11 posts tagged “design”

Thanks to my homegirl E, I'm now obsessed with the FedEx arrow.  I can't stop starting at it whenever I see a FedEx truck on the road. 

(Not great for my driving.  Must obey traffic, not arrow.)

She pointed readers of her blog to a great interview with the FedEx logo designer.

Two-handed touchscreen computing.  W00t!

 

It's been a strange and hard past few weeks, so in an attempt to lighten the mood, here are my five good things for today. 

(Minus the obvious ones of having a roof over my head, food to eat, etc.  Those transcend good.)

1. Photo booths.  One of my favorite watering holes in DC has one of those photo booths that produces a black-and-white four picture strip.  I never do it alone and I always give the other person half.  So in my office, I have these great little pictures of me and e-ron, and me and J.  They make me giddy.

2. Tootsie pops.  I used to hate them as a kid, and now I'm slightly in love with them as an adult.  Why the hatred?  Who knows.  Probably the same reason I didn't like grape juice or pickles.  I was gnawing on a pop the other day and studied the wrapper, looking for the native american shooting the star.  Legend had it that you used to be able to take those to a candy store and get a free pop.  No idea if it's true.  (Update: it's not.  Boo!)

3. Back rubs from my man-friend.  I have a permanent knot in my right shoulder, and he can usually work it out.  Most people, when they give you a massage, are too forceful or too gentle.  He's happily in the middle.

4. Red, red wine.

5. The free gift tags that I got in the mail from Design Within Reach.  I can't afford anything in that store, so I feel a little fancy with my free stuff. 

As some of you already know, I'm a bit of a junkie for collages, and for series art.  I was tickled to run across Steven McCarthy's Commerical Rhetoric Art Project, a series of collages make from the junk (mail, packaging, spam, etc.) that invades our lives on a daily basis.

What works about it is taking things that we see every day and suddenly changing the context. 

An exerpt of the artist's statement is below:

Commercial Rhetoric Art Project uses the visual material aimed at domestic markets to create a body of work that recontextualizes it into a social, political and economic statement. By dismantling and re-arranging the commercial messages meant to seduce us as consumers, the project causes viewers to question the rhetoric that attempts to colonize our homes. Strategies of collage, juxtaposition, satire and parody serve to invert the dominant tide of advertising propaganda entering our private spaces.

 

I'm just a little too amused by Forty Media's Top 10 Stock Photography Cliches.

Kudos, marketers, for not only making a great viral piece to promote your business, but for also being spot on.

JupiterImages is now publishing a design horoscope, complete with your lucky Pantone number.

(Yep, I realize just how dorky I am for finding this amusing.)

The illustrated 9/11 report. 

All I know is that I'm oddly fascinated by it. 

Would you pay to have your fingerprint or DNA turned into a work of art?

I would, as I'm just that self-involved. But I'm not the only one.

Creepy, but ubercool.

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