December 2011
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Present & Correct is an awesome online store offering a curated selection of paper and office products, some designed by them and others that they have found around the world along with vintage items.
Ever since Little Printer from Berg was announced I can’t stop thinking about it. What I find even more interesting is the new platform that it runs on called Berg Cloud, which will have a whole line of products eventually running on it.
Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer...
October 2011
3 posts
Jessie and I went apple picking and to a corn maze with her mom and cousins. It was my first time to a corn maze, we did pretty good and made it through!
Thanks Steve, for inspiring and empowering creativity in all of us, and for everything else. The Macintosh was the computer I learned to use Adobe Pagemaker on as a kid and was the first computer I used to connect to the internet using a dial-up modem. I remember watching the above video above at a young age and getting the chills.
At Next Chapter we designed the future of K-12 libraries together for three days at the Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia. I was honored to be part of the team that put this event together. Thanks to Laura Deisley, Christian Long, Jeff Sharpe, and David Bill for having me along for the adventure. My role included all the graphic design for the event as well as leading a group of librarians and...
September 2011
2 posts
We shared ideas over meals and stories around the campfire. We canoed down the river as the sun was coming up and came back for cold showers and hot cups of tea. We planted vegetable seeds. We kneaded bread and cooked it on the fire. We drank Welsh apple cider in the pub late into the night. And we listened to a remarkable set of speakers who inspired us. All of this we did together, as we...
Super excited and honored to have had the pleasure of curating a week of posts on Design Envy. It’s AIGA’s daily blog featuring the best in design today as chosen by a new curator each week. You can see my profile with the list of posts here.
August 2011
10 posts
Yesterday, we went sailing with Jessie’s parents, aunt and uncle, such a beautiful day out on the water with everyone!
“He spent the summer working for Next Chapter, a series of online challenges...”
– Truly honored and excited to have been part of the story, Undergrads Are Awesome, on GOOD’s website.
This past weekend, I went to Block Island for the day with Jessie and her family. It was a beautiful day and an awesome time.
Amy Merrick does some wonderful work which I discovered through her blog. Also, she has a new website.
Jessie and I went to see Bon Iver last night in Holoyoke, MA. The music was so beautiful.
Jessie and I went to see the Alexander McQueen exhibit at the Met in New York City and it was incredible.
While in New York, we also wen to visit the Highline. They recently had opened up the second part of the Highline and it was a beautiful walk.
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So excited that we are launching COMMON Hoops, the sustainable social venture that we designed as part of COMMON Project and Project M this summer in Greensboro, Alabama.
COMMON Hoops is helping to empower young kids in Hale County, Alabama to take leadership roles and give back to the community through design and basketball.
We are currently running a fundrasing campaign on IndieGoGo where...
I had the pleasure to be able to take part in the Is College Worth It panel at the #140Edu conference. Thanks to Deb for moderating the panel and to my other two panelists, Kristin and Linnea You can see the video of it here, its at the 37 minute mark.
Thanks to Rich, Troy, Constanza, and Melissa at co:lab for a great internship this summer during the past month!
July 2011
4 posts
We saw Harry Potter tonight and it was remarkable. I have been reading the book since I was young and it has been an amazing journey with Harry, Ron, and Hermoine. What an awesome story about friendship and love.
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Thank you so much to all my new friends from Greensboro, Project M, and COMMON for such a remarkable time. In the top row we have Isaac Karsen and De Nichols and in the bottom row there is Nicholas Kastner, me, Dawn Dewald, and Philipp Batta.
Look out soon for the launch of what we did while in Greensboro, it deals with design and basketball, stay tuned!
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On one of the last days in Greensboro, I rode around on one of the bikes we had and took photographs of all the buildings on main street. Each building is so unique and has character, each has its own story.
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Pie Lab acted as our home base for our time in Greensboro, we ate there, met there, and did work in the back. It was also the only place to get internet access.
Pie Lab, the newest eatery to open in Greensboro, Alabama, would be a familiar space to creatives who frequent their local cafes. It’s a place you can order a slice of Chocolate Bourbon Pecan pie, maybe some lemonade or coffee, read a...
June 2011
13 posts
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We had so many amazing meals while in Greensboro, most of them thanks to the folks at Pie Lab who made us dinner every night, specifically Luke and Kristy.
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Our friend, Ramell Ross, a photographer and who works at HERO, took photos of us for his series called Live Feed. Above is De’s photo by Ramell and then my photo documenting the process.
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Our friend Pam Dorr, who is the executive director of HERO, invited us over for dinner to enjoy her amazing cooking one night in her beautiful home.
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We were invited to a BBQ at Horshoe Farm.
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Today, we visited the awful tornado damage that happened just outsie of Greensboro a couple months ago. It was a very somber and heart breaking experience to see piles of peoples houses and belongings.
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We toured some of the early work of Sam Mockbee who started Rural Studio. We visited the first house out in Mason’s Bend that he built when the Rural Studio program started. There we met some of the girls who lived at the house.
Lily gave one of the girls her camera so that she could take some photos, the first thing she did was aim the camera at me and take a photo. At the same time I...
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We got to hang out a bunch in Bike Lab during our time in Greensboro. Andy and John are doing some very cool things there and helping to design and create Bamboo bikes.
Bike Lab isn’t a typical bike shop. We’re an open workspace that provides the community of Greensboro, AL with the tools and shared knowledge to teach, create and empower through bicycle programs. Through community...
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We went to an old Cotton plant today, was amazing to think about what this place must have been like when it was up and running. Rust has always been something that I have been attracted to when photographing, so it was a great place for that.
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Here are some more photos from exploring on our own around Greensboro, Alabama. Above, is a sign from the Post Office, the gates to the park, the dog pound, and a box from the old Western Auto store in town.
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We have been going on some tours of Greensboro in order to get a better sense of the town and what its all about. Greensboro used to be in the poorest county in the country. Here are some photos of all sorts of different houses in the town.
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Today, we did a Thinking Wrong exercise. John Bielnberg, he randomly points to a word on a page of a book after one of us had chosen a number. We then broke into groups, each with their own word. That word was put in the center of a huge sheet of paper, and then we wrote and drew everything that came to mind from that word. Then from all those words, we thought of other words, and on and on.
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I am so excited and grateful to be in Greensboro, Alabama, for the next two weeks to participate in a COMMON meets Project M project. Today I met the other 5 young creative people that have also been accepted into the program. Above are photos of where we are staying at the bunkhouse.
Project M is an intiative that I have been following for the past several years. It was started by John...
Some amazing photography by Ditte Isager, thanks to Jessie for sharing.
I was honored to have been selected to be part of the AIGA BoNE [Best of New England] Show. My project Cultivate was chosen and was part of the exhibit which just opened in Boston. Congrats to everyone else, it was a wonderful night with the co:lab crew and Jessie.
Photos by Ben Gebo, thanks man for an awesome job documenting the night.
Up in Boston for the weekend for the BoNE show, awesome time!
Things I bought in Northampton – Letterpress postcard prints, vintage postcards, and Wisdom by Andrew Zuckerman.
May 2011
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Recently, I found the work of Scout’s Honor Co. online, really awesome work!
Scout’s Honor Co. was founded on a passion for all things classic, well-made, and enduring. I take great pride in my process and strive to give each & every client a unique, one of a kind experience. All designs start with a pen & paper, ensuring that the hand is at the heart of every piece.
WatchWonderland is a new co-working, studio, gallery space and so much more in Columbus, Ohio.
The video talks about some things that I think art schools today need to focus on more. Wonderland is about bringing creativity and entrepreneurship together. Its about the idea of creating an ecosystem around a bunch of amazing things that are already happening in the community. The main goal is creating a...
It was an amazing time to be involved in TEDxBloomington for over a year, from the very first phone call from Christian Long, all the way to my trip out to Indiana for the event just a couple days after the school year ended. My responsibilities were mainly graphic design and the branding along with some idea generation and other planning. Thanks to the awesome organizing team and everyone.
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This past semester I took a Design History course that also has a studio component involving screen printing. We had to choose something from the history of graphic design and represent it visually. This was my first time screen printing and I really enjoyed the process and look forward to doing more during my senior year.
The seniors of the Visual Communication Design department at the Hartford Art School recently had their senior exhibit with some really amazing talent. Be sure to check them all out on their site.
April 2011
2 posts
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and...”
– William Henry Channing, found at Wide Open Spaces
March 2011
4 posts
February 2011
2 posts
While out Columbus, Ohio for Prototype, Christian took us all to Dirty Franks. My new favorite hot dog is the BLT dog, hoping to find a place around home that offers this but thinking that I might just have to head back to Ohio for this some other time!
It was a remarkable experience to be one of the co-developers of Prototype, a design camp for young creatives that took place in Columbus, Ohio over the course of three days. Being able to work with some amazing students was the best part about this experience and really made me fall in love with working with younger people. This is something I want to make sure is part of my future work.
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It was my first time attending EduCon at the Science Leadership Academy in Philidelphia and it was an amazing time. Christian Long, David Bill, and I presented a session on Design Thinking, which you can read more about here. It was wonderful to meet some educators who are doing truly remarkable things in their schools and classrooms and catch up with some friends. The Science Leadership Academy...
January 2011
2 posts
For three days I headed out to Columbus, Ohio to work with Christian Long and David Bill on figuring out what we wanted Be Playful [a collaborative design studio focused on the future of learning] to be all about. Christian started Be Playful and brought David and myself on board. It was an awesome time, we got to visit some remarkable schools, a co-working space, the Columbus Museum of Art, and...