Living in Capitol Hill?
Following the gossip?
You’ll surely have some kind of opinion on the ‘”kissing jets” art piece NYC-based Mike Ross designed for Sound Transit’s new Capitol Hill light rail station.
When it opens, that is.
In 2016.
I got to hear three folks from Sound Transit share the “jets” artwork in motion graphics. […]
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Kissing Jets in Motion Graphics
Written by June 30th, 2008 in Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.0 Comments
Our Spring 2008 Kitchen season ended with a lovely easygoing conversation about extruding pixels from the surface of a sphere.
In Search of Meaning (12): Focus focus focus
Written by June 23rd, 2008 in Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.0 Comments
A week ago, one of our new clients recommended Jim Collins’ Good to Great.
This is the gist of Good to Great:
Most of my sketchbooks are graph paper notebooks. With blue lines.
I like the orderliness these grid spaces imply.
The grid is handy, even if it is sort of rooted in Euclidean thinking. Parallel lines never intersect, ha!
Still, I welcome gridded paper. Wouldn’t wanna doodle in hyperbolic space.
Then again… hmm!
Pink Three
Perfection isn’t a cube
Radiohead inspired illustration […]
3D Miro? Philly’s ‘MetaphorM’ artists talk 6/7 at Suyama Space
Written by June 6th, 2008 in Desk Notes.0 CommentsCarolyn Healy and John Phillips, collaborative artists based in Philadelphia, work with light and complex “drawings” made of interlocking rods, cables, ropes, pulleys, minimal sound and video.
Constructivist geometry of both the sculptural elements and the movement of projected light shapes will create a sense of visual acrobatics. —SuyamaPetersonDeguchi.com/Art
“Visual acrobatics?”
Granted this is artspeak. But […]
Dream Kitchen: Drunkards’ Walk and Other Random Artistic Pursuits
Written by June 3rd, 2008 in Design Inspirations and Desk Notes.0 CommentsThis Friday, we are hosting another co-working day with special guest Mark VonRosenstiel.
Mark is a graphic artist, a sculptor, a furniture designer, an avid soccer and basketball player, a street-art educator, a web development wizard, and a high-math theorist.
Lotta controversy right now on the Internet surrounding the Dunkin Donuts ad with the woman wearing a “jihadi chic” scarf.
What?
Yes! People writing furiously on the Internet want to know if Donuts will survive the viral uproar about the ad with a “kaffiyeh”-looking thing draped around a woman smiling with her cup of Dunkin’ Donuts […]
Design Kompany hosts Designers Korner tomorrow, Monday, June 2 at Stumbling Monk in Capitol Hill.
If you’re into design, art, architecture, DNA, video animation, Flash, Ticket to Ride, or anything else related to making things and being creative, stop on by.
By far our favorite DK event, Korner has become something of a regular monthly “zoning […]
