In order to celebrate Inter’s historic 18th Serie A Title (putting them ahead of Milan!) and Treble, Nike has released the new away kit and finally it is something interesting! While the shirt itself is plain white the addition of the centenary serpent graphic is pretty awesome and is a better than the normal identi-kit stuff they normally churn out. I’ll be getting it as soon as possible. Obviously!
I found this today and couldn’t stop laughing!
I found this blogger, Dustin Curtis, yesterday on a click-thru-tangent from Lifehacker. I was reading the research on Sleep Hacking when I noticed he was a designer and from there I started reading his other blogs.
One story in particular jumped out. It seems Dustin does a lot of travelling and while trying to book flights he became so frustrated with American Airlines site that he wrote them a letter explaining his frustration and offering them a redesign! Being a designer myself there are a number of times I visit a site and feel I could’ve done better but I’d never have thought to actually write to the company and offer to do it better!
I don’t normally take much to do with the Old Firm - being from Scotland it’s always best stay neutral - but I just saw the new ad campaign for Celtic’s new away shirt and was quite impressed.
As seems to be the trend this year Celtic (or rather, Nike) have went retro and are revamping an old Celtic away shirt known as the “bumblebee“. It’s basically black and luminous yellow hoops and is one of those shirts you either loved or loathed (like Inter’s Crusader shirt).
The awesomeness of the ad does not come from the shirt itself or the design (which I think is pretty mediocre by Nike’s standard) but the tagline “There’s a buzz about the place.” For those that don’t know this was a much lampooned catchphrase of former Celtic player, Paul McStay. Combining these 2 elements is a stroke of genius that will truly appeal to Celtic’s fans, especially in the period of nostalgia that we seem to be in.
Shirt design is something I’d love to get in to. My dream would be to design an Inter shirt - I’d go retro too and base the away kit on my favourite Inter kit from 89.
I just read this awesome article over at the Guardian.co.uk about design agency TBWA winning an award at Cannes Lions advertising awards for a poster campaign promoting the Zimbabwean newspaper that is made entirely out of the worthless currency of the nation.
It uses actual bank notes pasted together and overprinted with various messages (”Thanks to Mugabe this money is wallpaper”, “Z$250,000,000 cannot buy the paper to print this poster on”, “It’s cheaper to print this on money than on paper”) to draw attention to the horrific fiscal conditions the poor (literally) people of Zimbabwe.
Seeing design challenging social issues and making a difference makes me ashamed of the corporate nonsense I normally produce - but inspires me to do the same.
Full article here.
