Thursday, November 13th, 2008
“All the news we hope to print.”
For all those naysayers who have preached over the years that print is dead (or dying), the special edition of the New York Times yesterday claiming that the war in Iraq ended proves that print is indeed alive and well and that it still has the power to communicate, persuade and if we’re lucky, to inspire. The organizers of this satirical spoof was by the “Yes Men”, a left wing group that seeks to expose what it claims to be the “nastiness of powerful evildoers” through pranks. You can read the article here.
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Thanks for inspiring countless generations of designers, including myself.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Great resource for the best and coolest websites – www.notforpaper.com
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
With the presidential election just around the corner, various humorous/interesting sites and initiatives have surfaced. Here are a few worth looking at for a quick laugh or two:
www.palinaspresident.com
www.notanothercstudent.com
www.30reasons.org
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
and then a day later…
Originally posted on www.droog.com
The day after the official opening of Droog Event 2: Urban Play, Stefan Sagmeister’s graphic piece of art turned out to be completely gone!
The work, called ‘Obsessions make my life worse and my work better’, was built from 300.000 cents and laid out by a hundred and fifty volunteers during eight days at the Waagdragerhof, Amsterdam. On Sunday night, local residents noticed two persons sweeping up the coins and so they warned the police. The police came on site and put all the coins in a big bag, just to be on the safe side, and gone was the work of art! It was all in the game that this project wouldn’t stay, but that the police…
The Dutch newspapers picked up the news pretty well, with headliners such as ‘Police accidentally destroys piece of art’ (Algemeen Dagblad) ‘Police sweeps away coins art’ (Parool). The police stated the following:
‘21-09-2008 / art project cleared / Groenhoedenveem
Sunday morning the 21st of September, the police unintenionally cleared and secured a piece of art exisiting of 1 euro cents, after a report of copper theft. Police officers came across a large amount of coins spread all over the park. To them it was unclear who owned the money and why the coins were spread over the park. In collaboration with the calamity service of the municipality they have collected the approximately 260,000 pennies and stored them at a police office. Meanwhile it turned out that the police knew of this art project, but that the information had not been passed on to the police officers on duty. Meanwhile the police has returned the coins.’ (Translated from original police statement, 21-09-2008, bureau of communication of the Amsterdam police.)
Well, well…
Check out this link for some great footage on the Sagmeister project, published by one of the residents of the Waagdragerhof: www.flickr.com
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
I’m sure most of you folks have seen the SNL skits with Tina Fey but just in case you haven’t these are just too precious not to share. Enjoy!
SNL - 10.4.2008
SNL - 9.27.2008
and last but not least, the one that started it all SNL - 9.20.2008
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
I recently wrote an article for Under Consideration’s Speak Up on my experience with Project M and my Pay it Forward initiative. Here’s an excerpt from the article.
“I graduated from Syracuse University in 1996 full of excitement to enter the design field. I had the crazy idea that I was going to change the world of design and if I was lucky, become an influential designer at the end of my career. I was 21
Read the rest of article.
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Graphic exchange is a great resource for designers to see what others are working on. Truly inspiring to see such beautiful work.”
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Check out e2, a critically acclaimed PBS series about the innovators and pioneers who envision a better quality of life on earth: socially, culturally, economically and ecologically.
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