Posted March 22, 2010 5:35 pm.
Filed under: daily happenings, details
Tags: blog, Christopher, everything is ok, Idea-ology, Motown, Pandora, Stanley Hainsworth
The blog is looking good. There are still some things to work out, but the list is getting shorter. Christopher did a lot of work on it over the weekend and fixed some things I was complaining about in my last post. I made some minor changes today, but they still took some time for me to figure out. My biggest victory was getting the “more” button to not give the user an epileptic seizure.
Other than making sweet love to code (Sorry. We’re listening to Motown and R&B hits on Pandora.), my day was sprinkled with intern duties such as making packages, opening packages and filing samples. One pretty rad thing we received is Stanley Hainsworth’s new book Idea-ology: The Designer’s Journey: Turning Ideas into Inspired Designs in which Christopher is featured! There are some pretty cool photos of Everything is OK Action Kits in use. The book is full of big ideas and talks about the implementation of them. Some of the stories are pretty inspiring because many of these big ideas came out of personal projects and were not funded by any particular client. It just goes to show that doing the thing you love, whether or not you know the outcome in the end, can lead you on a spectacular, unexpected journey and makes all of the tears, sweat, and blood totally worth it.
Posted February 3, 2010 6:30 pm.
Filed under: daily happenings
Tags: airstream, Colbert Report, Design Revolution, Explosions in the Sky, good design book, Jedi, Nonsek, Pandora, Word
I just verbally Nonseked today’s events! Boo yah!
There were no actual explosions except for the one’s coming out of our speakers brought to you by Pandora and one of Austin’s finest, Explosions in the Sky. The airstream bit came from Christopher’s Good Design Book interview today with Emily Pilloton, founder of Project H. (Did you see her on Colbert Report a few weeks ago?) She will be kicking off a nationwide tour bringing socially conscious design to a city near you in an airstream. Lastly, we’re trying to make gigantic photos.
If you’re in the SF Bay Area tomorrow, there will be a Design Revolution kick off in the parking lot of the Academy of Art University featuring an airstream full of humanitarian products, a taco truck, and a cupcake truck. It’s not to be missed! One of the great things about working here (besides meeting a lot of different people), is feeling like you’re always in the know.
Tim and I were in the office working on more Good Design Book details. He’s finalizing art and layouts. I answered a billion phone calls, and I even used Jedi mind tricks to create a Word document. For real.
Posted February 2, 2010 6:32 pm.
Filed under: daily happenings
Tags: alliteration, Christopher, copy edit, coupon, February, good design book, Grant of Rights, NYC, Pandora, Tim, Tuesday
Tuesday’s tedious tasks totally took too much time.
(I was going for a sentence with 100% alliteration, but that was pretty good.)
We’re down to the details for the Good Design Book. I spent hours going through the submissions and extracting all the Grant of Rights forms, while Tim sorted them out. Then I spent the rest of the afternoon copy editing the credit listings for all the work. In fact, I’m not even finished with that task. I have two more sections to go, but I’m taking a moment to blog.
Christopher has spent the whole day designing a coupon. It should be one really rad coupon. He’s involved in a super exciting project that will launch mid-month on both coasts! So NYC peeps, look out for it on a city corner near you as well. The MINE™ office will be in attendance at a fancy launch party. I’ll be sure to post some pictures from the event to reveal this top secret project.
Being an intern today hasn’t been too glamorous, but someone has to do this kind of stuff. The best thing that happened today is the realization that it’s February! Our Pandora account has re-upped, and we’re back on the juice.
Posted January 20, 2010 6:13 pm.
Filed under: daily happenings, process
Tags: Good Deisgn Book, Jay-Z, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Pandora, Photoshop, T. Rex
Yep. It’s happened. We’ve listened to too much Pandora. No more Jay-Z or T. Rex stations for the rest of the month! Rude, Pandora. Really rude.
Other than that, I finished up my Photoshop duties today. So, I started on the task of photographing the remaining Good Design Book entries. Since setting up photo shoots is one of my favorite things to do, today was pretty rad even though I only got through one entry. Tim was my creative director of sorts and he made me redo one of the shots three times. He hasn’t signed off on this last attempt, so I might have to do it again. As Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said, “God is in the details.” (Yeah, I totally looked that up). Did you know he also said, “Less is more.” So getting things just right makes a difference.
Christopher and Tim have been going through the current version of the Good Design Book to edit and make changes. I made books in school, but it’s good to be reminded about pacing, grids, and all the considerations that one takes when designing a book. Today was the first day that I really got to take a look at the projects, and it’s inspiring stuff. Not only is it a book of full of work, but there are in depth case studies and essays so that you can get behind some of the thinking and processes of the projects. It’s been a few months, but I remember that making a book is a long process. But it’s all worth it, because in the end having the actual piece in your hand is so gratifying.
Elevation study of the Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe found here.
