I love post-it notes so I’m always happy when I run across something creative that involves them. This video definitely describes how I’ve been feeling lately.
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At the beginning of the school year, Rama Hughes asked his students to contribute to his Collection of Beautiful Trash. He promised to surprise them with something made out of it at the end of the year. As soon as the school year ended, Rama browsed through the scraps, selected the most interesting items, and created three handbound books which will be become part of the art room and allow future students to flip through them for inspiration and, as Rama says, “hopefully, learn a thing or two about the beauty of imperfection.”
I adore this idea and if I was a teacher or had kids one of these would definitely be around. In fact, I should really put one in my studio, I’m sure I have “beautiful trash” as well.
You can read more about these beautiful trash books and see some of the spreads on illustration friday.
SVA Commercial by Hillman Curtis
I like this:
(If you can’t see the player, you can watch it here)
One of my very favorite spots in the Twin Cities is tucked away down a little side street in what must be one of the most beautiful settings I’ve seen. While very close to all the wonderful things the city has to offer (like milkshakes) approaching this spot is like leaving it all behind. Every time I ride my bike by I leave feeling relaxed.
The house itself is unique and handsomely designed but not ostentatious the way well funded homes often feel the need to be. It nestles into the side of the hill like it grew there years ago. What’s growing right next to the house is a big part of what makes it so special. A full lot worth of Japanese style garden plays out in a myriad, tranquil shades of green. Backing up against a park allows the garden to take full advantage of the borrowed landscape.
The garage is a recent edition and makes the entry to the house even more private. A feature that makes the fact that the owners have generously shared unobstructed views of their garden even more of a gift.
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They’ve made a documentary about Anna Wintour of Vogue called The September Issue. It comes out August 28th, 2009 and will definitely be interesting.
On September 18th you will once again see crazy things going on in parking spaces in downtown Minneapolis and Saint Paul – and around the nation in fact. Started in San Francisco by the Rebar art and design collective Park(ing) Day is a growing tradition where a wide variety of artists (it’s popular with landscape architects here in the Twin Cites) take their creative expression to the streets for a day of thought provoking, curbside installations. I think the design and advertising agencies should consider getting in on things.
Why am I bringing this up so far in advance? Because now’s the time for graphic designers to get involved in the T-Shirt design contest. I just submitted mine and want to encourage you to go for it.
A Celebration of Paths That Have Crossed
At last the wedding invitations have been designed, printed and sent on their way like seeds cast into the postal trade winds destined to spread across the land. With any luck they will arrive in the appropriate mail boxes and take root on a few refrigerators and bulletin boards in anticipation of the big day(s). Ours will be small celebrations as weddings go but like everything that involves my lovely Cindy it has been and will be lots of fun – from “will you?” to “do you?” and beyond.
On the front the lines represent the moment Cindy and I found one another and how quickly our lives began to merge and entwine. Inside the lines reach out to two places that are important to us where we wanted to celebrate. The meaning behind the colors, the size and basic style remain the same as the Save-The-Date card that preceded the invite.
Cheers