Sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for–until you see it.
I was scanning art books the other day, the large format kinds that don’t sit with spines facing out like paperbacks and texts. No. These are the big, square books with intentional type, meant to be enjoyed sweet and slow.
Among them was a collection […]
Archive for May, 2007
Alfred Stieglitz portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe
Written by May 30th, 2007 in Design Inspirations and Desk Notes.5 CommentsDesign Kompany’s graphic designer Akira Morita went to New York for some inspiration, snapping this pic at the Museum of Modern Art. Here are some things they had as part of an exhibit on industrial design. Making things for everyday use is what a lot of industrial designers I know like to do.
A lot of […]
Saw a fun art show at the Macleod Residence in Belltown, while waiting around for local author Scott Berkun to read from his new book. He didn’t, but was nice about it, so I hung around and checked out the art in neighboring rooms. One had a bunch of hot pink mini-sculptures.
One in particular […]
One of my all-time favorite soundtracks is for the Hindi movie Zubeidaa, which plays this Sunday at Broadway Performance Hall in Capitol Hill. I haven’t yet seen the film, but bought the soundtrack seven years ago as I was cabbing it to Indira Gandhi International Airport to fly back to a new life in New […]
Two funny things happened at this seminar I just went to on “Web 2.0 marketing.” One of the people asking questions at the end was this young kid. “I have this game I made,” he said. “How do I use social networking and social media sites to convince people my game is great?”
The other […]
Tonight I’m going to a seminar on Web 2.0 marketing. I began to hear blips in conversation matrices about “word of mouth” marketing when we branded Red Pill Strategies.
I’m looking forward to hearing what industry tech people say, and curious to know how we can apply the take-home message on branding through new channels […]
One particularly wet and windy, dark winter day in Seattle, I went to the Moore Theatre to see a Beckett play.
It was called: Waiting for Godot.
Now when I overhear people’s idle conversations around this city, I often recall one of the play’s recurring lines.
“Blathering on about nothing in particular.”
Yes.
I’ve been thinking closely […]
At Design Kompany, we take branding to mean a lot more than just coming up with a logotype for your business. Rendering an idea in vector graphics is just production art.
The kind of thinking we do at our creative studio is robust and thorough: we take an idea and explore it to the end. […]
