Nate Burgos's Blog, page 26
December 2, 2014
Patronage Package 11 of Duly Discovered
Apps
“50 Apps to Manage and Grow Your Etsy Business”
by Matt Mansfield
Books
“STAR STUFF: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos”
by Stephanie Roth Sisson
“In ‘Redeployment,’ Former Marine Explores The Challenges of Coming Home by Phil Klay”
by Fresh Air
“Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People”
by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
“Good Food, Great Business”
by Susie Wyshak
“Madeline, the Everygirl who never grows old”
by Faith Salie
“Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”
by Bill Nye
“P...
November 21, 2014
Typefaces designed to enable communication: Nicole Dotin of Process Type Foundry
Elena—the typeface (above)—captured my attention. It was designed by Nicole Dotin, co-founder and partner of Process Type Foundry in Golden Valley, Minnesota. With her husband, Eric Olson, their studio originated on this intent: to make typefaces they desire to use, hoping others would too. Here, Nicole gives her opinions on making typefaces.
On being a typeface designer:
How did you arrive at what you do as a typeface designer?
Was there an initial encounter of typography that played...
November 18, 2014
Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: Sophia Richter’s Hello New York
What are you working on—on the side?
Hello New York is an explorer’s guide to a New York less traveled.
New York fascinates me for many reasons, but largely because it is all at once so many things to so many people. The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Manhattan are each home to an infinite number of unique worlds of peoples, cultures, and treasures that not only coexist, but thrive because of each other.
Hello New York is a project to celebrate some of this diversity of people and p...
November 5, 2014
Crossover of possibility: Neal Sales-Griffin at 34th CreativeMornings in Chicago
One person. Many roles. Neal Sales-Griffin shared his diverse, intersecting fields of interest in his talk at the 34th gathering of the Chicago-CreativeMornings community, whose October theme was “Crossover.” Griffin’s personal experience spans a number of areas: video games, music, investment banking, venture capital, and consulting. In his life, Neal has crossed over into many disciplines, having their distinct language and tools.
One of his significant crossovers was diving into software de...
November 3, 2014
Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: Bethany Betzler of the Artifact Makers Society
What are you working on—on the side?
Artifact Makers Society is a project I created to promote quality craftwork and contemporary design of local origin. We do this online through our site and in real-life through retail partnerships, gallery exhibits, and studio visits. We also connect retailers, gallery owners, collectors, and architects/designers directly to the makers we represent, in order to help them find the best of what is made locally. Our focus is on consumer goods for the home and...
November 2, 2014
Tweeted October 2014: Food for thought
Tweet icon designed by Adame Dahmani from The Noun Project collection
“The only thing I love more than building my own ideas
is helping beginners learn how to build theirs”
—Raghu Betina
Tweeted by @starterleague on October 31, 2014
“If we don’t expect more from each other, hope better for one another, and recover from hurt, we are surely doomed.”
—Mrs. Jennings
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on October 30, 2014
“Anyone else starting to get the feeling Steve Jobs did OK
choosing his successor?”
—John Gruber
Tweet...
November 1, 2014
Patronage Package 10 of Duly Discovered
Apps
Inbox by Google
Books
“Ways to Connect: On Interface & Product Design”
by Ryan Singer and William Channer
“The Mountain” by Melissa Reinbold
“Gutenberg’s Apprentice” by Alixe Christie
“I’d Rather Be Short” by Becky Murphy
Design
“Narwhal letterpress art print” by Kristen Dake
“Garamond” monograph by Kirsten Green
Card Party by Andrew Ashton
“Advice to sink in slowly” posters founded by John Stanbury
Illustration
“Space Shuttle” by Lynette Sage
“Power Lady Posse” by Becky Murphy
Music
Hallow...
October 31, 2014
New designers guided at the Hike Conference
In October, 2014, a time machine landed in Chicago. Distinguished members of the design community spoke to the new generation of creators—designers, illustrators, coders, and strategists. Representing different design disciplines, these 15 speakers shared their viewpoints, marked by “moving forward through the rearview mirror”(1), at the Hike Conference for new designers. They reflected on their current state, informed by the precedence of experiences since their graduation from design school...
October 30, 2014
Cusp Conference 2014: Turbulence tamed
October 22 and 23, 2014: Mike Ivers, of the Yuma Community Food Bank, opened the seventh Cusp Conference at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art with this charge: “Turn turbulence into triumph.” It inspires resilience in the face of current events. Its meaning, from one relative state into another, coheres with these themes that I found to flow among the event’s speakers.
Origins
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins said, “There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of re...
October 24, 2014
The Rainbow Connection at The First CreativeMornings Summit of 2014
Source: CreativeMornings/New York (@NewYork_CM)
In 2008, Swissmiss, aka Tina Roth Eisenberg, established CreativeMornings, a breakfast lecture series for the creative community. What started with one chapter in Brooklyn, New York, now includes 99 CreativeMornings chapters around the world. On October 2nd and 3rd, CreativeMornings held its First Summit where chapter organizers and their volunteer teams—175 folks with creative hearts and minds—traveled to where CreativeMornings originated and me...
