The Hunger Games logo is a symbol you’ve seen on books in the hands of people everywhere and on movie posters plastered all over subways and theaters. The infamous logo originated from Tim O’Brien, an adjunct professor in Pratt Institute’s Undergraduate Department of Communications Design who illustrated the three The Hunger Games’ covers for Scholastic.
The Hunger Games cover design by Tim O’brien
The Hunger Games movie poster designed by Ignition Print
O’Brien is an illustrator and portrait painter who’s work has been featured on the cover of Time, Harpers and Rolling Stone, among others. His paintings are in the collection of the National Gallery, Washington, DC., and he is a winner of the prestigious Hamilton King Award from the Society of Illustrators.His work is intricately detailed and imaginative with a curious balance of realism and fantasy that makes him the perfect fit for The Hunger Games. Not so coincidently, his wife Elizabeth Parisi happens to be the Creative Director at Scholastic.
Earlier this month Nissan unveiled its update of New York City’s most iconic moving public space: the Taxi, only a year after New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission selected the automaker, after an extremely competitive two-year bid selection process. The Nissan design, the NV200 Taxi, is the result of a research-driven and cross-disciplinary collaboration of The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Design Trust for Public Space, and Smart Design. At an exclusive debut of the prototype, key players in the process gave insight into how the new design pulled together almost all design disciplines—graphic, branding, product, and public space.
One highlight of this year’s Architectural Digest Home Design Show was DIFFA’s Dining by Design. This special exhibition features a smorgasbord of more than 40 dining environments created through a series of collaborations between designers and design brands. These whimsical installations raise funds to support direct care for people living with HIV/AIDS and preventive education for those at risk. On March 25, a select group of lucky guests will get to enjoy an extravagant dining experience as the grand finale.
On the opening day, we were lucky enough to receive a private tour of Dining by Design from the very stylish Goil Amornvivat, a partner at Brooklyn’s TUG Studio, which designed one of our favorite environments (below). Here is a glimpse of what we saw at this year’s show.
Amornvivat stands with the installation TUG created with custom furniture designer Justin Huxol of Tietz-Baccon. Their design depicted playful scenes from around the world, and it was inspired by a wreath (below) TUG created with Whoopi Goldberg for last December’s DIFFA holiday auction.
Photo by Magda Biernat
What you see in the video above is San Francisco-based Obscura Digital’s six solid weeks of content development, countless hours of production, and invaluable cultural awakening coming to life on the exterior surface of Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.
This 17-minute long show of architectural projection animations replayed every 30 minutes for 5 days starting on November 29, 2011 to mark the 40th Anniversary of the United Arab Emirates National Day. The experience brought together over 1,000 people from all over the world and from the most modest to the most extravagant backgrounds—a very appropriate tribute to the values that Sheikh Zayed built the Mosque and the UAE on.
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