Newsletter – September 2008
Upcoming Show
Seattle–Tehran
First Thursday - September 4th, 5pm - 10pm
Building on the success of 2007's The Seattle–Havana Poster Show, curator Daniel R. Smith and co-curator Iman Raad have united Seattle and Tehran's design communities for The Seattle–Tehran Poster Show. A collection of 50 diverse posters from each city, the show examines the gamut of cultural themes such as music, contemporary art, film and theater. Please join us for the opening, Thursday, September 4 2008
Got a camera? Your candid capture could be the next cover shot for the checkout-stand tabloids. Design Commission designed Snoop'd, which was produced by Monster Venture Partners, to be an entertaining destination to browse and buy images captured by everyday people. Visit snoopd.com to have a look–hopefully your photo's not posted there!
More than 500 billion cups of coffee are served worldwide each year.
An acre of coffee trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts to approximately 2,000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.
Americans consume 400 million cups of coffee per day, equivalent to 146 Billion cups of coffee per year; making the United States the leading consumer of coffee in the world.
Germany is the world's second largest consumer of coffee in terms of volume at 16 pounds per person.
On average, U.S. coffee drinkers consume three and a half cups a day per person.
Considering caffeinated coffee consumption alone, it was no surprise that Seattle ranks No. 1 nationwide.
Do a search for Starbucks locations in Seattle you get 1,715 locations.
Despite the unbelievable and unparalleled volume of Starbucks brewed in the city, Design Commission’s espresso of choice is Nespresso – “With exquisite crema, tantalizing aroma and full-bodied taste.”
1 Nespresso capsule produces 40 milliliters of espresso coffee...
DC consumes an average of 10 capsules a day, 100 per week. In a, shall we say, "normal" month DC consumes 400 Nespresso capsules, a steamy 16,000 milliliters of straight espresso. That's 541.02436 fluid ounces or 16 liters, equivalent to 4.22 Gallons.
In keeping with the shock-factor-digits lets do the math on caffeine intake: In a single espresso (1oz) there are 40 milligrams of caffeine. So, at 400 capsules a month dedicated to our lifesaving coffee dose, DC's (all seven of us. ahhem) gets 16,000 milligrams of caffeine pumping through our jugulars a month. Translation: 16 grams... not a lot of caffeine?
In a two month period (60 days), the staff of Design Commission drinks enough coffee to kill a horse. Yes. literally. 886.36 shots of Espresso + horsey = Death.
The good news? All this caffeine fuels some terrific work!
Sources:
www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso
www.usaid.gov/press/factsheets/2003/
www.prnewswire.com
How We Work
My Computer: Dual-Core Mac Pro, 2.66 GHz with 7GB RAM — thanks Peter!
Most used application: Photoshop (but of course!)
Favorite Shortcut: Command-Z
Best Typeface Evah!: Pill Gothic
On my Desk: Two very nice computer screens, my good ol' Wacom tablet (the 2003 edition, still works!), lots of chewing gum, eye drops and a sketchbook—the one you draw on with a real pen, not a stylus.
About Us
DC Loves
A few things we've been into lately.
Nicole:
Seattle Seahawks!,
Puppies,
Training for Next Year's Triathlon with Tibby,
Playing with actual type.
Zlata:
Video, New York, Italian fashion, cool web treatment,
Mango,
The National Archives | Digital Vaults,
Visual Complexity.
Stephanie:
Shane Tutmarc and the Traveling Mercies,
Michael Vermillion,
Gallery Roq La Rue,
Haruki Murakami.
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Learn more at http://www.designcommission.com.
Design Commission
121 Prefontaine PL S
Seattle, Washington
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Phone: 206.223.7709
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