If Steve Nishimoto -- Nish, to the design community -- is as driven by change and culture as he claims, then today's inspiration must be in no meager supply. The designer just returned from his first trip abroad, where a…
Continue Reading →According to Chris Torres, there is a new dandyism. Perhaps born of his own creation, perhaps a child of necessity, his renewal of the term, like its predecessor, defines a gentleman. A particular type of gentleman, to be sure "“…
Continue Reading →About a week ago, we stumbled upon a 24 year-old graphic designer who goes by the moniker of 57 Even. Unlike a lot of other designers his age (or even those far past his age), 57 Even's work was demonstrating…
Continue Reading →Among my contemporaries, there seems to reside a belief that it is hard to make a good thing happen; good ideas exist by the bucketful, but the initiative to turn those ideas into something graspable exists in far smaller quantities.…
Continue Reading →Amit Gupta is an entrepreneur. If you read Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, or any other combination of America's best publications, your eyes have probably skimmed the same pages that some of Amit's more popular projects have graced.…
Continue Reading →Scott Rench (aka: Yosoh) has the kind of story we like to read about. An accidental designer and an unconventional artist, Scott fell into his current jobs in advertising and ceramics by chance, when a friend introduced him to a…
Continue Reading →We generally keep our SpearTalks participants under wraps until the day the interview is actually published, but we're so stoked to have Joshua Davis (ie: PrayStation creator, Apple Pro alum, Dreamless.org founder, Flash and Web-design deity) on board that we've…
Continue Reading →Federico Slivka Lederer is well-traveled and well-worded. He is a graphic designer (with whom you may be acquainted with, particularly if you've been to a little site called TreeHugger), an art director, and an interaction designer. He is also an…
Continue Reading →I'm going to take a little risk. It's a tame one; there's no jagged cliff or potential pregnancy involved, but it does involve a bit of assumption on my behalf. The thing is; I think you know about Threadless. I…
Continue Reading →Not too long ago, we told you about the design competition Cut&Paste, a timed tournament currently cruising through 11 international cities. Last week, Cut&Paste found its way to NYC, where eight local designers were pitted against one another in an…
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