December 9, 2011 | New Design | by Daniel Eckler |
In an effort to maintain high creative standards, part of my company is a boutique in-house design agency I co-head with Glenn Michael called Moxy Creative. He recently released this beautiful illustrated series, called Touristique, examining urban architecture around the world. We produce prints of all the work we do, and one of the favorite parts of my job is seeing the spaces people hang them in all around the world.
December 8, 2011 | Cool Websites | by Daniel Eckler |
Websites like Tumblr, Pinterest, and Piccsy (shameless plug) are changing the way people relate to images by making everyone a curator of their own aesthetic corner of the web. This is a great form of new media that’s going to go through major growth – both in regards to adoption and technology – in coming years. Pantonism is a great example of what can be done with this technology, and combines my love of fashion, technology, and the arts seamlessly.
December 8, 2011 | New Photography | by Daniel Eckler |
Being as busy as I am, I often let current events and hard news fall to periphery of my day-to-day focus. Also, being a highly visual person means that I like to interpret information in that form. Buzzfeed’s Most Powerful Photos of 2011 is an awe-inspiring collection of images that span all news categories and something I really responded to. Read more
December 8, 2011 | Cool Websites | by Daniel Eckler |
I’m a huge strategy/product/UI/web nerd and believe that a core element of great design is an ability to improve peoples’ everyday lives. Little Big Details is my favorite UI site. Pictured here is a feature that Google Doodles you a happy birthday based on your Google+ settings. Regardless of its current/future success, watching Google+ roll-out and integrate with other Google Products this year has been a lot of fun.
December 8, 2011 | Video | 
by Daniel Eckler |
Admittedly, I’m a bit late — eons in internet time — on this video by Olivier de Sagazan released in 2008. Still, even if you’ve seen it, it’s worth revisiting. Along with Drive, this is easily one the best films I’ve seen in 2011. Poignantly haunting, disturbing and yet still managing to be unequivocally beautiful.
December 8, 2011 | New Trends | by Daniel Eckler |
Like most people that live in urban centers, I’m fascinated with the relationship between person and place, which means I like to keep updated on urban planning and infrastructure. I commute by bicycle and have long felt it is one of the best ways to experience a city, not to mention the environmental, health and traffic benefits. Read more
Jessica Serran’s whispy, whimsical drawings and paintings combine text and poetry with strange, bulbous, hallucinatory shapes and figures. Her doodle-like work looks deceptively crude, but the subtly expressive images she makes reveal a deliberate hand that reserves control for a foreshortened face or a delicately shaded gradient.
I can’t remember an alcoholic character on Star Trek, but maybe I’m just not nerdy enough. This flask is pretty rad though, perfect for the rowdy, surly ones at the convention.
The Hatton hotel epitomises Melbourne cool. Those who value design, location, and luxury will find The Hatton the perfect Melbourne base. Read more
I’ve seen a lot of strange things on the Internet, but this Tumblr just baffles me. It’s called Animals with Casts, and it’s exactly what it sounds like. Picture after picture of different animals wearing casts. Read more
So much of the Baltimore scene seems geared towards day-glo-clad party people, so it’s nice that introspective, country-tinged folk is also well represented here in the form of Noble Lake, a Wye Oak-related project fronted by James Sarsgaard, who I hope won’t mind me calling the second coming of Townes Van Zandt.
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Chuck Wepner, Clara Rockmore, Abe Lincoln. These peeps and more are worthy of a t-shirt. Pretty Patti also sells modern postcards of vintage family members.
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We often ask ourselves the same thing, and now so can too with this hot new shirt from Urban Cricket. Available as both a men’s crew and a women’s v neck, so everyone can rock the Queen of Country with style. The Dolly tee and v neck are new additions to the Lost At E Minor online store.
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