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For those of you in San Francisco, I highly recommend checking out the Modern Ecomony Sample Sale at Fort Mason on May 2nd. The sale is organized by Mateo Ilasco and will feature over 40 great designers including Jill Bliss, Petit Collage, Perch! and Variegated, Inc. For those of you who aren’t in San Francisco, it looks like Modern Economy will be having a 48-hour online sale beginning September 9th.  Leave a comment Tags: jill bliss, mateo ilasco, modern economy, perch!, petit collage, san francisco, shopping, Variegated Inc | Category: Things we want Do you love gardening as much as I do, but live in a city, therefore, do not have a backyard? Well, let’s solve that problem by getting tips by local gardening expert Flora Grubb! Flora will be speaking/offering tips for gardening in small, urban dwellings at the Design Within Reach on Fillmore Street in San Francisco (Thursday, April 16th, from 6-8pm). To rsvp, and get more information about this event, visit the Design Within Reach site.
One comment Tags: Design Within Reach, Flora Grubb, gardens, san francisco | Category: Things, Things we like Part of my commute every day is on Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). I’m lucky in that I’m commuting from south of downtown San Francisco to Millbrae: against the tide; I never have a problem getting a bench to myself. Sometime around January, something caught my eye on the platform. It was a great big bird.
Wow. There are a lot of things that these say to me. After the jump. These are the works of Berkeley artist Mick Wiggins. If you’d like to read his statement or other outsisde context before my observations, feel free. I only came upon this context after writing this. 2 comments Tags: Art, bart, mick wiggins, Poster, san francisco | Category: Art, Things in the world My view of the paper in its vending bin Thursday morning.
My thoughts went sort of as follows: 2) Or am I looking at it the wrong way, this isn’t about the demise of print media but about more innovative advertising strategies? I can’t remember the last time I’ve paid attention to an advertisement in a newspaper (I just read Seth Godin make a good point about this, that they’re invisible), and this one turned my head from 5 yards mostly by virtue of its nontraditional placement. 3) The ad covers the news as if to say, this is the cover story of the day. The grafitti tag covers the whole thing with the (possibly unintentional) message of No, I am the story. 4) Ooh, Paul Smith store! Leave a comment Tags: Advertising, Newspaper, Paul Smith, san francisco | Category: Things in the world, Things we've seen
Artist Michael Bartalos has teamed up with the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco for a special project that brings together two of my favorite things: science and art. His current project is an ongoing piece called The Long View, wherein he will create sculptures using recyclable goods found in Antarctica. He’ll document his progress on the Academy of Sciences blog, as well as on his own website. I, as a lover of found-object art with a purpose, am excited to see something that promotes sustainability awareness with flair. One comment Tags: academy of sciences, Antarctica, Art, conservation, michael bartalos, recycled, san francisco, sustainability | Category: Art, Speak up scientist!
On Fridays, we thought it would be fun to feature something relating to typography. Today’s “Font-y Friday” is the Muni logo. It was designed by Walter Landor in the mid-seventies and is still in use. Aside from liking it formally, I also think it is great that they haven’t felt it necessary to modernize it with gradients or something.  |
 
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