Yamazato is a traditional Japanese restaurant tucked on the ground floor of Amsterdam's Hotel Okura. Zagat readers gave their nod to the restaurant as being one of the best Japanese restaurants in the whole of Europe-- and being the Asian…
Continue Reading →I touched down in Amsterdam late Saturday afternoon, welcomed by torrential downpours and incredibly overcast skies-- just my luck! I used some of the evening catching up on emails in my hotel downtown before heading out to dinner at a…
Continue Reading →Finding a good typographer isn't easy. Finding a good animator with a sense of typography this good never even crossed my mind-- until now. This quick animation of the famous moment in Pulp Fiction when good ol' Samuel L. Jackon…
Continue Reading →Logology, the latest title from the folks at Victionary, was just announced. The 288 page leather-bound book is packed full of both case studies and literally dozens upon dozens of examples of breathtaking identity design solutions from graphic designers around…
Continue Reading →We're definitely seeing a clear trend towards more authentic feeling art and design related social networking sites-- (Humble Voice, Coroflot to name a few). Design:related is the newest on the block-- and its sleek design feels promising. While I don't…
Continue Reading →A late arrival in London last evening left me at myhotel (no pun intended) famished. I stumbled down the road to a gem of a restaurant called Patara. With locations in South Kensington, Knightsbridge, Oxford Circus and Soho, the self-proclaimed…
Continue Reading →Our good friend Motomichi is gearing up to introduce his very first toy ever-- a collaboration he did with toy connoisseur and producer Android8. As many of you know, Motomichi's characters are all two dimensional, so his challenge was to…
Continue Reading →I'm headed to London tomorrow for the week-- Although I anticipate having little free time, as usual if you have a tip for me to check out a shop, restaurant, club, art gallery or run an agency of some type…
Continue Reading →French artist Denis Darzacq's La Chute work is unnerving, unique and fascinating. My French is rusty so the only translation I could find explains his work as somewhere between the take off and the fall-- where the social elevator is…
Continue Reading →The guys at Trovota (that is, whoever is left there) are offering a 30% discount through what seems to be the end of February. An anonymous reader sent the code in claiming it was some type of discount "member" code--…
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