Category Archives: Get Inspired!

Blog Action Day: Awareness for the Environment Through Design

15-Oct-07

Designers can make a difference in helping the environment. Perhaps it is suggesting recycled papers to your clients, or encouraging the members of your studio to drink from reusable mugs instead of Styrofoam cups (thanks to Sara in our office). Some solutions are common sense and easy implementations, others take some planning. But the good [...]

The Creative Spirit of Tom Suzuki

29-Sep-07

On Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an exhibition in honor of the memory of Tom Suzuki. Walking through the gallery I scanned over the humble pieces of everyday printed collateral push-pinned to the white walls that Suzuki created. There were no screaming examples of bold innovation, just beautiful design that [...]

Interactive Information Design and Social Media

19-Sep-07

I have a bit of a fetish for awesome information design and it gets nearly compulsive when it becomes a reacting entity on the world wide web. The idea that massive amounts of information, many times being ever-changing and dynamic can be molded into a visual form, manipulated, and sifted through is all sorts of [...]

Current.tv: a Network with Style Part 2 of 2

07-Sep-07

Brand encompasses so much more than just a logo, it involves the entire experience a user/consumer has with a product. Current.tv has built a brand upon a foundation of engaging user-generated content that is beautifully complimented with unique motion graphics .

The fantastic thing about web 2.0 is that it engages the user in [...]

Making Ordinary Extraordinary

01-Jul-07

If you have ever shopped at Target you have been effected by the work of Michael Graves. Many recognize him for his egg-shaped interpretations of ordinary household items, but a few years ago I had the opportunity to learn that his work goes far beyond that. From architecture to product design Graves has helped [...]