Yesterday morning when most of the sane world was still sleeping, 30,000 runners, including five of us from 160over90, congregated in North Philly at the top of Broad Street to race ten miles in muggy 80 degree heat. We organized the team as a part of our efforts to encourage sustainability and health, and to [...]
One of my favorite parts of living in Philadelphia is the odd mash-up of bougie-international-nerdy-hipster-eccentric characters that you can find in one place, at any given moment. I was reminded of this particular urban charm on Sunday, when a few of us decided to bike up to the Cherry Blossom Festival in Fairmount Park. It [...]
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, [...]
Admittedly I am late on these by a couple months but I saw this series directed by Jared Eberhardt yesterday and had to get them in front of those of you that haven’t seen them yet . The set design is awesome. The styling and mix of props is crazy fun. Plus, that person in [...]
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, [...]
Branding can be a vague, nebulous concept to folks, particularly clients. We often try to teach them the value of building a strong brand by citing great ones that already exist. Unfortunately, we tend to fall back on a small list of great brand case studies, such as Apple, Nike, Harley Davidson, and a few [...]