I went to a Kane Hall lecture called “Translation in Wartime,” and was uncomfortably reminded of the $16K National Security Education Program scholarship I won in 1995 to get fluent in Japanese.
Presumably in the name of National Defense.
I wasn’t the only one at the lecture hall wondering how that happened. Half a dozen people […]
Archive for February, 2008
In Search of Meaning (10): Foreign Language & the Concept of ‘Other’
Written by February 29th, 2008 in Desk Notes.0 Comments
What’s in between graphic design and motion pictures?
The Northwest Film Forum plays the not-exactly-new-anymore but still-talked-about film Helvetica in March. It’s about a font.
A popular font, I might add.
Designers really like it.
Including us.
We used versions of Helvetica to create logo designs for: D+A Studio Architects and the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce.
UK director Gary Hustwit made the film HELVETICA […]
It’s happening again, next Monday. Your local Design Kompany hosts Designers’ Korner at our favorite local pub, Stumbling Monk. Past topics of our free-flowing, no-agenda conversation include: snakes in bags, Kundera’s The Joke, the best kind of pen you can purchase and why, Speak&Spell, samosas, sudoku, Bombay Sapphire, and varieties of casual games for mobile […]
Because I just went to Scandinavia, I am really curious about everything that comes from that part of the world. I just heard the Norway based architect Einar Jarmund of the Oslo architecture firm Jarmund Vignaes will be giving a lecture in Seattle next week.
On their website, sponsor Space.City, a nonprofit “dedicated to spirited public […]
Last week, I saw a woman sewing yarn trim onto what seemed to be a giant stuffed Puff the Magic Dragon.
This was in the window of the Washington Ensemble Theatre. Every time I walk by, I wonder what they’re doing in there–it seems to have been closed all winter. Remodeling? Not sure. I’ve been […]
Architects SANAA explore rooms of possibilities
Written by February 21st, 2008 in Design Inspirations and Desk Notes.0 Comments
Design Kompany just got around to checking out the SANAA show at Henry Art Gallery, which runs through March 2. SANAA, a Japanese architecture design group lead by Kazuyo Seijima and Rue Nishizawa, made a splash recently when they completed the brand new 7-story building for New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art.
What’s amazing […]
Rivet: New issue launch party tomorrow @ Hideout
Written by February 20th, 2008 in Interesting Finds.0 CommentsDesign Kompany gets excited to see people with independent voices doing journalism.
A Seattle zine, Rivet, launches its next issue Thursday, February 21.
Their party’ll be at the Hideout, a cool bar you should definitely keep an eye out for. It’s not like the rest of Seattle’s bars. If they still have the roller skates […]
