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The more things change

Written by dipika January 20th, 2010 in Design Inspirations and Desk Notes.0 Comments

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, […]

2012 shoulda been Japanese

Written by dipika January 15th, 2010 in Design Inspirations and Interesting Finds.0 Comments

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 […]

A 28 second short for lovers of abstraction

Written by dipika December 30th, 2009 in Design Inspirations and Interesting Finds.0 Comments

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 […]

Ode to the old standbys

Written by dipika December 13th, 2009 in Design Inspirations, Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.0 Comments

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 […]

Graffiti artist gets show

Written by dipika December 9th, 2009 in Design Inspirations and Interesting Finds.0 Comments

Fun article today in the New York Times about the graffiti artist BNE.

Leaving Seattle

Written by dipika November 11th, 2009 in Design Inspirations, News at DK and Desk Notes.5 Comments

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 […]

Bubbles

Written by dipika November 6th, 2009 in Design Inspirations and Desk Notes.3 Comments

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.

I heart gulab jamuns

Written by dipika November 3rd, 2009 in Design Inspirations and Interesting Finds.0 Comments

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. […]