2007 Winterhouse Writing Awards
Cool. They’ve been announced. With the readings this time! And the 2006 pieces have also finally been published. I’ve been waiting to read these forever.
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RISD's New President.
Announced today. It’s John Maeda, formerly of MIT.
How the iPhone was made...stressfully.
From a recent article in Wired Magazine:
For those working on the iPhone, the next three months would be the
most stressful of their careers. Screaming matches broke out routinely
in the hallways. Engineers, frazzled from all-night coding sessions,
quit, only to rejoin days later after catching up on their
Nike+, or how cool is this??
Before I left Seattle, I bought an iPod Nano so I could start using the Nike+ running system. I’ve only done two runs so far (here in DC, tout le monde cours! There are a lot of great running trails….) and I am loving my first experience with wearable
2008 AIGA Fellow Awards.
My first AIGA event in DC was at the Corcoran Gallery in honor of a freshly-minted AIGA Fellow, Antonio Alcalá:
The Fellow award program
is a means of recognizing mature designers who have made a significant
contribution to raising the standards of excellence in practice and
conduct within their local
Design aerobics.
originally uploaded by Neylano.
I’ve been up to MICA a few times since I’ve been here and every time I go, I come back feeling so inspired. Here is a photo of the water bottle you can buy on campus, emblazoned with their new identity.
I also ran
Mmmmmm, Camper.
Ummmmm, right. Like I need more shoes (those of you who know me well, you know what I’m talkin’ about). But there’s no harm in looking, right? I haven’t been to a Camper store lately (is there one in DC?? I sure as hell know where all
Cute in DC.
Since I moved to DC, I have been drinking Bot water from time to time. Why? Well, mainly because when I first saw the bottle on the shelf at Whole Foods in Tenleytown, it was so cute that it reminded me of my friend Chang-Ling. Her whole MFA thesis was
Performance load and my new watch.
This is my new watch. It’s a Nike Triax Mia. It’s a sports watch, but I bought it mainly because of the industrial design. I love the fluid, futuristic look (I can just see a design studio wall plastered with preliminary sketches – yummy!). I also love how it
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