It's worth a few minutes of your time to take a look at Filter Foundry user Scott Robertson's portfolio "Drive" for a great example of what you can do with your Filter Foundry PAD (even if you don't have Scott's skills).
Scott has been in the business for over 20 years, has taught at Art Center College of Design, and has produced dozens of "how to" design DVDs.
You can check out his website here.
Via Motionographer:
A great use of underwater photography, coupled with a nice little story twist at the end.
The team at Creative Pro gave FF some love this week.
Via Adweek.
It's Super Bowl time again, so why not take a look at arguably the most famous Super Bowl ad ever?
Steve Hayden was a senior VP and creative director at the agency that came up with the spot. This is the story of how the spot got made.
Two points of interest from the article:
- The board hated it, but left it to Jobs and Apple CEO John Sculley to make the final decision. When Steve Wozniak saw it, he offered to personally pay for half the costs to run it. (Gotta love the Woz)
- Director Ridley ...
I'm both a font nut and a history nut, so this post about typefaces from 1902 is pretty cool.
FTA: "But now I'm reaching a bit farther back--a century back, in fact, to 1909--to see what Section 6, Part 2, of my revered Volume 204 of the International Correspondence School Reference Library calls "the best advertising, catalog, booklet, and folder types." Even if I had revivals in mind, I'd be out of luck; most of these faces never made the transition from metal to digital. The turn of the 20th century was the beginning of a golden ...
Check out Autodesk Master Wayne Robson's reel:
If Wayne's name sounds familiar, it's because he's hosting a FREE tutorial here on FF for our Autodesk Mudbox contest. Win an iPad. Impress your friends.
The new site is described as "Facebook for creatives" and includes functionality similar to LinkedIn and Twitter that's geared to boosting design careers.
While there are already a sizable number of portfolio sites geared to the creative professional sector, the founders of Filter Foundry seem confident that a different mix of functionality will provide a compelling alternative. The goal of the site is to help creative individuals or firms showcase and market their products and services, find work, hire collaborators, learn or teach techniques, and buy digital products from the marketplace. Targeted are those active in such areas as ...