For those who attended the 99% Con­fer­ence a few weeks ago in New York, got a pre­view of stills from most of this com­mer­cial; but now that it’s be released to the pub­lic, we can all enjoy it:

What do you think, dear read­ers? Can a bank really stand for some­thing? Would you do busi­ness with Stan­dard Char­tered Bank if it were in your town? And how about the visual side of the piece? Love it? Hate it? Are you a fan of Sag­meis­ter and his work? Never heard of him before? What do you think??

I did not attend the AIGA bien­nial con­fer­ence, Make/Think, last week in Mem­phis. I tried, but my plan­ning efforts quickly became a logis­ti­cal night­mare; in the end, I decided to save the money for a mort­gage pay­ment instead of the agony of fig­ur­ing out travel to a town with out South­west ser­vice and over­booked hotels (despite the fact that this is THE most impor­tant national graphic design conference).

While catch­ing up on what I missed (which should take a quite a while con­sid­er­ing how densely they pack the pro­gram­ming for the AIGA bien­nial con­fer­ence), I thought I’d share a few of the early high­lights I’ve unearthed:

AIGA Make/Think inter­views with golden nuggets of tasty advice and enter­tain­ment for all, but mostly stu­dents. from drift­ing cre­atives on Vimeo.

Charles Brock’s, of Face­out Stu­dio, look at the Kin­dle as a book designer.

Did you make it to Make/Think, dear read­ers? I’m still dis­ap­pointed about miss­ing Deb­bie Mill­man, Jill Green­berg, Ste­fan Sag­meis­ter (even if I’ve heard him speak before) and about a hun­dred other inter­est­ing peo­ple.