D.C. in White

Audience

This video is a summary of pretty much everything I’ve been into for the past two months.

Extraordinary Joe

This is the second part in a series of beautiful videos on coffee making at Intelligentsia in Venice, California. Video by the Dept. of the Fourth Dimension.

The way everything is kept black & white except for the coffee is incredibly charming.

Thanks to Dan Cederholm for highlighting the first video in this series over at SimpleBits.

Two Thousand Ten

Aina is the Hawaiian word for land and for me 2010 is a year of reconnecting to the earth. In 2009, we experienced a year filled with financial problems, political tensions and fear in the media… As a forest sometimes burns, new life regrows in its place. While we may have had a year of burning I feel like the soil we have to grow out of is fertile and full of growth.

-Mark Boulton

At least I think Mark Boulton wrote that on Colourlovers. I can’t seem to find it  now, but I scribbled it on some paper and I like it more and more each day. I believe the quote was in reference to the color he chose as the color of 2010. Apparently, Pantone decided it’s turquoise.

Where Print & Interactive Collide

Patagonia decided to scrap their printed catalog and instead debuted an entirely online catalog yesterday. They’re certainly not the first company to do this. But it re-ignited a conversation I’ve been running in my head about the possibilities that interactivity bring to works that would traditionally be print-only. From the Kindle to the iPod to traditional browsers, the way that we tell a story or sell a product should never be the same.

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