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February 5, 2008 by darby

A couple of weeks ago, I found myself head deep in design books while doing research for a potential interior re-design of a local private club. I love being head deep in design books, and the one that continues to blow me away is Fingerprint: The Art of Using Handmade Elements in Graphic Design , by Chen Design Associates out of San Francisco. Josh Chen is a bad-ass designer, with 20 years of experience in design, broadcasting, journalism, and music. I love renaissance men and women. Within … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts, Raves

The Journal of Nomadic and Popular Culture

January 23, 2008 by darby

Pre-order the journal for a hard copy Every two months, Polar Inertia rolls out extraordinary photographic installments via a magazine (and website) documenting "the story of the highway, mobile home, fast food chain, suburbanite, truck stop, and industrialized landscape." Here's their manifesto: Polar Inertia journal is an outlet and a resource for on going research into the networks that define the contemporary city. The journal began with the idea that an understanding of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts, Docu Potent, Raves

Sunday Ritual Spawns Ideas

December 10, 2007 by darby

For as long as I can remember, my family has had the ritual of stretching out Sunday morning in the pursuit of newspaper reading. This tradition involves all kinds of newspapers, depending on the location of any given Sunday, but it ALWAYS involves The New York Times. I almost always go to the magazine first, if I am not sideswiped by an unsuspecting "Style" section headline. (Plus, I have a guilty pleasure of reading the wedding announcements. PURE east coast lineage postings, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Docu Potent, Raves

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