December 2012
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November 2012
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May 2012
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Mad Men vs. The Pitch
‘The Pitch’ premiered on AMC last week and I’ve been curious enough to watch both episodes. There have been some insights, some voyueristic moments of peeking into the inner workings of an ad agency…. but overall dispappointing. Disappointing becuase the agancies are all unknowns, the brands (to me) all blah and therefore its not been very satisfying.
I would much rather...
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March 2012
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February 2012
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January 2012
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September 2011
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Food Photography- Andrea Bricco
I’ve been consulting with Herbalife in Downtown LA for some time and helping them migrate some of their global packaging systems to the new brand initiative. Of late I’ve stopped whining about not being able to find good food/ prop stylists and food photographers here in LA! Reason, I found Andrea Bricco! She’s done some wonderful photo shoots for me in the last few months and...
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August 2011
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Dezeen Watch Store →
Gorgeous watches.
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October 2010
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Canon Pixma Sound Sculptures
Gorgeous ad by Dentsu London. (Posted via Flavorwire.) Click on link to see the video and how it was created. Link
April 2010
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I heart Chelsea Handler: I left my brain in New...
OK, I give up. I saw this guy earlier this evening at a very healthy/ very vegan West Hollywood restaurant. I know him from the ‘Chelsea Lately’ show. That’s the very inane 11 pm talk show that airs on E! on weeknights. He’s one of the many comedians I enjoy watching her bully almost every night. So much so, that I almost walked up to him and said, ‘Don’t...
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Stefan Sagmeister, performance artist or designer?
I’ve not quite got the design sensibility that Stefan Sagmeister espouses…cutting oneself for a poster! Is that really graphic design?! But hey, who said, type had to be typeset on a machine?
And today, I chanced upon this video he did for TED, posted by my documentarian friend Miao who worked for him many years ago. I’ve never actually met him or attended a talk. May be we...
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OneZero and 4 hours solid
My old dept. at my alma-mater Parsons in New York, keeps changing its face. Every year either the website changes, or the name of the thesis show or the very courses and concentrations offered. Which is kind off cool, because its a program so immersed in changing technologies, that it’s forever evolving and responding… Looks like I might miss the graduate thesis show this year. I...
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'Eat. Pray. Love.'- will stick!!
These days the marketing term ‘stick’ has been really sticking. Will something ‘catch on’? Become popular? ‘Eat. Pray. Love.’ a book that came out a few years back about a New York writer who traverses the globe was absolutely the book to be avoided! At least by me. Every woman on the New York subway was reading it! But it was ‘sticking’....
NY taxi- I love U
I have to say I have had quite a love-hate relationship with the New York taxi through my New York years. On mornings when I could barely get out of bed and the subway ride would have been 45 minutes, the cab ride was 10! (Try living on the upper east side, and commuting to mid town all the way very very west!) God bless the speeding ‘desi’ cabbie- Bangladeshi, Punjabi and Pakistani!...
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I.M. Pei goes home
I caught the latter part of a documentary on I.M. Pei on PBS earlier today that chronicled his work on the museum he designed for the Chinese city he hails from- Suzhou. Pei was 90 when he completed the project, and it was inspiring to watch his uncompromising vision and execution, interpretation of his Chinese heritage, and undying modernist approach to design/ architecture. And as this PBS...
March 2010
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Abstract city by Christoph Neimann
My dear friend Neves recently sent me this link to some of Christoph Neimann’s recent illustrations. He’s an illustrator who’s work ranges from the very complex scientific, to children’s books, quirky, and like this one very, very witty. He’s been inspired by the iconography and style of google maps and has created some fabulous metaphors for New York, life and many...
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How to make it in America
After watching the first five episodes, I’ve realized that I’m now hooked. The posters didn’t persuade me, neither did the TV ads, but the show itself has something. Maybe its the fact that its shot very much in the grungy streets, bars, cabs of New York that feeds my New York nostalgia. Or that its two very optimistic designers, one very pushy, the other self effacing, trying to...
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LA Marathon comes to town
I was excited to see that the LA Marathon comes to us. Many of the landmarks on Sunset Boulevard are right by us. I will grumble though, as I navigate the streets this morning, since most off my regular routes are blocked off.
Here’s more on:
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I really liked this retro poster designed by Studio Number One’s Cleon Peterson. Wish it was little more evocative of LA.
February 2010
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New York design schools rock!
Having graduated from a curiously disparate graduate program at the Parsons new School of Design, New York, I am always on the look out to see what new programs emerge at Design schools as time goes by and technology evolves. (I graduated with an MFA in Design and Technology and was an adjunct faculty for some time too with the Design and Management department)
These two new graduate programs...
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What is Kalamkari?
I’ve been working on a kalamkari book for some time now…here’s a sneak peak of a portion of a page. Very painstaking and laborious! More on this, as the book progresses.
to super bowl or not to super bowl
I have to admit despite my many years in this country, I don’t understand American Football much! I’m glad I’m now in the city where the Lakers are big. At least I used to play Basketball and can support a home team and follow the game! (Yeah, I know there were the Knicks back in NY, but I never felt the need to go watch them!)
So every year when the Super Bowl rolls along,...
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Dude, where's my car?
One of the major differences in my routine in LA is all the driving involved. I NEVER drove in New York (biked, yes) The subway was my absolutely favorite part of life in NY. Its consistent modular system, color coding, ease of use, easy access and of course reliability (!). Navigating the city, was never a problem, even when I visited the city for the first time as a tourist, I fell in love with...
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NYtimes.com make the budget interactive
The New York Times website has had a huge edge over its paper version when it comes to the depiction of complex data. Whether it be timelines, spending habits, movie viewing habits or like this week the budget; the dynamic information gives you a far better understanding of the material. If the http://www.nytimes.com does indeed become a paid site as they hinted last week, I might consider paying...
January 2010
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Are the cities of Los Angeles in need of brand...
I find New York to be a much more design-centric city in many ways. And I’ve been looking for signs of life in the LA design community as far as creating inventive, interesting and relevant work for the cities and residents is concerned. This article in Fast Company gave me hope. Santa Monica is revamping its bus stops and apparently the city itself.
Archdaily.com also reports: the firms...
