Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category

May 18, 2010 0

My Subconscious Home

By Van in Dreams, Inspiration

Besides writing this blog, I keep a personal journal at my bedside which contains the more intimate writings of my life. It’s also my dream journal. I want to share a dream I had a while back and I am reminded of this dream because I ran into some Japanese architecture, a Tokyo apartment designed [...]

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May 10, 2010 0

Insanity

By Van in Design, Inspiration

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein A great poster design by Alex Koplin, in collaboration with David Meiklejohn. Please do check out the great work and blog he has going at http://www.h34dup.com/. That diagram is so easy to understand but so difficult to embrace. I’m sitting [...]

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May 6, 2010 1

In My Mind’s Eye

By Van in Design, Dreams, Inspiration

I rarely get the opportunity to sketch and doodle these days. My computer at work has the most difficult time working. It takes a lifetime for it to boot up Photoshop or InDesign. Today, I decided to use the loading time to sketch. I told myself, I’d keep the pencil on the paper and don’t [...]

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April 1, 2010 1

I Fell In Love With Fringe Today

By Van in Design, Inspiration, Type

It was an eye-catching, attention-grabbing, nerdgasm-inducing episode of Fringe today and it all happened within thirty seconds. The chilling sound of the piano starts and I am done. There are only a few TV show introduction sequences that really have struck a chord with me, and for some reason they all happen to be on [...]

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March 12, 2010 0

The Mythical Bird-Squirrel

By Van in Design, Inspiration

The origins of the Bird-Squirrel. I got inspired by the most random thing. A friend had posted a picture of a spill which she aptly described, “I spilled in lab… Looks like a bird-squirrel going poo o.O”  I scrolled past it like many other things on the news feed. It wasn’t until later, when it [...]

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