Most likely, Diego Stocco will either inspire you or make you feel like a totally boring and uncreative slug. As a composer/musician, his instruments of choice have included a tree, sand, a piano on fire and the contents of his local drycleaners, ...
A Mouthful on the Preserve Toothbrush
Last Christmas, I discovered a Preserve toothbrush in my stocking. I can get close-minded when it comes to changing my routine but this arrived at a perfect moment; I had already concluded that all non-electric toothbrushes work basically the same...
Murray Fredricks : Photography
Last month's National Geographic Photo Journal section featured a selection of photographs taken by Murray Fredricks over the course of several annual trips to Lake Eyre, a "flat, arid salt sink in Australia with only the horizon to define its 3,7...
Wish List Item: Digital Time-Lapse Camera
While browsing the Interwebs, I came across the Digital Time-Lapse Camera from Photojojo. Its sole purpose is to take digital time-lapse video, with settings for 1 minute, 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours or 24 hours, and is supposedly hardy...
Postcardly : Follow Up Review
Update! Postcardly has changed its template system so square photos will not be cropped. Instagram lovers like myself can now Postcardly away knowing our precious compositions will be replicated in full, as in the example above. See the comments s...
Ryantown: Paper Art and Beyond
Today's Remodelista Daily features the work of British artist Rob Ryan who specializes in paper art done in a fanciful, loose style. He has a store front in London and a virtual Etsy shop where you can purchase original laser cuts and screen print...
Judging Food by its Label: Renee Walker's Nutritional Info Revamp
In the California College of the Arts September e-letter, I read about MFA in Design grad Renee Walker who won first place in ReThink the Food Label, a competition co-sponsored by Good and Berkeley's News21 fellowship. As part of her graduate work...
Postcards: Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Project at LACMA
125th Anniversary Coke Cans: Nostalgia at Work
For Coca Cola's 125th anniversary, Peter Gregson designed a series of six cans based on Coke's ads and posters circa 1930-40. Looking at them slips me into a reverie about pulling an old fashioned shorty glass bottle of Coke out of the fridge in m...
Rock Paper Scissors: Congressional Edition
In his NYT column Abstract Sunday, illustrator Christoph Niemann suggests some supplementary hand gestures Congress can add to Rock Paper Scissors in the hopes of promoting conflict resolution, old school style. See them all here.
Stamp It: Pioneers of American Industrial Design
Somehow I missed that at the end of June the USPS issued a set of Forever stamps called the Pioneers of American Industrial Design which feature 12 objects designed by the "nation's most important and influential industrial designers," as chosen b...
Monday Digest: Album Design Goes Small; Fairey on Copenhagen; Hipster Ipsum
??? The NYT asks album cover designers whether the small size of art used on iTunes, iPods and other digital devices influences their design choices. While some musicians still want complex covers, the industry seems to agree that how well an album ...
Postcardly : The Digital Savior of Snail Mail?
Postcardly (currently in beta) is a new digital service that will convert an email with an attached photo into a postcard (email content on back, photo on front) and send it to your designated recipient via the US Postal Service. Promoted as a way...
Postcards from Torrey Pines State Park, CA
Design Crush: Jessica Hische
will hereby begin peppering this blog with designer/illustrator Jessica Hische's awesome Daily Drop Cap. Begun in 2009, she pledged to design a drop cap a day until she'd completed 12 alphabets. It now being 2011, the goal has been met but her let...
Stop-Motion Magic
I can't get enough of stop-motion animation. For me, it taps into that same feeling of creative transformation that comes from art like that by Tara Donovan: the magical payoff of tedious, minute and disciplined repetition. To this end, here's a p...
PBS webseries: Off Book
I have been neglecting this blog for the past couple of months however the diversions have cleared so regular posts will begin again shortly. In the meantime, check out this quick video on typography, part of Off Book, an arts-focused web series o...
Man as Industrial Palace
When I'm in Philly next month I'm hoping to catch an exhibit of vintage medical posters currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The posters are part of a donated collection assembled by William H. Helfand (father of Jessica Helfand). ...
All of the Bacon & Eggs
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