MORE SONGS

More songs thanks to Audiotool. Check them out and let me know what you think. Next is trying to figure out how to incorporate singing... thinking about buying some actual equipment to help out this new hobby o' mine.

SONG 2: TRAILS

SONG 3: BELLS

A COUPLE OF THINGS

Cruising around the internet this evening I found a couple things I thought I'd post. Found the bottom work on graphic designer Fraser Muggeridge's website. I love painting detail and also this particular work's Fauvist palette. Overall I appreciate Muggeridge's retro aesthetic -- this work doesn't really highlight it but you will quickly see such work on his site. Recently, his studio created the poster for Art on the Underground's recent Knut Hendrik Hendriksen acquisition. When I looked online for the work featured in the poster, I instead found something I like a bit better: "Settings" on Contemporary Art Daily.

PAN AM

Recently posted over at Eye Magazine's Blog, the story of Pan Am's Helvetica posters, designed by Chermayeff & Geismar in 1971/72. I'm a big fan of photo and type, so these, of course, in combination with the 70s slight desaturation, are completely gorgeous. Find more on the Eye's flickr page.

YEAH BOYEE

Recently was turned onto Hobnox Audiotool by a friend. I've never felt particularly musical, but have had the itch to make something lately ... though not sure what. I made my first song this morning, and was able to turn it into an mp3 via this little program I discovered online called Audacity.


My first song sounds like a geeky, tropical nature show, but that's ok by me. I'm just excited to have made something and figured out how to share it with everyone. Enjoy. x


song 1: DOTS

DECODE AT THE V&A

Checked out the Decode exhibition at this V&A this morning. Among the offerings were mostly interactive works that relied on new technology -- for instance, wave your hand in front of a screen and it would change color, or walk in front of a tree projected on the wall and it would begin to sway. With a room full of different interactive installations, it was easy to spend the entire morning in discovery.

"MAYBE THE SECRET IS LESS BUT BETTER"

Dieter Rams in conversation with Deyan Sudjic at London's Design Museum.
"Not as much design as possible on it -- it is as few design. And that make it timeless."

A LITTLE GEM FROM SOL LEWITT

We all love him.

TOXEL

TOXEL, an innovation and design blog, showcases projects featuring unusual materials or contrasting ideas. Top: Camouflage yourself with a poster. Middle: Brown bear sleeping bag. Bottom: bread shoes.

HAW-LIN.COM

Probably one of the best websites I have seen all year.

HELLO

WEDNESDAY

Photo by photographer Julia Galdo

TEMPERATE RAINFOREST

Having come from San Francisco where a good downpour can be scarce, the ongoing rain in London feels like quite a luxury. It reminds me of time spent in Washington State, part of the Pacific boasting beautiful temperate rainforest. Hopefully at some point I will get out of London to experience England's wooded areas -- for now, I'll have to be satisfied with imagined forest during a cloudburst.

From top: WA State's Olympic Peninsula, British Columbia, and Alaska; found at Steven Schnoor, Drew Brayshaw, and Alaska in Pictures, respectively.

MORE FRIENDS OF TYPE

More type from one of my favorite blogs, Friends of Type.

SUMMER WISH

With the days absolutely short (was dark by 4pm this afternoon) one can't help but ache for the summer garden. Here are some photos to help along your imagination. To me, these photographs all seem to convey summer afternoon, when 4pm can be the best, most languid time of the day.


Top two photos from Arabella Lennox Boyd's website, bottom two from that of Miranda Brooks. Both women are British landscape designers. Who does the lush, romantic, enchanted garden best but the British? Time to make some money and buy that country cottage. Don't forget the swimming pool.

A HAPPY TYPE

I love the blog Friends of Type. They seem to be especially into upbeat, hand-drawn or unique script and display faces, all of which they've made themselves. 

EVERYONE LOVES A LITTLE LUBALIN

Not that Lubalin ever fell off, but his 70s style is definitely in rotation again. Check out this online HERB LUBALIN GALLERY.

Thanks, Mr. Wittgenstein

BROOK SCHNEIDER

More lovely photos today, this time from Brook Schneider.

LEANNE LIANG

A painter in San Francisco, Leanne Liang also takes great photographs. Thanks Leanne!

BUMMER

 
Feeling inspired by a recent trip to the Hayward Gallery's Ed Ruscha exhibition, I've made a few of my own out of photos taken from a trip to the Philippines earlier this year. Feeling a little down after a bout with the flu I suppose -- tomorrow is another day.

WEDNESDAY

A still from the film A Woman of Affairs (1928). Found on the blog Cinema Style.

TUESDAY

AN EVENING OF SWISS DESIGN

This evening the Helvetic Centre held an event at Cafe OTO in Dalston called "The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2008 in London". The event included a panel discussion with four London-based designers, which started as a discussion on Swiss design and quickly became a heated debate on the merits and downfalls of design competitions.

THURSDAY