Hooray Earth!

Charm City is becoming ever-more charming

AND! They are 100% wind powered!

Drool

Post Typography

I love you guys. I want to have your typographic babies. 

For anyone that finds that disgusting or offensive, you do not appreciate type enough.

That is all.

Happy Tubes

Hey there reader. It’s been awhile.   So, I have decided to start a kind of online journal/timesheet/travelogue/to do list for my Senior Project. I just started it this morning at about 2AM so it is still in pretty rough form. you can visit it here. I will also be putting it in my blogroll so that it can be accessed without having to wade through the masses and masses of blogs that I post.  A word of warning, some of the stuff will not really make sense to the outside reader, as it is a collection of random thoughts, a bit of a “dumping ground” for info that has accumulated during that stretch of time. Happy reading. Don’t worry, I will still post more coherent  ideas here, but I wanted to try out Tumblr® as well. So far I like it… if all goes well I may just shut this bad boy down and move exclusively to Tumblr. HAPPY READING!

Stefan Sagmeister!

I have an autographed copy of his book now.
I met him. Hooray!

Casa da musica logo examples: WONDERFUL

Vacuum-formed annual report cover for an Austrian Lighting company

A Quick snapshot of the cover in different lighting conditions (there are over 70 in all).

WATCH THIS, YOU MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING:

C’mon Evergreen State! Do Me Proud!

I have to work today, but I know that Dr. Paul will get plenty of support at the caucus today. Do me proud Evegreen State.

By the way, I love the graphic designers getting into the political arena Michael Nystrom over at The Daily Paul designed and printed the poster above in various colors. He printed printed only 500 of them, ad there are VERY limited supplies left! If I had $50 to give, I would, but I have to spend it on designs of my own. (Boo hoo).

I am also a big fan of Shepard Fairey and his Barack Obama Poster Series. Again, if I had the money this would be above my desk with the Ron Paul Poster(s)

I haven’t seen any Mike Huckabee posters that I consider wonders of design, but they would probably look something like this:

Whereas McCain’s would scare all of us by showing his true form:

Iran to the library

So here’s the deal. Iran is not as bad as everyone says it is. Do I know this because I have traveled extensively throughout the country? No. Is it because I have a fluent knowledge of the language and culture of Iran? Nein.
Then how could I know that?

Simple.

Because the United States is acting like a jerk. This is the same mentality as someone constantly teasing you until finally you snap. Thankfully neither country has yet, but know our man in the White House, I am sure he will try to pop a shot soon.

Currently, I am working on my senior project. It highlights the relationship the United States has with Iran and why every single citizen of either country needs to pay attention and “get off their high horse and get their heads out of their respective asses”. I’ll post more later, at this point it is all a mountain of research.

The whole idea came from my Senior Thesis titled Persian Immersion: Why American Design Students Should Study Iranian Graphic Design. It brought to light a major fact that most Americans, particularly students, just take whatever is handed to them and pay little attention to the world around them. I had to put a stop to it. I will try and post a PDF or something of my thesis, but I doubt anyone is going to want to read it. If you do, let me know.

All My Homies in the House Say “Yeea-uhh!”

There comes a time in ever college student’s life when there is the overwhelming need to put on a pair of cross-eye-inducing, pupil magnifying, kaleidoscope enhanced “Space Specs”. I bought these little puppies for a White Elephant Christmas Gift Exchange Super Extravaganza. They were instantly popular, and a mandate was put forth that everyone in attendance was to try them on and have a few photos taken for posterity. Vanessa and I brought some pretty rocking gifts. I, the specs, she, a homemade artist’s magnet from Blue Bottle Art Gallery.
up here on wonderful condo-ridden Capitol Hill, Seattle.

I am a big fan of what they do.