OBJECTIFIED: I should have been an Industrial Designer
5 January 2009
From the guy who brought you the move about Helvetica comes a new movie about industrial design.
Seeing this trailer makes me rethink my decision to become a Graphic Designer. Maybe it goes back to the days of building with legos or maybe my love for building with wood. As much as I love Graphic design I can’t help but dream about designing chairs, watches, or even a car. I’m sure I could single handedly design the American auto industry out of their woes—Well, at least it’d be fun to try.
The Construction of an Eames Chair
12 December 2008
I know the molded Eames Chairs are no longer made out of fiberglass but this video is pretty interesting nonetheless. Showing design to shipping of those iconic Eames chairs. I really want to get my hands on one, two, or a whole dinner tables worth. Santa…
I am the Map King
11 October 2008
I am becoming quite good at building interactive maps with flash. This one features a list of House and Senate races by state and then a select few districts that are crucial to the client. The client needed a quick turn around so I wasn’t able to spend as much time in the design phase as I would have liked, but in the end it’s a lot of information to display and some pretty great web techs were used (AS3, XML, PHP and MySQL). View it here.