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Lunar New Year 2009

the apple over the ages

It's so interesting that Apple wasn't very popular until it came up with the iMac in 1998. What's the oldest Apple product you owned?

gallery gala

Just yesterday I went to Santa Monica to see the many art galleries at Bergamot Station. I gotta say, some galleries were "meh" and a couple others were mind-boggling. The top three I enjoyed visiting were: The Gallery of Functional Art, Lois Lambert Gallery, and Mark Moore Gallery. All exhibited artworks that demonstrated out-of-the-box thinking and were very inspirational.

The Gallery of Functional Art features objects used in everyday life that each has a unique twist or interpretation from the artist.



The Lois Lambert Gallery features works of Nicole Gordon, a painter.



The Mark Moore Gallery is exhibiting Kiel Johnson's cool stuff... er art, I mean.

illustration + paper + collage = design

Recently I've been getting interested in incorporating the handmade into design. I'm tired of designing straight from the computer...
starting from:

sketching out ideas to
click... click... clickclickclickclick
printing it out to
Command+P... hmm not the right color... Command+P again
putting it together
snip snip... ow!
All that gets a bit tiring after a while.

But I've always admired design that incorporated hand drawings or something that came from the imperfect hand. I did a bit of searching and found a whole genre of designing with the handmade, whether it's with paper, illustrations, or a combination of both.

Enjoy

Christmas Cantata