Category: Inspiration

Sign painting – a lost art

Everyone is up in arms about the Web putting our beloved print out of business, but there hasn’t been much talk regarding what affect the print industry has had on other trades. Sign Painters, is…

Making the Self-Driving Car a Little More Consumer Friendly

There is a lot of talk going on about Google’s new Self-Driving Car Project recently introduced at the Code Conference last Tuesday. While reading all the speculation swirling around the features and how these cars could…

A Design Icon Passes on to that big Studio in the Sky

Massimo Vignelli, an Italian-born designer whose iconic subway signs, business logos (American Airlines), shopping bags (Bloomingdales), books, and furniture became reference points of daily life and touchstones in modern design, passed away this week. He…

Simplified Big Brands

We’ve all seen how a brand can start to simplify it’s identity as brand recognition becomes universal – the ubiquitous Nike swoosh and the iconic Target bullseye for example. In his ‘Big Brand Theory’, designer…