Category Archives: people i admire

Micah Hahn, on Typography

Posted on December 24, 2011 by

Made this. Love him. Here’s a link to his website.

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This week’s list: Filmmakers I’m drooling over

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Seven Nine (!) filmmakers I am way excited about right now. Michael Medaglia: Because he is about to release his short thriller Kitty Kitty on VODO (look for it on June 10th) and because he has a script he’s shopping … Continue reading →

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Milton Glaser’s Great Rules For Life

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

Go check out Milton Glaser’s site, where you can find the essay quoted below in its original context. This came to me from Frank Lentz, via Micah Hahn, and is an excerpt from a talk Glaser gave at AIGA in London on … Continue reading →

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The Date Farmers

Posted on July 27, 2010 by

I’ve always been a big fan of art collaboratives. As such, Micah Hahn recently introduced me to the work of The Date Farmers. From their site:  “Artwork by The Date Farmers echoes Mexican-American heritage rooted in California pop culture. Their … Continue reading →

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Os Gêmeos

Posted on July 23, 2010 by

Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo are twin brothers from São Paulo in Brazil. Going by the name Os Gêmeos they’ve been painting walls since the 80’s. Some liken them (and their work) to the Rococo painters of yore. I like to think … Continue reading →

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SOHO & Sebastian Horsley

Posted on July 1, 2010 by

While I was in graduate school at Central Saint Martins, I worked in a dingy little pub on the corner of Old Compton Street & Charing Cross Road that was fumbingly trying to reinvent itself as a drag cabaret hotspot. … Continue reading →

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Tobias Wong

Posted on June 29, 2010 by

Sad news about the design world’s so-called ‘enfant terrible’ Tobias Wong, who died earlier this month at the age of 35. Wong suffered from episodes of sleepwalking, and his long-time partner thinks his apparent suicide was the result of one … Continue reading →

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Zimoun & Pe Lang

Posted on June 28, 2010 by

Born in Bern, Switzerland, self described ‘auto-ditact’ Zimoun creates sound sculptures and installations using repetitive mechanical movements to create a bigger aural and visual whole– or, conversely, by breaking up a large function into tiny, quantifiable mechanized parts. If you … Continue reading →

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