1. Kia Ora! →

    Sunday mornings are the best time for reading articles and posts, so perhaps you should mosey over to the TOKY blog and read a piece I wrote about some of my travel experience from last summer.

  2. My Matcha Bowl →

    I’ve been on a bit of a blog hiatus while I compile media from my summer journey to show off, but in the meantime, I’d appreciate it if you would check out this piece I wrote for the TOKY blog. (I even delve into a bit of stuff from my trip!)

  3. A bit of news (/bragging): my Plenty of Fish in the Sea poster from last semester won a Student Award in the AIGA St. Louis Design Show 2011. I’ve never won any sort of design award before, but I can now say that it’s very satisfying. Thanks to the judges, and congrats to my fellow Sam Fox student winners—Laura, Christine, and Megan (who doesn’t have an online portfolio as far as I know)—and to my coworkers at TOKY, who cleaned up this year.

    A bit of news (/bragging): my Plenty of Fish in the Sea poster from last semester won a Student Award in the AIGA St. Louis Design Show 2011. I’ve never won any sort of design award before, but I can now say that it’s very satisfying.

    Thanks to the judges, and congrats to my fellow Sam Fox student winners—Laura, Christine, and Megan (who doesn’t have an online portfolio as far as I know)—and to my coworkers at TOKY, who cleaned up this year.

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  7. Good news on this dreary Monday morning, as I’m finally allowed to announce this: good friend/killer illustrator (killustrator?) Noah MacMillan and I have been selected to collaborate on a print from the upcoming 2011 St. Louis edition of Artcrank. Among the other 29 contributors are numerous friends and role models: Dan Zettwoch, Amy Thompson of Paper Boat, former CDes-er Sam Washburn, Alexn Inhen of NextSTL, and of course, fellow TOKYs and friends Jamie Banks-George, Katy Fischer, and Kirsten O’Loughlin. What?! That’s not even half of the lineup. The show runs May 12th–14th at Atomic Cowboy, and supports the exceedingly wonderful St. Louis BicycleWORKS. You can bet you’ll hear from me again on this.

    Good news on this dreary Monday morning, as I’m finally allowed to announce this: good friend/killer illustrator (killustrator?) Noah MacMillan and I have been selected to collaborate on a print from the upcoming 2011 St. Louis edition of Artcrank. Among the other 29 contributors are numerous friends and role models: Dan Zettwoch, Amy Thompson of Paper Boat, former CDes-er Sam Washburn, Alexn Inhen of NextSTL, and of course, fellow TOKYs and friends Jamie Banks-George, Katy Fischer, and Kirsten O’Loughlin. What?! That’s not even half of the lineup.

    The show runs May 12th–14th at Atomic Cowboy, and supports the exceedingly wonderful St. Louis BicycleWORKS. You can bet you’ll hear from me again on this.

  8. I haven’t had a “wish I had thought of that” moment like this in a long time. via

    I haven’t had a “wish I had thought of that” moment like this in a long time.

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  9. Tibor listened patiently to my ideas — there were lots of them — and then paused for a long time. “Well, yes, you could do some stuff like that,” he responded carefullly. “Or, we could do something like this. You could work out a good clear grid. We could edit all the images really carefully. Then you could do a really nice clean layout, perfect pace, perfect sequence. You know,” he added with a smile, “sort of like a Vignelli book. And then we could fuck it up a little.

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    Michael Bierut

    Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mentor, Or, Why Modernist Designers Are Superior

  10. How Nike’s Visual Tricks Made Oregon Look Fast (Despite Defeat) →

    “We hear constantly from teams and quarterbacks that having a bit more visual acuity and contrast on the field makes things easier,” says Van Horn. The white jerseys and grey pants, combined with the green accents, allowed the players to stand out vividly against their Auburn opponents.

    Thanks to Phil Knight Nike, Oregon has new uni combos every game. If Nike designers actually take the opposing team’s colors into consideration for every matchup for maximum acuity, we could be witnessing the future of uniform design.

    Then again, Boise State’s blue turf is possibly the worst pairing for their uniforms in terms of contrast.

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