FINDINGS I was talking to a friend who works at SOEX the other day and she mentioned about this project by The San Francisco Arts Commission. Artists and designers will be creating temporary art installations into 10 vacant storefront windows throughout the city. And of course, I find out that the nice peeps from MINE™ will be designing a window of their own. How fun!
BOOK The Design Director of the Obama campaign, Scott Thomas, has collaborated with artists and designers to create this book, Designing Obama. It’s a chronicle of the art from Obama’s historic campaign. They’re accepting pre-orders now.
ART HelloVon is a brilliant artist who does amazing pencil and graphite pieces. I’m really impressed with how his fine art pieces have a graphic design quality to them. He’s currently having a show in Los Angeles @ the Cerasoli Gallery.
GOLD STAR Noma Bar is an illustrator who’s capable of brilliantly using negative space. Kudos. I just got his newest book in the mail yesterday. I almost peed in my pants when I saw the cover. Do you see the coffin, dog, cat, AND mouse? I love how the spine of the book is also the dog collar. 
BOOKS Ed Fella’s book, Letters of America is filled with hundreds of his own Polariods documenting hand drawn signs seen while he travelled across America. Looks liked a beautiful book filled with lots of typographic inspiration.
GRAPHIC DESIGN Check out some pretty nice design work by Rita. Just got an email about their recent tshirt designs available at their online store.
EVENTS Just got CCA’s exhibitions & events program in the mail. There seems to be quite a lot of interesting events. I kinda want to go check out An Evening with David Sedaris. It’s on October 29th @ 8:00pm
FINDINGS While I was doing a little research on the idea of crowd-sourcing I came across this article at Fast Company. Apparently, the ad agency Cripsin Porter & Bogusky crowd-sourced a logo design for a motorcycle company, Brammo. It’s one thing if your crowd-sourcing for a logo if you’re not in the creative field…but it’s blasphemy if your crowd-sourcing and you consider yourself a “creative”. Don’t you think they’re devaluing what we do as designers? Maybe it’s all just a publicity stunt…but still!
