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#cellphoneSketchpad: the ‘No Idling’ eBook cover collaboration with @worldmegan for @projectdomino

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The Domino Project Street team sources, creates, produces and publishes, 'No Idling' in less than 2 weeks!
© 2011 Dave Weinberg

Thrilled to collaborate with fellow linchpin Domino Project Street Team members to produce ‘No Idling: 30 stories inspired by Do the Work‘. Also download Do the Work – free for the Kindle (apps available for non-kindle devices) until May 20.

The cellphoneSketch, NO IDLING was captured upon descent from the High-Line in NYC back in February, 2011. It seemed like the perfect image and message for an eBook based on Steven Pressfield’s recent – Do the Work.

Why? It expands on the theme of Pressfield’s work. The act of idling is what most of us are doing when we encounter resistance. We’re ON, there’s somebody home but we’re not moving. NO IDLING is a call to action and assertion to keep moving. 

Why this image?
Symbols.

    1. Brick wall is a metaphor for blockage or being stopped dead in your tracks. It’s an obstacle. The sign is a challenge, an appeal and call to action to find a way to move through it.

    2. The sign says ‘NO IDLING’ but at first glance it reads as ‘IDLING’. The ‘shadow’ covers the word ‘NO’ and isn’t it our shadow selves that can undermine our otherwise productive behavior?

    3. The shadow cast is a particular moment in time. Had this image been taken 5 minutes before or after it would have had a completely different meaning. Resistance works like this too. It is fluid (or shadowy…). Not always there but seems to show up at critical moments in time that may prevent us from doing the work.

    4. These stories are from real people who have and/or are struggling with and recognizing their shadow selves – seeing through the shadow to the ‘real’ message beneath and ultimately persevering and DOing the Work.

I also like the symbolism of capturing it (or it capturing me…) coming off the ‘High’ line – an incredible architectural, artistic, public, tribal project in and of itself.

The best part however, was collaborating with fabulous illustrator, Megan Elizabeth Morris who turned the shadowy NO into the people who do the work of YES!

original cellphoneSketch

cellphoneSketchClass

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The original Macintosh launched the ‘desktop’ publishing revolution in the 1980’s. The second decade of the 21st century is all about screens, apps, and an internet connection. Laptops, tablets, smartPhones and other devices – give way to the ‘mobile’ cross-media publishing evolution.

Today publishing can be as simple as typing 140 characters or less into any number of devices, tapping ‘submit’ with your finger and BAM (click)— you’re LIVE!

Students from my Desktop Cross-Media Publishing + Design course at University of Southern Maine, explored both desktop and cross-media publishing techniques for their final project. The assignment? Using your cellphone camera, choose a subject and tell a story, primarily using the visuals captured on your phone.

Students sourced, produced and published their content in print and on the web. Studio techniques using Adobe Creative Suite enabled students to retouch images, compose layouts and generate final files. Student’s cellphoneSketches were produced as greeting cards and posters; the web aspect, published right here on cellphoneSketchpad (scroll down).

Got a favorite? We’d welcome your comments!

 

Patrick’s House Plants

Pepperoni Watermelon

© 2011 Patrick Moulton

 

 

Springtime in Maine

Signs of Spring in Maine
© 2011 Steve Cossaboom

 

Rainy Day Stroll

A big world that seems so small

© 2011 Jon-Michael Tabone

 

Pieces of Home

A rock wall behind my parents house

 

© 2011 Samantha Pomelow

 

 

A Day with the Dark Knight

I know who I am going to call.

© 2011 Adam Fahey

Adventures in the Woods

A walk in the woods

© 2011 Peter Eckstein

Baxter Woods Park

The white ash at sunset

© 2011 Joshua Cole

 

Musicians for Life

Trey and Mike from Phish

Music Icons

© 2011 Nick Smith

 

Shopping Shaws

SHOP SHAWS

 

© 2011 MarkoMandic

 

Safety First


 

© 2011 Gouled Hassan

 

Strength

Where do you find your strength?

©Jeri Basko

 

A Collection of Words

Mind?
Where is my Mind?

4x4 Words

© 2011 Sean Laurence Rothgaber

 

Classic Downtown Signs

Classic Downtown Signs
Classic Downtown Signs

 

© 2011 Daniel Bailey

 

Easter Car Repaint

someone is happy with his repaint
© 2011 John Freeman

 

© 2011 John Freeman

 

A day in the life, on a Wednesday

Forgot hand lotion

 

© 2011 Tynan Nida

 

Dorm Life: It's Delicious!!!

© 2011 Everett Houghton

 

Some of the goals of this University of Southern Maine course, Desktop Publishing & Design, ITT343-2011 were to explore, analyze and practice publishing across media. The practice included comprehensive learnings and workflow across Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, critiquing cross-media marketing campaigns currently in-market, a field trip to Maine Today Media’s commercial printing facility, a guest lecture showcasing a real-world design challenge, and finally – pulling it all together in the final project – sourcing content (via cellphone) and designing/producing/publishing across media.

know vs no

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Amber Rae's Go To Model
© 2011 Amber Rae

Amber Rae‘s cellphoneSketch message cuts to a fundamental question just beneath the surface of Wieden+Kennedy‘s 1988 iconic and ubiquitous Nike assertion to ‘Just Do It‘.

Just do what?

We all have too much To Do. To Do Lists. To Do Lists OF To Do Lists! How do you figure out what’s most important to GO and DO?

Amber helps answer this question, thru her simple three step filter.

HELL YES? YES? Go do. MAYBE? Don’t do. Simple.

No more getting caught on ‘MAYBE’ – no more second guessing… debating…

“…wait was that my heart, head or gut talking???”
“…but what would so and so think?”
“…I really should ask my therapist…”

Because in fact – what you know, right now is that it’s just ‘MAYBE’. What else do you know? What’s ‘HELL YES’ & ‘YES’.

So what if you get all Nancy Reagan on ‘MAYBES’ ass and “just say NO“?You might end up with much more time for ‘HELL YES’ and ‘YES’.

And who knows? Some of those ‘MAYBES’ may even turn into ‘HELL YES’ & ‘YES’ at some point (but don’t spend time thinking about that either…)

Some things you KNOW. GO DO those things.
‘MAYBE’ means NO.

More from Amber Rae, Creative Catalyst, Starter of Meaningful Things and Chief Evangelist of The Domino Project powered by Amazon.

the future of design in media will be ABSTRACT

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AIGA Maine presents ABSTRACT: The Future of Design in Media - IRL - Friday, June 10 @ USM's Hannaford Hall
© 2011 Dave Weinberg

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how to contain a meltdown

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the abracadabra of information

“Japan’s government has asked people living within 12 miles of the Fukushima plant to evacuate and those between 12 miles and 18 miles to stay indoors…”
–CNBC

“U.S. urges Americans within 50 miles of Japanese nuclear plant to evacuate”
–The Washington Post

Howard Stern: ‘felt like such a failure’ after first marriage ended, used sex to cope with divorce
–NY Daily News