Category Archives: primate design work
principles of human-centered design: “Human Dignity and Human Rights”
i read this essay that is just plain great! it strikes up good conversation … everything from outsourcing jobs overseas to intelligent design. human-centered-ness is huge within the design sphere. otherwise, it’s just form. and form is nothing without content. and content is what speaks to the people. ethics were also raised when one of [...]
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GRAMMY Museum — Instruments of Art
this weekend marked the opening for a GRAMMY Museum exhibit at the Westfield Topanga mall called Instruments of Art, which is a showcase of 6 photographers featuring 33 never-before-displayed photographs of a selection of the Museum’s critically-acclaimed public programs, featuring performances by award-winning musicians. i had a lot of fun creating the identity, collateral, evite, [...]
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the sixties in two thousand ten
it just so happens that the two museums most dear to my heart are on a trip through the sixities. the Fullerton Museum is now featuring Technicolor Dreaming: Psychedelic Posters from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and The GRAMMY Museum is hosting their own show Strange Kozmic Experience; The Doors, Janis [...]
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Philip Webb Album Covers
opera singer, Philip Webb, came to us for a new look to his Sacred Arts Opera Albums. with the expert help of devin dailey, we created a subtle brand for his albums that can be applied to everything from a formal to casual approach. this was the outcome… to learn more about philip webb and [...]
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GRAMMY Museum Travel Tours logo
The GRAMMY Museum is rolling out a very cool travel program starting with an even cooler package called Elvis At 21, just like the smithsonian and history channel’s traveling exhibit. the package is described like this: Join Executive Director Robert Santelli for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore the musical legacy of Elvis Presley. This five-day, [...]
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52nd GRAMMY Award collateral
it’s been awhile since i posted about anything going on in primate design’s world. seems like PÄS has been hogging the spotlight, while pd has taken the back seat. in many ways that’s true, but that’s how pd operates best — behind the scenes. here are a couple pieces that showed up at the GRAMMY’s [...]
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color prophecy…
before i chose the color to brand PÄS, i have to confess, i didn’t do any research and only went with personal preference and gut feeling. as a designer i suppose i should have checked out the personality traits for turquoise. but i didn’t. and what do you know, Pantone® names Turquoise the color of [...]
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Elvis is coming to L.A. tomorrow
attention Elvis fans, The King will we at The GRAMMY Museum starting tomorrow, January 8, 2010 through March 28, 2010. Elvis at 21, Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer was developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Govinda Gallery, and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, and is made possible through the generous support of The History Channel. primate design was asked to create Elvis collateral [...]
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JOYA Scholars — Winter Celebration
this was a fun flyer to create for JOYA Scholars. i got to make paper snowflakes as the center of my concept to represent winter and spell the name of JOYA at the same time. i made them on lined school paper to add an educational twist. overall, i feel that this is a fun [...]
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EIKON Home — Christmas 2009
for this year’s EIKON Home Christmas postcard, we changed things up a bit. first off we bumped up the size to 5×7 and we went full bleed instead of a border. as usual, it was so fun to search around the store for cool things to put in the photo. and as unusual it was [...]
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PÄS Gallery on Zvents
EIKON Home summer postcard