Kate and I had an interesting conversation yesterday at Rock Bottom Brewery about art and design and whether they stand at opposite ends of an imaginary spectrum or not. Eventually we put “engineering” and “art” on opposite ends of a spectrum and decided design falls somewhere in the middle. Going towards the art end on [...]
I attended a Naoto Fukasawa lecture (at MCA) and event sponsored by Luminaire this evening. Fukasawa was introduced as one who could turn complex into simple, ugly into beautiful and old into new. Apparently “He could kiss a frog and it would turn into a princess”. Defne’s Notes from the talk : “A lot of [...]
I came across this cool blog thanks to my wonderful friend Beverly Hsu who’s fascination with food taught me many things over the years.The blog features illustrated recipes by artists, designers and illustrators from around the world. 0Tweet
Thanks to my event aware friend Reina I went and saw designers from Plural (Jeremiah and Renata), Sonnenzimmer (Nadine and Nick) and The Post Family (Chad) speak at Columbia College portfolio center. It was pretty laid back and conversational set up and I enjoyed hearing about how they ended up choosing the freelance route and [...]