Albertson Design Blog

Come to the Table

2008-08-29T19:31:43Z

Slow Food Nation started last night with the signing of a food declaration and then a feast for 500 supporters prepared right in front of San Francisco's city hall. http://fooddeclaration.org/

]]> The food declaration was drafted by our friends at Roots of Change, and we provided the visuals and web programming to make it happen: www.fooddeclaration.org.

The food declaration was drafted by our friends at Roots of Change, and we provided the visuals and web programming to make it happen: www.fooddeclaration.org.

Slow Hits The Streets

2008-08-09T01:27:31Z

In just a few weeks, San Francisco will be host to Slow Food Nation, a first-of-its-kind-food event. We've proudly lent our creative talents to the overall branding and advertising, with street banners and national ad placements. Tickets on-sale now! www.slowfoodnation.org

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Shopping from the Hip

2007-11-01T23:25:17Z

Albertson Design just completed the launch of online retail brand Look-boutique.com.

]]> Look-Boutique.com is a new retail enterprise offering a curated selection of clothing, accessories and editions for the ultra-hip. Owned and operated by art gallerist Jessica Silverman, the site's unique design was crafted entirely with open-source software.

Yum Yum

2007-09-28T18:45:42Z

A tidbit of news from our office in "food mecca" San Francisco

]]> These tasty little brochures are part of a complete marketing communications package for food and lifestyle photographer Alison Miksch. Our production includes a couple of delicious details: a laser-cut monogram on the cover, and a debossed belly band surrounds the booklet, enticing you to unwrap it and devour the contents. Yum!

Maybe we can cook something up for you, too?

Look at Alison Miksch's new website here.

Let my People grow!

2007-06-07T02:04:38Z

We're very proud to share the news of a recent project we've just begun with Slow Food USA: Slow Food Nation.

check out the site here: SlowFoodNation.org

]]> Kicking off with a press event in San Francisco, Albertson Design created a visual campaign aimed at promoting public interest in Slow Food and local farming. Chaired by Alice Waters of the famed Chez Panisse Restuarant, this grassroots campaign will culminate in a four-day event next spring called Slow Food Nation, here at Fort Mason. Our creative team developed a messaging platform, a graphic identity and web site, along with environmentally responsible printed materials that get the word out in a bold and provocative style.

GOOD Magazine

2007-05-30T19:16:53Z

Take a look at your local Barnes and Noble newsstand. There, you'll find issue 4 of GOOD, with an editorial contribution from us. We did the "Transparency" section, a series of informational graphics on topics ranging from teacher salaries to Bono's philanthropy (hey, I thought it was interesting).

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Ephemerama!

2007-03-14T02:50:00Z

Check out San Francisco collector David Levine's amazing web site of early 20th century travel ephemera.
There are some wonderful examples here of graphic design work from masters such as Herbert Matter, Piet Zwart, and Walter Herdeg (the founder of Graphis magazine). Spend a few hours browsing around!

Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera

Shown above: Travel brochure "St. Moritz - Pourquoi St-Moritz Pour Les Sports d'Hiver?" 1936. Photomontages and design by Walter Herdeg and Walter Amstutz. Inside cover.

MAKE Magazine on the Colbert Report

2007-03-07T21:20:38Z

OurChart Brand unveiled at CES

2007-01-27T20:19:36Z

One of our recent projects just got the Hollywood treatment!

]]> Earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show, CBS chairman Leslie Moonves' unveiled a new brand and online experience, called OurChart.com. On stage with him were Jennifer Beals, star of Showtime Network's The L-Word, and the show's creator Ilene Chaiken.

Leslie Moonves, CBS President and CEO: "We have just launched a new Web site, born right out of this show, called OurChart.com. This is one of the first examples of a media company taking its traditional assets and building an application around it for its online audience."

Our work encompassed a complete outline of the brand experience, the graphic identity and slogan, information architecture, and page designs for a robust social networking site. The site has been promoted heavily by Showtime, and within the show itself, as a rich online location for L-Word fans and their friends to connect, share and enjoy exclusive content.

Albertson Design profiled in design quarterly Eye Magazine

2006-10-09T01:45:28Z

David Albertson and his team of editorial designers were the subject of a recent
feature on art direction for magazines.

]]> International design publication Eye focused on Make Magazine: “A magazine needs its own personality—expressed in the way it is written—but also a visual vocabulary expressed in the kind of images it uses (and creates), the typefaces it choses and the mood of its layouts. That’s art direction. In a world (real and virtual) of downloads, templates and defaults, maybe it’s the killer application.

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Make Magazine selected for inclusion

2006-06-10T02:54:34Z

Make Magazine was selected along with approximately 80 other design
nominees to represent the most innovative American designs in a variety of
fields.

]]> The National Design Triennial is the Smithsonian Institution’s critically acclaimed
and publicly lauded survey of the best in contemporary American
design. Make Magazine was selected along with approximately 80 other design
nominees to represent the most innovative American designs in a variety of
fields, including product design, architecture, film, graphics, digital media, and
fashion. The curators of this important exhibition reviewed designers and their
projects, emerging ideas and major media that were at the center of contemporary
culture from 2003 to 2006.
“By displaying side-by-side the latest products and creative concepts from
companies as diverse as Pixar, Google, Herman Miller and NASA, the ‘Triennial’
emphasizes the nearly infinite ways in which design plays a role in how we see,
think about and experience the world around us,” said museum director Paul
Warwick Thompson.