Make it better

Don’t quit. Everything will be better, because you can make it better. MAKE IT BETTER from Clim on Vimeo. I found this video on DesignPorn and just thought it was the bees knees. I have a soft spot in my heart for typography.

Mast Brothers Chocolate video

Igor sent me this video a few days ago and I thought it was really well done. While it’s not explicitly design, it kind of is because the filming is beautiful and so is the chocolate packaging. I hope you enjoy! Mast Brothers Chocolate from Brennan Stasiewicz on Vimeo.

Let’s make it quick

Watched// An American in Paris/Funny Girl/Sabrina/How to Train your Dragon/He’s Just Not that into You Will watch// Away We Go (tonight with Laura!)/Megamind/Meet me in St. Louis/Art & Copy Read// The Cheese Monkeys [Chip Kidd]/Blindness [José Saramago] Reading// The Old Curiosity Shop [Charles Dickens]/The Omnivore’s Dilemma[Michael Pollan] Next// Half Broke Horses [Jeanette Walls]   PLANS:…

It’s not “goodbye”

….it’s “until we meet again.” So all last week I was actually in Laramie and had scheduled those posts in advance. I’m tricky like that. But before I talk about that, first: your Monday movie, which I didn’t get to post because I was on the road yesterday. By the way, the drive was the…

For the graduates…

This song always makes me think of new stages of life. Who will I know, meet, talk to? Where will I be? What will I be doing? What will you be doing? Isn’t it all exciting?! My friend Katie always likes to remind me “A year ago, we didn’t even know each other. Can you…

Oh goodness, here we go

Alright, have I been the worst blogger? Yes, and I’m sorry. But graduating, packing, cleaning, and saying good-byes is a bit more time consuming than I would have imagined. Let’s see if I can play a little catch up: 02 | PASSED MY THESIS DEFENSE (and revisions!) and presented my research at UW Undergraduate Research…

Remember summer times?

Although this was not the official World Cup 2010 song, it should have been. Shakaria? Really? Alas, it was the Coca-Cola World Cup song. K’naan is a hip-hop artist (maybe rap too? I’m not good at distinguishing). Although I don’t generally don’t like rap, I do like K’naan. His music tells a story, his story.…

Happy Valentine’s Day!

In my writing for public forums class, we learned that the most successful blogs have consistent posts on certain days at a consistent time of day. That’s not you guys right? You don’t care about stuff like “regularity” and “comfort” do you? You want excitement! You want posts at 9pm! Anyway…sorry, no cute looking graphic…