I have a theory that books find you when they’re supposed to—even if you’re a little behind the curve of, say, society as a whole. I guess this is what happened to me a few months ago when I first picked up Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, [...]
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958 – 1968, on exhibit now at three gallery spaces at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, is the first major exhibition of female Pop artists of the era. Its quite a reclamation project – planned over the course of four years, a majority of the work has not been shown [...]
Can happiness be visualized through design? How can design and creativity evoke happiness? And in the age of tongue-in-cheek visual media and mass advertising, do representations of happiness have to be so cynical? I recently stumbled upon this interesting TED talk, in which graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister discusses the ways that design can portray happiness, [...]
One of our favorite blogs, Logo Design Love, is a site devoted to news, trends, and generally cool projects in the branding world. The blog’s author, Irish graphic designer David Airey, has just recently published a book by the same name and has filled it with lovely logos, anecdotes, and tips from designers and agencies [...]
Love Letters, a massive public art project between artist Steve Powers and the trailblazing folks at Philly’s Mural Art Program, has been gaining acclaim since this past summer, but I’ll be damned if it still isn’t the cat’s pajamas. Besides, all that cheerfulness and optimism feels just that much better on a windswept 20 degree [...]
Illustration from Bruno Munari’s Le Macchine di Munari, which also includes diagrams and helpful descriptions of a lizard-driven engine for tired tortoises, a mechanism for sniffing artificial flowers, a humiliator for mosquitoes, a machine for playing the pipe even when you are not home, a machine for seeing the dawn before anyone else, and a [...]
