Super Choose Day
50% of being a designer involves choice: what color works best, which typeface best suits the design, etc. The other 50% involves accepting givens: I must choose from this small...
SuperBowl Ads
I found the Superbowl ads to be tolerable this year. It was kind of a slow build—the first quarter was a real snooze fest, but by half-time we seemed to...
Calling All Idiots!
All you need are four friends, a shopping cart, and some awesome costumes. The Idiotarod is back, and it's this weekend in New York. There are various starting points in...
One Cold Hand
Last week my mom sent me a newspaper clipping about a woman in Pittsburgh dedicated to reuniting lost gloves and mittens. Jennifer Gooch is a Pittsburgh resident who features gloves/mittens...
Hats Off… to Marc
For the past week, Marc has been talking about how much he thinks he looks like an actor in the movie "This Sunday." I had no idea what he'd been...
“MySpace” in Chinese?
On our way back to the office from Redken meeting, Katie and I spotted someone reading this Chinese newspaper. We thought it was funny how the word "MySpace" was the...
The New Celebrity Pet, A Rabbit?
I'd like to create a trend, Rabbits as arm candy. On Friday, our friends Yvette and Landry brought their new pet to our dinner party. Calmer than a little dog...
Laptop Circa 1940
Sheri's father saw this old typewriter at a repair shop in St. Louis, and decided to give it to me for Christmas. He thought this Underwood Portable's sleek black appearance...