Tag: Design

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…

Who’s gonna stay: GoLive or Dreamweaver? Adobe buys Macromedia: what will happen to GoLive and Dreamweaver? Here’s a boring stories on it: Marketwatch, Silicon Republic, Mac Daily News. They all say the same thing. “blah blah blah.” We want real…

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…

Neenah has some great prices on 8.5×11″ paper. For 500 sheets, it costs between $17.95 and $24.95http://www.neenahpaper.com/OnlineProductList/ProductListResults.asp?ft=Designer You can order swatchbooks to see what the paper looks like at:http://www.neenahpaper.com/ItemListing/index.asp?b=00&s=opp&ft=Designer I couldn’t believe they were charging $5.95 for each swatchbook. At…

We’ve all heard of contintental shift where supposedly all the contintents were one big mass called Eurasia or something. What if we were to use Adobe Illustrator to align all the countries. Here’s the starting map of the world: Here’s…

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…

Source: “Moroccan Blue’ Leads Top Fashion Colors for Fall 2005” on creativepro.com And I made an illustrator file with the swatches if you want to import it into Adobe Illustrator. 2005colors_womensclothes_v8.zip

Tribune Media Services, an innovative and entrepreneurial business unit of Tribune company, is the No. 1 supplier of television and movie information, reaching millions of consumers through thousands of customers. I did the information architecture/sitemap on this site along with…

Does anyone know of any places that link to well-designed websites? Here’s a starting list: http://www.designinteract.com/sow http://www.howdesign.com/links/designfirms.asp http://www.linkdup.com http://www.coolhomepages.com http://www.moluv.com Please post any additional links in the comments below. Thanks.

Here is the most complete list you will ever find for Design Competitions, Awards, and Deadlines. Over 56 competitions to make you happy (or sad). Here’s the link for the full list: https://www.spudart.org/blog/2005-design-competitions-awards-deadlines/If you have any corrections or extra competitions,…

UPS has those commercials, “What Brown Can Do For You”, trying to make “brown” and “UPS” synonymous. However, a Google search for “brown” only lists a UPS reference until result #566! Haha. In your face UPS. Brown is so not…

Amazing that Curt Shilling’s blood-stained sock is now in the hall of fame. It’s a testament to this pitcher’s courage. Here’s some tshirts being sold about it: The Real Red Sock √Ø Red Sox red sock enters Hall of Fame:…

The band wanted to go beyond the standard album and have a theme with legs. Building off from the name of the album, “Please Remember My Name” we developed the concept of using a nametag–photos of the band wearing the…

The movie Shrek brought out lime green. Normally, lime green would have died a long time ago, but thanks to the sequel of Shrek, lime green stayed on the radar. Movies with sequels that have the main character in a…

A hot combination is to include brights into a palette of neutrals. Peach, toupe, pale mauve with rich brass and coppers. 2005 will see more bronzes and coppers. Meanwhile, 2006 will see a marriage of silver and gold. A lot…

when coding websites, you assign color by a six-digit hex value. This value can have the following numbers/letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. So a piece of code for…

Leatrice often looks at movies that are in production and what colors will be emphasized in those films. And, of course, fashion. Leatrice and the Pantone Color Insititute talk to designers and query them about the colors they will use…

Every Monday for the next four weeks, we’ll have a new feature called Leatrice’s Lessons. Leatrice Eiseman is the Executive Director of the Pantone Institute. Here are some things she mentioned while giving a talk for a breakfast given by…

oh yeah. red zinger tea is so tastytown. It tastes like the sidewalk smeared with red berries. Really! it does! and it DOES taste good. mmmmm. Ingredients: Hibiscus, sidewalk, rosehips, lemon grass, licorice root, natural flavors, and citric acid

“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…

All these standard umbrellas of black, so boring it makes me wanna yak. Occasionally there’s red or gray still, those don’t make my day. Those colors get the thumbs down. But seriously, i want an umbrella of BROWN.

Hotwheels makes some nice die-cast metal cars. Matchbox on the other hand makes all very crappy ones. It’s embarrasing the stuff that matchbox puts out. Then much to my surprise, I just found out today that hotwheels and matchbox are…

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:…

I’m designing a brochure for KRT Campus, and I was looking for some dramatic images. Normally, you’d do a search for: drama, dramatic, powerful, happy, sad, joyful, and all those other words in the thesaurus. But here’s a trick… look…

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…