This year the GO-FAR students visited Bangladesh for two week-long trips in July and September. Do drop by Asian Communication Resource Centre and Lee Wee Nam Library to visit their exhibition!

GraphicDesignBlog.com shares some of the attractive and creative package designs which tempt customers to purchase these grocery products not only for the product but for its enticing package designing as well.

	Successful food packaging designHargreaves, Ben. RotoVision, 2006. Call No: NC1002.P33H279S [check availability]
	Eat me : delicious, desirable, successful food packaging design Hargreaves, Ben. RotoVision, 2004. Call No: NC1002.P33H279 [check availability]
	Package design Savoir, Lou Andrea. Daab, 2008. Call No: TS195.4.P119PD [check availability]
	Packaging : design successful packaging for specific customer groupsStephenson, Keith. RotoVision, 2007. Call No: TS195.4.S836 [check availability]
	Packaging makeovers : graphic redesign for market changeKing-Gordon, Stacey. Page One Publishing, 2005. Call No: PN1993.8.U5G848 [check availability]
	Package form and design : encyclopedia of paper-folding designsPIE Books, c2007. Call No: Z261.P119 [check availability]
	What is packaging design? Calver, Giles. RotoVision, c2004. Call No: NC1002.P33C167 [check availability]

Graffiti and street artwork is another form of artwork which expresses a message. Take a look at creative graffiti artworks compiled by Jacob Gube from SmashingMagazine.com, and view how messages are conveyed through street art.

Sending out resumes to potential employers for the creative jobs available? Check out these visually appealing & creative resumes collated by by Walter from WebDesignerDepot.com, which stands out from the rest will surely get the hirer to give a second look to the resumes.

Check out this cool and innovative stop motion animation video clip, created as part of a project by Bang-yao Liu from Savannah College of Art and Design. The video depicts use of post-it notes formanaging deadlines and how messy (or creative!) they could get.

The creator has also shared how he has created the video.

Check out this Zig Zag Chair that I came across in DeeplyMadlyLiving.com. The design was inspired from endless lines as it is seems to be hard to tell where the unique design ends and cozy furniture begins. The orange seat is actually made of aluminum alloy frame, covered with a thick supporting foam covering, so you will always feel comfortable while sitting on it!

You can get more information about the chair or even order it here!

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Wondering which green roof art school I’m referring to…?

Where else?! It’s none other that the School of Art Design & Media building in Nanyang Technological University.

The 5-storey structure, which houses the ADM Library as well, was featured in WebUrbanist.com among 14 other  educational institutions’ buildings which are deemed as “cool” and buildings which “looked like this, attendance rates would skyrocket!”.

Click on the link below to read on what was written about the SADM building find out other similar other “cool” buildings of academic institutions in the world.

15 Cool High School, College and University Building Designs | WebUrbanist.

Trends are always welcome in design, and logo design is no exception as it can bring about design variations. Charlie B. Johnson shares some of his predicted trends in logo design in 2009, namely:

1. Classic modernism
2. Typographic logos
3. Psychedelic pop backgrounds
4. Puzzle patterns
5. Arabesque
6. Pictograms
7. Tactile
8. 80’s Geometry
9. Origami
10. Street Art

Find out more of the logo designs and trends to find out how each logo trend has evolved and is being applied in designing of logos today.

“Australian newspaper The Age reports that ‘Happy Feet 2‘ will be made entirely in Sydney, Australia in a new digital production facility that will employ an average of 438 people over three years, including some 230 computer-generated imaging artists.” (more…)