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November 9, 2011

Seattle Creative Mornings: Episode 1 – Matt Shobe

I’ve been helping a friend get Creative Mornings going here in Seattle and we held our first event last week. It was a fair amount of work to make this whole thing happen, but fortunately I met the wonderful Bryan Zug and he continues to be instrumental in making our events possible – Thank you [...]

Posted by David Posted in Blog, Fun, Stimulus 1 Comment
May 27, 2011

Sharpening Our Creative Edge

At Design Commission, we spend most of our time looking at screens full of pixels. After all, the screen is our medium of choice for crafting innovative products that meet the needs of our clients and their customers. As beloved as our super-high-resolution displays are to us, though, we are also firm believers in exploring [...]

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April 8, 2010

Google and Suicide

This post showed up in my feed reader today and what struck me about it was how Google has emerged as both a corporate force to be reckoned with as well as a cultural ambassador. Its power to inform, persuade, and, in this case, save, people is clearly something that is unprecedented (save, perhaps, the [...]

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January 26, 2009

Artists We Like: William Kentridge

South African artist William Kentridge is probably best known for his animations made by photographing a charcoal drawing and then erasing and redrawing portions to make each subsequent frame. His films deal with political and social topics such as apartheid, mining, and power dynamics in his native Johannesburg to very personal themes around success, sensuality, [...]

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