Solomon's Knot

Love the colors, fluidity and overall composition. Posted on Society6 by Gary Andrew Clarke, who if you haven't seen the work he has up, check it out. Great style, simple yet complex patterns and prints.

Mini Pad

Print execution in TIME Magazine for the iPad mini. Shared by a friend (Thanks D. Black), wanted to share and see the reaction. Personally, I like the simplicity and play against digital reading versus print. Of course using the actual size helps reinforce the product and protability. Overall, I like. Nice use of the actual cover too, keeping it timely.

SOURCE: TUAW

The Man Of Men

Prostate cancer is no joke amongst men... not what you thought this post was going to be about did you? Well, it is. More so, the new identity I came across (thanks to LogoDesignLove), including a video composition that showcases Prostate Cancer UK's new branding. I think it's an important topic rarely discussed, at least in the young culture that I'm a part of. Below is the new identity and the video. Take a look at their new webpage here.

“We have chosen our new identity to help us raise our voice, raise our game and reach more men. Urgently. Prostate cancer is predicted to become the most common cancer by 2030. Yet many men are unaware of the disease and research is still badly underfunded. We believe men deserve better. With our bold new identity and approach we will fight for this.” - Prostate Cancer UK

Bag It Up!

Designed by Stephen Pannone these redesigns help bring more personality to those delicious loaves   of freshly baked bread served out of those little shops off the streets of NYC. Just a couple shown below, but take a look at the link for all 8 displayed on The Dieline. 

Who Doesn't Love A Good Sand Castle?

Stumbled upon these beauties and had to share. As a kid, you try and make your own castles and the pure devastation that comes over you when a wave washes away your masterpiece is the end of the world. Crushed!

These are impressive, especially that these are made out of sand, yeah, sand. Full link to more photos below.

GEOMETRIC SAND CASTLES

Absolut Unique

Forgot to share this a while back so here we are...

Creating nearly 4 million unique bottles. Check out the video it's pretty rad, a huge undertaking as far as production and a cool art project if nothing else than unique packaging for a favorite spirit of many.

"The bottles will be individually numbered and distributed in 80 markets including the U.S., U.K., China, France and Germany. The unique designs incorporate 38 different colors and 51 pattern types."

Source: Creativity Online

Let's Get Ready To Rumble.

And let's do it at the Boxing Room.

Opened just over a year ago in 2011 – so it's been around for a bit – but I hadn't heard about it. Louisiana-influenced cuisine and housed in an old Standard Shirts Factory building in Hayes Valley it's a definite spot to check out. I can't tell you how much I loved this place. Killer food, great atmosphere and to top it off our server, Ross, was outstanding. I can't say enough about him. Especially coming from working in Hospitality for almost 10 years, I would hope that I know stellar service when I get it.

Some recos - Try the Boudin Balls, the Gumbo is fantastic, Brussel Sprouts Salad was flavorful and the Beignets for dessert are wicked. Oh, and my new favorite beer (because that's important too) is Snarling Badger from the Grand Teton Brewing Co.

Asian Art Museum

After years of always telling myself I would go and never doing it, I did it. An overcast Sunday morning, we pulled it together and headed downtown to explore the Asian Art Museum. It's fantastic! We spent hours exploring the pieces, reading up on history and learning things we never knew.

I wanted to share some of the pieces that I found particularly interesting and encourage everyone in San Francisco, or visiting, to go! If you have any interest, especially in the Asian cultures and heritage, history and well, art as a whole, you must. Also, to find out that the pieces on display are only one fifth of the museum's entire collection was astounding.

http://www.asianart.org/

It's Been A Minute...

But damnit, I will get back into posting here. With life picking up both professionally and personally it's not been the priority to post here but I miss it. So it's time to get back into the groove. First order of business is a new move to a new place in the beautiful city of San Francisco. Ok, well it's only 6 blocks from where I resided, but to have the space to finally do what I want with the interior is an artist's wet dream. It's happening, starting this weekend and then comes paint decisions, art projects and the inevitable "constructive conversations", that I will win with the bf. Just saying. Once some things come along in the new place I will post some pictures of the process and influence.

Until then, here's a piece I found by an artist named Eric Lopez (http://ericnine.com/). Based out of Atlanta. Love the yellow and black, and of course the elephant. Would ideally love to get this printed and framed for somewhere in the house.