Design & Chicago (intersection of tags)

A 800 meter building called “Burj Dubai” is being built in the United Arab Emirates. That’s just HUGE. To compare, the Sears Tower is 443 meters. It’s to be completed in November 2008. This photo was taken by me in…

Here are photos from the (not-so) exclusive opening at the Chicago Supersize McDondalds at Clark, Ohio and Ontario Street today on April 15, 2005. The Giant McDonalds on Steriods in downtown Chicago The wait wasn’t too terribly long. The even…

Here’s an email I sent to Quark: Subject: Quark’s events hey yo I’ma lookin at yo events page at: http://www.quark.com/about/events/ How come you don’t have no events for Quark in Chicago? Shy Town wants Quark conferences. Adobe InDesign is totally…

“Now is time for question, please anyone ask question. One question, ten dollars. Two question, eight dollars. Three question, five dollars.” He said this in joking, of course. It was his way of encrouraging people to ask more questions. The…

Here’s some random notes about Piero talking about measure: “Every day I work in measure. Sometimes I forget the dimension.” * Human measure * Natural measure * Artificial measure Language another kind of measure. Ants use the same 011100010101 langauge…

Part of his reaction to the question from the audience, “How have new tools like computers influenced the way you work?”: “You use pen as tool–fine. You use computer as brain–no.” “I have the macintosh. I no plug wires into…

“Curiosity is like a synapsis. If you have synapsis, then you have curiosity. If you have curiosity, then you are a designer.” Source: 9/23/2004 talk by Italian designer Piero Lissoni at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago

For some fun photos, run around a tree and take pictures. You’ll get some interesting results. Check out some photos I took outside Chicago’s brown line stop at Western Ave: https://www.spudart.org/photo/20041011/ I’m trying to decide which one of these to:…

Millennium Park in Chicago is very civilized. After awhile I couldn’t stand to be there. Too civilized. I need to go to uncivilization. To touch. Comments: This made me very curious, because Millenennium park is a park after all. Maybe…

“My sofas are uncomfortable. I design them to be uncomfortable.” You get strong feedback from my couches. To continuously use. It’s like the computer. Without using the computer, it is just a brick. With my couches you continously interface with…

The AIGA Chicago (American Institute of Graphic Arts) is asking: Can you be a designer and not know it? That’s a tough call. I like to say that I’m not a designer. It gives me a fresh approach to my…

European towns have been built over and over. So-and-so country comes and takes over. They rebuild over part of the town. Such-and-such country comes hundreds years later and they rebuild over the part of the town. And so on. There…

At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago on thursday, September 23, Piero Lissoni an Italian designer/architect gave a talk “DESIGN MATTERS” on graphic design, product design, and architecture. His english was quite broken, and at first I was starting…

Here’s a list of upcoming chicago events I’m considering attending. Anyone interested in coming with, just lemme know. Wed 9/22, 7pm, Free Establishing yourself as an indepedent artist. Practicing Chicago artists share their experiences and perspectives about professional success in…

A time and a place Capturing a certain feel of a time period Extreme Lots of hand lettered type squeezed into one space Industrial Strength –Dymo (those Dymo stamp machine things) -Stamped in steel (dog chains, phone booth) -Industrial Strength…

Chicago’s Review Aug 30 – Sep5: Tranformers Transfigured at Rotofugi. Summary: Nice effort, but disappointment. Cool stuff, but there were like only a handful. And they weren’t even of the real Transformers. They were of some Japanese anime robots. Granted…

Hey, will this be another feature on spudart.org? Every monday or tuesday (yeah, i’m late today is thursday) a preview of what’s upcoming this week. And a review of what happened the past week. I try to make this blog…

While at the Chicago Cubs game in Milwaukee yesterday, anyone with a fluorescent colored shirt in the stands really stood out. There should be a professional team with fluorescent green as one of their team colors. Then their fans can…

At Wrigley Field the Chicago Cubs are bringing the brick wall behind homeplate closer to the field, creating 213 extra “Dugout Box Seats”. The cost of the seats are: * $50: value added games. * $100: regular games * $250:…

What are some of your favorite fonts? GOOD SANS SERIF FONTS: Franklin Gothic: hip lookin, despite the fact that one of our clients demands we use it ALL the time on her stuff. (example Mark Bazer sheet) Avenir: nice round,…

I heard that someone is doing a virtual 2003 World Series of the Boston Red Sox vs. the Chicago Cubs online. Where is it?

The Tribune Tower is putting up one of those big window night signs for the Chicago Cubs being in the National League Playoffs. The Tribune Company owns the Cubs, so it’s about time that they finally do this. I work…

Here are some of the things I put into my profile for my 10-year high school reunion Occupation: Graphic Designer for Tribune Media Services Hobbies: Art, ceramics, extreme croquet, getting lost, graphic design, illustration, learning, Macintosh, Mr. T., photography, programming,…

Chicagoans, grab a Red Eye newspaper next week to see some Zap2it.com advertisements I designed and illustrated. They are full-page color ads with lots of purple.Here’s the schedule of when they will appear. Monday, July 21 (Get Inside TV.)Tuesday, July…

The friends’ blogs list on the right column has been updated. Here’s a little diddy about each. Serious Danger: Interesting, smart guy, Matthew Shultz. Had the honor of going to art school with him. Updated almost every day. New York.…

I’m doing illustrations for Tribune Media Services Zap2it.com advertisements that will appear in the Chicago Red Eye, LA Weekly, Village Voice, OC Weekly (Orange County) newspapers. Although, they haven’t been published yet, i’m posting about the drawings of here, because…

The week of taking photos is finally over. I went totally berzerko taking photos… 2025 to be exact. I found out last night that if I sign up as a professional “stringer” that I can submit 50 photos, instead of…

And you thought that squid caught off antartica was huge? Killer squid found living in Chicago RiverBy Matt Maldre, freelance reporter4/3/2003 Immediately after the news of the Colossal Squid found in the sub-Antarctic Ross Sea, an even larger squid was…

It would be fun if each city and state had an official font. Here’s some fonts named after places. Some make sense like San Marco and Parisian. But like Chicago and New York make no sense. Apparently the fonts of…

Cook County elections officials hope a new voter education campaign featuring a pair of cartoon characters √£ “Chad” and “Dimples” √£ will help local polling places avert the kind of chaos that occurred in parts of Florida after the last…

While purchasing the new Sobe Mr. Green drink at Walgreens, I commented to Lisa about how I liked the dinosaur on the label. The Walgreens cashier corrected me and said, “it’s a lizard. NOT a dinosaur.” So I replied, “it…