My wonderful Nana discovered I had a list of books/music I wanted on my Amazon.com Wish List, and she bought me a bunch of it for Christmas. One book didn’t come until a couple of weeks ago, and that was the Design for the Other 90% book I wanted. This book came out of an exhibition by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the same name (check it out here). The exhibition brought together designers and engineers from around the world designing for the “5.8 billion people, or 90%, [who] have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us take for granted…”
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Work from the artist Mark Weaver, one of my new design inspirations. He has an amazing knack for color and typography, and his exploration of space and time make for really interesting commentary on our cultural past and how it relates to the future. Definitely worth a look, take a peek here.

For all of those who came, we want to extend a huge thank you. We appreciate your enthusiasm, commitment, and are just plain proud to know ya. You all get us excited about our role as designers in the community.

For those of you new to Idea Incubator, Hatchet Design hosted the first Incubation period last Friday after work. There was beer and pizza (fuel), and a flurry of ideas. The goal was to throw around any and all ideas, big and small, that may lead to future projects.

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We wanted to show the universe our beautiful, and highly thoughtful, open house gift from some of my oldest friends, John and Jennifer. Actually, John has been a friend of my Dad’s since they were in the 4th grade. In support of our venture, these old friends gave us 10 Pantone mugs; and how did they know that these are two of the most essential must-haves of all designer must-haves? I have no idea, but caffeine and the Pantone Color libraries are our best friends.  So we made this card for them as a thank you, and if you couldn’t tell we had a lot of fun. Our inspiration came from the colors, the starred ones are our favorites.

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While I was at the University of Florida, I had the opportunity of working with Graphic Design Associate Professor Maria Rogal and 9 other students on a real-world project based in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Our MINT class, an elite interactive design studio of 10, traveled there in February 2009 and got to meet some truly amazing people. Our mission was to learn as much as we could from them and apply what we learned about their culture to figure out a way we could step in and make a difference.

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lease check out these awesome, gorgeous drop caps supplied by Jessica Hische. She does a new one each day and is almost finished with the alphabet. Here’s hoping she continues on with numbers and symbols afterward! (I cheated and tried to come up with a post that started with “P” so I could use it cause its my favorite…)

She supplies instructions on her drop cap blog with links included – here: Daily Drop Cap

Photo courtesy of the Associated Press

Infringement of copyright? Misappropration? Ew, sounds messy. Remember that whole controversy with the Obama Hope poster that Shepard Fairey so skillfully released to the world, and how the Associated Press claimed he copied a photo of  theirs to make it? Well, last Friday the artist called himself out on using a photo from the Associated Press and then going back and trying to cover his dirty little tracks. He even made fake stencils to convince the law that he didn’t copy the AP photo. Not cool. As designers, we have to be able to at least admit our mistakes. I mean, I’m all for free expression, but lying to the courtroom is a whole ‘nother can of worms. Although he’s a photo bandit, and more recently a liar, we still have mad respect for the man.  View the NY Times article