Archive for June, 2008

Kissing Jets in Motion Graphics

Living in Capitol Hill?
Following the gossip?
You’ll surely have some kind of opinion on the ‘”kissing jets” art piece NYC-based Mike Ross designed for Sound Transit’s new Capitol Hill light rail station.
When it opens, that is.
In 2016.
I got to hear three folks from Sound Transit share the “jets” artwork in motion graphics. […]

Squirrels in the window, nutria in the lake

Is a squirrel a rodent?
Squirrels are so cute, though, right?
But they are. Rodents.

Do you know about nutria?
They look like this:

Here’s an AP update about them from yesterday morning. The stuff of breaking news.
Large rat-like nutria spreading in Seattle
Posted by The Associated Press June 25, 2008 08:39AM
Categories: Breaking News
SEATTLE — Milder weather may be one […]

P2P convos

Kornerhaus, Design Kompany's office in Capitol Hill

Our Spring 2008 Kitchen season ended with a lovely easygoing conversation about extruding pixels from the surface of a sphere.

In Search of Meaning (12): Focus focus focus

Good to Great by Jim Collins making your company successfulA week ago, one of our new clients recommended Jim Collins’ Good to Great.

This is the gist of Good to Great:

I love graph paper

Most of my sketchbooks are graph paper notebooks. With blue lines.
I like the orderliness these grid spaces imply.
The grid is handy, even if it is sort of rooted in Euclidean thinking. Parallel lines never intersect, ha!
Still, I welcome gridded paper. Wouldn’t wanna doodle in hyperbolic space.
Then again… hmm!
Pink Three
Perfection isn’t a cube
Radiohead inspired illustration […]

Dream Kitchen This Friday: Video Art Extravaganza

This is it, folks.
Dream Kitchen will be taking a break after this one.
Our luncheon-come-casual-coworking (“what the heck is that?”—here’s the wikipedia entry for coworking) sessions have been a lot of fun for sure, but the arrival of summer (why be stuck inside when it’s nice out, especially since our summer is so short?), the […]

Doom-saying Art Shown at Ouch My Eye

Sometimes it pays to be negative.
Ouch My Eye gallery in downtown Seattle is having a group show called Apocalypse Now, featuring paintings, sculpture, and multimedia work that are decisively cynical and doom-and-gloom. Opening is tonight.
And, our own Dipika Kohli’s graphic work will be featured in this show.
If you have been following […]

Changing Landscape, Realized.

All kinds of changes are afoot these days.
Some people despair for lack of leadership/vision/consideration. Some just celebrate change for the sake of change. And some point to changes in places we don’t normally look, and say “see? now think about that.”
Such is the job of artists.
To that end, Drop City […]




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