Dana Córdova Design /Blog

Sloane Summer 2010 Now Live!

Dana Córdova — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:05:44 +0000

At long last, the latest issue of sloane is out! Hope you enjoy—there is tons of great new content, photography, shopping, beauty tips, health, the arts and more.

Filed under: Fashion, Illustration, Magazines, Photography, Sloane News

New Sloane Contributors: Photographers

Dana Córdova — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:38:01 +0000

I’m really excited to have 3 great new photographers for the upcoming Summer issue. I’m not going to give anything away—but check out some of their previous work below.

Aaron Richter

Natasha Klimchuk

Alyssa Noches

Filed under: Photography, Sloane News

New Illustration

Dana Córdova — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:10:54 +0000

I’m really excited to report I have signed on two new fantastic illustrators for the next issue of sloane: Michelle Thompson from the UK, (whom I wrote about back in November) and Randi Antonsen of Norway. I have long been drawn to collage work and these two are creating some really fantastic, high quality imagery. Check out some examples of their work below and lots more on their websites. Summer issue featuring their illustrations will be out June 15th.

Michelle Thompson

Randi Antonsen

Filed under: Illustration, Sloane News

Tobias Wong: 1974-2010

Dana Córdova — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:01:38 +0000

Yesterday the art and design world lost a great mind. As the New York Times wrote in his obituary, “Tobias Wong, a designer whose outrageous sendups of luxury goods and witty expropriation of work by other designers blurred the line between conceptual art and design…” His death has been ruled a suicide. Wong described his work as “para-design,” and gained the public’s attention (and not always favorable) by blending art and design together to create witty conceptual pieces that often questioned the pretensions of their makers. One of his first stunts consisted of taking a Phillip Starck Bubble Chair, turning it into a lamp and and showing it the night before the actual Starck chair was even shown to the public for the first time.
A sad loss for the design and art world.

Courtesy of Esquire

Remote Control Switch enclose in Lucite Box

This is a Lamp, Courtesy Design Boom

Gold Pills

Filed under: Design Inspiration

Arabian Inspiration: MGH 2010 Storybook Ball

Dana Córdova — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:35:46 +0000

I am excited to have been chosen as the designer for MGH’s Storybook Ball. This year they are going for an Arabian theme and I have had a great time researching and hunting for inspiration. Check out some of my picks below. I plan to create a suite of paper collateral including an invite package and program book. I can’t tell you too much yet, but I’ll share more details as the process continues…

Filed under: Design Inspiration

Hope for the little guys: Kickstarter.com

Dana Córdova — Sat, 22 May 2010 18:21:38 +0000

I am excited to report that my side project Sloane magazine has been accepted to join the kickstater.com fund raising site!

I was recently introduced to this great new platform to fund creative projects. Featured in Wired and the New York Times Kickstarter is an innovative new site that helps creative projects fund raise in a unique way. Backers earn tangible rewards for the projects they back and no money changes hands unless the goal is met. Sloane’s current mission is to completely overhaul the website to include the current flip-page digital magazine format in one section, and then to also include a blog with daily content and a third section with embedded video features on various stories, behind-the-scenes with photographers and more. The site will also include the ability to download Sloane to a personal device to be read offline on an ebook reader or smartphone. Backers earn rewards ranging from bumper stickers, party invitations, hyperlinking to a personal site all the way up to professional business offerings, check it out:

Filed under: Sloane News

Sloane YouTube Channel Now Active!

Dana Córdova — Sun, 09 May 2010 14:34:03 +0000

Check out Sloane’s new YouTube Channel! View contributors videos, behind-the-scenes of photo shots and more!…

Filed under: Sloane News

Lovely Package! (I didn’t name it that)

Dana Córdova — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:56:36 +0000

Thanks to Lovely Package I discovered these fantastic milk product packaging designs from Hungary. Simplicity, sans serif font and fun colors—why can’t American’s get into stuff like this?…

Filed under: Design Inspiration

Mad Brothers: RIP Gang Starr

Dana Córdova — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:54:49 +0000

How great is this poster in memoriam for Guru from Gang Starr? The design is
simple and perfect and makes great use of the font Akzidenz Grotesque. You might
be wondering what a white girl from the ’burbs is doing talking about Gang Starr,
but I was big hip-hop fan in my New York–art school days at SVA. Albeit, in a
somewhat, ironic ”I get it” sort of way and intermixed with a lot of punk and trance
music (I was 18 and I thought I was so informed, so underground, you know?…)
Although nowadays I more often find myself sipping overpriced cocktails and listening
to the new Grizzly Bear or XX album, I still pull out my old Gang Starr albums when
I need to channel those free, creative days in the late 90s when I ran around
downtown NYC with $20 in my pocket…

Tip via Friends of Type.

Filed under: Design Inspiration

Spiewak & Sons Book

Dana Córdova — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:05:53 +0000

Thanks to FPO, I just caught a glimse of the Spiewak book covering the history of the iconic clothing company. Spiewak, who got his start 106 years ago making sheep skin vests for dock workers in Brooklyn, has since grown into a successful business that produces clothing fit for celebrities and police officers alike. The book is beautifully conceived and crafted.

Filed under: Design Inspiration