Archive for the Culture Category
Instagr/am/bient: Stop, Collaborate and Listen
January 20, 2012 | No Comments | View
One of many lessons to be learned from hip-hop (or Kenny Rogers) is that it’s hard to beat a solid collaboration. For us that goes exponential when you make it cross-media, with bonus points if there’s an iPhone involved. So you can imagine what happened when we got ahold of Instagr/am/bient: 25 Sonic Postcards – the [...]
Tags: ambient > instagram > iphone > music
Enjoyable Edification
January 6, 2012 | No Comments | View
Resolutions, diets, and ‘new you’ to-dos are all well and good, but instead of more of that, how about we kick off 2012 with 100 of the greatest gig posters of the last 5 years, as curated by the author of The Wall: Modern Day Music Posters, Tom Booth? It’ll be just as good for you – [...]
Biggie Smalls and Design
November 4, 2011 | No Comments | View
You don’t have to dig too far in our last.fm history to see that we like a little well-placed, well-done hip-hop while we work. The way good hip-hop has its way with words and ideas can be nice and conducive to a good turn of phrase, design, or entire concept in what we do. Besides, [...]
Face to Face and Street Level
October 28, 2011 | No Comments | View
It’s been a crazy good couple of weeks. Lots of good work, good works, and celebrations. We had Tommy Beaver’s Bluezoom tenth last Friday, and now we’re staring Halloween right in its cold, dead eye. And that ain’t all, at all. Tuesday before last (the 18th) (tempus fugit) there was also one of the coolest things [...]
Ten Years of Steady Beaver
October 21, 2011 | No Comments | View
It’s a good day at Bluezoom. Today we’re celebrating the ten-year mark of the most-enjoyable and enriching honor of having Tommy Beaver in the Bluezoom fold. Hard to believe a decade has passed since he stopped in for a casual (but in hindsight, monumental) meet-n-greet. A lot has changed since then: we’ve kept growing, moved [...]
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