Please join us at 160over90 as part of Design Philadelphia on Tuesday, October 13th from 6:00-9:00 pm for Counter Culture, an exhibition of the De’Longhi Artista Series. 160over90 in collaboration with De’Longhi commissioned designers across varying disciplines to create original works of art to be laser-etched onto the De’Longhi Perfecta Espresso machine. Beginning on Sunday, [...]
Working with type, I think it is always interesting to see how far letterforms can be forced before they become unreadable. Add too many details or abstract the form too much, and you have an unrecognizable mess. Rachel Young, of Goollery.org started from scratch and made her letterforms out of google maps. Presenting all sorts [...]
Last year’s musical highlight, bar none. The best kept secret in songwriting genius, Afro-baroque pop smarty pants Stew took a bright bow in the klieglights of Broadway for his debut autobiographical musical Passing Strange. The Tony nominated show, a massive critical success (see here, and here) has been superbly filmed by Spike Lee. The film [...]
I’m a fan of the NFL. I believe it is one of the best run businesses around. When you consider all of professional sports it has the best salary cap and free agency structure allowing teams to move from worst to first in the span of a year. The balance of power between professional football [...]
“Sure, old farts–myself included–have derided the lol-tastic world of text and IM speak, but at least people are organizing their thoughts in the written form–albeit an evolving changing form.”
