Entries from August 2008

Prime Time Design: anything but Clinton

Date August 28, 2008

The design of Prime Time Television is always interesting and often disturbing to me. Last night was no exception. As I went to a neighborhood friend’s house so the group of us could tune into the Democratic National Convention coverage (something we all assumed was sorta important…and assume the RNC to also be important), we [...]

Luminarium

Date August 26, 2008

  

  ‘In 1970 Gordon B Holcombe a pioneer in the design and construction of buildings utilizing coated fabrics predicted that,’ “Before the year 2000 the house you live in may come in a can of liquid and a roll of fabric-and be inflated like a balloon. And by the end of this decade, everything from [...]

Died Young Stayed Pretty

Date August 26, 2008

Died Young Stayed Pretty, directed by Eileen Yaghoobian, is a documentary about rock posters and their designers, some of whom are Raleigh natives, artists featured in a Designbox Rock Poster Show 5 years ago called StuckUp (Casey Burns, Ron Liberti and Dale Flattum), and one is even a Designbox alum (Dale Flattum). WOOHOO! We’re famous!
“This [...]

This is Radio Nacional

Date August 23, 2008

Ya gotta love the work of Stefan Walter - a wonderful talent from Zurich. We’re happy to work with him on an exciting new project.

Work Around Terrible NBC Olympic Coverage…at last!

Date August 18, 2008

In the words of Just South of the Dot blog “I HATE YOU NBC. I. HATE. YOU.”
Then Mike shows exactly how to get around their inane obsession with Beach Volleyball. Is it entertaining? A little. Olympic? Not really. Especially when you show BV instead of ancient tradtions like Hammer and Pentathlon. Some of us suspect [...]