March 2009
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Song I can’t stop listening to: The Pains of...
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Pinkberry Case Study
Pinkberry creative director Yolanda Santosa recently shared her secret recipe to branding the great small business phenomenon of our time.
Pinkberry is unusual in that the branding is actually defined by the look of the store design, not the other way around. Santosa’s work played upon the colorful transparency of the plastic Philippe Starck chairs and the sleek, space age countertops....
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High Fashion Lollipops
This is kind of old, but thought I would share anyway.
In a simple yet innovative personal touch to various runway shows around the globe, Massimo Gammacurta with the help of various fashion brands created a series of branded lollipops. The instantly recognizable powerhouse brands include Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel.
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typo/graphic posters →
typo/graphic posters is an invitation and application only project, cataloging notable graphical or typographical quality designs.
via Arkitip Intel
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It’s been a busy few days so I’ve been...
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ART & COPY reveals the stories behind and the personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of our time and their campaigns. The documentary captures the creative energy and passion behind the iconic campaigns that have had a profound impact on American culture. Featuring rare interviews with industry legends, the film seeks to identify the elements that...
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Song I can’t stop listening to:...
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One in 8 Million →
One in 8 Million: New York characters in sound and images, each story told in less than three minutes and accompanied by beautiful black-and-white photographs.
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“On matters of style, swim with the current. On matters of principle, stand like...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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Gossip Girl + Terry Richardson
Gossip Girl + Terry Richardson. Love both.
See more photos here.
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WatchFriday bonus track: Fujiya & Miyagi “Ankle Injuries
The Ankle Injuries video was done by Wade Shotter at Factory Films
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The weekend is here! The sun is out! You need...
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Redesign Mozilla
Jesse passed me this site that Happy Cog created to guage feedback during their redesign of Mozilla. Their approach to the project is to engage the community in a conversation throughout the entire process, and ask their thoughts on design and content solutions. To be honest, I’m not a fan of the pages they have mocked up so far, but appreciate the idea that everything from concepts to...
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The Fawcett House
Built in 1961, the Fawcett House is surrounded by walnut trees on a remote plot of farmland in the agricultural heart of the Central Valley in California. Wright’s characteristic obtuse angles and repeated triangles are evident throughout the house.
The private home built by Wright near Los Banos, is one of the few accessible to the public. It recently went on the market, and some gorgeous...
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Spring Tea Party
Celebrate the warmer weather and new spring fashion at Vintage Connection tomorrow. My good friend Alexis is throwing a tea party there from 5 to 8pm with her signature haiku teacups. Sabrina and I will be on hand taking photos, eating cupcakes and helping out.
Vintage Connection Friday, March 20th 9th and Bainbridge Streets, Philadelphia
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Song I can’t stop listening to: Peter Bjorn...
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Our First Loves →
Our First Loves is a multimedia storytelling experiment. Produced by a group of student journalists in an interactive design class at the Medill School of Journalism, it is based on the idea that journalism on the Internet should be about connectivity. Storytellers upload video, audio or transcripts of their tale, and users have the option to rate based on how compelling the story was to them.
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“Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.”
– Zappos’ Tony Hsieh
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Song I can’t stop listening to: Nina Simone...
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Walls Notebook →
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Who What Wear
I’ll have to thank Heather from Vintage Connection for introducing me to Who What Wear, a new favorite style site of mine. The posts are assembled like a column you might find in ELLE (the site is maintained by two former employees), focusing solely on what trendsetters are wearing, minus all the dating and rehab gossip.
And as a sidenote, I’m definitely on the lookout for some...
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Boxed water is better →
Part sustainable water company, part art project, Boxed Water Is Better, is a boxed water company. Learn more about what they’re doing.
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Watch Kyle Blue is the Design Director of Dwell Magazine. In the video above, he discusses how lessons learned about modern spaces have influenced the organization of the Dwell offices, and what it takes to have a thriving magazine in the current publishing industry.
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According to my last.fm, the song I can’t...
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No one should be designing record covers after the...
Recently some of my most favorite people have been turning 30. Not too far away from it myself, I can’t help but reflect on personal goals and where I hope to be at that milestone. Working in an industry driven by the young and ambitious, it’s a constant effort to keep up on technology, best practices, and maybe most of all—maintain relevancy. As I age, what drives and inspires...
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Song I can’t stop listening to: M. Ward...
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The Prada Transformer →
Rem Koolhaas, the brilliant, subversive force behind the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, has had a great run with Prada, functioning basically as the fashion label’s court architect. In 2001, there was a clever flagship store in SoHo (video here); then came an outlet in LA, an unrealized headquarters in San Francisco, and the exhibition design for a retrospective of Prada’s...
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Spaces: Nothing Amsterdam →
Nothing is a new commercial creative agency formed by Michael Jansen and Bas Korsten that has just opened its doors in Amsterdam. The Nothing team took the idea behind the company name (taking nothing and turning it into something) as the starting point for the physical design of the office; which included creating walls, signage, beams, tables, shelving and even a set of stairs out of...
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School of Visual Arts’ Think Campaign →
KNARF created an advertising campaign for the New York School of Visual Arts. Infiltrating the places where people often like to reflect, i.e. - the bathroom, diner, coffee shop, etc, KNARF replaced toilet paper, napkins, sugar packets and tray liners with lined notebook paper in an attempt to foster new ideas. (Link to full article)
via PSFK
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“…you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking...”
– Steve Jobs
Read full commencement address at Stanford University
thanks to Derek Lerner, of GHAVA for link
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Pizza joint gives staff t-shirts with the text of... →
At San Francisco’s Pizzeria Delfina, rather than being angry over Internet reviewers who give them one-star Yelp ratings, they printed up tees with excerpts from the most scathing reviews (“This place sucks”) and given them to the staff to wear. Read full story here.
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Spaces: Chandelier Creative →
New York Magazine brings us some nice visual inspiration, and great advice from ad agency Chandelier Creative. Founder Richard Christiansen was inspired to design his office in an unusual style by events from his childhood that shaped his thinking for years to come.
See rest at New York Magazine
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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
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The new collection by Alexander McQueen for...
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I just registered for the 99% Conference, scheduled for next month, in New York City. I’m excited at the proximity of the event, as well as the speakers scheduled. The lineup thus far includes Michael Bierut, partner at Pentagram and Ji Li, creative director of Google Labs, as well as a handful of other notable industry types.
Here are some details:
Behance & Cool Hunting are...
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I love cover songs. Particularly when people take...
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Fashion meets Quicksilver
The brand Quicksilver and high fashion have never been synonymous, so I was surprised to hear that to introduce their new spring collection, they were going to showcase fashion bloggers who typically commentate on Milan runnways as opposed to Laguna Beach.
The result is surprising and I thought each did a nice job expressing their unique fashion point of view with the line. As well, it’s...