FILMS The September Issue is a documentary about the legendary Vogue editor, Anna Wintour. It’s basically The Devil Wears Prada of real life. The film is now showing in various cities worldwide. I’m hoping to check it out this weekend.
Public glass
EVENTS Public Glass is a great nonprofit organization that was created to meet the needs of Bay Area artists working in hot glass, specifically glass blowing and casting by providing them with a great facility and gallery space. They will be holding their annual Hot Glass & Cold Beer, tomorrow 9/12 from 6-10 PM. You can tour the space, drink some beer, and watch featured artist Ferdinand Thierot sculpt glass. I took a beginners class at Public Glass and this was the ugly paper weight I made. I now have a new found respect for glass paperweights. They’re so hard to make!
Graphic hug
Georgia O’keeffe
www.mylifetime.comwww.okeeffemuseum.org
FILMS I’m familiar with O’Keeffe’s paintings. However, I really don’t know much about her as a person…only that she lived to age 99!! Lifetime will be featuring a movie about her life September 19th at 9pm. Should be interesting. Conveniently, the SFMOMA is having an O’Keeffee exhibit.
Kleber Design
WEBSITE Check out the awesome web design portfolio of Kleber Design. I really enjoy how they treat a web project just like how they would treat any print project. The websites are well organized, user friendly, have strong hierarchy, have a well developed grid system, and of course are really lovely to look at.
Clair de lune
FINDINGS Here’s a beautiful deleted scene from Walt Disney’s Fantasia. This is one of my favorite classical music pieces by Claude Debussy. This popular piece of music was written in the 1890s and still continues to pop up in movie scores today…Twilight, Oceans 13, Atonement just to name a few.
Break time
FINDINGS I have horrible posture and being at the computer literally 24/7 doesn’t help my back. I was searching online to see if there were any widgets that could remind me take a break ever so often. I found a few. I’m currently trying the RSIguard.
Bape stores
STORES Bathing Ape has some pretty intense store designs. The picture shown here is from the Bathing Ape Pirate Store in Japan. I kinda like the graphic on the floor.
Jennifer Daniel
Avant Garde Preschool
FINDINGS The Avant Garde Preschool sponsored by Partners & Spade is a workshop that encourages children to make their own mark by drawing with Karen Kimmel’s nature inspired stencils. The workshop focuses on the discovery and integration of abstract thinking and promotes the exploration of color, share, and form. I’m loving the logo mark, too!