Friday 14 October 2011

2011 SAPPI WINNERS

Huge congratulations to all GD3 staff & students who participated in this years SAPPI Ideas That Matter Competition.
The winning campaign was for the Cart Horse Protection Association – Lyndon Joacobs, Kirstin Damon and Karin van Rhyn.
The two partial grants were for The heart and stroke foundation SA- Inus Smuts group and Harmony Clinic, Akron House- Ricardo van Lingen group.

Our GD wall will once again bear testimony to great student design.

Monday 10 October 2011

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself -- at the university's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.

Get the kerning right

As you should know by now KERNING is adjusting the space between two characters. Here is a great online resource to up your kerning skills. Give it a go and post your score in the comments below. Good luck at this link

The Loerie Awards Traveling Exhibition & Adobe Workshop

Moses, meet Steve...

Thursday 6 October 2011

What Made Steve Jobs So Great?

Steve Jobs wasn't an engineer or a designer. But he was one of the greatest users of technology of all time, and that made all the difference. His tour finally brought him to the workbench of a designer ready to quit after just a year on the job, languishing amid a stack of prototypes. Among them was monolithic monitor with a teardrop swoop, which managed to integrate all of a computer's guts into a single package. In that basement Jobs saw what middle managers did not. He saw the future. And almost immediately he told the designer, Jonathan Ive, that from here on out they'd be working side-by-side on a new line. Steve Jobs may not be the greatest technologist or engineer of his generation. But he is perhaps the greatest user of technology to ever live, and it was Apple's great fortune that he also happened to be the company's founder. Read from fastcodesign here

"Here's to the crazy ones..." Rest in Peace Steve Jobs