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Dutch artist Marjan Teeuwen proves that even clutter and destruction can be beautiful. She eviscerates the walls of abandoned Amsterdam buildings, conjoining rooms with massive holes, and uses leftover fragments to create densely textured walls and surfaces. Countless objects are crammed into small rooms. The objects are combined according to function, texture and colour, and ordered in [...]
Our beloved Helvetica is now featured with Swiss typographic style on a deck of cards. For the gambler and the typophile on your list, Helveticards are a beautiful, usable alternative to today’s ubiquitous French sets. Both master type designer Max Miedinger (who gave us this famous font) and Poker Hall of Famer Doyle Brunson would be happy to deal this deck. Discounted to $7.50 [...]
We are happy to see the launch of NPS’s Technical Preservation Services (TPS) new website. TPS is an amazing public resource for all things regarding preserving our nation’s historic buildings. Blank Space developed the UI design, HTML and CSS code, and the graphic illustrations. Case studies highlighting successful tax incentives projects and projects that combined historic rehabilitation and green building [...]
Feeling inspired today by this quote by Paola Antonelli about the role of designers in the world. Antonelli is a Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art.
The Crystal Towers were by far my favorite installation on the Chihuly Bridge of Glass in Tacoma. The two towers rise forty feet above the bridge deck with the intention to serve as beacons of light for the bridge and city. All of the glass installations around and in the Museum of Glass and inside the old [...]
We went out and did a quick survey of our local Quality Food Center to see what products looked pretty in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month(BCAM). Pink is my favorite color, so I love October at the grocery store. I really thought there would be more products rockin the pink, but we still found [...]
Seeing that October is breast cancer awareness month, we thought it would be appropriate to feature a very special theme for our second guest fight. For this bout we are featuring two close friends portraying letters plastered in pink and polished with pretty. Yes, they are doing pink P’s. Laura Schwamman and Michelle Pais might seem like good friends, but pin [...]
Online kerning game. Quite nerdy, quite fun:) I hope they expand upon the first 10 words. Anything typography related, especially kerning always makes me think of my ole’ swiss design professor Peter Megert, wonder if he would approve? I think he would. KernType is part of Method of Action, an online course to help programmers learn design.
“Flower Turtle” designed by Olivia Gamache, age 7 My turtles shell is made out of colorful flowers. Some grow on top of her shell. Everyone likes to pick her up and smell her pretty flowers. —Olivia “SHARK ATTACK” designed by Erica Hankins, age 8 It’s Scary —Erica The Museum of Glass in Tacoma has the most [...]
An excerpt from the Stanford Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and [...]