April 2009
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This I Believe is a national media project...
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Jordan Seiler’s “New York Street Advertising...
Jordan Seiler’s “New York Street Advertising Takeover” hit the streets over the weekend when over 120 illegal billboards throughout the city were white washed by dozens of volunteers. Later in the day over 80 artists transformed the blank canvasses with original artwork.
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WatchLove this song. Love the video. Matt & Kim’s “Lesson Learned”
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Now on Blip.fm
I’m now on Blip. Check out my current spring music rotation here.
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“Be culturally literate, because if you don’t have any understanding of the world...”
– Paula Scher
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Sabrina and I had a really fun yet productive day...
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WTC logo preservation project
New York-based designer Ji Lee has launched a project to document logos that use the former World Trade Center in a New York skyline.
He says, “After 9/11, I started to noticed the Twin Towers in many logos containing the New York City skyline. These were mostly from small businesses: dry cleaners, delis, movers, and so on. I experienced a strange mix of sadness and joy seeing the...
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Lullatone Melody Maker
The new Lullatone Melody Maker is a nice interactive sine wave loop app. Great minimal sound fun from Japan!
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If you like The Kills, then you might be into...
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Michael Roller lists the "Essential Members of a...
Michael Roller lists who he thinks the essential members of a great design team are. What do you think? Who do you think you might be?
The Evangelist A design team without a visionary leader is like a church without a preacher. The Evangelist focuses on design at the highest level, developing strategies and processes that push the limits of design and business as a whole. Contextual thinking...
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Dress Code & Grain Edit →
Grain Edit has started a new interview series on their blog. Their first is with Andre Andreev and Dan Covert, the duo that makes up Dress Code. They recently published a book entitled Never Sleep, which details their experience and transition from design students to design professionals. Never Sleep is a practical and vital guide for design graduates wondering what to do after school. Check out...
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It’s a rainy NYC afternoon. It was a lovely...
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WatchThis weekend, see “In a Dream.”
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Backyard Bill
Only the best things can be said about photographer William Gentle and his website Backyard Bill. The site is described as “stylish folks in their own clothes,” and features striking portraiture of good looking people with excellent personal style. via A Continuous Lean
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I’m not going to lie. Life’s not so...
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We Love Typography →
Awesome resource created as a collaboration by i love typography and Kari Pätilä. Launched today, they are touting it as, “FFFFound for all things type, typography, lettering, and signage.
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Six Traits that Separate the Achievers from the... →
Bummed I wasn’t able to make it to the 99% conference after all. From being both overcome by jet lag and having a lot of work to do, I wasn’t able to go. I have been following the live blogging though from the event, and I liked what Cheryl Dorsey had to say.
Below she summarizes what she has found to be the six traits that separate the achievers from the wannabes in making things...
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PSFK conference, part 2
All day conferences can be long, and much like this post, needed to be split into two parts. The lunch break still had some panels. The only one I caught in full was entitled “Brand New Rules”, which had Emily Steel (Wall Street Journal), Doug Jaegar (ADC and The Happy Corp), Paul Taylor (Diageo), Maria Virachnos (Peep Insights) and Paul Worthington (Wolf Olins). It got pretty...
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Ray Ban Colorize
Photographer Thomas Rusch teamed with Cutwater and Art Director D. Kele to create the Ray Ban Colorize campaign.
This reminds me of these recent Visit NYC bus shelters I saw. Does anyone know the ones I am referring to? I think they were for tourism but I can’t exactly recall. It’s driving me a bit crazy trying to remember, so help me out.
See full image gallery of the Colorize...
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It’s raining and in an unforeseen moment...
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PSFK conference, part 1
Last Thursday I had the opportunity to attend the PSFK conference. Held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park, the event consisted of panel discussions on topics ranging from technology, design and innovation. In attendance were a lot of creative and agency types, mostly from the NYC area. Overall I thought the day was fun and pretty inspiring. Most of the speakers had either...
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