Week 2: with-a-k - It's all about the taco

If you’re a Californian living in New York you’ll understand the reasoning for the illustration above. Lately, my longing for good Mexican cuisine has me frantically searching for the best taco in town. Unfortunately, this quest has yet to uncover any savory spots. In the meantime, making illustrations of food I fantasize over is good therapy. Thanks for caring.

Week 2: becca - Arron Siskind

“If you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before.”
- Aaron Siskind

Photography for me has always been something I just did. I can’t recall how many times I got in trouble as a child for stealing my fathers SLR. Taking what, to him, seemed like ludicrous photos of peeling paint or cracks in the pavement. However, it wasn’t until I discovered the work of Aaron Siskind that I realized how powerful and provocative these abstract images could actually be.

From the Phaidon 55 book on Siskind:
“Aaron Siskind’s towering presence in the landscape of twentieth-century American photography rises from two foundations of accomplishment and influence – his art and his teaching. Beginning in the early 1930s and continuing until his death at eighty-seven in 1991, his copious production of varied and highly creative images created a legacy of original vision which eventually obliterated whatever line might still have seemed to segregate photography and painting in the 1940s and 1950s… Siskind’s manner of zooming in on visual details and fragments in ways that explored gesture and shape but that had little to do with the nominal subject matter in front of the camera clearly made him a brother in the family of
Abstract Expressionism.”

Week 2: jeremy - hi/low

Cyclist Michael Rasmussen was my hero. Yesterday he was kicked out of the Tour for doping. From childhood I have always loved the red polka-dot jersey awarded to the best mountain climber of the Tour de France - Luis Hererra, Stephen Roche and for the last 2 years Michael Rasmussen. So while I'm in the market for a barely legal 14 lbs racing bike, and 'gutted' over the betrayal by my hero, I also captured an image of perhaps the earliest and most purely exciting type of bicycle riding - sitting on the cross bar of an older siblings beater. Hi design or low design - enjoy the
ride, and don't cheat.

Week 1: jeremy - thoughtless acts

Thoughtless Acts? By Jane Fulton Suri + IDEO. In our business 'innovation' is an enormous buzz word right now. It is seen as "critical" for business growth. And so we spend a lot of time behind closed doors in 'think-tanks' and 'deep dives' with highly respected industry experts discussing the 'future' of this, or 'huge opportunities' in that. This diminutive book humbly suggests that clues, if not answers are in plain sight - in the "subtle way we adapt, exploit and react to things in our environment; things we
do without thinking."

Week 1: with-a-k - Geoff Mcfetridge

Geoff Mcfetridge, at it again with a new body of stunning graphic work at the MU Gallery in Eindohven, Netherlands. Here is an interview, with a peek at the show “Bend the Void, The space between Yeah and Yes”. If you happen to be in the Netherlands see it before it closes August 5th or cross your fingers it finds a way to the States.

More information on MU Gallery and the show can be found here.

Week 1: becca - old business cards

For the first week, I chose to bring in a collection of old business cards I found when cleaning out my parents garage. The earliest date I can put to them is 1875. I have been working to archive them on flickr, and hope to soon have some spin of projects from them.