Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category

Quantity vs. Quality

  So recently, I made an intense, strenuous voyage from Savannah, GA (where I went to school at SCAD) to endure the blistering cold of Philly (well, blistering to a southern girl like me.) After about 3 hours of driving, I was compelled to take a break, stopping at South of the Border in Dillon, [...]

Mike Perry: Patterns Found In Space

Patterns Found In Space

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)

The Difficulty of Being Creative for a Living

My relatives think I have a pretty cool job. I get to wear jeans and t-shirts to work. I get to be creative all day. Occasionally I get to travel to cool places, and do ridiculously fun things like trend research (a.k.a. checking out cool stores). On a fairly regular basis I get to eat [...]

Greetings from 160over90: We Made This

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. [...]

No Days Off

No Days Off is a design studio in London. They do some really nice, simple, sophisticated design work with pristine typography. The thing I like about them most is their shop, where they sell prints with some witty lines. Maybe we should order some prints for the office, I know an Executive Creative Director who [...]

The Cost of New

“If a major project is truly innovative, you cannot possibly know its exact cost and its exact schedule at the beginning. And if in fact you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete.” Joseph G. Gavin, Jr., former Grumman president, discussing the design of the Grumman [...]

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