Archive for September 2011
Jack White, Dwell, and Design
September 30, 2011 | No Comments | View
As big fans of Jack White and the things he makes, we couldn’t resist reading and sharing a recent interview with him in Dwell Magazine about design, music, furniture, and tactility. Favorite entities talking about favorite topics: “I like tackling problems from a pragmatic standpoint and changing my style accordingly, rather than approaching everything with [...]
Inspiration in Black & White
September 23, 2011 | No Comments | View
As great as color is or can be, it’s oftentimes very refreshing to take it out of the system and get into the purity and richness that comes with greyscale (especially on an cloudy fall day). That’s why we love and recommend Shiro to Kuro, a design curation site that explains themselves simply and elegantly: [...]
Scroll On
September 16, 2011 | No Comments | View
It’s good to remember that information technology in one form or another has been around at least as long as we humans. Cave paintings count too: there was a time when charcoal mixed with animal fat was the new hotness. Though we’ve come a long way (in some ways) since then, it’s cool to think about what we use today as part of a continuum of storytelling and connecting that’s something we’re naturally, amazingly compelled to do and improve upon.
QR codes need love, too.
September 9, 2011 | No Comments | View
We got a great direct mail piece from Billy Reid, and it changed the perspective on QR codes.
Tags: Billy Reid > direct mail > tommy beaver
Burrito, Supremely
September 2, 2011 | No Comments | View
Chipotle makes a damn fine burrito, even if they do keep their cilantro a loose secret. Now that they have some equally fine intentions (and messaging) in Cultivate a Better World, they’re commissioning some supreme work to back it up. Their latest brings in Willie Nelson covering/owning Coldplay’s The Scientist as accompaniment to Johnny Kelly’s short [...]
Tags: Chipotle > Coldplay > film > Johnny Kelly > Willie Nelson