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Building on the online design community’s shining tradition of making utterly massive lists of supposedly invaluable resources and things, I give you: 100 Design-Related Blog Posts With Lists of 100 Things Top 100 Best Fonts of All Time 100 Inspiring Character Designs 100 Great Blog Logso 100 Great Inspirational Resources for Designers 100 Extraordinary Examples…
Right around this time of year, Yang always gets these intense midnight cravings for a “cold treat.” This would be a good excuse to put those ice pop molds we bought last year to good use. So anticipation of future cravings (and hopefully warmer weather), we are compiling a list of ideas for ice pops….
Young Chinese Artists: The Next Generation by Christoph Noe rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a survey of several up and coming young artists working today in Mainland China (this book is NOT about artists who have matured and attained international fame like Xu Bing or Cai Guo Qiang). Going into this, I was…
I was just at the ICA again today. The Boston AIGA organized an all-day event at the ICA to promote dialogue around Shepard Fairey’s work and its place in society. The event was titled “Design as Social Agent” (there was a silly point during a talk where Elliot Earls could not remember what it was…
This is a hard one. Ready? Really this is quite an amazing discovery, because cocktail sauce is something I always thought you had to go buy because it had some patented top-secret ingredient to it. Except it turns out that it’s just ketchup and horseradish (or, in this case, wasabi). What if tonkatsu sauce turned…
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte rating: 5 of 5 stars This was a completely worthwhile read. I was able to get through it really quickly by only briefly glancing at the many graphics. This either means I somehow didn’t notice Tufte’s resounding plea to appreciate graphics, or that it is…
I was pondering whether to write this post, for fear that it would turn into yet another plaintive whine littering the Internets, but you know what, I think this is important enough to whine about. So here goes: I just spent this entire evening of 5 hours doing nothing but sifting through the Internets instead…
This is a belated post. Saturday afternoon (pre-mochi), we actually went to see the Shepard Fairey show at the ICA. Here are my random thoughts: By and large, it was a very predictable show. We saw an abundance of visual tropes inspired by war propaganda depicting activist/culture-jamming themes in a super-flat, high-contrast style. We also…
Mochi is one of those “projects” I’ve been meaning to make for a long time, along with bread and Mexican mole. The bread I’ve tried before and it was a failure. Mole… don’t have all the ingredients and may never. But today I finally made mochi.
Another great graphic designer talk from TED (they have oh so many). I like this one because Milton Glaser talks more about his process than about his higher overarching ideals. Also I enjoy his irreverant attitude. Many times I’ve felt that same urge to humorously pontificate the “meaning” of this or that design, mostly to…