- ARCHIVE / July, 2007
- The Art of the Business Card
My anonymous friend from high school, DigiGirl, sent me a link to the Art of the Business Card.
Within this album are 549 photos of some very well designed business cards, collected by the dailypoetics group on Flickr.
Most of the cards are very well designed, with good concepts. What struck me more, was the high level [...] - Ghost Signs
When I lived and worked in NYC, I would be drawn to the older sections of Manhattan. Tribeca. The East Village. Even sections of Midtown. I would look for “ghost signs.” Ads that were from another time, another era, another New York City, different from the one in which I existed. I was drawn to [...]
- Chaos or Calm
How does the level of neatness around you affect your work? Back in college, I could have dirty clothes on my dorm room floor, spiderwebs under my bed, be walking on paintings still wet, and not be able to see more than 10% of any furniture surface area…absolute visual chaos…and yet still get my work [...]
- Please Touch
A few weeks ago, we took the girls to the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia [map]. What an amazing place.
The museum was designed for children to explore, play, interact and TOUCH everything - all while learning about the world they live in. Our oldest (almost 3) absolutely loved it. She shopped in the grocery store, [...] - Robots in Disguise
I’m generally not a big fan of film reviews because critics will eventually stop reviewing the technical aspects of the film and move into their own personal aesthetic. This doesn’t work because everyone likes different things. If you don’t enjoy certain genres, or you’re not within the film’s target demographics, then odds are you won’t [...]
- Coming Soon
Well, I’m back from my nearly 3 month blogging hiatus. If you’ve kept me in your RSS and news readers all this time, I really appreciate it. I’ve tried to make mental notes of things I’ve seen or heard that would really good blogging fodder. Hopefully I’ll be able to remember a few of them. [...]