Written by dipika January 20th, 2010
in Design Inspirations and Desk Notes.
I went to Askew Taylor’s yesterday for the first time in 10 years.
Cluttered with art supplies of all size and variety, it was exactly how I remembered it.
Of course, being a decade older made me a lot less intimidated by the Artists who Shopped There, plus I got to strike up conversation with the owner, […]
Crashing waves, overturned Navy ships and blinding volcanics rendered in computer graphics at last night’s viewing of 2012 weren’t impressive enough for Akira.
I guess Akira is the same as Akira.
Here’s our post-2012 discussion:
D: I was hoping after everything was kind of okay they would cut to a creative future scene. You know, to see how […]
Adj. 1. Abstractionist — not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; “a large abstract painting” nonfigurative, nonobjective, abstract. Nonrepresentational — of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature.
Inspiration comes in a flash sometimes.
Midafternoon light in the Southeast is overwhelmingly fragile […]
This post is dedicated to The Regulator, my favorite bookstore in the Triangle.
“I’m so glad you’re still here,” I said, 18 years after first setting foot in the place.
“We’re glad we’re still here!” one of the two gray-haired gentlemen working the register volleyed.
I didn’t say anything about how I thought they had used […]
Fun article today in the New York Times about the graffiti artist BNE.
If I could skip this step, I would. I hate goodbyes.
But they matter.
They mean, “I care.”
That’s why I’m writing.
Design Kompany is leaving Seattle.
We’re having a yard sale this weekend at Kornerhaus.
The good things
I want to share with you why we’re moving.
Every couple of years, DK does this.
We started in Raleigh-Durham, in North […]
Written by dipika November 6th, 2009
in Design Inspirations and Desk Notes.
I am experimenting lately with patterns.
Making them.
Often.
It’s nice to have a computer for this stuff. You can just try something and poof! It’s there.
D: Do you want a gulab jamun?
A: What?
D: A gulab jamun. Remember how my mom brought that box, that you can just make on the spot?
A: Don’t you want to save that for something?
D: For what? I feel like a gulab jamun.
A: How many…. [checking box]… this makes 20!
D: Like, whatever. I’ll eat 20. “Open. […]