Cool mini-doc about remix culture called Walking on Eggshells. Definitely worth watching, but it is worth just listening if you can’t spare 24 minutes of full attention. Lots of cool ideas and quotes. Walking on Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age from Brendan Schlagel on Vimeo. Researching a quote from Thomas Jefferson led me … Continued
Are your storage boxes in your office space? Or part of your living space? Here is a fun way to spruce them up. Desktop Mountaintop, by artist Jason Urban is part of the Repercussions: Tides and Time exhibit at Soil Art Gallery in Pioneer Square through October 31st.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover this tshirt sculpture, by Jiho Park of Park Place Studio in the 619 Building. It is constructed with white hangers and tape. (I have no idea how many hangers.) It makes smile, as I fondly remember our own Tshirt is Art days. Jiho Park is a programmer at Amazon … Continued
People apparently LOVE certain corporate logos. Or they love to RAGE at random corporate design changes. Maybe, it is both. A delicate mix of love and hate. As you may have heard Gap changed its logo. And boy oh boy, Facebook, Twitter, and the Internet all got super-duper mad. Gap had done the unthinkable. The … Continued
Ridiculous. Head on over to Sesame Street today to learn about ‘big’ and ‘small’, or friend Grover on Facebook.
I am loving the new camera lens I scored at the AIGA Refurbish Sale.
I’m a sucker for anything with Space Invaders. Hollerado’s single-take music video for “Americanarama”
FontShop, the first digital type foundry, features all things typographic on their education web page. Their online library of free PDFs is a great introduction to typography.
Then check out SmashPutt! (2 weekends left, get your tickets today! 21+) It is located at INSCAPE, Seattle’s former INS building redefined by culture, arts, preservation and engagement. SmashPutt is a sponsor of INSCAPE, where the haunted old INS building becomes a new art space in Seattle.
Director Gary Hustwit, brought us Helvetica in 2007, Objectified in 2009, and is working on a new documentary Urbanized to debut in 2011. Helvetica, the start of this design trilogy is a documentary film about typography and graphic design and their impact on our visual environment. The film portrays Helvetica’s elegance and ubiquity, and illuminates … Continued