Category Archives: Design

Once again, I’m blown away by the amazing design that comes from my alma mater, The University of Washington’s School of Art/Division of Design. Their recently-launched 2012 Design Show website is beautiful and seeing the students’ work motivates me to have more FUN with design. Interaction design has taken off at UW and they’re doing an incredible job.

Check out UW’s inspiring work here. And come to the Professional Night on Tuesday, June 5 from 5-8PM!

I’m proud to be a part of the new HELLO Poster Show: Forces of Nature. The posters have been up for the past few weeks at the Cupcake Royale in Capitol Hill, Seattle. If any of you would like any of these wonderful posters in your home, go here to purchase one. There are some sexy ones!

All proceeds benefit local Seattle charities. Buy one or die. JK.

Today I saw this tape dispenser on Daily Icon and I really want one.

“Notchless is an adhesive tape dispenser which leaves clean, straight edges without zig-zags on cut tape, simply by tearing it on the edge of a blade in the same easy way as with conventional tape dispensers. Adhesive tape without zigzags has an attractive appearance, and it does not break up when peeled as does tape cut with conventional dispensers. It thus has the advantage of not causing stickiness or dirtiness at the cut edge, increasing the utility of adhesive tape. This patented blade technology cuts adhesive tape with a straight edge in an easy and safe manner.”

Last night I attended a lecture and exhibition by Annabelle Gould, a UW Visual Communication Design faculty member and designer. Annabelle was also my MFA thesis advisor while I was at UW and I admire her teaching philosophy, her design, and the overall person that she is. She’s an extremely talented publication and web designer with a knack for the design details that make her work so solid.

As an educator Annabelle encourages students to experiment and discover with a variety of design tools. This results in different design executions, which is unique for many school environments. Many students try to solve design problems like a singular mathematical equation that their professor will say is correct or incorrect. Annabelle doesn’t allow students to think this way which is very refreshing. I wish everyone could take a class from her.

Check out her work here. And the UW design program here.

Last night I attended the 2010 University of Washington Design Exhibition and just as I expected, it was very impressive. It was also so fun to see old friends, classmates, and faculty members that made my time there so memorable.

The show goes on until June 19th, so go check it out. Click here for more information. I particularly enjoyed some of the projects by Josh, Kimberly, Ronald, Stephanie, and Tanya. Here are a few:

I wanted to give a personal shout out for the wonderful rebranding of 8th Continent Soymilk, particularly because of the lovely illustrations by Ben Javens. I’m normally not a huge fan of Futura, but it looks great here. I seriously might start drinking more soy milk because of this!

To see a more in depth look at the branding click here.

I was excited to hear the announcement that Obama appointed Edward Tufte, the designer and creator of some of the most thought-provoking books on information design, to serve on the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel! I will definitely be looking forward to seeing what he does.