Moleskine has teamed up with I.D. Magazine and sent out individual Moleskin sketchbooks to capture one week of sketches/thoughts/ideas from a handful of well known designers. The event titled “A Week in Your Life” intends to celebrate the launch of their new folio collection. I’m a pretty big fan of Moleskin and personally know a [...]
The above video isn’t anything new, but it’s still damn impressive. For those that don’t know, processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions (processing.org). A visit to flight 404′s vimeo page reveals a great amount of inventive art/animation done in processing. Some of [...]
It’s been a year or two since I’ve watched any of the Arist Series from Hilman Curtis. Not much new has been posted aside from the Lawrence Weiner piece. I’ve seen a few of these artists speak since watching for the first time. Sagmeister in specific seemed to have a sense of humor, which is [...]
Creative Review has featured the work of recent Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston graduate, Nicole Peterson. The specific work refers to a unique design for each of the three canticas (individual stories) for The Divine Comedy. In a sea of unwanted design-trend-porn, such relief is found when we find work that is [...]
A few short days after I finished reading through ‘The Pentagram Papers’, Pentagram announced the publication of their newest work compilation showcase, ‘The Black Book’. Boasting in-depth looks at over 400 projects over recent years, It’s sure to be packed full of interesting and provocative perspective by the Pentagram partners. For those of you who [...]
“TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.” During the years I have spent designing, I’ve come to find that the best form of inspiration comes as a result of conversations I’ve held with [...]
Just a few short days after a very inspiration lecture given by Stefan Sagmeister at the University of Washington I was lucky enough to stumble across a crisp little business card straight form his hot hot hands. It was cleverly constructed with two separate pieces, one regular stock and the other a sort of printed [...]