Coop Posters Are for Sale!

Coop Posters Are for Sale!

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The 7 Cooperative Principle Posters—our latest design collaboration with Cooperation Texas—are now on sale! You can purchase a full set of 7 or an individual poster. They are 18″ x 24″ and high-quality offset printed at a local Austin printer. Your walls look bare, no?

Click here to purchase!

Amazing Airport Installation

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En route to visit family in the Bay Area for Thanksgiving, we had the surprise pleasure to land at the brand new “Virgin America” terminal at the San Francisco airport. It was amazing…from the furniture configuration at the gates to the restaurants—everything was designed to a tee! But what stood out the most were the incredible art installations. Their collection was better than any museum I’ve been to recently. The above photos are of my favorite installation—huge, nebulous blobs hanging from the ceiling made of some sort of netting. They could be something both aquatic or celestial—a jellyfish or galaxy. Super cool to walk underneath and around.  Read more →

Beautiful Car Emblems

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I must confess…

I am a dedicated supporter of the green movement, and do my best to maintain sustainable practices in my business and life, but man!, do I love me a beautiful car. What can I say? It’s all my dad. Thanks, Andy.

While in my home town, State College, PA, last weekend, we stumbled upon this vintage car show. In between drooling, I managed to snap pics of these beauty’s emblems. They just don’t make ’em like they used to. Makes me want to get an old hood ornament for my Prius.

Ethereal Paper Gems by Kirsten Hassenfeld

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OOOH! I LOVE THIS! This is especially interesting to me because of how Hassenfeld uses simple sheets of paper (even though it doesn’t look like paper) to not only create 3D forms, but integrate light in a way that transforms the space into one of delight and awe. Like being in CandyLand! Now that’s user experience.

Inspiration from Italy: Part I

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My cousin recently got married in Italy (thanks, Alex!) so of course we had to go! Italy is my absolute favorite country outside the US. Literally everywhere you look you see beauty—old and new, but mostly old. It’s mind blowing when you see patterns, shapes, colors and styles that were created so long ago, yet are still in use today.

So this post is dedicated to a current new trend—STRIPES! …And when I say new, I mean back in style for the umpteenth time since the 1300’s when these puppies were built. So freaking cool, right? Or should I say, Bellissimo!

Stay tuned for more posts sharing some more cool images of design, products and architecture from Italia! Ciao!

How do you say no to Saul Bass?

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At the Stanley Kubrick exhibit at LACMA (see previous post), one of the most interesting things I came across were these drafts of poster artwork for The Shining, created by legendary graphic designer, Saul Bass. As you can see by the handwritten notes made by Kubrick on the illustrations, he was not impressed with these first drafts. It’s so interesting (and relieving) to realize that even as you get to the top level of any design-related profession, at the end of the day, we’re all working for a client, with own unique their tastes and visions. I would have been happy with any of these, although the final one did turn out pretty cool…

Stanley Kubrick Exhibit at LACMA

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Wow. That’s all I have to say about this incredible exhibit on display at the LA County Museum of Art. There was at least one room dedicated to each of Kubrick’s films, each filled with artifacts, original script notes, costumes, sketches…everything and anything you can imagine. Apparently Kubrick kept EVERYTHING, so I’m sure they could have filled 5 times as many rooms. Kudos to the curator. Here are just a few shapshots…

Who doesn’t love a laser

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Since joining Make ATX—a member-based workshop with a variety of fabrication tools–tools for making things—I can’t stop thinking in laser terms. What can I get my hands on that I can laser? It never gets old watching the machine carve shapes out from the paper, wood, plastic, glass…you name it! It’s such a fun way to make something stand out—like this simple business card I did for a client who’s a Contemporary Art PHD candidate. The idea for these cards came Read more →

HEB New Signage

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It’s always neat to come across something big that you’ve had a hand in creating. If you’ve been to any of the new “upscale” HEB’s, you’ll come across the in-store graphics and way-finding that I helped craft while working at environmental design firm, FD2S. Those dots are perfectly spaced, I know for a fact.