this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.

Monday, March 18, 2013

Saturday, March 16, 2013


Friday, March 15, 2013


infographics, an assignment coming soon to a d2 class near you





















here's an innovative infographic about tattoos by Paul Marcinkowski, a student at the Academy Of Fine Arts in Łódź. Instead of visualizing statistics about tattoos on flat 2D paper with a bunch of over-the-top colors, Marcinkowski chooses to go black and white, and puts everything about tattoos where they belong: on the human body (apparently, his own).

Monday, March 11, 2013

The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On - check it out (thnx C)    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrHkKXFRbCI
imparfection is a highly underrated virtue ...

did you know that the Navaho indians of the southwestern United States, in an area known today as the Four Corners, made the most remarkable of carpets. 

The classic late 18th and early 19th carpets are extraordinarily beautiful. 


Fiercely geometric in design, and seemingly straightforward in concept, they are a flat tapestry, woven on a rudimentary loom, using home made materials; hand spun, hand dyed wool from the Navaho-Churro sheep.


At first glance they appear acutely symmetrical, in fact, absolutely perfect - and aside from  one single stitch, they are. 

I'm recounting this, because the Navaho could, should they choose, make them perfectly.


When you see the carpets themselves up close, there's no doubt about it. But, as a matter of spiritual consequence and a form of sacrament to their Gods, they always leave a single error, one small mistake in an otherwise perfectly rendered carpet.

It is said that they leave the mistake, so as to ensure there is a place where the evil spirits can escape.


So maybe it's ok - if things aren't perfect, every single time. 





I was going to post some pithy design commentary, then I saw this food porn, AAARRGhhhhh......