There’s a nice post on the current presidential candidate logos on signals vs. noise blog. It must be one hell of a job for designers to come up with these. Bleh. -AM
Archive for July, 2007
Vacations are good. On long summer days in the Northwest, especially.
Transformers, Causing High School Crushes Everywhere.
Written by July 18th, 2007 in Interesting Finds.0 CommentsIn hindsight of seeing one of the most entertaining, (though at times cheesy) movies of the summer, my prediction is that Transformers will cause any kid with a car to go into a frenzy. I have to admit I never was an avid fan of the ever popular cartoon, but after my review of the […]
So I dreamt I was Fred Flintstone.
I think this is because I spent 8 hours straight in the creative zone, drawing a brand identity design that, interestingly, has a motif that sort of looks like Wilma’s skirt.
More on that project, coming soon.
Design Kompany to redesign a community weekly paper
Written by July 15th, 2007 in News at DK.0 CommentsDK is working on a redesign project for Northwest Asian Weekly, a local community paper celebrating its 25th year. We are hanging out in the International District quite a bit these days, meeting with the core team members from the NWAW, and snapping pictures to get in the vibe. We will post our […]
Last weekend, we attended the opening reception for “interactivity: artists working technology, technologists working with art” at McLeod Residence, a new-ish art gallery in Belltown. Dipika and I managed to talk to the the team of uber-nerdy artists behind some of the works presented.
Quite a charming bunch. The Barbarian Group created some of […]
In Search of Meaning (2): Sowing Acorns
Written by July 10th, 2007 in Design Inspirations and Desk Notes.0 Comments
This is the English translation of author Jean Giono’s Homme qui plantait des arbres, or The Man Who Planted Trees.
Fun show on right now through August 5 at Seattle’s Henry Art Gallery–General Idea Editions 1967-1995.
General Idea was a Toronto art collective inspired by zines, the Paris riots, love-ins, and the International Situationists.
“We believe in a free economy,” wrote artist AA Bronson, one of the three lads who started General Idea… “in the abolition […]
