Squirrels in the window, nutria in the lake

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Written by dipika June 26th, 2008 in Interesting Finds.5 Comments

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 […]

Design Making a Stand

Written by akira May 11th, 2008 in Interesting Finds.0 Comments

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 […]

Ooh la la! The Other Mackintosh

Written by dipika May 8th, 2008 in Desk Notes.2 Comments

Clean. Modern. White. “That’s what I want!!!” everybody says.

March Korner report

Written by dipika March 5th, 2008 in News at DK.0 Comments

Great Designers’ Korner session Monday night at Stumbling Monk.
For the first time, we actually talked about design! At least four other creative studios’ people joined us for pints–at this point, we’ve become less of colleagues and more of friends. Topics of discussion: where to go for embossing, grids, javascript vs. actionscript (and whether anyone […]

In Search of Meaning (10): Foreign Language & the Concept of ‘Other’

Written by dipika February 29th, 2008 in Desk Notes.0 Comments

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 […]

Design Kompany’s field report: the Venice art festival ‘La Biennale’

Written by dipika December 6th, 2007 in Desk Notes.0 Comments

I decided to veer a bit from a planned Scandinavia tour to study modern graphic design, and trek south to Italy, too.

Your Capitol Hill Seattle Graphic Design Kompany

Written by dipika November 13th, 2007 in Desk Notes.0 Comments

Design Kompany is Akira Morita and Dipika Kohli.
Design Kompany has just moved from lower to upper Capitol Hill here in Seattle, WA, USA. We’ll be sending out a formal invite for our January grand opening, meanwhile we’re getting new furniture. A lot of it is in the style of Scandinavia, that amazing place I just […]

Notes from Europe (3): Tender Bananas

Written by akira October 29th, 2007 in Design Inspirations.0 Comments

** Another dispatch arrives from Dipika, who is in Europe scoping out art scenes everywhere—AM **
“Dude, I’m in Deutchland.
I had lunch at “The Gropius Cafe” in Berlin Mitte and picked up this postcard…

…I personally have titled it “Tender Bananas,” since I think “Ohne Titel” means “Untitled.” Could someone check? (yes, it means “without title”— ed.) […]