Who is Jennifer Hopkins?

A short interview with the talented Jennifer Hopkins.

Name: Jennifer Hopkins

Position: Senior Designer at Saputo Design, Inc.

How did you become interested in design?

I took a bunch of classes at junior college, and the one about design was the one I loved the most. I just liked all the type!

What's your favorite band?

The Pixies.

If you could meet any celebrity, who would it be and why?

Right now, it would have to be Nathan Fillion - because he's a dork.

If you could have a superpower, what would it be?

The ability to freeze time. Sometimes, you need a break!

What's your favorite part of working at Saputo?

The people.

One word of advice for designers?

To be confident in what you do - it goes a long way. That and drink lots of coffee!

Glasgow 2014 Pictorgrams

For each Olympics, a graphic design team is given the initiative to reinvent the pictograms used to depict each Olympic sport. For a global campaign such as the Olympics’ pictograms, icons have to be simple enough to be understood by a world audience, but must be aesthetically pleasing to a wide variety of different people from vastly different cultures. Needless to say, it’s a difficult job.

This year, according to this article by Creative Review, the pictograms for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014 were unveiled last week by studio Tangent Graphic. These pictograms have a more simplified look that feature double lines, as well as different line weights, to emphasize certain key parts of the icon. While we think that they are different and definitely creative, our absolute favorite icons were from last year’s Vancouver Olympics – take a look at the genius here.

Webinspeer

HTML is still just a child and we’re only beginning to see what it is capable of. Not only is this a collection of great looking websites, but they also exemplify the potential of HTML. As browsers become more powerful, we will only see more and more of this type of creative design. Check it out!

Satellite Collections

Take a look at this article about artist Jenny Odell’s work, Satellite Collections. She manually scans Google maps, collecting different types of man-made objects and arranging them together to form a beautiful piece of art.

According to Odell, “they’re things we often overlook or take for granted as part of our environment; but somehow, from a satellite point of view, they reveal themselves to be (somewhat) ubiquitous signs of human civilization, popping up in certain places while the surrounding area may simply be desert or mountains. From this perspective there’s something very fragile and nostalgic about them.”

What an imaginitive way to combine nature, humanity, and the omnipresent technological age.