Round the corner.

ONE MILLION! That’s how many!!…or a least will be if the submissions keep rolling in as they have been over at One Million Giraffes.

The Giraffe above was one of my submissions to this project and was stoked to find out it made Giraffe of the day! There’s another of my other giraffes I sent can be seen here.

In an effort to prove his friend wrong, Ola is on a mission to collect this massive number of high rise leaf munchers. The project on seems fairly simple until you start thinking about the reality, I’m sure you can imagine it is also a very LARGE (or should that be long…) one. A million anythings is a challenge to collect, let alone organise, count, filter and display them in all their long necked glory.

With only two rules to follow it’s real easy for everyone to get involved:

• You have to tell your friends about this project (otherwise it won’t work)
• Your giraffe(s) can be created in any way and form, but not on a computer (hands are good!)

If you’re reading this then find the time to go grab a pencil, stick, rock and scribble an extra tree top nibbler or two and send them in!

The following pictures are a small selection taken at the 3 Scoops Exhibition in response to the question that as a designer you are often asked… What is Graphic Design?

Using the hand made letter type blocks (DIY tutorial coming soon!), visitors where invited to display their answer on the grid of nails. Once this was done some disposable cameras where on hand to document their thoughts. Enlightening? Accurate? In need of censorship? Well yes and no and definately yes to some of them! One things for sure, everyone had very different ideas on how to answer. Highlights for me was watching the kids really get into it, even going as far as using the letter blocks to build towers to reach the top line! Sometimes what appears to be a simple question can lead to more questions rather than answers…

And of course your answer is more than welcome too!

Think he might be on to something here! ^

The cold is here! Have had some full on hail storms (with thunder!) bringing some super cold proper winter temperatures. Today the sun is out and the view of mount Taranaki out the Spore* design studio window is rather lovely and snowy. Might be time to dust off the old snowboard and see if I can get one of those snow and surf combo days in!

This is the start of ‘big’ things, or at least ‘some’ things!