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Oak Café, Vincent Price and moi
Oak Café interior, art by Craig Smith
One of the reasons I teach at American River College is The Oak Café. Staffed and run by culinary students, the Oak Café is one of the hardest tables to get in Sacramento – with four star ratings [twice from The Sacramento Bee] and mucho local critical acclaim, they don’t skimp on anything. It’s a foodie’s dream tucked away in a corner of a Community College.
Type treatment, set using my Escoffier Capitaux font
vincent
A while back, Café instructor Teresa Urkofsky borrowed my copy of Mary and Vincent Price’s A Treasury of Great Recipes (1965). Known for his horror films, Vincent Price (1911-93) was also one of the pioneers of the gourmet movement. He used his celebrity to promote high class eating worldwide. And this over-the-top cookbook – which features funky recipes from the best restaurants in the world (at the time) – is a testament to his love of good food. [Read more →]
Spoon
This spoon has been sitting in a classroom at the Art Institute. For weeks. Not bothering anyone.
GOOD is good. So is Scott and his team.
GOOD is for people who give a damn – read more below.
but first . . .
OPEN studio’s Scott Stowell headed up the original design team for GOOD. And I have to write about Scott because he’s been a major influence on my work. Scott = GOOD influence.
I’ve been a fan of Scott’s work for years, ever since I saw a talk he gave at one of the 1990s ATypI conferences. His views/advice on design and teaching – for me – has been invaluable. [Read more →]
100
‘This is a self-initiated project based on the scenario – If the world were a village of 100 people . . . I designed a set of 20 posters, which contain most of the information.’ -Toby Ng
The images are telling. View them at Toby Ng’s website.
Statistics need visuals or they’re often perceived as just numbers. For those who don’t think visually, it’s hard to connect numbers to people.
I had a conversation about this recently regarding a group project for a research class I’m taking (hi Luci!). We were analyzing a research study and the right charting system would have really driven some very important points home.
Maybe enough to get the study accepted. Maybe get the right person to implement its findings. Maybe.
Found via Joe Rucker Design News
The power of a girl
‘Adolescent girls are uniquely capable of raising the standard of living in the developing world.’
Go to the girl effect website to find out how.
The Nike and NoVo Foundations are involved. And it’s a part of the UN Millennium Development Goals. Design by Wieden + Kennedy.
Found via Dr. Shelley Gruendler
What it really takes to build a global community
Compassion is not just ‘feeling sorry for someone.’
Today, religion is lost.
The need to be ‘right’ is counterproductive.
Great video.
Smaller world
‘Do not use for navigation’
The world is smaller thanks to online communities. Click on the map for larger view/jump.
Note: There’ve been quite a few changes since 2007 (when this map was drawn). Facebook has sort of conquered a big chunk of the land once occupied by MySpace – then Twitter kinda built this huge bridge that one can see from space . . . .
Found via Web Design Ledger
‘Design’s too important to be left to designers’
We’re still talking about ‘change’ right? It was a huge word last year.
Design thinking can change the world.
But design thinking is much more than ‘aesthetics, image and fashion.’ More than just a means to encourage passive consumption – which for a long time has been the basis for our (now shattered) economy.
Talk (above) by Tim Brown of IDEO. Where design should be headed.
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