use the design for its purpose or for admiration. My interests also peak with technology; as others will mention I'm always trying to stay on top of the latest programs, and hardware that is available to us as Graphic Designers. I'll be mentioning many tweaks and short cuts that can be used by not only Graphic Designers but everyone in general!
That's a bit about me,
Thanks for reading!
.DLam