Soulellis Studio

Richard Saul Wurman and Marc Hodosh are bringing together some of the most brilliant minds in healthcare and well-being next week for a four-day old-school-style TED extravaganza in San Diego. Soulellis Studio did the TEDMED name badges, schedules, speaker booklets, sponsor signage, etc. ...

Massimo Vignelli surprised me last night @ the Type Directors Club Night of the Italians when he proclaimed that "the book is dead, books have reached a ceiling," and that the web is all about the democratization of culture. ...

Nice collaborative effort for these eight LCD information screens at Cornell AAP. They're floating and pivoting and informing in multiple locations throughout AAP.

There's something really wonderful about these Mobil roadmaps (c. 1975). The black typography (some kind of corporate typeface based on the wordmark?), the white space, the use of the pegasus, everything. ...

We've turned a corner. Working with Dean Kent Kleinman has pushed us to revisit our Cornell University Architecture, Art and Planning posters. The mapping of information is like a graphic machine, generating serial works; stepped scales of operation produce difference and variation.

John D. Rockefeller began the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913 with a gift of $35 million, "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world." 48 years later, the Foundation provided a seminal grant ...

It's 1978, and Peter Bradford has just produced his first book. Chair -- The current state of the art, with the who, the why, and the what of it. Pictured is Mary Plumb Blade, born 1913.

The incomparable Karr Graphics in Long Island City printed this beauty, on Mohawk Superfine. Karr is super-professional and their attention to quality and detail is superb (they also printed the MAS piece in the last post). ...

That's not JKO on the medal — it's an 1898 depiction of the "arts" designed by Daniel Chester French for the Richard Morris Hunt memorial on Fifth Ave at 70th St, across from the Frick. The Municipal ...

I'd somehow never seen this famous diagram by Charles Eames (1969) until yesterday (thanks to Ann Pendleton-Jullian). It's a beautiful way to talk about the design space.

The Municipal Art Society of New York fights for intelligent urban design, planning, and preservation through education, dialogue and advocacy.

I love seeing good design work unpacked and reassembled into something new. The re-use can be as creative an act as the original thing, sometimes more so. Who knows in this case — the van I designed five years ago has been stripped bare of some, but not all of the graphics. ...