I'm a Chicago designer who graduated from Columbia College May 2010. I believe inspiration comes from unexpected places, and therefore it is necessary to look beyond the familiar to bring new ideas to light. This Tumblr allows me to record my discoveries in hopes of providing some nugget of truth or inspiration to the next fellow.
—
Untitled Ken Kagami (Tokyo, Japan)
Kagami’s distinctive works are characterized by their simple expression of conflicting ideas. Pure and virginal plastic and soft toys created for babies and children are boldly combined with objects, which represent sex violence and excrement. These two worlds, which naturally never crossover, merge and transform objects into giggle-inducing, amiable, yet bizarre pieces of art which invoke a horrific, natural human instinct. This is achieved through Kagami’s sharp sense of color, form and pure ideas.
—
Public School @ The Post Family
Should be fun!
—
The Mobile Museum — As Featured on Manystuff.org
—
Seth’s started a blog. So far, so good. Keep it coming.
—
The objects Leon Ransmeier create are at once charming simple and thoughtful.
—
Today or Tomorrow by Tim Lahan
Tim’s blog is solid internet gold.
—
My friends have updated their website, give it a look.
—
‘As both noun and verb, book and exhibition, CATALOG recasts the deconstructed components of finished design projects as new work. The result is an exhibition that is an exploded book, and a book that is a collapsed exhibition.’
I love this website, so much to look at.
—
Eye Magazine & Port Magazine for iPad
My favorite design rag, Eye, focuses it’s sharply tuned EYE on the current state of typography in an increasingly digital world in their latest issue, #79.
But the real kicker is the feature about Jeremy Leslie (founder of blog magCulture) talking about the amazingly beautiful Port for iPad. (Eye’s website is terrible, best find a printed version)
If you don’t have an iPad, the printed version looks solid as well. I geek out big time over type and this magazine has my head in a swirl. I hear Vetted has a few copies left…
—
Fellow proponent of the #2HB
—
