Our friend Cliff Kuang mentioned he is now writing for Fast Company’s new design blog…Loving it!
a taste of WSDIA work. main site to be updated soon.
This is about a month old but i enjoyed these Umbro competition entries. “After thousands of entries, here at Umbro we can unveil the finalists in our competition to customise the sole on a pair of Specialis. The response we had was amazing, with a fantastic range of designs from different ages and different countries around the world. These are the final 14, chosen from the thousands of different designs by a team of judges which included Umbro designers Stuart Semple and Stewart Scott-Curran, and Esquire’s art director David McKendrick. Initially we planned to have 11 winners, but the points system used by the judges to pick their favourites meant that we ended up with four designs tied in 11th place!”
Our favorite design studio, 2×4, have released their book, stating:
“Portrait of a studio in 1000 images.
by 2×4, New York
it is what it is was published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the Eye of Gyre gallery in Tokyo in 2009. The book features 1000 by-products from the life of a studio, un-narrated and crudely arranged along a typical design trajectory from the earliest concepts, sketches, doodles and diagrams through the process of making, modeling, producing and, finally, delivering work into the world. A blurry telling of a blurry story, it is what it is attempts to locate a master narrative in the chaotic, quotidian process of making design, and to reveal how what we think about evolves into what we make.”
Now available at iiwii.org.
Copenhagen in T- 20 days.
“To live is the rarest thing in this world…”Oscar Wilde
Made for an interesting read in between (multiple) reaches for coffee. Although, to be fair, dining al fresco certainly livens any conversation.
“And I say: That little ole lonely elevator girl looking up sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what’s her name & address?” —The last line of Jack Kerouac’s introduction to The Americans by Robert Frank, 1958.c. On view @ the Met this fall.
Passion pit- “Manners”, is holding up quite well on multiple listens. Proving to be a strong buy.
Aesthetic pieces I can certainly get behind.
Credit: William Eggleston (Untitled).
Brooklyn design studio, 4-pli have branched out and created Associated Fabrication, a design/build company that focuses on CNC milling, and other lovely processes. Really nice portfolio, hope to collaborate with them in the future.
Really looking forward to catching HURT LOCKER on the big screen.
Latest musical discovery is a local band around my way: Passion Pit. And with that I offer up: swimming in a flood.
“No surface shines brighter, than the light that burns beneath it” -Zero 7 – Speed Dial No.2
Quick sojourn to old places and faces this past weekend. Indeed a m0st welcome series of events.
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Air Lines is an art project showing worldwide airliner routes. Every single scheduled flight on any given day is represented by a fine line from it’s point of origin to it’s port of destination. Thereby forming a net of thousands of lines. Hubs like JFK, FRA or DXB turn into dark knots where lines meet, lesser served local services are only are a subtle hint. Larger shots after the break.
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A ultra talented illustrator/scultptor that we’d love to collaborate with sometime soon. Meet Ariadne Binderl.
New York’s own, AreaWare, has collected some of the best young product/furniture design talent around to produce very unique and sharp objects around. For example, Jonas Damon’s LED-powered wood ‘Torch’ flashlight as shown above.
The National Design Awards were conceived by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to honor the best in American design. Notable winners and nominees this year include, SHoP Architects, ARO, type foundry, Hoefler & Frere-Jones, fashion designer, Thom Browne, and more.
We are happy to announce that WSDIA has completed the cover design for the New York Times Magazine ‘Money Issue’ due out in 2 weeks! The cover features financial guru, Suzy Orman…look for it on news stands soon!
We recently finished graphic work for Nike and their ‘Flywire’ technology. Check out our website soon for updates on the project.
“New York Fashion Week’s creative competition begins weeks before the shows when designers dream up original concepts for their invitations. Among of the most novel formats we received this season: a Mylar balloon, an oven mitt, a slab of felt and a paper pyramid housing an air plant. Of course, sometimes less is more (if you’re Marc Jacobs). See more invitations we can’t bear to throw away.” Happy to find out the invite above was created by good friend, Roanne Adams.
The legendary Bauhaus movement turns 90 this year and the anniversary is being marked by exhibitions from Tokyo to New York. The school was founded by a young architect, Walter Gropius, who wanted to shape products for the future and create a more just society.
2 new must-have applications have been released for the iphone that every graphic designer should have. The first, by the ever-popular, and much needed site, ‘What The Font’, which helps you identify just about any typeface out there, created by font distributor, My Fonts, releases the same great tool for your iphone.
The second, is a game called, Kern. is a minimalist typography experience challenging you to precisely place a missing letter into a falling word while avoiding any unnecessary ligatures!
Create by FORMation Alliance.
“This is the first solo museum exhibition on J. Mayer H., the Berlin architecture studio founded in 1996 by Jürgen Mayer H. (That edgy extra “H” is Mayer’s middle initial, transposed for effect.) The title—Patterns of Speculation—alludes to the firm’s enduring fascination with data-protection patterns, those arrays of numbers, letters, and symbols that often line the inside of bank envelopes.” - Metropolis
EXHIBITION OPEN from Feb. 5th – July 7th in San Fran U.S.A.
be sure to take a peek at his new book as well.
Architecture Must Burn, the title of architecture critic, Aaron Betsky’s book back in 2000 has been taken literally recently with two massive disasters of beautiful pieces of construction. One coming in February 2008, with UN Studio’s Villa NM (before and after shots here) and almost a year later to the day, OMA’s TVCC building takes a major set back that will cost at least $200 million to redo. The TVCC building was due to open in mid-May and contained a hotel, a theatre and several studios. See the building burnt to a crisp here.
We are honored to be apart of Netdiver.net’s best for 2008!
“Netdiver Best of the Year is always a long awaited release of which projects and whose talents have made a strong and lasting impression in the previous year. We aimed to list 100 and just could not. So how about 110 because we feel they gave their 110% best?
Now in its 7th edition, the crop of the year is for us, the top of the year. Hope you agree. Refresh your memory and (re)encounter new sources of design inspiration.”
We had the pleasure to complete our dear friend, Corey Yurkovich’s, new portfolio website. Corey is a New York based designer and the founder of Time and Materials, a platform for the research and development of new fabrication techniques and materials. His work is deployed through an array of channels including architecture, exhibition design, and furniture fabrication.
