Our leftover jack-o-lantern has been adopted by some small neighbors of mine. I hesitate to make the comparison, as belittling conceptual artists feels very adolescent, but the particular way my little buddy is working on the pumpkin brought to mind Janine Antoni’s 1992 work “Chocolate Gnaw.” Apologies to Ms. Antoni.

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I believe in voting so much that I never miss a chance to go to the polls. The primary this year was perhaps the most boring one I’ve ever shown up for (one race with only two people to choose between, both of them corrupt) but today’s was a snoozeville too. A bunch of judicial [...]

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My conference buddy Teddy Blanks, currently employed at Winterhouse, stopped by for a visit. He didn’t bring a lunch, so we ate in front of him.

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Who are these losers??

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Internet celebrity Andrew Sloat brought this flyer back from the AIGA conference on Tuesday.

He gave us a fine recap of a talk by the phenomenal Canadian typographer Marian Bantjes. Bantjes started out her talk by expressing astonishment to be there, and credited it to the fact that four years ago, she quit doing everything she [...]

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They’re pilot testing these on the sidewalks at the exits to busy subway stations. The only weird thing is that now we’re making official the idiosyncratic N/W/E/S directions that New Yorkers use. (Manhattan is practically turned 45° clockwise from the compass directions.)

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The whole weekend was a plesant surprise. You can read about the proceedings elsewhere, but overall the speakers were great, the reality show Command-X was genuinely hilarious and ultimately deeply moving (the winning project made me cry, no joke) and I met a ton of really cool designers and design hangers-on. Khoi Vinh and I [...]

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I think the people of Denver are probably really nice, but I don’t know where they are. The streets are straight out of SimCity. Mixed use, clearly zoned, and mostly empty. It’s very sunny. It’s cold in the shade. There’s a place called Lodo that people really like. There’s a street mall.
If I had to [...]

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Greetings from Denver. So far, this feels like a cross between a college interview and a regional sales convention. My video went over big (after they presented it wrong once… the left third was missing, so they showed it again. As embarassing as it was, the double exposure and crowd sympathy went miles toward the [...]

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Andrew is in Denver at the AIGA conference. Check out his video, its amazing. The blogs love it.

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