avalonstar:distortion

It’s not every day you see a site and go, “I want those graphs to have my babies.” Alright, you probably never say things like that.

I happened to run into this site by complete accident and once I saw the pretty pictures I was immediately drawn to stay. The design itself isn’t why this site is being featured, it’s the graph work, the print work.

I have this odd affinity for graphs and visualizations. So much so that I wanted to start a blog on it. Where is it you ask? I’ll just defer the question for now.

I’ll leave it at that. But if you can take Illustrator, slow it to a crawl, and do that with it, my god you’re good.

Feel the need to critique it yourself? By all means! »

Most of these “Sites of the Moment” will be actual sites. But not all of them have to be, like this one—the inaugural SotM. Simply, if I find it cool, I’ll feature it.

Whenever I watch TV, I sit and wonder about the talent behind some of the awesome commercials and identity spots out there. One of the first companies that I stumbled upon who created, for example, the current Cartoon Network identity spots was a firm called Brand New School.

Buck happens to be one of those companies that have created a slew of identities that I’ve seen over the past year or so, from the new Hundai “Think about it.” campaign to the NBA’s “Amazing” campaign.

To be specific, I’m featuring their 2008 logo reel, because I’m quite the fan of reels (and have constantly tried to come up with ways to make my own, to no avail of course); this being the first time I’ve run into a logo reel.

Enjoy it! I think you will. :)

Feel the need to critique it yourself? By all means! »