Nate Burgos's Blog, page 30
July 5, 2014
Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: Len Kendall’s adventure-game Cartegram
What are you working on—on the side?
Cartegram is a side project I dreamed up in the early summer during a session of “Product Dev Friday,” a weekly tradition that involves stepping away from the day-to-day work to create new forms of utility or entertainment. Cartegram is essentially a scavenger hunt that inspires people to explore their surroundings. It does involve using a smartphone (specifically Instagram) but most of the experience is very much an offline endeavor.
Right now, I’m in the m...
July 4, 2014
Tweeted June 2014: Food for thought
Tweet icon designed by Adame Dahmani from The Noun Project collection
“If more women are in leadership roles,
we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.”
—Sheryl Sandberg
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on June 30, 2014
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
—Nora Ephron
Tweeted by @AdviceToWriters on June 30, 2014
“The biological clock and the career clock
are in total conflict with each other.”
—Indra Nooyi
Tweeted by @aspenideas on June 30, 2014
“We need to get back to making ev...
July 2, 2014
Patronage Package 6 of Duly Discovered
Design
Graphic identity by Eddie Opara, Pentagram, for Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
“Giant Red Arrow” logo by Sole Lander
Films
Directed by Steve James, Produced by Kartemquin:
Documentary “Life Itself” about Roger Ebert
Illustrations
Father’s Day Cartoons by Cartoonists for New Yorker magazine
In Memoriam
“Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.”
Casey Kasem, DJ and Radio Personality, passed away at 82
#663399Becca with love and compassion to Eric A. Meyer and Family
Ru...
June 25, 2014
Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: Kim Knoll’s vintage-inspired jewelry line RFRM and Kyle Eertmoed’s handwriting service Handiemail
What are you working on—on the side?
Kim’s side project is called RFRM (pronounced Reform), where she makes jewelry with materials, mixed from the present and past.
Kim: I started making jewelry back in 2003, after moving to Arizona for a 3-year stint and looking for something fun to do outside of work. I took a wire-wrapping class at the local park district and was immediately hooked. I learned the basic techniques and branched off into my own style, making enough jewelry to sell at a monthly...
June 20, 2014
Faythe Levine and Sam Macon celebrate the American tradition of handcrafted signs in their documentary “Sign Painters”
Credit: Radar Studios
I enjoy taking pictures of signs found across America, particularly the handmade kind that endure over time. So I’m thrilled about the new documentary “Sign Painters” directed by Faythe Levine (above) and Sam Macon. Their film gives recognition to the pioneers and modern practitioners of hand-painted signs, which, as they put, is “a product of a fascinating 150 year-old American history.” Here, Levine shares her enthusiasm on making a movie that declares the relevanc...
June 16, 2014
Minimal to the max: Scott Wilson at 31st Chicago CreativeMornings
Photo by Nate Burgos. View More.
When CreativeMornings announced their monthly theme for June 2014 as Minimal, Scott Wilson, Creative Director and Founder of MINIMAL, was a clear choice(1) to speak at the Chicago chapter’s thirty-first gathering. Beyond the firm itself, through work on his Lunatik product line and projects with clients like the World Wildlife Fund and Nike, Wilson has epitomized this quality in both his personal work and professional studio.
The desire to mi...
June 12, 2014
Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: Nathalie Williams’ Knitting
What are you working on—on the side?
As a knitter, I’m usually working on my winter wardrobe and gifts for family members. This past year, I have been knitting store samples for my friend, who is a yarn rep for international yarn companies. She has stores throughout the Midwest that she visits and presents the next season’s yarns, knit-up in the latest patterns. The projects are, at times, challenging, and force me to learn new techniques. Since they are for the public, they have to be perfect...
June 11, 2014
Artist Vanessa German’s gift of love at Pittsburgh CreativeMornings #12
Kindred to a work of art, love is not a luxury, but rather a necessity. Vanessa German’s November 2013 talk at the 12th gathering of the Pittsburgh chapter of CreativeMornings was powered by the storied sensation and survival force of love. The CreativeMornings global theme, at the time, was Bravery. German boldly shared her commitment to the truly brave and artistic action of love through both her art and community-based initiatives.
For a feeling that can be dismissed as mysterious and charg...
June 9, 2014
Freedom to forge a unique educational path: The Experience Institute’s Victor Saad at Chicago CreativeMornings #30
Photograph by BarnRaise
Consultant and author, Marcia Conner(1), recently tweeted a provocative thought by Mark Twain: “Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” Through one lens, it’s provocative by pinpointing “formal education,” which is sometimes viewed as exhibiting the weathered patina of a learning experience that is buttoned-up, inflated, and flat. Through another, it’s provocative by sparking (from its 19th-century context) a modern call to uproot current approaches...
June 8, 2014
Pride, Work, and Necessity of Side Projects: Chris Maier’s Little Salon
What are you working on—on the side?
Little Salon is my latest side project. It grows out of a belief that the vitality of a community can be measured by that community’s homegrown creativity, the ways it engages and celebrates and spurs its collective imagination. And it grows out of a basic love of salons—the old, French kind, where people would get together, entertain each other, swap ideas, act a little crazy. Washington, DC, is ripe for this kind of thing. After decades of relegating so m...
