Callie Neylan

Callie Neylan

📍 Seattle, Washington

It's the white space, stupid!

Or, how bad typography made me miss my goddamn flight. So, last week was Thanksgiving and on Thanksgiving Day, I took a flight to Seattle. As you can see from this itinerary (sent by Expedia and viewed in my Mobile Me account), I was scheduled to arrive in Seattle at

Ticks.

So, yeah. This is the work of Martin Arnold. I want to do more experimental film and I really like how he architects time. To see how I felt last week with all the news of layoffs, watch Arnold’s Passage à l’acte. It’ll make you twitch like

Was Zum Teufel?!

WTF?! I never knew that Brad Pitt owned a Weimaraner! He has impeccable taste in dogs. This magnificent photo is from a spread in Rolling Stone.

Weightless tub chair.

So, I am starting to look at furniture for our new house (being as optimistic as possible about Will's job situation). One site that I've found that has really cool stuff is Apartment Therapy. I get the newsletter at work and just found this smashing chair

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originally uploaded by Neylano.

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originally uploaded by arvind k. A new contact on Flickr, arvind k. Me likey.

Good typography matters.

Lately, in my work at NPR, I have become more aware than ever how important good typography is. My main project right now is as lead designer on NPR.org's redesign, which will go live sometime in 2009. Luckily, I have inherited a beautiful typographic and grid structure

zibetto.

originally uploaded by Neylano. Not that I've tried that many yet, but this is my fave espresso place in Manhattan. And Will, the tall, skinny, European-looking guy whose body cannot tolerate caffeine, is standing in front of it.

But does a depression love the design?

"The pain of layoffs notwithstanding, the design world could stand to come down a notch or two — and might actually find a new sense of relevance in the process. That was the case duringthe Great Depression, when an early wave of modernism flourished in the United States, partly because

For the laid-off designer.

Luckily, my job has not yet been affected by this nightmare that is our current economy; I count myself very fortunate to be among the still-employed (knock on wood, or fake wood stickers, as the case may be). But for those of you who have been shit-canned, here’s something