SOS (save our sandwich!) My hometown of New Orleans will be holding a festival like only New Orleans can do it (no offense to Primanti’s) - the Po-Boy Preservation Festival on 23 November of 2008. If you like a good sandwich, jut on over to the official site cos honey, nobody does food like Na’awlins (po-boys, mufalattas, gumbo! getting hungry…) and also take a look at the artwork featured (we like Brian Bush’s carnival sculpture). 

I worked for a short time at a call centre where I had a cubicle shared with everyone else in the business. Since we moved every few weeks to another part of the building, I never did much in the way of decorating my cube, though my coworkers amassed tons of desktop decor and just picked up and moved house every so often.  Calibre Furniture has some awesome examples of those who must live at their cubicles (and some you have to wonder about).

I remember struggling with the pen tool in Illustrator tracing circles and cirlyques in college and thinking how clunky it was sowhen I saw this video of Sketchpad, I wondered just what the heck Adobe was doing- this is from 1968!

Organic tendrils and underwater-like scenes make up the paintings of Katy Stone and Yvette Molina whose work is being shown at Johansson Projects in Oakland, CA. The multiple-layer paintings are not just ethereal, they sport a sort of nostalgic quality of the full forests and quiet moments of bygone days before deforestation. Tickling Thicket examples can be seen online at Johannson Projects.

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We were first drawn to the little yellow and red soft lights by John Caswell that seemingly are held up by tiny little men (which got good marks during the Student Lighting Design Award finals of 2006). But then we got to nosing around the Bristol-based artist’s site and found some other cool stuff too, namely Grippy the table (no spilt glasses here) and mirror/comb/mirror (nothing like hiding your accoutrements in plain sight :).

Remember the big Pantone book from those days in art school (or better yet, Colour Aid)?  It may have been a few years since you were putting together mechanicals so take this hue test and see if your colour vision still holds up - we scored a 7.

I am exceedingly geeked over a new art installation going on in my home town of New Orleans called Prospect 1. Featuring artists from around the country and around the world, it looks like a very promising event as works of all sizes will be displayed all over the city. You can take a look at some of the work on Prospect1’s Flickr pool or check out the artists biographies on the Prospect 1 site. Anybody have an extra ticket to New Orleans?

Another awesome blog (besides ours of course ;p ) is HolyCool.  We’re particularly interested in the iPhone icon coasters (we’ll need a few for the apartment- we’re an apple family) and the cool and creative lamp designs- a water lamp?!

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