June 2007
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Consumer Mentallity.
Consumer Engineering? Consumer Designed? I don’t know what nomenclature best suits it, but it seems to be the trend that modern electronics, cars, motorcycles, and anything else that is designed or engineered seems to be going. Example I dropped my point and shoot digital camera the other day right on the lens and impacted it into its retracting mechanism. I knew I was pretty much screwed,...
Wolff Olins – Welcome to design infamy
Love it or hate it, the London 2012 Olympics logo has certainly put Wolff Olins on the map. I think it holds true that there is no such thing as bad publicity, and creating something this controversial always deserves notice. The New Branded Olympics Designerly Commentary
Remove the chatter from the skull.
Some of you may recognize the below location; for those that dont it is RT. 97 at the corner of NY, PA, and NJ. It is a scenic byway also known as Hawks Nest. It has been featured in many car and motorcycle advertisements heres a nice video of some general hooliganism by some fool with a Trans Am Here At 8am I had a final moment of true relaxation in weeks sitting on the rock wall overlooking the...
“But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government, is to attack...”
– Robert M. Pirsig. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Into the ether
For those that are unaware, my name is Chris Fetherston and at the time of this blog’s inception I am a full time Graphic Design student at Montclair State University in New Jersey and also a part time Graphic Designer for Wireless Telecom Group INC. Though my thoughts are generally scattered and varied, I would like to keep this blog some what focused on my progress as a designer and...