Beautiful Short—I Met the Walrus

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrator James Braithwaite have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for … Continued

So much Art to see on Friday!

Start out up in Greenwood to check out Urban Decay at Bherd Studios. Urban Decay: the 2-ing by Mr. Klevra Then head down to the Belltown Art Walk. Seattle’s New Hostel has opened 47 rooms for Seattle artists to fill with their talents. They will be opening their doors for us all to see from … Continued

Gallery Announcement.

After much deliberation we have decided to let go of our gallery and make Blank Space spaceless. We are grateful for Seattle’s artists and arts supporters. Don’t fret, Blank Space Design is thriving, and we plan to make and show art in different ways. Please join us as we celebrate the past 39 months as … Continued

Catalog Design Concepts

We had our first presentation with Re-marks today. Here are the two catalog covers we presented. The imagery is so adorable. Maybe Feta (our cat) will someday be a cover model. Each one clicks to the online concept, click the image to go to the next page… concept 1 concept 2

Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls in Motion from Matthew Wartman on Vimeo.

Better than a clock radio

Key and key ring together, finally, in beautiful harmony. Designed an patented by Scott Amron. Good job. Buy them here.

Artist Interview—John Osgood

Blank Space’s August exhibition will feature work by John Osgood from Bherd Studios. Riley and I met with John and his lovely wife Michele to talk about the upcoming Cut It Out Exhibition and to pick John’s brain about his art work. When did you start making art?Growing up I was always drawing and copying … Continued

Government subsidies for Ugly Design

We just got yet another rejection from some stupid WA guvmint program. The obvious problem is that our designs are not nearly ugly enough for guvmint. Seattle is supposed to be one of the most forward art and tech cities in the country. Yet, all their web pages and other designed communications look like total … Continued

Google OS is coming…

Soon you will be able to install it on your brain. You’ll never lose your keys again. I imagine they’ll almost give it away, Microsoft is in trouble.