How amazing this world can be! I just saw the National Geographic’s International Photography Contest 2009 at Big Picture. Those pictures makes me wanna leave this office right now, and get some wild place with my camera. It’s at least inspiring, lifewise.

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David Airey, made a nice post at his blog today. He posted this video of William McDonough, talking about the responsible design. I really liked it, and since I do love this subject, I decided to contribute to the discussion. The problems of human development have gone far beyond acceptable, and a very tiny part of the population is doing “green” things. In my opinion, being “ecologically correct” is a life style. There are tons of small thing we can do on our daily life that makes things better. But you won’t see any difference by doing it, cause what we can do is very small, but it contributes.

Things you can do to help the world:

• make your shower 10% faster
• use your air conditioner 1 degree hotter ( I’m in Brazil, so I don’t use climatization apparel to make raise the temperature, but those who do, could put theirs 1 degree colder, and wear a sweater )
• always tear paper, cause when you crumple paper, you break it’s fibers, causing it to be unrecyclabe.
• don’t leave the lights on, unnecessary ( this will be awesome to your pocket too)
• if you are like me, and likes to sleep with the TV on, remember to set the “sleep function”, so it will shut itself down, after you have slept.

This are some small things that we can do on a day-to-day basis, and it doesn’t kills you. If everyone did these simple things we would have a huge impact on power demands around the world. This is a practical approach to the cause.

I started thinking like this, about 3 years ago, when I read Massive Change, by Bruce Mau. I think that nowadays, Bruce is one of the big guys that adopted this cause, and he is doing very nice work.

After researching about this subject, I understood one simple thing about how stuff will work. Green things must be cheaper. I am a designer, and I do like to think about this ecological subject, and try to make my work more ecologically correct. I can offer my client a recycled paper instead of a chouché, but if my client gives a shit about the trees, I can’t do much but print it on the couché, and screw the trees. I’m talking about a tiny minority of the world’s population that have money to spend on things other than food. And in this small parcel of the humans, there are a lot of people that doesn’t care about environment either. If we, as “rich people” with money to have computers, and time to blog and all this, aren’t all worrying about the planet, how can I ask for a laborer here in Brazil that earns 250 US dollars a month to worry about the planet? He has more important things to worry, like food for him and his family, for example.

From what I see, we gotta invest on 2 fronts for this battle.

The creative/logical front, that needs us, designers, architects, engineers, and other professionals to think logically and creatively to create good looking, cheap and ecological options, like the green roofs for example, that William showed on the video, and Bruce shows along his book. This way we can show to the people, the governments and the private companies that we have options, and good ones to help solve this problem.

The other front to take action, is to make our existing recycling processes cheaper. Making recycled paper cheaper and as good as non-recycled paper, will cause a lot of people start using recycled paper. I don’t care if the people are ecologically conscient, as long as they are doing the right thing, I don’t care what they think.

What about you? What do you think can be a good option to make our planet a better place to live, or at least postpone the problems we already know will happen?

UPDATE:  Nov. 04

Here is a nice blog I found today about recycling. Worth a visit. It’s in portuguese.

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I was very pleased to see this post at Hoefler & Frere-Jones, showing a designers perspective of this recently lauched font. It pleased my eyes in all of the sample pieces Brian showed. In big black caps, or small lighter caps, it just looks awesome. Congratulations for this amazing type design. For those that fell in love with this type, you can buy the font at their website. Check out some other designs crafted with Tungsten.

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Alien

This is the first part of a collection of very well designed movie posters. They were selected by their design and the value of the movie itself. I am hugely influenced by movie posters and we can notice how much the movie industry is investing more and more in posters recently. A few years ago, movies had just one or two posters to publicize the movie. Nowadays, as we can see in the Batman – The Dark Night campaign, they invested in a variety of posters, very well designed and appealing, by the way. I really wish I’d have so many walls to have them all at home.

All the images were taken from Allposters.com, under the movie category. I hope you like it. If you have some poster that you really like, please say so in the comments section, I will be glad do check on that.

Batman – The Dark Knight Posters – Some of the posters created for the lauch of the movie.

Batman – The Dark Knight

Batman – The Dark Knight – Joker

Batman – The Dark Knight

Batman – The Dark Knight – Joker

Batman – The Dark Knight – Joker

Back to the Future

300

Band of Brothers

Blow

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Chales Chaplin – The Great Dictator

Clockwork Orange

Coraline

Easy Rider

E.T.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Dr. Gonz

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

The Godfather

Gremlins

King Kong (2005)

Labyrinth

The Lion King

Lord of the Rings (1978)

Matrix

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This just caught my eye at Webdesigner Depot. In my opinion, the Jack of all trades will always be a great professional, since he can see things from different perspectives. A designer that can code a little, will design things thinking if the coding if possible. He doesn’t need to be an Ace in 4 different languages of webcode. He just needs to know his way around some HTML/CSS and PHP, for example, and his layouts will be more solid than from a designer that knows nothing about code.The other way is also true. A master coder, with a little knowledge of design and layout will pay attention to the details of the layout, and not make the mistakes usually seen when a designer sends a layout (PSD ) for the coder, and when the site comes back, it is a bit different, with things not precisely aligned, different font sizes and so on.

A lot of things can be improved with a a little knowledge. I’m ultimately driven by knowledge, and that’s first thing a Jack needs to have. Do you consider yourself a Jack?

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I designed this cover for is the newest EP, Pure, released by PatchBay. He is already 11º on the Top 100 in Psy-Trance at Beatport.com, by the time of this post.

The concept of the cover is simple. He asked me if I could use some water on the cover to relate with te purity of the water, and the water god in India.

Since I’m not that high on my concepts, I searched for something more earth related to create the cover, but also keeping in mind my clients concept.

He is one of the best musicians I know. He dedicates all of his time to music, it’s unbelievable how much he likes to craft music, and the fun he has doing it. So I started to work on that concept: the pure fun and joy to do something. I remenbered a video I saw about dolphins having fun with ring bubbles, and I found that those dolphins were having their fun, in the most pure way.

That’s the story of this cover. A beautiful cover, in my opinion.

Here goes the video of the dolphins. Quite entertaining.

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