Chalk Mural Project: Google Campus at BBDO

After doing some chalk illustration at the office for a media pitch, we landed another gig--this time with Google, to illustrate a chalk wall at BBDO NY's all new Digital Lab space. The occasion was a "Google Campus" event at BBDO as well as the opening of this digital lab space.

The idea was to showcase some of Google's product offerings, like Google Latitude, YouTube, etc.

It was a pretty compressed time frame - we had one night to do it. So we went there after work, and pretty much pulled an all-nighter...

First, the set-up:


Pete's hard work:


The entire thing, in progress:


Gettin' closer...


...and.... we're DONE!

Reference: 40 Logos designed with Helvetica

Here's a great post by Web Designer Depot about logo design with Helvetica. Great branding really CAN be created with simple, basic fonts.

lunch bag art from one cool dad

today i stumbled upon the Lunch Bag Art blog on tumblr.com.... totally COOL lunch bags drawn by a totally cool dad. Geez, these lunch bags are WAY better than the yellow Care Bears lunchbox I used, back in the day...



Imagine putting in your request every day for a new design... how fun...

corporate website references

For a couple projects I am currently working on, here are a couple resources with compiled lists of well-designed corporate websites:

Trackerz.com:



and this blog posting is a bit dated at this point, but hey, the designs are not too awful (yet):

Rubiqube.com