9 days in the life of
All I can say is, this summer has been non-stop. Bring it ON.
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1 comment August 3rd, 2010
who wants to go swimming?!?!
ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
My new summer romance, the Sol Goldman Pool in Red Hook.
3 comments July 17th, 2010
who knew big rigs could be so ultra?
Apparently Roger Snider, a friend of a friend who I by chance had dinner with the other night. Check out these awesome shots. He travels all over the world taking pictures of these incredible big rigs. I want that job.
And lest you think that all the ultra big rigs are Japanese…. here’s a dose of Freedom for ya.
Check out the full website: Ultra Big Rigs of the World – they are awesome.
1 comment June 4th, 2010
homework #8
I’ve had lots of things I’ve been wanting to blog but very little time lately. So busy! Who knows, maybe I’ll have time when I’m in Vegas later this week….yeah, right. I guess I’ll just have to keep growing the list and wait until next week!
In the meantime, here is this weeks homework.
We had to redesign a 9×4 flier for a cheesy NYC tourist attraction. We chose blindly from a batch the teacher had and I chose the NY Skyride, which is apparently a virtual aerial tour of NYC that is on the second floor of the Empire State Building. Who knew?
The flier was terrible and cheesy and looks like I could have made it in MS Paint back in the 12th grade. I redid this one showing just the front of the flier and what the users of the Ny Skyride would have in store for them.
Here is the link to the NY Skyride website — you can kind of see what I am talking about!
April 19th, 2010
we choose the moon
We Choose the Moon is one of the finalists in the 2010 Kelly Awards for Outstanding Magazine Ads and I do have to say that it is intriguing. Maybe the most intriguing out of all of the finalists — this is the one ad that actually made me want to follow through and do as the ad suggests. I went to the site for the 40th Anniversary of the moon landing, which also another great design — you should check it out — wechoosethemoon.org.
Check out the other finalists here: Kelly Awards
April 6th, 2010
wyatt’s life might just be more interesting than mine
Went to this photography exhibit opening last night, and it rocked my world. It was called “Moments Like This Never Last” and the photographer is Wyatt Neumann. He chose to document the everyday life experiences he had so that he could remember the color, warmth, and people he shares his life with. The exhibit was touching, funny, badass and, above all, inspirational. I haven’t been taking as many pictures as I used to and I’m not sure why. I guess I feel like my life hasn’t been all too interesting lately, but sometimes I guess you need to remember that often the good stuff is the sum of a lot of little moments that pass by quickly and if you don’t stop to smell the roses (or take a shot to remember) then you’re not really living life. Right?
April 2nd, 2010
kalamata and feta pride
Continuing on a bit with my Greek pride from yesterday, I saw these amazing renditions of national flags done up in culturally respresentative foods and they made me happy. Apparently they were put together for the Sydney International Food Festival. Brilliant concept!!
Can you guess which countries these food flags represent? Try hard.
Check out more here at the original post on WildAmmo.com.
(via @SmashingMag)
1 comment April 1st, 2010
kokkina avga (red eggs to you!)
This Sunday is Greek Easter (and happens to be regular Easter, too) and we are hosting a slightly smaller version of our yearly Greek Easter (Greekster?) dinner party. As usual, I am stoked to get out the Badavas/Lianides family recipes and have a great reason to head over to the Greek neighborhood of Astoria to do some shopping!
This year may prove to be the year that I actually get the traditional Greek Easter Red Eggs right! The past few years have been plagued with light pink, hot pink (both from red dye packets), and reddish brown (red onion skins) eggs — but never truly the reds that my YiaYia always managed to pull off with little difficulty. I realized too late into the game last year that the homemade egg dye was supposed to be made with YELLOW onion skins, not RED, and ended up pretty close to the mark, but with a slightly brownish tint. This year I am quite determined to get the perfect red eggs, and have the giant bag of yellow onions at the ready!
And then of course, once you have the red eggs, you have the best part of Greek Easter, the part that all of our guests eagerly await, competition singing through their veins — the Greek Easter Egg Battle!! WHO’S EGG WILL REIGN SUPREME??
Wish me luck!
Here’s a good recipe if you feel like giving it a whirl.
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3 comments March 31st, 2010
parlor style
Once again Courtney over at design work life totally nails it in praising this incredible hotel branding job done by Seattle design shop Urban Influence. WILL YOU LOOK AT THOSE CUPS!?? They are perfection. The logo itself, the color selection, the overall feel of the site and the brand is just divine, and as clear as they come. This is definitely going up on my inspiration board.
March 30th, 2010
almost that time
This almost-too-amazing-to-be-real shot is from the streets of Tokyo, in the Nakameguro district, and the Sakura (cherry blossom) trees are in full bloom. Although I don’t have a plane ticket to Tokyo in my hand, I luckily do live 1.5 blocks away from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden where the cherry blossoms are starting to gear up and will be hitting their stride starting next week. Somehow last year I neglected to actually get into the Gardens themselves to witness the insanity, but this year it’s number 1 with a bullet on my list of must do’s in April.
1. See the Cherry Blossoms in Botanic Garden
2. Get a job.
At least I’ve got my priorities straight!
(thanks to Kinfolk on Hypebeast for the Sakura shot)
2 comments March 29th, 2010
investigation of form, aka congrats andrew & sheila!!!
Investigation of form is a phrase that my graphic design teacher throws around when discussing out of the ordinary design for fairly standard objects — and this spinning wheel wedding invitation fits that bill to a T. I love the idea of this, and see so many possibilities inherent in this particular incarnation.
ANNNND, seeing as my brother-in-law just got engaged to his kick-ass girlfriend last night (woop woop!), I see a lot of opportunity for design brainstorming and harassment of the happy, wedding-planning couple in the future.
(via Unstitched)
1 comment March 26th, 2010
LOST intro as if done by Saul Bass
http://www.vimeo.com/6660925Lost vs. Saul Bass from Hexagonall on Vimeo.
(via iamFinch)
2 comments March 26th, 2010
saul bass
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The teacher in my graphic design class brought up the art of Saul Bass last week when we were discussing coming up with ideas for movie posters, and I have been fairly smitten ever since. I love love love the aesthetic, clean and graphic with enough grit to not feel totally slick and great dynamic color schemes. There’s really something to be said for the ability to covey such a clear message with such a small amount of graphic imagery.
I also had no idea that he was the designer behind so many of todays most iconic logos. Check these out, too:
2 comments March 23rd, 2010
homework #6
Assignment: Choose a movie from a page of untitled descriptions, decide on a title and a subtitle/tag line and then design a 11×17 movie poster to get the feel of the film without using actors or stills.
I chose a description of a movie about competitive hairdressing which was described as a “hokey comedy” about people taking themselves too seriously in regards to something the rest of us find ridiculous. I decided to name the movie ‘DO OR DIE.
March 22nd, 2010
perfected imperfection
I came across is this amazing piece of work over on Ministry of Type. The designer talks about how he designed this piece for Wired magazine, and the beauty of the inherent imperfections of banknotes. It’s the type of thing you don’t necessarily think about, but then offhandedly notice an off-kilter line or color or typeface that doesn’t fit. Banknotes are made specifically to be imperfect, and these designs for the magazine piece are a stellar example.
Check out the blurb on guilloches, too (the fine pattern of lines used on banknotes to build visual texture, color and, of course, inherent imperfections of pattern). Very cool.
(found via Ministry of Type)
March 16th, 2010
