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Year: 2008

The Guggenheim Museum Is On Fire

The Guggenheim Museum Is On Fire

Last Friday I went to the opening event of the exhibit "Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe” at the Guggenheim Museum. Cai Guo-Qiang is an internationally known Chinese installation and...
iHole

iHole

Emil found a very cool site of an ingenious transformation of an iPhone box into a pinhole camera. I have an affinity for both things, and this is a perfect...
Barack Obama Helped You Move a Sofa

Barack Obama Helped You Move a Sofa

The website, Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle has been popping up all around the blogosphere lately, and whether you like Barack or not, it is great fun! Such an...
Good Packaging for Small Things

Good Packaging for Small Things

Sheri came back from a weekend trip with a pair of felt booties for our friends' newborn. While not typically my cup of tea as a genre, I took note...
Eames Stamps, Yipee!

Eames Stamps, Yipee!

You can imagine my elation when I saw online today that in the Summer of '08 the US post office will be issuing a set of stamps commemorating Ray and...
Preaching What I Practice

Preaching What I Practice

Tomorrow I am giving a talk to designers on "how to plan a marketing calendar for your design firm along with tips for how to maximize a minimal marketing budget."It's...
Lush Innovates Beauty Packaging (Most Of The Time)

Lush Innovates Beauty Packaging (Most Of The Time)

In the beauty industry, good packaging design is crucial. Who would buy half the products available if it wasn't for the beautiful bottles and boxes they came wrapped in? I...
Pana-Mime

Pana-Mime

I came across this logo for Panama tourism in a magazine the other day. Does the colorful cluster of shapes look familiar? A little too familiar perhaps? That's because it...
We’ve Been Hit!

We’ve Been Hit!

Last Thursday morning I noticed that my downstairs neighbor's front door had a stencil on it. Our neighbor is also a close friend so I asked him about it, thinking...
Fabulously Absolut

Fabulously Absolut

Vodka is a strange thing, indeed. It's essentially diluted alcohol, and — if made correctly — should have no taste whatsoever. That's what makes the sale and packaging of it...