If you need to, substitute “friends” with “customers” and it will make more sense perhaps. Business, marketing and social design are closely related subjects these days, and nowhere but on the internet this is more apparent and self-evident.
Archive for May, 2008
Flourish, the open dialogue session Design Kompany hosted at the tail end of April, was a very intriguing engagement, indeed.
There’s nothing like being at the very beginning of something new.
A small group of artists ready to make something happen are joining Design Kompany this evening at Vermillion to talk details and sketch plans for three […]
How to Make Cardboard Furniture (Pt. III)
Written by May 13th, 2008 in Design Inspirations and Desk Notes.0 Comments
“‘Sustainability’ is a term we try to stay away from,” Jon Junker, a partner at Architects-cum-furniture-designer team graypants, explained why he was inspired to make his design out of waste material, but wouldn’t call it “green” or “sustainable.”
Our friend and co-conspirator NS kindly put together a series of motion graphics generated from a doodle exercise we did at one of Designers’ Korners (also, check out Naruto sketches we gathered at the last Korner here!) in the past. The exercise was to take a stack of tracing paper and bind together, and pass […]
One of DK’s clients from last summer, Bill Harding, just sent us an update saying Bonanzle.com is live! Now everyone can start selling their unwanted bits and pieces through this “online yard sale” site.
More about Bonanzle, including their current special offer, is linked from the update to our post,
Design Kompany brands Seattle Internet […]
No, no. Not Principia Mathematica, though that’s a pretty remarkable one, all right.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you ‘Botanical Melodramatica:’ a glimpse of Capitol Hill, Seattle’s flora.
And dedicated to AK.
Isn’t it funny when artists give their pieces weird titles?
I think so. Very postmodern. Or would it be post-postmodern? Or maybe just “obnoxious”?
After […]
A friend left a book called Guerilla Art Kit in our office the other day. In it, the author quotes Henry David Thoreau:
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve […]
Clean. Modern. White. “That’s what I want!!!” everybody says.
