Cullmann Design Blog

Director Ridley Scott, of BladeRunner Fame, will be producing the most recent re-envisioning of “A Day In The Life” series. Most popular in it’s form as a coffee tablet book, this series is one of the original “crowd sourcing” projects inviting people from all walks of life and stations to provide a visual record of their experiences on a particular day.

The current incarnation will begin life as a user-submitted video via a dedicated YouTube channel and will evolve into a feature-length film with Scott at the helm of creative. Budding film-makers can submit their own videos and have their work featured in the final cut.

Although the day-in-a-life concept has been around for quite some time, this most recent work seems to be a natural application of the web, and in particular, YouTube. The idea of a truly open submission that captures the creative and mundane alike-presenting it as a perspective on our condition. A draw-back–and one that is substantial–is that the digital divide may leave more in the cold than previous day-in-the-life projects. YouTube’s popularity is worldwide though and the focus perspective should be something more broad than the typical “western” view.

The “Day” will be July 24, 2010, so submit your entry between July 24 and 31, 2010.

Think Vitamin, an online resource for new media designers has posted a fantastic video explaining foundation concepts for designers getting started with designing and building html e-mails.

I get questions from a lot of Designers and Art Directors who have questions about how to address e-mail marketing. It’s a tricky craft with a ton of e-mail clients, too many devices and the challenge of SPAM filtering. From layout to some basic coding, the Think Vitamin tutorial covers a lot of ground.

The video tutorial is a sampling from their new offering membership.thinkvitamin.com, a competing product to long-time video tutorial group lynda.com. Both are great places to learn about any skills you may be new to or rusty with.

Google celebrates their contributing doodlers.