notes > observed
2009
July
On a rather soggy Monday, I made it over to the SoHo Apple Store, where the Art Directors Club was hosting a chat from Keetra Dean Dixon – an ADC Young Guns winner.
It was absolutely worth braving the weather and post work lethargia. I tried as best I could to capture some of her insights [...]
June
Following in the Empowerment for Good posts (from the Behance x Naked session we hosted as part of the 99% Conference), this idea was brought to our attention by Greg Wong.
A friend of Greg’s started a nonprofit called Restore NYC, which is a safe house and long-term recovery program for immigrant sex trafficking victims [...]
March
Michelle, Chloe, and I got to have a peek today at an art exhibit that opens Thursday 3/26 at 112 Greene Street, just a few doors down from Naked HQ.
Tons of different artists have taken over the basement studio at 112 Greene, each staking out bits of the floors, ceilings, and walls to paint on. [...]
During the Parisian Fashion Week, the French designer Sonia Rykiel broke the rules of the traditional catwalk. No loud music. A simple stage in the historical Rykiel store of Saint-Germain des Prés. And more surprisingly, for the very first time, the models were not stuck in their usual silence. They were actually talking.
Take a look [...]
It’s been said (by Russell Davies, no less) that in order to properly do our jobs we have to be interesting. Interesting has become “something of a mandate“— true whether we’re talking about the marketing content we create, or the manner in which we do our jobs, or just being human.
In a continuing quest to [...]
See the Full Picture: Looking at placement in context
February
See the Full Picture: Not just tacked on
January
through the bacon-flavored looking glass
2008
December
Ford is smarter than GM but not by much