I love cafes. And sometimes, I like what’s hanging on the walls enough to tell friends about them. Art can be sometimes elitist (”I don’t want my work hanging where people are eating, drinking coffee and talking!” an artist told me once), and sometimes it’s justified; some work should really be experienced fully, not in […]
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Two Art Shows You Can Enjoy While Sipping A Latte, This Month
Written by May 20th, 2009 in Design Inspirations and Interesting Finds.0 CommentsCardboard Furniture Duo Graypants Go Big Time in New York
Written by May 15th, 2009 in Design Inspirations.0 CommentsOur friends and fellow enterprising designers Graypants are in New York, showing off their wares at International Contemporary Furniture Fair this weekend. They came to our Dream Kitchen session last year to share some samples of their work and the design philosophy behind it, and I’ve been a big fan since.
Their scrap lights are truly […]
BTFL|SIMPL showing until June 5. Thanks for coming to the opening!
Written by May 10th, 2009 in Portfolio.2 Comments
Georgetown Super 8 Film Festival is today
Written by May 2nd, 2009 in News at DK and Interesting Finds.1 Comment… and our own Akira Morita has a little short called “Prawl” showing there. It’s a totally home-spun festival, in its fourth year, run expertly by Georgetown artist Laura Wright. It will show an eclectic collection of works (nearly 60, non-juried) submitted by participants (many of whom, like me, were experiencing the medium for the […]
Coming soon: DK’s brand identity design for Capitol Hill Arts Walk
Written by April 28th, 2009 in Portfolio.0 CommentsSoon.
Soon Design Kompany will reveal the new look for the Capitol Hill Arts Walk, dubbed Blitz. This was commissioned by the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, which is one of our past clients.
Maybe you didn’t know this, but Capitol Hill already has an art walk. It happens on the second Thursday every month.
Audrey McManus, […]
Another Sidenote About Ireland, or That Floating Feeling
Written by March 19th, 2009 in Interesting Finds.0 CommentsJust browsing Behance, a networking site for creative professionals (they also sell nice notebooks), this morning, and saw a video clip featured in their homepage, a music video from 2007.
That’s funny, I said. I remember that song from 2003.
It was December in Dublin, 2003. We were at some kind of a media award celebration […]
3 artsy film screenings tonight at Northwest Film Forum
Written by March 7th, 2009 in Interesting Finds.0 CommentsHere’s what’s happening today at Northwest Film Forum:
Seattle Moves:
Screening and Discussion
March 7 at 4pm
Seattle motion graphics designers will screen recent projects and discuss their inspirations, creative processes, technical challenges and their ever-evolving field. Moderated by photographer/filmmaker Matt Daniels, the panel will include creative minds from SuperFad, Lustre and Digital Kitchen.
Entropy: New Short Works
March 7 at […]
I am listening to songs that accompany scenes unwitnessed.
Yet, it’s easy for me to picture the scene, thanks to an ingenious device called “Transmedia Arti(fiction)“.
What?
Here’s Rick Liebling, a marketing professional who writes insightful blog named eyecube.com, by way of explanation:
Foundtracks is a creative mash-up, appropriating from the worlds of literature, music and […]
