An Award-Winning Announcement
Congratulations to the Bridge House Studio Team for winning an Honorable Mention for our Care For Haiti Identity Campaign. 56 Alumni from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington D.C. entered works into the GRAPHIC DESIGN AND DIGITAL MEDIA ALUMNI EXHIBITION AWARDS (judged by Paula Scher and Michael Hodgson), and Bridge House Studio’s Senior Designer (and alumna) Vanessa Trutschel won an Honorable Mention from the jury. The work, including posters, book and publication design, environmental graphics, branding, logos, identity design, and packaging, will be exhibited in Gallery 31 of the Corcoran Gallery from October 30, 2008, through December 4, 2008.
To view the work, follow the link and click on the names of the designers.
The Oxford Project
In the spring and summer of 1984, photographer Peter Feldstein announced that he wanted to take free portraits of everyone in Oxford, Iowa (pop. 673). By the end of the summer, he'd photographed 670 Oxford residents. Twenty-one years later, Feldstein went back, and this time he brought along writer Stephen G. Bloom to document people's stories. The Oxford Project (Welcome Books) is the remarkable portrait of a small town "virtually untouched by both the vitality and vulgarity of urban America."
The Oxford Project
by Peter Feldstein & Stephen G. Bloom
All images copyright © the authors, courtesy Welcome Books, all rights reserved.
Super Pick of the World?
Our site got some nice attention over the weekend as it received a NEW WEB PICK award under the categories of design and technology. Thanks to the staff and readers of newwebpick.com for taking notice. Cheers!
From More Than A Bunch...
"Great team of people to work with! They really got involved in the development of our new concept and did an excellent job in the design and execution."
Larry Abramowitz
President
Bloomsxpress, Inc.
Broken Telephone
Khoi Vinh, the current Design Director of the NYTimes.com writes a great piece on "the efficiency of transferring ideas from the brain to the hand" when working with small teams. He also goes onto mention the integrity of the creative output when working with a design team of no more than a dozen people.
The writing is short, to the point and I can attest to every argument he makes for small versus big. At Bridge House our team is never more than a few designers on each project, so there is less of the "broken telephone" effect as I like to call it. You know, the game where each participant whispers to the next a phrase whispered to them by the preceding participant. As each turn goes on, errors accumulate and often lead to the last person uttering a statement that greatly differs from that which started it all. It's funny when played under the right circumstances, but in the business of communicating a client's product or service, it can easily hinder the process and dilute the original brief or solution.
Click to enjoy the read: Great Numbers, Not So Great Design
