Posted in Environment, Design on January 30th, 2008 0
AIGA recently held their annual conference on sustainability (compostmodern.org) here in San Francisco. Speakers included everyone from big names (like Alex Steffen of worldchanging.org and Adam Werbach of Act Now Productions) to some lesser-known people who are doing great things in the environmental design field (such as Mark Galbraith of Nau Clothing and Valerie Casey […]
Posted in Art, Environment on January 2nd, 2008 0
This film should be required viewing for everyone living in developed countries. Jennifer Baichwal documents the work of artist Edward Burtynsky – a large scale photographer who has gained widespread recognition in the past few years for his striking photographs of industrial landscapes—among them quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams. Burtynsky’s work is beautiful, […]
Posted in Inspiration, Web, Design on December 17th, 2007 0
The prolific Jonathon Harris has recently launched his latest project, The Whale Hunt, an interactive art project/storytelling experiment that documents his 9 day journey with the Inupiat Eskimos in Northern Alaska. Mr. Harris is the creator of such projects as We Feel Fine and Universe,
Posted in Inspiration, Design on October 1st, 2007 0
A Kind Company (New York) has recently put up an educational site dedicated to the works of Alvin Lustig (www.alvinlustig.org), a Modern American Designer. Lustig (1915 – 1955) was a true Renaissance man in the world of Design, working on everything from his typographically-driven book jackets, to Furniture Design and Architecture.
Posted in Happenings on September 26th, 2007 0
For those of you in the Bay Area, the 2007 Litquake Literary Festival is approaching (October 6-13). It’s a week’s worth of discussions, readings, and music, followed by Saturday’s Litcrawl