This year a documentary about street art was nominated for an Academy Award and so I think it's fair to say that the practice has shed the "pesky graffiti" brush off and now receives a level of institutional respect and critical consideration on p...
NYT Changes, Part Two : (Belated) RIP Consumed, by Rob Walker
A casualty of an apparent spring cleaning, the final Consumed column ran in the New York Times Magazine three weekends ago. The author, Rob Walker, wrote a quiet goodbye at the end of an essay which discussed the popularity of websites featuring r...
NYT Changes, Part One : Magazine Redesign
When I opened my New York Times Magazine yesterday and saw that it had undergone a redesign, my first thought was "Again?" It seems like just yesterday (though it was really June 09) that the magazine revealed new alterations to its appearance, an...
And the Oscar Goes To....
The Academy Awards are this Sunday and like a good Angeleno I will be watching. So out of the 10 films nominated for Best Picture, which should win the non-existant Oscar for Best Movie Poster? By my assessment, 4 out of the 10 are worthy of ackno...
170 Million Americans : Infographic
Info-graphic Reader
Today my Facebook newsfeed contained two back-to-back items (posted by different people) related to info-graphics. The first is a post by Paula Scher on Huffington Post, in which, inspired by Fast Company's compendium of the best info-graphics fro...
File Under "H" for Heinous
According to internet scuttlebutt, this is the new NBC/Universal corporate logo, which was revealed today during internal meetings to mark Comcast's official take over. I hate to say this looks like it was designed in 5 minutes on a broken monitor...
Hipster photo experiments
Food For Thought
My friend, former classmate, design educator and screen printer-extraordinaire, Dan Shafer, has a thought provoking piece in a design faculty show currently open at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Dan hung a bunch of one dollar bills, ...
Pink Ponies: A Case Study
For all the parenting designers out there.