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02/06/10
Michael Bierut talks
about clients.
12/12/09
The GOOD Guide to COP15
08/29/09
How can we as designers promote sustainability when the stability of the economy and the security of our job is based on continuous consumption and growth?
(Via Edward Morris)
03/17/09
Murals for The Library Initiative (a project I was lucky enough to be a part of over the past few months.)
Also, see the New York Times arcticle and slideshow.
03/15/09
Why play is vital--not matter your age. Stuart Brown at the Ted Conference.
RAW DATA NOW!
Tim Breners-Lee at TED Conference 2009.
03/06/08
"Oddly, Fairey’s splendid tour de force for Obama anticipated a new national mood, of serious-minded pragmatism, which makes ideological extremes seem sort of quaint. I found myself regarding the show as strangely wholesome, like a vaccine that defeats the virus it imitates. It’s as if Fairey meant to ridicule rebellion. I’m not sure he knows what he meant, beyond wanting to get a rise out of people. But if he did know—that is, if he were a better artist—he probably could not have helped change the world with one magically ambiguous picture."
2/24/09
"I would like not to have to play the role of the artist only because this way I get paid, and I wish it wouldn’t even occur to others that there’s anyone who gets paid for being an artist. I would like all of us or none of us to be artists, as we were when we did drawings, boats, ships and windmills, cableways and telescopes. I would like to think that the old happy state that I once knew could somehow be brought back: that happy state in which “design” or art — so called art — was life, in which life was art, I mean creativity, I mean it was the awareness of belonging to the Planet and to the pulsing history of the people that are with us."
Ettore Sottsass, 1990
02/05/09
Minneapolis architecture firm City Desk Studio transforms a disgarded section of Minneapolis's famoust skywalk into a modernist lake cabin.
01/01/09
" To us, that's like hiring the designers of the Hummer to rethink our transportation and energy policies." Sorry We Missed the Party. We Were Too Busy Working. (Thanks to WD at DO)
12/10/08
A surprising parable of foie gras: Dan Barber at the Taste3 conference. Amazing.(Thanks to Katie Barcelona).
11/18/08
I had the great honor of representing Pentagram at the 5th Annual WGDFC. There are more photos on Flickr, and while you're at it, check out the magical skills of Paul Sahre.
11/15/08
Until I have a chance to update my photogrpahy section, here's my flickr page.
11/14/08
"I believe we are in the third major phase of modern design history: an era of relationally-based, contextually-specific design." Toward Relational Design by Andrew Blauvelt.
10/13/08
Photos from the 5:12 China's Massive Earthquake Exhibition in Nanjing, China. You can see my poster here. It's the red one.
10/12/08
Obama Necklace: A tasteful way to show your support when buttons and t-shirts aren't appropriate (and even when they are!) Also, the pin and brooch.
09/26/08
The Museum of Arts and Design opens this weekend.
Check out the identity and enviornmental design by Pentagram.
09/25/08
The new Diller Scofidio + Renfro website designed by Lisa Strausfeld at Pentagram.
09/12/08
Studio Kudos. Former co-worker's new design studio.
What could possibly make someone leave New York and move to Buffalo? (thanks to Chris Sherron)
09/08/08
Stunning photographs of neglected and decaying public swimming pools.
09/07/08
New video from The Balloon Project.
08/29/08
HISTORIC
08/24/08
Reason to be Cheerful:
Jean Nouvel.
08/10/08
Hipster: The Dead End of Civilization. (Thanks to Christopher Wade Sherron)
06/28/08
"Opico Model 595 Quiet Fan Batch Dryer With Sky-Vac Grain Cleaner."
06/15/08
Not The Party She Planned
06/05/08
"Gerd Arntz designed around 4000 signs, which symbolized key data from industry, demographics, politics and economy, for the visual language Isotype."
(Thanks Takaaki)
06/02/08
HISTORIC
5/28/08
Don't "Just Do It", "Make it Work"
5/23/08
Design Glut: the Brooklyn based industrial design studio of Kegan Fisher and Liz Kinnmark.
Alki1's extensive Flickr archive of graphic design history
Photos of the abandoned Detroit Public Schools Book Depository. Also, photos of an abandoned Russian library.
All of the streets in the lower 48 states. By Ben Fry.
The blog of Kindra Murphy
School of Visual Arts MFA Chair Project. Winner of Best Booth Award at the ICFF.
4/20/08
The Punch Brothers
"Bluegrass instrmentation and spontaneity in the structures of modern classical" (Quote from New York Times)
4/10/08
Underground Mainstream
3/25/08
A conversation with John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil, on Charlie Rose.
Monome: minimalist, flexible interfaces.
3/24/08
Alvin Aronson's D/A Clock,
George Dubinsky's Hydroscopic Calender, and other ingenious timekeeping pieces from the RISD furniture department.
03/19/08
Historic speech
The Tällberg Forum
03/07/08
The Big Chart:
Recent Developments in
Counter-Intuitive Comparison.
(Thanks to Robert Feyereisen)
02/20/08
The Balloon Project
The Reanimation Library: “Outdated and discarded, they have been culled from thrift stores, stoop sales, and throw-away piles across the country and given new life as resource material for artists, writers, and other cultural archeologists.”
02/17/08
The Plotting Machine that can draw, scratch or cut with almost any traditional mark-making instrument. Using an LED and a long-exposure photograph, it can even plot light.
01/23/08
80 Million Tiny Images (Thanks to Christian Schmidt)
12/21/07
John Maeda named RISD president . (WOW!)
12/09/07
“Ways to save and generate energy from The New York Times Magazine's Year in Ideas.” While you're at it, check out the work of Nikola Tesla. He envisioned wireless energy over a century ago.
12/08/07
“Digital Detroit: On Tourists in the Apocalypse.”
(Via Archinect)
12/05/07
“Unicode 5.0 encodes exactly 98,884 characters on different planes. Through this wiki function, we collect information on every single character...” (Via The Serif)
“Understanding Sub-Pixel (LCD Screen) Anti-Aliased Font Rendering.”
12/04/07
“Eisenman vs. the Herzog -
LIVE Blogging from the Harvard GSD.”
12/03/07
“Inscribed in the living tile:
Type in the Toronto Subway”
(via Writing Design Criticism)
Corn fields and military bases: a discussion between David Salmela and Thomas Fischer on critical-regionalist architecture.
“20x200: It's art for everyone. New original editions weekly, at ridiculously affordable prices.” (Thanks to Tia Salmela)
Also, check out Supermarket.
12/02 07
“How to make big things happen with small teams,”
a manifesto from Jason Fried
of Basecamp.
12/01/07
Jen Stark's technicolor construction paper sculptures.
Also take a look at another great construction paper artists, Thomas Demand.
Interest in the artic is booming.
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11/28/97
The entire internet on one page(Via Information Aesthetics).
Short film on Pentagram by Hillman Curtis. (Via Armin at Underconsideration)
11/21/07
Joey Roth's minimalist products. (Found on Quipsologies)
11/19/07
"MUJI - in its deliberate pursuit of the pure and the ordinary - achieves the extraordinary."
11/18/07
Daniel Eatock is having his first solo show. Check out the video of his lecture at the Walker Art Center. While you're at it, here are a few other videos from Walker Channel that I recommend.
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In high school I designed ski suits for my biathlon team. Here are some underwater photographs of my first piece of graphic design.
One Laptop Per Child
special offer through Nov 27th. Give One Get One. The laptops will be going to children in Afghanistan, Haiti, Cambodia, and Rwanda.
11/17/07
This makes me proud to be
a designer from Minnesota.
Here is another peripheral midwest modernist that makes me proud.
11/15/07
From the suburbs?
Richard Saul Wurman's 19.20.21 project. (found on Design Observer). While you're at it, have a look at UnderStAnding.
11/12/07
Corey Arnold's "Arctic-Ness" (found on Fish's FFFound page)
Jed's Other Poem is a great song, and this is a great video.
(from MB at Design Observer)
11/11/07
My two year old nephew's first photographs.
11/10/07
T-Mobile tradmarks magenta. No joke. (from Swissmiss)
11/09/07
"Don't try to be original. Just try to be good." - Paul Rand (from Newstoday)
10/19/07
Some great maps done by Denis Wood, which were highlighted on a recent episode of This American Life.
07/06/07
"The Reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface, a.k.a a sick music instrument that you thought only existed in the future."