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Dog with a pipe in its mouth

Eric — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:42:41 +0000

Dog with a pipe in its mouth, originally uploaded by LlGC ~ NLW.

Just a little something for your Friday. Yeah, it’s a dog with a pipe in its mouth and it seems somehow appropriate.

Northcoast Zeitgeist

Eric — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:26:58 +0000

The great people (Casey Myers and Joseph Hughes) at Northcoast Zeitgeist were kind enough to send me an awesome calendar. In exchange, I sent them a couple of pictures of the calendar “in action”. Casey and Joseph do some amazing stuff and their approach to life/work is an inspiration. In fact, I may even change the entire look and function of this site to better match my personal aesthetic taste… more on that later.

I was hoping to get more creative with the photos, but actual work seemed to keep getting in the way. That’s exactly the point though, so back to WORK!

Paris 1962

Eric — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:51:22 +0000

A beautiful collection of photos from Paris in 1962. The entire collection can be viewed here.

“Images from Paris cafés and nightlife in 1962, the same week Yves St. Laurent’s runway show vaulted Dior to new heights. Many scenes around Les Halles (which no longer exists as it did then).”

Update: According to Wikipedia, that show went down in 1958. So are these photos from 1962 or 1958? Not sure, but now I guess a tag for “1958″ should be added. [via Kottke]

Polaroid SX-70 Promo

Eric — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:46:43 +0000

This is a cool little promotional film for the Polaroid SX-70 that is making the rounds on the design blogs lately. While the video itself is well done, it’s recent popularity probably has more to do with the fact that it was created by Charles and Ray Eames.

It’s 1975: The Future

Eric — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:43:03 +0000

A few slides from an IBM presentation in 1975 have surfaced. I first came across them at ISO50.

If only the lame PowerPoint presentations that so many of us are forced to sit through were this cool. I wish I could track down more information to go along with the slides, but at least we have these.

Square America has a large collection of the slides.

HKM Productions

Eric — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:10:19 +0000

HKM Productions is an award-winning production company specializing in the conception, creation and execution of television commercials, theatrical productions, documentaries, marketing videos, animation and corporate events.

Much like the 808 Post and Production site, this project leaned heavily towards video playback. A slightly different structure was used to match the personality of the company.

Cover Creation

Eric — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:28:46 +0000

Peter Belenger documented his work in the making of a recent MacWorld Magazine cover. It is all shown in time lapse and he still had to leave out a lot of the process. The amount of time and creative energy that is poured into a magazine cover that will disappear from most of our lives after a month, is amazing.

SH Architecture

Eric — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:42:19 +0000

SH Architecture specializes in the sustainable and modern, so it was a natural fit for me. Their existing site was Flash-based which seemed to contradict their client-centered approach. They needed a site that was more approachable and interactive in way that did not involve just animations, but was not a huge departure from the look of the Flash-based site. With a firm grasp of how they wanted the new site to look, it was up to me to decide the best implementation of that design.

Many of the team members have active Twitter accounts and they regularly upload progress videos to YouTube. They also create a monthly newsletter in-house that is very well designed. It seemed obvious that the new site should take advantage of this. An integrated “News” section was introduced that would carry all of their press releases, newsletters, and project updates.

In addition, they had a large portfolio of projects separated into a fair number of categories, making navigation a challenge. Rather than struggling with a complicated system, sub-system, and sub-sub-system of drop-down menus, a simple breadcrumb style of navigation is used to navigate through the portfolio.

808 Post & Production

Eric — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:07:12 +0000

808 Post and Production is a video editing and production house based here in Las Vegas. They have created a very large video portfolio and needed a way to show it off. They manage to keep themselves busy so they always have new work and not much time to spend adding it to an existing website. With those things in mind, I put together a site that makes video king and a framework that can be easily updated.

After completing the site development a matching newsletter was also designed to allow for an occasional email to their clients and partners.

Cheers and Welcome

Eric — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:55:02 +0000

Welcome to the launch of Foundry75.com! I’m glad you took the time to pay a visit. Take some time to read about the company and check out some of my recent work.

Once you’ve had your fill, please feel free to send along a little note of encouragement, criticism, or inquiry. They will all receive equal attention… more or less. At the very least, I’ll read the whole thing. Assuming I managed to get my first cup of coffee well in hand, you may even get a reply. Crazier things have happened.