Hello to all the new readers and subscribers who’ve come by over the past few days. For those of you visiting from one of our friends’ sites, we are 160over90, a branding agency in Philadelphia, and this is our Boomerang Table, where we store all of our heirloom ephemera. This blog isn’t all we do. [...]
No Days Off is a design studio in London. They do some really nice, simple, sophisticated design work with pristine typography. The thing I like about them most is their shop, where they sell prints with some witty lines. Maybe we should order some prints for the office, I know an Executive Creative Director who [...]
A couple of weeks back, Forbes ran a little article deeming graphic design “a snooty business,” before profiling a site called CrowdSpring where clients go to throw spec logo projects to a pool of 13,000 Photoshop jockeys. The winning design gets about $200 or so, the rest go back to their day jobs. For some, [...]
“If a major project is truly innovative, you cannot possibly know its exact cost and its exact schedule at the beginning. And if in fact you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete.” Joseph G. Gavin, Jr., former Grumman president, discussing the design of the Grumman [...]
The April issue of HOW Magazine (which hits newsstands next month) features winners for the 2009 International Design Annual Competition. 160over90 is recognized twice, earning awards for the agency brochure and WHYY posters. Props to everyone who worked on these projects!
In the last post I posed the question “Why do we collect things?” I proposed that one of the major reasons maybe to inspire recollection. This seems to be the case with artist and illustrator Matt Lee. Originally from London and now working at Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology in Bangalore, Matt’s matchboxes are [...]
