Posted in Design, Noise 13 on March 17th, 2008 0
Ah, laundry day. Time to sit around on a Sunday, drink a whole pot of tea and skim through all the design mags at Farley’s Coffee. This weekend I found a nice surprise, as one of the restaurants we designed years ago is still getting recognition in architecture magazines. The company we used for a coil curtain at […]
Posted in Inspiration, Design on February 12th, 2008 0
Sometimes I just need to break my habit of gluing myself to my computer and find other outlets for creativity. One such activity, was to take a letterpress class. As fun as it is to manipulate type in illustrator, it just doesn’t compare to the time, feel or mess that you get from playing […]
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 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.