Guitar Auction for Shane McConkey’s Family
If you have spent any time sliding on snow in the last few years, one plank or two, whether you know it or not, your experience was better because of Shane McConkey, who died in a tragic accident last year. Marker ski bindings has teamed up with Gibson Guitars to auction off three custom guitars, with all of the proceeds going to Shane's family. Click here to place your bid.
House Industries at Eames Gallery
I’m strongly considering making the Trek down to Santa Monica for this next week… I think I’ve made my affection for Charles and Ray Eames pretty clear in this blog, as well as House Industries. I’m really looking forward to the release of the new Eames typefaces, from the glimpses I’ve seen, they look pretty nice.
From the House Industries Blog:
Opening Reception: March 11, 2010, 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Where: The Eames Office, 850 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA
Free and open to the public
Meet and greet with the Eames family and House Industries designers
Presentation about the Eames Century Modern Collection
Live music from The Mattson 2
Screen printing on site with David Dodde and Fresh Pressed
Exhibition Runs from March 12 through April 1, 2010
Please join us as we introduce the illustrative beauty and cumulative functionality of Eames Century Modern with a three-dimensional tactile typographic experience at the Eames Office Gallery in Santa Monica. A cornucopia of free-standing dimensional letterforms and hand-printed installations celebrate the intricate curves and stunning stroke contrast that are the building blocks of this new font collection.
New Balance 365
New Balance has created a really cool interactive project called New Balance 365 where a short video is added daily with a new concept based on "balance." You can get the videos send to your phone, check the homepage to see the daily video, or check out the nicely designed calendar archive. I really like seeing companies using the web as a platform for more conceptual promotions like this.
New Thinking for a Living
I’ve always been a big fan of the Thinking for a Living blog, and am really impressed with the launch of their redesigned site. The interface and presentation of content are both progressive very well applied for their audience. While the initial impression of the site is very minimal, after you spend a few minutes looking around you see how much thought actually went into it and how well executed it really is. One of the goals mentioned was that they wanted the site to “get out of the way of the content” and it does that very nicely.
Worth checking out is Frank Chimero’s writeup on his thoughts about the design and his own goals while working on it.
Adobe x Wired Magazine
I've been meaning to post this for a few days now... Adobe and Wired Magazine have developed a new interactive digital magazine format, targeted at tablet/pad computers. This is pretty exciting, and all of a sudden the Adobe AIR application makes a lot more sense to me. It's old news that we're changing the way we interact with media, but I really like how Wired is seeing this as an opportunity to create a more engaging user experience for their magazine rather than sitting back and bemoaning the death of print and waiting to die like a lot of others in the magazine industry.
Squaw Valley Prom 2010
This year I was once again able to design the event poster for the Squaw Valley Prom, a charity event that is with out a doubt, the best party of the year in Tahoe. For 2010, High Fives Nonprofit Foundation and Biking for a Better World have taken over as the organizing bodies. With help from industry sponsors, these guys are taking things to a whole new level, most notably bringing on the amazing Mike Relm on board as the headlining DJ. Once again, all proceeds will be going to charity. If you are in the Tahoe area, you absolutely do not want to miss this.
(Update: Tickets have once again sold out this year. Congrats to the crew organizing the event, I can't wait for it.)
“Digital Analogue” Stop Motion
Super cool stop motion video by Ftjelly. Camera nerds, geek out!
Evan Hecox for Incase
Evan Hecox is probably one of my favorite artists, and Incase offers up a cool little video showing his process for the Curated by Arkitip series he did for them. I might need to pick up a new sleeve for my laptop...