Visual Storytelling
An infographic I designed with The Atlantic, How the Recession Changed Us, was published in this book. And I share a spread with Nicholas Felton!! Can’t believe it.
Object Guerrilla
Will Holman is a designer, writer, and builder (and also my boyfriend!) from Baltimore, who recently started a blog. He has a lot of interesting things to say about design, architecture, biking, and the consumer-industrial complex, so you should go check it out. It’s called Object Guerrila: On the front lines of sustainable design.
He’s also teaching a class (how to make fruit bowls from vintage license plates) through Dabble in a couple weeks. If you’re in the Chicago area, come check it out!
"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.” – Steve Jobs, Wired, February, 1995"
– via SwissMiss
CommArts Fresh
Thanks, Comm Arts!
I love the church van one. So good.
I can’t wait to see this in person!
I helped my friend, Nicole Lavelle, edit the text for her art show, Points of Interest. It is up at Stumptown on SE Division during September. This summer she rode a bicycle she made out of bamboo from Alabama to California. Each piece is one of her thoughts while she was biking.
Marwen: a nonprofit organization offering free, arts-based youth development programs for under-served Chicago students in grades 6-12.
This fall, I will be an assistant teacher at Marwen for a printmaking class led by the founder of Spudnik Press Cooperative, Angee Lennard. The class is for grades 6-8 and is called Surreal Printmaking: Design Foundations.
I’m really, really excited about this!
Design Envy · PieLab Cookbook: Amanda Buck
Thanks Ethan Bodnar!
Eating Rainbow
New posters for sale here!
Featuring classic metal type, this poster shows a list of fruits and vegetables rendered in the colors nature made them. Impressed lightly in the background is a comment on the sad state of our industrial food system: Taste the REAL rainbow.
Printed in a 40-poster series at Studio 150 in Gordo, AL using 8 colors on lovely 10” x 13” Crane’s Lettra Letterpress paper.
PieLab Cookbook
It’s printed! I am super stoked to present the PieLab cookbooks! Thank you to Elliot Knight for the photographs, Nicole Lavelle and her co-workers at Scout Books/Pinball Publishing for the amazing print job, and all the folks who participated in PieLab’s 2010 Bake-Off in Greensboro, Alabama. You can purchase the books at PieLab, or online from Scout Books here.
Check out the case study HERE.
