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Design

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    New Seahawks Jerseys and Logo Coming Tuesday

    Local sports fans are filled with mixed emotions. On one hand, the unveiling of the new Seahawks uniforms Tuesday in New York is something worth getting excited about; chances are whatever happens will be way less nauseating than those lime green atrocities from a few years back. On the other hand, ... More >>

  • Arts

    February 15, 2012

    The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

    Local sports fans are filled with mixed emotions. On one hand, the unveiling of the new Seahawks uniforms Tuesday in New York is something worth getting excited about; chances are whatever happens will be way less nauseating than those lime green atrocities from a few years back. On the other hand, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 8, 2012

    Jean François Porchez

    Local sports fans are filled with mixed emotions. On one hand, the unveiling of the new Seahawks uniforms Tuesday in New York is something worth getting excited about; chances are whatever happens will be way less nauseating than those lime green atrocities from a few years back. On the other hand, ... More >>

  • Film

    January 11, 2012

    How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?: The British Starchitect Follows the Money

    Local sports fans are filled with mixed emotions. On one hand, the unveiling of the new Seahawks uniforms Tuesday in New York is something worth getting excited about; chances are whatever happens will be way less nauseating than those lime green atrocities from a few years back. On the other hand, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Starbucks' New Logo Marks Company Ownership of Your Brain

    ​Starbucks unveiled its new logo today, and the design marks a milestone in corporate brainwashing.

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2010

    Kelly Mark

    ​Starbucks unveiled its new logo today, and the design marks a milestone in corporate brainwashing.

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Steve Jobs Is Using Bill Gates' Old Architect to Build His New House

    ​Steve Jobs' new home is being designed and built by the same architecture firm behind Bill Gates' Medina mansion. The creator of the iPod's modest-for-a-billionaire, 5,000-square-foot California house is reportedly "efficient," "economical" and lacking in "garish bells and whistles." Meanwhil ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 4, 2010

    11/100

    ​Steve Jobs' new home is being designed and built by the same architecture firm behind Bill Gates' Medina mansion. The creator of the iPod's modest-for-a-billionaire, 5,000-square-foot California house is reportedly "efficient," "economical" and lacking in "garish bells and whistles." Meanwhil ... More >>

  • Music

    August 4, 2010

    Q&A: Jeff Kleinsmith

    Sub Pop's art director talks about graphic design in the age of iTunes and Contra.

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Sub Pop's Art Director On VW's Contra, 8-Way Santa, and Posters With Free Albums

    Patent Pending Industries​In the 11 years that longtime Sub Pop art director Jeff Kleinsmith and partner and former Sub Popper Jesse LeDoux have been operating their rock poster company, Patent Pending Industries, a thing or two has changed about the music business. Albums are increasingly tr ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2010

    The 'Shoot Relents

    One Reel calls off a Bumbershoot competition that pissed off the design community.

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Bumbershoot Abandons Logo Competition That Pissed Off Local Designers

    The festival's 2010 logo, by Chelsea Conboy. ​As Chris reported last week, Bumbershoot managed to get the local graphic design community up in arms with its plans for an open, on-spec competition to create a new permanent logo for the festival. The prize for the winner: a festival pass, and ... More >>

  • News

    May 26, 2010

    Bumbershoot's Design Flaw

    Graphic artists are up in arms over a call for work on spec.

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Seattle's Best Coffee's New Logo Reminds You It's Time to Give Blood

    Mmmm, plasma-ey.​The Starbucks-owned, second-largest roaster in the U.S. just introduced a new logo. It's basically what you'd get if you combined Target with the Red Cross. Which is the opposite of appetizing, unless you're a vampire in the market for cheap floor lamps.

  • Arts

    February 17, 2010

    Spring Arts: Sound Shopper

    Rob Witmer creates the audio scenery for theaters all over town.

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2010

    Visual Acoustics

    Rob Witmer creates the audio scenery for theaters all over town.

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    Pontiac Silverdome Sold for $583,000: Here's the House the New Owners Could Have Bought

    If only they'd thrown in the football team too they might have made it a cool million.​At an auction on Monday, the Pontiac Silverdome, the former home of the NFL's Detroit Lions, was sold to a Canadian developer for $583,000. Roughly half of what a New Jersey couple recently paid for the one- ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 16, 2009

    Michelle de la Vega

    If only they'd thrown in the football team too they might have made it a cool million.​At an auction on Monday, the Pontiac Silverdome, the former home of the NFL's Detroit Lions, was sold to a Canadian developer for $583,000. Roughly half of what a New Jersey couple recently paid for the one- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Keepin' Up With the Beaux Artsers; Cast Your Ballot Today!

    www.beauxarts-wa.gov​As of 8 p.m. last night, 17.37 percent of King County voters had turned in their ballots. Beaux Arts Village is an incorporated town just across the bridge between Mercer Island and Bellevue. The median household income in the town of 300 was $96,000 in the 2000 Census. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    So Long, Blank Space.

    ​Pioneer Square art gallery and graphic design studio Blank Space will close its doors this weekend, just three years after its inception. "What we want to do has evolved," co-owner Mindi Davis says. "We'll continue to do graphic design, but the public gallery will no longer exist. We may get ... More >>

  • Film

    April 1, 2009

    Tokyo!: Three Directors Divide the City

    ​Pioneer Square art gallery and graphic design studio Blank Space will close its doors this weekend, just three years after its inception. "What we want to do has evolved," co-owner Mindi Davis says. "We'll continue to do graphic design, but the public gallery will no longer exist. We may get ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 4, 2009

    ByDesign 09

    ​Pioneer Square art gallery and graphic design studio Blank Space will close its doors this weekend, just three years after its inception. "What we want to do has evolved," co-owner Mindi Davis says. "We'll continue to do graphic design, but the public gallery will no longer exist. We may get ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 24, 2008

    Fountain of Wisdom

    ​Pioneer Square art gallery and graphic design studio Blank Space will close its doors this weekend, just three years after its inception. "What we want to do has evolved," co-owner Mindi Davis says. "We'll continue to do graphic design, but the public gallery will no longer exist. We may get ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    Spalding Benefit Concert Announced

    I knew that there was a lot of discussion in the music community after local artist John Spalding passed away a couple of weeks ago about organizing benefit concerts to help his widow and family cope with the financial burden that goes along with someone dying of cancer. Unsurprisingly, his talented ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 3, 2008

    Helvetica

    I knew that there was a lot of discussion in the music community after local artist John Spalding passed away a couple of weeks ago about organizing benefit concerts to help his widow and family cope with the financial burden that goes along with someone dying of cancer. Unsurprisingly, his talented ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2008

    Rawstock

    I knew that there was a lot of discussion in the music community after local artist John Spalding passed away a couple of weeks ago about organizing benefit concerts to help his widow and family cope with the financial burden that goes along with someone dying of cancer. Unsurprisingly, his talented ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2008

    The Impulse! Club

    I knew that there was a lot of discussion in the music community after local artist John Spalding passed away a couple of weeks ago about organizing benefit concerts to help his widow and family cope with the financial burden that goes along with someone dying of cancer. Unsurprisingly, his talented ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2007

    More On Seattle's Big, Bold Central Library

    I knew that there was a lot of discussion in the music community after local artist John Spalding passed away a couple of weeks ago about organizing benefit concerts to help his widow and family cope with the financial burden that goes along with someone dying of cancer. Unsurprisingly, his talented ... More >>

  • Music

    August 29, 2007

    Nat Damm: Drummer, Booker, Creator of Fine Poster Art

    I knew that there was a lot of discussion in the music community after local artist John Spalding passed away a couple of weeks ago about organizing benefit concerts to help his widow and family cope with the financial burden that goes along with someone dying of cancer. Unsurprisingly, his talented ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 29, 2007

    Font of Wisdom

    The brain behind the titles

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2007

    Urban Design Conscious?

    The brain behind the titles

  • Music

    August 15, 2007

    Fischer Juggles Gigs Between OKOK and Damien Jurado

    They pay the bills, so he can get his art done.

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2007

    Interpol Might Want to Watch Out for Their Namesake, Too

    They pay the bills, so he can get his art done.

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2007

    Need a job?

    They pay the bills, so he can get his art done.

  • Arts

    April 4, 2007

    Taking Book Design to the Streets

    They pay the bills, so he can get his art done.

  • Arts

    February 7, 2007

    What Part of 'Spatial Inquiry' Don't You Understand?

    Lead Pencil Studio will confound and illuminate at Lawrimore.

  • Arts

    May 24, 2006

    Visual Arts Pick

    Lead Pencil Studio will confound and illuminate at Lawrimore.

  • Diversions

    July 6, 2005

    Open House

    What's inside? What's outside? This landscape architect doesn't want you to know the difference.

  • Arts

    July 28, 2004

    Visual Arts Calendar

    What's inside? What's outside? This landscape architect doesn't want you to know the difference.

  • News

    March 24, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    What's inside? What's outside? This landscape architect doesn't want you to know the difference.

  • Arts

    March 17, 2004

    Visual Arts Picks

    What's inside? What's outside? This landscape architect doesn't want you to know the difference.

  • Music

    January 28, 2004

    Parallel Lines

    Documentary director goes looking for his dead father, creates self-portrait in the process.

  • Arts

    June 6, 2001

    American Scheme

    Documentary director goes looking for his dead father, creates self-portrait in the process.

  • Arts

    May 16, 2001

    The art of revival

    Appropriating the past with designer Art Chantry.

  • News

    April 5, 2000

    Art smart

    A local "design troupe" lends a touch of fine art to interior household projects.

  • News

    October 6, 1999

    An Extra-Tall Skinny, Please

    In search of higher-density housing options, architects are creating taller, thinner homes in Seattle and the 'burbs.

  • News

    October 6, 1999

    The Landscape of Dead White Males

    Some say Olmsted's Seattle park designs improved God's handiwork. Now it's time to improve on Olmsted's.

  • News

    March 10, 1999

    Prickly Holly

    Activists charge conflict of interest in the most expensive public housing project in Seattle's history.

  • News

    February 3, 1999

    Function over form

    Activists charge conflict of interest in the most expensive public housing project in Seattle's history.

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