RIP Maurice Sendak, may we all venture forth to find our own Wild Things and have our own Wild Rumpuses.. thank you for paving the way of adventurers. Life has hard parts, and life has scary parts, even when you're a kid. Maybe it's because you're a kid that the big scary parts are even bigger and scarier. Adults...
Do not adjust your monitor. The brain shaking you are experiencing is the incredible work of Dain Fagerholm. Dain hails from Seattle, WA but his work is from another world entirely. An illustrator by trade, Dain has created an entire portfolio of hand drawn animated GIFs, which he’s called "Stereographic Drawings". Dain creates these mind bending images of somewhat...
Think small! In our culture of super-sized everything, from cars to meals to homes to the waistlines of the denizens that live here, it's easy to forget the power of the little.
Who is afraid of failure? Just about everyone, right? Blame the school system with the stark grades on a report card or red letters at the top of a report. Blame childhoods, blame the media, blame anyone or any system you choose. Yet here we are as a group of creative thinkers, creative minds, creators. We create, we don't...
Today marks the first day of spring. It's the Equinox and it has been unseasonably warm out here in the Northeast. If it seems as though spring is early this year, it is! Space.com confirms that the vernal equinox is, in fact, earlier than it has been since 1896. With sun on our shoulders and...
For April’s Global Design issue of Wallpaper* Magazine
What do you do every day? Brush your teeth, put on your shoes, make your coffee. What else do you do every day? Can you fit in one more task? Will that task change your life? The -a-day format is a popular one for creative sorts, as we strive to incorporate art and creative practice into our daily...
It is 2012, and time to connect with other designers for inspiration, collaborations, job leads and general networking. We rounded-up 8 amazing portfolio sites to get your work up and seen. There are plenty of sites like these out there, but we think these are the crème de la crème, enjoy!
When I was a design student, we'd take tours of design studios. At the end of the tour we were offered a question and answer period. One question was asked again and again, "Do you do things by hand or on the computer?" Why was this asked over and over? Why was the question phrased as if the two...
Emerging from the desert into the hands of numerous international contemporary artists, retired and abandoned World War II planes are getting a second chance at an esteemed life.
