Holy Canoli!

Haha! LOVE this crochet stuff by Nicole Gastonguay!

Paula Scher: Recent Paintings

Paula Scher, NYC Transit, 108 in x 60.5 in, acrylic on canvas, 2007.

Paula Scher, NYC Transit (detail).

Okay so I know I ripped on Paula for her HP templates, but I do love her paintings.

Did I mention I like maps?

From the Pentagram website: "An exhibition of new paintings by Paula Scher opens this Thursday, 8 November at the Maya Stendhal Gallery at 545 West 20th Street in New York City. Featured is work from her ongoing Maps series including the paintings India, Tsunami, Manhattan at Night, NYC Transit, Middle East and Paris. An exhibition catalogue has been published. The show remains on view through 26 January."

Free Magenta!

Check out this article about T-Mobile apparently owning the color magenta so that no other telecommunications companies can use it.

"Don’t worry trademarks only apply to the industry sector that they are registered under and since DT applied for their trademark in the tele-communications sector you just can’t use the color magenta around anything to do with phones, digital media… oh and just about anything on the internet."

And also check out this site (in German I think?) about "freeing" Magenta.

I'm a real adult!

Long story short:

After interning at The Knot Inc for about a month I was offered a job at another company I had interviewed at back in September. After thinking about it I decided that this was a great opportunity to gain some experience (and make some money) even though the agency was really corporate and I happened to love my job at The Knot.

When I told my boss I was leaving she told me that the whole team wants me to stay and they want to offer me a full-time position.

So, the past week I have been super stressed deciding what to. Ultimately it came down to where I think I'd be the most happy. My team here is really young and so much fun, and they are so helpful that I'm learning a lot. SO, I decided to stay here at The Knot. Maybe someday I'll get sick of designing wedding crap, but for now it's awesome!

It's so insane that I felt like shit on graduation day, thought I sucked and would never get a job in New York, and just a few months later I had my choice of 2 really great positions. Happy Day.

Now I'm a real adult with a full time job and billz to pay.

Crazy.

Ballsy Ads

Bold advertising for Alma Magazine is getting a lot of attention. I'm weary about posting a swastika on this blog let alone allowing it to represent my company.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I just don't think the message is strong enough to warrant the use of this symbol. The other two ads aren't as heavy and I think they work better.

But if they want some attention, this is definitely the way to get it.


Tagline:

"Wow! Ninjas are awesome!"
ALMA:
IGNORANCE IS UNNACCEPTABLE

Mari Santos

Mari Santos is an amazing artist/designer from Toronto with a flair for creating fashion out of cheap, ugly, mundane things like old tees for example. Her latest project, Urban Renewal does just that. God knows I love this kind of stuff. I've always felt that we pay way too much money to look cool when we could just have it for next to nothing.

Also, does anybody else think that asians are fucking cool? I mean, they're so much more hip than everyone else. Plus, they have better health and higher IQs...

Anyway, check out Urban Renewal and also check out Mari's homepage (because after clicking around I could go on and on about her other projects too) at http://wiredminds.ca/mari/

Brooklyn Indie Market!

WOW! Someone needs to go to this with me! Located on Smith St at Union St in Cobble Hill Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Indie Market is held every weekend from May to December and includes twenty independent designers selling their own stuff from clothing to home goods to pet gear.

Go to the site and check out the designers. I like Liz Shaw's "rockin" handbags and the neat hats from Rocks and Salt. If you're an aspiring designer you can contact them about getting a booth.

Who's coming with me? Next weekend maybe? Hmmmmm?

Rules to Live By

I have to admit that I pretty much stole this from Haley's blog, but I thought it was way too worthy of posting. After watching a TED lecture by Stefan Sagmiester (a man who had an intern carve a poster into his chest- that's how much this man loves graphic design) I decided to take the things he says he's learned throughout his life and list them here for myself as sort of a general set of ideals. They're the types of things you need to catch yourself doing and remind yourself that you need to correct that behavior.

Here they are:

• Complaining is silly. Either act or forget
• Thinking life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.
• Being not truthful works against me.
• Helping other people helps me.
• Organizing a charity group is surprisingly easy.
• Everything I do always comes back to me.
• Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
• Over time I get used to everything and start taking it for granted.
• Money does not make me happy.
• Traveling alone is helpful for a new perspective on life.
• Assuming is stifling
• Keeping a diary supports my personal development.
• Trying to look good limits my life.
• Worrying solves nothing.
• Material luxuries are best enjoyed in small doses.
• Having guts always works out for me.