Noko Jeans Process
Monday — May 11th, 2009,
For the last 5 weeks we’ve been doing ‘Specialization part 2′ at Hyper Island. A module where the class divides up in different specializations (Technology, Management and Design) and gets special assignments for each specialization. We (design specialization) got a very interesting brief from 3 young Swedes that had a dream to produce jeans in North Korea. They had an incredibly well documented story and both an interesting and unique concept. Our brief said to design a graphical profile, web concept, launch strategy as well as package design for a future perfume and the launch strategy behind it. Quite the brief – and with only 4 weeks of production it seemed like we were in for a real challenge!
A designers nightmare just got worse
Sunday — April 5th, 2009,
One of the worst nightmares for a designer is probably theft. Someone steals your work, sells it and earns money from it. It just got worse.
Jon Engle is a graphic designer from New Mexico. The last year has been a hell from him, after a stock art site stole his work, sold it and then sued him – claiming that he had stole their work. Read his blog post about the situation and give him your support.
This is very worrying. If you read the blog post, Jon Engle writes that the same stock site has done this once before. What’s preventing other stock sites to do exactly the same? I suggest we all keep our eyes open, keep backup of any mails, drafts and other things that can be used as proof.
Content is missing a king
Tuesday — March 31st, 2009,
The past couple of months I’ve experienced a scenario I’ve learned a lot from. I’ve got hired as a designer and a front-end developer for a website that is to be launched mid-April. When the project started in the beginning of February I developed an information architecture after the initial chat with the client through quite a simple sitemap. The client had no specific idea of what kind of content they would have on the site, and because of the lack of internet experience they had no idea on how they wanted it presented. No problem – a great part of my job as a designer is formatting and structuring the content properly. However, a problem occurred when the client is delayed with the production of content. The content is not only written by the client, but it’s also coming from third party sources and it ends up arriving 3 weeks after the original content deadline – 1 week before the the site is supposed to launch.
