Logo design - a globulart retrospective
After all this time completing graphic design and corporate identity projects at Globulart, we now have a chance to view from a distance how important it is to have a good logotype.
Just below you can see a series of logos in their monochrome versions (graphic designers should ask themselves if the logo they are designing [...]
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¡En español, por favor!Poster design for a concert by the band “Profesor Popsnuggle”
We created a promo poster for the official premiere of the new album by the Almería-based band Profesor Popsnuggle, titled “El Fin de las Colonias Africanas” (The End of the African Colonies). They performed at the MADCHESTER POP BAR the 18th of July.
MIMIKRY: contemporary dance, music and realtime video
Mimikry, in english: mimicry. This is the title of the contemporary dance choreography conceived and directed by Anett Wolter (choreographer and dance pedagog, she specializes in contemporary dance and is an old friend of Globulart).
Today we take on this subject, both because we appreciate every form of creative expression and because I played a personal part in this dance piece: by creating an illustration design that has a meaningful part in the representation, aiding with the costume design and even paticipating in the live performance -although no dancing on my part was involved, maybe next time-, creating the live video that goes with the music, lighting and dance. In other words: live video editing.
That tune in the WWDC 08 keynote
Truth be said, I don’t know if anyone has wondered what song could be heard in the video that Steve Jobs played during the keynote address for the WWDC 2008, which showed what some big corporations think of the iPhone. It doesn’t hurt to tell about that song, though, just in case it caught someone else’s attention.
For a little perspective, Apple is finishing a system for distributing naitve applications for the iPhone, and, to that effect, and with the occasion of the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2008), Steve Jobs introduced a video in which high executives of a number of companies (even from the U.S. Army) talked about the benefits of creating software for the iPhone. Said video had a background music that sounded very, very familiar to me…
Raiders of the lost Brand
Today I am re-reading an article in the above URL, only in the printed version of El País, and the question comes to my mind automatically: differences aside, is there a list of the most valuable brands that are Made in Andalucía? What’s more, are there brands that are Made in Almería? Do they even exist? What I mean is… once a brand or company is entered in the Register of Companies, and has operated at a local, regional, national, european or even global scale, are those brands known outside our local sphere? There’s the evidence of companies from Almería in global markets such as agriculture or marble, but are their products recognized and noticed because they carry a specific brand and because they are produced in Almería?
Turning an apparent problem into an advantage
The words “crisis” and “recession” have taken on a life of their own; you read them in the newspapers, hear them on the radio, one can almost taste them. It is during such times that creativity becomes more important and companies have to make a greater investment in advertising to stay afloat and prosper.
Take this case: during the 1960s people complained that Heinz ketchup took too long to pour out of the bottle, and competing products seemed easier and more convenient to use. The evident choice would have been to study whether the problem was in the design of the bottle or in the formula of the product; but that would mean facing the competition in a conventional fashion and in their same ground. Instead of that, they pushed conventional thinking aside and [...]
Poster and billboard for Word Breast Cancer Day 2007
It was the last quarter of 2007, and a special opportunity arose; it meant collaborating with the AECC - Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (Spanish Association Against Cancer), which was organizing a fashion show for the World Breast Cancer Day in which the models would be women who had overcome breast cancer; as a company, we had been wanting to participate in these kind of pro bono projects, so we accepted and got to work.
Flyers and brochures: print design for Acanto, an art Gallery
It is a delight, writing a post about Galería Acanto, one of our best and most loyal customers, about whom we only have nice words to say. As a background, Galería Acanto is a business based in Almería, and is a frame workshop and a contemporary art gallery. Our professional relationship with them dates back to at least the year 2000, so they have witnessed our own history as a design studio. During these years we have done plenty of work for them, from their corporate website to their graphic communication designing posters, flyers and brochures.
Logo and print design for imago diagnostic
We’re back to the past, this time going back to early 2006. This work came from Madrid, there was this new company called imago diagnostic, devoted to providing hospitals with solutions for remote radiology diagnosis; the company has a system that allows radiologists to work from home using a high resolution terminal to perform a diagnosis from images obtained from the patient in a hospital in the world. This new commission started with such interesting premise; our task was to create a logo for the company as well as business cards and a presentation (done in Flash) as a support to their commercial process.
Corporate identity project: COFFEEHOUSE
The birth of this project dates back to the end of 2006, when a new client came along; he had previous experience in catering and he wanted to open a lounge bar in Almería. The new place would need a complete visual identity, interior design included.
Farewell, Arthur C. Clarke; so long, Anthony Minghella
How sad it is to report this; the creative genius that was Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer, died today at the age of 90. Clarke was responsible for some of the most famous books in the genre, such as “Rendezvous with Rama” and the sensational short story “The Sentinel”, which later led to the [...]
Graphic design for the 2nd VÍACRUCIS Pop Festival
Globulart Diseño whas been in charge of designing the official posters and flyers of the VíaCrucis Pop Festival, which is back again this year for its second edition. The dates for the festival are 19th, 20th and 21st of March 2008, and the performances will take palace in both Pub La Cueva and Madchester Pop [...]
Corporate identity project: Pilates Center Almería
As a brief introductory comment, given the short history of our blog compared to the years we’ve been running Globulart Diseño, we will write about projects both new and past. Now let’s dive right in…
It was the second half of 2007 when two entrepeneurs, in the process of creating a pilates center in Almería, came to our studio to have us create a corporate identity for their new company. The customer wanted a complete identity package, from the conception of their logotype to the printed pieces (business cards, letterhead and invoice sheets, envelopes, flyers) as well as some decorative elements. The place would be called Pilates Center Almería.
Experiments in 2D animation
This will be quick: it’s a proof of concept design of a mascot and 3 test animations that we at Globulart did in 2007 for the sheer pleasure of experimenting with 2D animation. This type of animation appears to have a certain quality that makes the work process more “human”. Now you could say that all those years watching cartoons paid off in the end…
Hello World, Globulart has moved!
Ah, the wonders of inaugurating a new studio… Now that we have recovered from the nastiness of the moving process itself, it is refreshing to see things under a new light. The “new light” part is literal, because the new site of Globulart provides us with nice, clean views of the Rambla Obispo Orberá, one of the main arteries of Almería, and recently renewed. Just see for yourselves:
New logo and website for Global Orgasm
As we said in an earlier post, the collaboration between Globulart Diseño with the Global Orgasm initiative for Peace (read previous entry) has been close; we have created, in record time, a new logo and a new website for Global Orgasm - in fact it is a record time comparing it to any other project we ever completed before.
Father pride, or the joy of doing the website of Alberto Rojas
Us members of Globulart who haven’t joined the ranks of paternity, must take pride in the meantime with our other “children”; that is, the creations of our work as designers. This is an occasion of pride for Globulart Diseño, great pride I might add, that of having finished the long overdue revamping of the website of Alberto Rojas, a photographer specialized in advertising and wedding photography, based in Aguadulce (Almería, Spain).
Globulart Diseño and Global Orgasm
Global Orgasm is a worldwide initiative with the intention of taking advantage of the biological fact of the human orgasm, using it as a positive force for peace. To elaborate, the intention is that the highest possible number of people throughout the planet experience a simultaneous orgasm in sync with the precise moment of the [...]