I am bringing this "globe" (for lack of anything better to call it) to an art show tomorrow night. The theme is light and dark, and while this globe does not make it dark when you put it on your head, it is very isolating.

My plan is to try and convince people to put it on their heads, but one of these days I am going to bring it into the city and take photos of random people transformed into giant fisher price little people. Not only am I a fan of making people experience something that takes them out of their comfort zone (and trust me the experience will only be greater out on the city streets when the sounds become muffled), but I think it raises pretty interesting questions of identity and how we define ourselves.

Anyway, I liked how these photos came out, although the color isn't exactly right, so I thought I would give all my loyal readers a sneak peak. Now you can say you saw it here first :)

Free Art/Political Posters

unplugged posted a few of these posters on their blog, but didn't check the site out until it was mention for a second time in the NYT

Anyway, you should check out this site because the concept of posters that you can download and print yourself is pretty cool. There is a new one posted every day. Here are a few of my favorites to tempt you:

airport symbols

I realize that I haven't posted for a while, but as I was just reading on someone else's blog... the longer you go without posting the more you feel like the post has to be even more special... and so you just don't post anything.

I don't have so much to report other than more of the same, so I thought I would leave you with a pretty cool animation instead.



via speak up

The True Story of the Birth of a Font

Saw this a little while ago on parachute's blog:
Developmnent of Centro Pro Font
I have been thinking about what it takes to design your own font... how do you create something that hasn't already been created with all the fonts out there?

8 ways to drive a Graphic Designer Mad

Found this link on a design forum. Very funny :)

Childhood Memories

Dr. C just reminded me of the Recycle Shop at the Children's Museum in Boston with a link to the Scrap Exchange in Durham, NC.

Their website says it best, "Long before recycling was a household word, the museum began selling an amazing variety of reusable fabrics, plastics, papers, and strings for everyone’s crafts and fine arts projects. The only limit is your own imagination!"

The Scrap Exchange says it opened in 1991, but the Children's museum says they have been doing this for "more than a generation" (which I will admit is vague, but I remember going when i was pretty young and as many of you remind me quite often, that was a LONG time ago).

Wow, I had a lot of great memories creating masterpieces with the bottle caps and assorted other materials that we bought. I imagine that the stuff I would choose to fill my bag today would be different from what I was attracted to when I was 10, but I could be wrong. I am definitely going to have to go visit the shop the next time I am in Boston.

Paperless world fits into newsletter

Well, I got everything to fit into the newsletter, but there was a tiny square of space left! Well, I don't know yet if it will make the final cut, but my coworker A laughed a lot when i showed to him. It occurred to me as I was saving the image for this post that my character looks a little like Mr. SD.

You can tell that i was actually engaged in my work today because yesterday at the end of the day there were only 22 unread items in my Google Reader (and those were from the NYT). Today, 80. Perhaps I am meant to be a cartoon artist instead of a designer? It is certainly more fun than newsletters (or at least this newsletter), but despite tying for #1 on Dr. C's funny list, being funny is pretty hard work.