Kool, with a k.
I've included the prices just to upset you, items 1 & 3 are vintage, sold as is. The milano chair is new, and has that sexy new car smell. Just kidding, it smells like a chair. Custom design is expensive.















Paul Frankl "Big Foot" Cork Cocktail Table USA 1950. The top is "Bleached Cork" with 3 splayed Mahogany Legs. This is the most sought after of the cork tables. Price $16,000


Milano Chair Wing Back Chair Inspired by Italian Design of the 1940s Frame: Alder, Legs: Walnut Cost $ 4000.00


Paul Frankl Speed Chair
New York 1930 from Frankl Studios. Baby Blue Leather with Canvas Welt. Hand Tied Springs Chair is on hidden castors. Baby Blue Leather with Canvas Welt. Price $11,000

I've been trying to imagine the process, the preliminary
design briefs, early concept meetings ....

(I bet they had lattes and chocolaty croissants)

The genesis of this cruel, visually illiterate, idea impoverished cabal.

The meetings where they sat about on uncomfortable designer chairs
and discussed this logo, the meetings where they agreed
that it was, irresistible - brilliant, absolutely the best one.

Those wankers chose, decided, and who concluded the business are now

infamous, and will probably remain, resolutely invisible (who can

blame them ?) a committee of amateurs, administrators

and sycophants,

you know, ...the ones who have conspired to impose

this new, "improved", and somehow, impossibly,
intergalactically insipid civic logo upon us.

Who are they ? (secretly, I think some of them work where I do)

The immediate cost to the innocent citizen was roughly
$500,000.00, but the long term effect, will be incalculable.

A branding Chernobyl ladies and gentlemen, whose half-life
of embarrassment ,will be roughly 10,000 years. About
the same length of time it will take us to get over the big O.

Ahhh, here's the file now, ohh look... it's likely the
same folks, who approved these other graphic amusements.

You know, it really does look like somebodies sister or cousin, or
boyfriend designed the thing. Someone who went to desktop
publishing summer camp. Where's my bloody hammer ......

Montreal's new "groovy" logo .... aaaagggrrrhhhHHhhi ,
it's the one below

my eyes are bleeding .... aaagghhhhh...

you guys are always asking what I do on the weekends, so here,
linked , are a few snaps of me and my friends, as we are,
en flagrente delecto. ps. I'm the one  in the ridiculous costume

Photography as a Weapon















D2 please read the linked article

class cancelled this friday, yes, today!
Comrades, I am a leetle under the weather. Work hard, the labs open, and have a safe and happy halloween. cheers T

1. Paul Schuitema 2. Adriaan van't Hoff 1933 3. Wim ten Broek 1936

No.1 In the things, everyone needs to see, series.
Fish Flops, and yes, before you ask, it is what I wear at home.

Inspiration is sometimes, something you find - perhaps an obscured
idea or found image, something unintentional and quite often accidental.
Make sure you don't spend all your time baiting the hook, ... jump.














































1.Lorenzo Petrantoni 2.Lorenzo Petrantoni 3.Lisa Eisenbray 4.Sr.Garcia 5.Sr.Garcia 6.James Gallagher 7.Pep Carrio 8.Wolf Erlbruch 9.Wolf Erlbruch 10. Eva eun-sil han 11.Alma Larroca

some required/essential visiting for both 1 & 2, ... yes you.
the peach of a peach is linked, the brilliant ilovetypography
website. clickez los fritas y picturas

the fascinating work of David Tobin Smith , the name is link'd.




























click on the images to exPAnD

actually found on the street, go figure. update .. the fiendish
Ms.Z has informed me that the quotes from Radiohead. Who knew ?

a San Francisco/Minneapolis ( ? ) design entity, the Test Pilot Collective  

of major graphic, interface and typographic grooveness

This poster was part of a bigger project 

directed toward Nike’s efforts to centralize 

a font ( not funk ) bank for all Nike designers 

worldwide. 

The poster was created by sixteen in­house 

designers, each of whom designed a part 

independently.

 

All of the designs were then composed into 

the inspirational poster created for all 

in­house designers. 

The back of the poster highlights the font 

used in the design.

remember to click the image to 

enlarge it, you mwumby shellfish

Key Magazine Cover
Designer:  Dirk Barnett
Illustrator:  Carin Goldberg

things most remarkable No.9
for extra marks - what are they ? ... exactly .
( ... and judging from your mid-term work, 

some of you really could use the extra marks, 

especially Really Big Larry and Wanda One Shoe )

and like everything else in nature, click to enlarge

i scream, you scream , we all scream for Edvard Munch cream

Today we had a visit from a 

young designer Mr. Sean Yendrys. 

A brilliant former student, Sean 

graciously came back to talk to 

us about the Montreal Biennale. 

It was an interesting discussion, 

which touched upon street art, 

the politics and financing of public 

art and performance, free speech, 

Banksy's et al and the history and 

traditions of Biennale's in general. 

I recommend that you all check 

out the Montreal Biennale site and 

familiarize yourselves with what 

the Biennale is all about. It's still 

looking for volunteers to help out, 

and it might be lot of fun and really 

interesting to get involved with.

low tech fun; a simple, inventive change from the whole 

blindlingly similar, commerce driven, pseudo-high tech, 

lame o, way too shiny, pop record, how does my hair look, 

all about the big sales, music video thingy. it's invention 

kids, and has a sorta hand made in the basement with your 

friends kind of, lets try it this way feel to it, big up !

le New York Times

treading that impossible line, between essential 

but cruelly dry information and dynamic design, 

brilliantly. Informatics - click me donut brain

EMIGRE magazine, cool. way cool, uber cool, totally uber way cool. 

All the hipster kids know about it, do you ?  ..Get with the program

Dead Star, by Michel de Broin, is made from leftover batteries 

at the end of their day. I'm never gonna throw a battery away again.

looking for a great resource for vintage images for 

your work or amusemento, look no farther you.

cliquez moi, svp

the new york public library digital gallery

from the everything comes from somewhere series ....

an interesting if tangential article that my more ruthless, and well dressed students may enjoy. 

one of the few charms of middle age ....  if there are any,  is finally being able to see how things connect, or at least suspect how they might connect, and also, noticing how there are everywhere, very fine, nearly diaphanous ( look it up ) threads, that join so many human endeavours and aspirations together.

like design and the cowboy shirt, enjoy

what a fantastic piece of work; funny and true in equal measures