How about triple-point edible corners this time? I think you can get nice packages of colorfully boxed samosas at Trader Joe’s.
I’ll bring assorted chutneys.
Designers’ Korner
Monday, August 6 :: 6pm
Stumbling Monk
Olive Way
Capitol Hill
BYOS
Archive for July, 2007
Nothing like getting out of the country–if even just for 2.45 hours through a letterbox window–to shake up how you see and think about various things.
What am I talking about here? Foreign fims.
I like foreign films because you don’t get all wrapped up in words. Words clutter. Clutter subtracts from the rest of everything: […]
…speaking of writing and books, I just stumbled on a piece of writing regarding an old book about typography called A Short History of the Printed Word. Textpattern’s Dean Allen says designers should “approach their work now and again as being written rather than assembled,” and “read what you are designing.”
His “An Entirely Incomplete […]
In search of meaning (3): Jazz, writing and graphic design
Written by July 28th, 2007 in Design Inspirations and Desk Notes.0 Comments
[beautifully designed After Dark Japanese hardcover edition]Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won’t keep reading your work. I learned the importance of rhythm from music — and mainly from jazz. —Haruki Murakami-
As part of our ongoing rebrand for the Seattle International District’s Northwest Asian Weekly, I needed to figure out just how airy and light a look would be OK. Contemporary. Clean. Fresh. All of these are great words, but they could apply to rebrands of… well, appliances. And anyway, a hefty chunk of Asian Weekly […]
Anticipate this question before you start to pitch: “Why should I care?”
That’s the message five media people had yesterday at The Naked Truth, a meet-up for entrepreneurs, journalists, and bloggers “to talk about how we tell our stories.”
Really it was about how you as an entrepreneur should go about getting yourself into the press.
I’m […]
This is a snippet we found on a pole around the corner from our office here in Capitol Hill. I like the scrap, and thought it might inspire the development of ideas for a hip, edgy brand we’re designing. The other day we wrote about the brand as if it was a character, to […]
