Over the weekend I got the sudden urge to purge. No, not all the junk mail piling up around the home office. Nor the collection of Meatloaf and Ice-T CD’s (hey, sounds like dinner) gathering dust in a bin in the basement. It was my thick bristly mop of hair that needed removal to make [...]
Tomorrow night, March 7, from 6:30 – 10:00 p.m., Mike Perry will be having an opening for his exhibition Patterns Found In Space, at Giant Robot. Mike is a good friend of 160over90, and recently collaborated with us on the De’Longhi Artista project. If you’re in New York definitely stop by and say hello. For a preview video check out Giant Robot.
Giant Robot, 437 East 9th Street (between Ave. A and 1st Street)
It was 65 degrees last Friday and the anticipation of lunches at Rittenhouse Square Park had begun. Three days later it is 20 degrees and we’re in the thick of a Nor’easter. Some pictures from the 10th floor.
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. [...]
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, [...]
There was a recent study published in the journal Science about the effects of color on people’s performances. Unfortunately, the study mostly focused on the effects of blue and red on cognitive performance. I wished that they had explored the effects of other colors, and the blend of colors (such as purple) to see what [...]
