Inspirations

Pixels

Just great. My favorite part has to be the Tetris building.

An Open Letter to the People of the World from the Fake Steve Jobs

Some pundits have posed the question: Why do anyone need this thing? Indeed, even those of you are lining up and standing outside stores may be wondering, Why am I doing this? Why am I lining up like a zombie for an expensive piece of consumer electronics, a product for which there is no shortage [...]

A Funny Take on the Client / Agency Relationship

Yes, we believe that all clients deserve a Bill of Rights. But sometimes they also need to hear how they can sound:

Dearest clients, it’s funny because it’s (sometimes) true.

SMartCamp

Last weekend Mike K. and I attended the first ever SMartCamp, a conference focusing on the social web and its relationship to the arts. It was a good conference with speakers from some of the main players at the intersection of the arts and technology, including Etsy, Threadless, and of course, MoMA. However, there were [...]

Milton Glaser on Long-Term Design

“Well, the field itself is dominated by fashion and by the idea of selling stuff, so you have to be concerned with what’s currently being done, and the economy is based on the idea of change and new styles, and this year’s whatever. Unfortunately, that’s not the real basis for serious work. If you’re more [...]

We are Interested in Imperfections

What I like so much about this video isn’t just that it’s good (which it is), or that it’s a reminder of how frighteningly proficient today’s design students have become (it was done by a student in Singapore). No, I thought it was worth noting because it’s also a really fine example of the merits [...]

Get Big and Stay Small

Get Big and Stay Small

“The fact that they exist and that they’ve survived is really kind of amazing these days”—David Byrne
Our Noise is the inspiring story of North Carolina’s Merge Records—”the indie label that got big and stayed small”. Merge was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance & Mac McCaughan of Superchunk. The book celebrates its twenty years of releasing [...]