June 2008
“Some graphic designers don’t just pick colours and take orders for typefaces.”
– Chip Kidd
Anonymous: Where is she?
West: Simko's grasp on punctuality is as good as Paul's grasp on monogamy.
Hustle.
May 2008
“At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn’t...”
– David Sedaris
Twistori: Love. Hate. Think. Believe. Feel. Wish. →
Weeks later, I’m still enamored with this Twitter-based “social experiment”
Simko: I also didn't know that she moved...
Nebiar: Did she bring the UWO with her?
Simko: What?
Nebiar: Unidentified Walking Object (her boyfriend - I forgot his name)
Simko: Hahahahaha
“What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.”
– Don Williams, Jr.
Simko: Such as?
Jackson: I want to find more ways to use "Whoomp! There it is" in my daily dialogue
“It’s really about the transmutation of identity and the creation of hybrid...”
– Glenn Kaino
1 tag
Simko: Lilies
Jackson: according to lesbian dramas they mean "I dare you to love me"
My mother, while browsing the publications currently strewn across my coffee table, asked if there was any relationship between Wallpaper and Paper Magazine. Although there isn’t one, the question made me realize how much I would enjoy the result if they were combined…
“I don’t like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.”
– Karl Lagerfeld
Simko: Can I bring a harpoon?
Jackson: Definitely
1 tag
“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
– Walter Winchell
I did not go to the Hamptons today because I want to catch-up on work, see friends visiting from out of town, etc. I spent last weekend in Southampton and (although it was wonderful) have absolutely no desire to sit in traffic or rush to catch any form of public transportation again… yet.
Brand Timeline Portrait →
“This is something I always wanted to do, have a space for all types of people to...”
– Andrew W.K.
Simko: Patience is a (goddamn) virtue
Kalina: you're telling the guy who waited 6 years to make a movie
“Shit is the tofu of cursing.”
– David Sedaris
Simko: I just really want your (creative) child to do well
Bell: Thing is I'm breast feeding a crèche right now - odds are there'll be a couple of runts
“Your voicemail box is almost full…” This week is officially one big bag of design chaos. The good kind.
Delaycast : Flight Delay Predictions →
Some call it “a modern-day Nostradamus, stat junkie and horse-racing handicapper rolled into one” but I just call it helpful…
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for...”
– Herbert Bayard Swope
Jesse: I'm not the sharpest cookie in the box
Simko: Well, the good news is that cookies don't have to be sharp, just delicious...
FreeRice: Productive Procrastination →
For each correct answer 20 grains of rice are donated through the UN Word Food Program to help end hunger…
“Where you put your time and attention says a lot about who you are. It says a...”
– Merlin Mann
I just realized that I have attended four rounds of Fashion Week since moving to Manhattan. This probably explains why I am able to sift through swag bag content faster than a fat kid sorting Halloween candy…
“It’s not a joke. It’s a problem.”
– Robert Verdi