A lot of you have probably read about this or seen the trailer but for all those who haven’t, look into it, seems pretty cool. British director Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scottland”, “Touching the Void”) asked people around the world to document important moments of their lives on July 24 2010 and upload [...]
Over the last couple years, I’ve been really interested in studying the role of typography within photography — looking at how different people capture type within an image. Walker Evans, widely considered the originator of the documentary tradition in American photography (with many thanks owed to his appreciation and collection of the picture postcard), is [...]
Last Friday I left the City of Brotherly Love for a trip to the American South. For my first ever visit to Alabama, I was heading to Greensboro to volunteer a couple days of my design time alongside a friend who works with HERO (Hale Empowerment & Revitalization Organization), a non-profit housing resource center. Greensboro [...]
Well, it’s finally happening. The biggest restroom in Center City Borders downstairs is closing. And, unless you really really need 800 copies of “Wuthering Bites” at 40% off (it’s exactly what you think it is), this is a sad day. Nowhere will I be able to get books AND paper airplane kits in the same [...]
After getting injured a few times and not being able to snowboard anymore Curt Morgan, then snowboarder now director and producer, moved on combining his passion with a new pursuit, filming action sports. In 2008, together with Red Bull and Quiksilver, his production house Brain Farm produced “That’s it. That’s all.”, a 60 minute snowboard [...]
Tibor Kalman was undoubtedly one of the greatest designers of all time. I was looking through my bookmarks today and came across this old interview that really inspired me when I was in school. It was conducted by Charlie Rose one year before Tibor’s death in 99 to cancer. Everyone should definitely check it out [...]
