February 2010
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January 2010
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Design our future
I’m trying to imagine a world where we don’t have things like clean air to breathe, drinkable water coming out of our faucets, parks and trails to explore, efficient sewage systems, proper trash collection, transportation options, and all the other things that so-called “whacko greenies” work for everyday. These are all things we take for granted, yet if they were to...
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Denver Mountain Parks
I just picked up one of these new guidebooks for Denver Mountain Parks and must say it’s pretty fucking cool. Definitely one of the finest print pieces I’ve held in a while. It’s not a huge brochure, but it has plenty of information to get you started on your next outdoor adventure around the Denver area. The design by Jim Hargreaves of Barnhart, Denver was completed with...
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“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Green Garage
On Alex Bogusky’s latest FearLess QA show, the CP+B Chairman sat down with two guys from Green Garage, a Boulder start-up focused on helping you make your car run cleaner and more efficiently. It sounds like a bit of a marketing ploy since keeping your car running smoothly is ideally what all garages do. But these guys do sound like they’re taking extra steps to protect the...
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“Just follow your heart. That’s what I do.”
– Napoleon Dynamite
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I’m really digging the work of Brian Rea of Los Angeles. His illustration style seems to be perfectly suited for The New York Times, where he’s done quite a bit of work. A new one that I just came across is the top image here. It’s for an article about the extreme cold that parts of America have been experiencing lately, and how it does not represent a global trend:
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Mark Weaver for GOOD
Designer/illustrator Mark Weaver has been one of my absolute favorites for a while now. His photo collages always have sort of a surreal science-fiction look to them with elements of the the industrial world and the natural world combined in really interesting ways. Just looking at his MSCED project is enough awesomeness to make you kind of want to puke.
Mark was recently asked to provide...
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Larkburger welcome guide
This is a fantastic piece by Denver agency Barnhart to seduce a local burger joint into working with them. Highlighting the restaurant’s competition, designer Jim Hargreaves used fast-food bags, sandwich wrappers, and various junk mail to produce a one-of-a-kind mailer printed on their own laser printer and hand-stitched. With sustainable production methods in mind, they came up with a...
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“People are at the center of these issues. It’s not just save the trees for the...”
– Andrew Pattison, doctoral student in the sustainable urban infrastructure program at the University of Colorado, Denver
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WatchMichael Pollan has a new book out titled Food Rules. Here’s a great interview he did with Elephant Journal’s Waylon Lewis.
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Build by John Fan
It’s a new year, how about a new desktop wallpaper? You could do a lot worse than this one by illustrator John Fan, which can be grabbed in various sizes at Kitsune Noir.
To me, the guy here looks like an urban planner thinking about how to build a better city. You can stare at it and think about all the cool things you’ll do in 2010 to be part of designing something positive in your...
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