Ashton and Demi are geekying it up hard-core on twitter and Qik!
Ashton on Qik
Ashton on twitter
Demi on twitter
Everyone from Stephen Fry to Barack Obama on doing it. Check out other celebrity Tweeters here
Friday, 30 January 2009
Michael Bierut - 26 years, 85 notebooks
While I am nowhere near having 85 notebooks I do have a certain fascination with note-taking and have sketchbooks and so I can relate to what Michael is saying here:
"There always seems to be a lot of interest in designers' sketchbooks, but I call these notebooks for a reason. I've seen other designer's sketchbooks and I'm always impressed by how much creativity is on display. Not in mine. Page after page contain nothing but records of phone conversations, notes from meetings, price estimates, specifications. I keep the random doodles to a minimum. Someone looking at those pages would think the book might belong to a lawyer or, more likely, a party planner. Every once in a while, though, there are some drawings that would suggest that the owner was a designer.
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When I look at these notebooks, many of the references bring back memories, some decades old. But other times I frankly can't remember why I was writing these things down. Did I ever call Dilland? Whatever happened to Executive Sign? What was the Lefand Alliance? In many ways, the act of notetaking and sketching is an end in itself for me. Many of these pages, filled with trivia as they are, are destined never to be looked at a second time. "
The bit about note-taking as in end in itself is exactly how I feel about it and in the end they do feel like more honest ways of writing a diary without all the "I feel like this" stuff. I do however disagree with the moleskin comment as I have no intention of ever using a different notebook! Make sure you read the whole thing, it's awesomely geeky.
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Hotel de Petit Moulin
Photos from Jimmy cohrssen
This hotel is just down the road from me and wow it's nice! I never even realised it was there.
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This Place will however still be at the top of my list to visit and now, thankfully they have posted their rates on the website. One day ..., One day ...
Max Wagner
I am loving Max Wagner at the moment. His blog - 'The Project Room' is a great read full of geeky, design goodies and great photo's from his site and everyday life. He also takes some of the most amazing food photographs I have ever seen!
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Andrea Guinn
Monday, 26 January 2009
... fresh air
After spending the end of last week hunting down illustrators to no avail it is nice to have a look at "Eli, No!" the charming Childrens book and beautiful graphics by Katie Kirk. Have a read through the whole thing on Flickr
Sunday, 25 January 2009
Friday, 23 January 2009
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Photosynth - Inauguration
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Simon Hoegsberg - photographer
Wonderfully emotive and beautifully shot projects about people and their everyday existence. Low-fat diaries is a must read. I defiantly don't have the balls to do a trip through Europe with nothing but 14 Euros in my pocket even though it sounds like an amazing and eye-opening adventure, but maybe the more worrying thing is I don't have the faintest desire to ever do it. Shame on me.
I also love his new piece 100m long photo and The Thought Project. Take a look at all his projects here
Michael Kenna
I love Michael Kenna's photos of new york. The graphic simplicity make me think of all the amazing layouts you could do with them!
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