New Logo for Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
4 May 2011, 14:29
New York City based design studio, AHL&CO, recently redesigned the new logo for the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. The logo is an instant win in my heart as it is uses CMYK for its...
Must Watch: A Brief History of Title Design
12 April 2011, 14:25
FOT: It's All Under Control
5 April 2011, 18:26
Friends of Type is a daily treat for me on my RSS feed. Everyday my inbox welcomes a new typographic treat and now the FOT peeps have come up with something very relevant to architecture.
Memphis Group, Milano
1 March 2011, 16:34
I was first introduced to Memphis furniture in the early 1980’s at Sakowitz’s “Festival del Disegno italiano”. I was working in the sales promotion department at the upscale department store located downtown on Main Street. Each year the...
Must Watch: Mattson Creative... Process
25 January 2011, 22:43
It has been crazy busy at the office the last two weeks. To fill in the time till the next epic POTW check Mattson Creative as they show the creative process to...
Must Watch: The Making of the Eames Lounge Chair
21 January 2011, 15:52
This is a timeless promotional video of the making the Eames Lounge Chair. Pretty amazing that it is almost 50 years old.
Bachelor Modern: Mid-Century Style in an American Film
14 January 2011, 13:57
(Start clip at 9:20) Director Otto Preminger’s 1953 film The Moon is Blue is about the 24-hour romance between a playboy architect and a young woman he meets at the Empire State Building. The film takes place mainly in the bachelor architect’s apartment. What I found exciting about William Holden’s bachelor pad…
The Impossible Project
29 December 2010, 17:37
When the news broke that Polaroid film was going to be retired by Kodak, I think everyone could hear the collective cries around the world. Amongst those cries was a group from the Netherlands who did not want to let...
Getting to Know: Architect, Derek Dellekamp
2 December 2010, 20:45
It doesn’t seem too long ago, but in February 2010 Mexico City architect Derek Dellekamp came to visit us at the office after his RDA Lecture. The buzz was in the air; I was working on a deadline and couldn’t join the rest…
Houston Barkitecture: BRAVE Completes Dog House
11 October 2010, 20:10
After a lot of hard work from our B/A design team and even more work by those that took on the actual construction, our dog house has been completed and will make its debut later this month. There were several...
