Christoph Niemann ‘s charts!


thanks to ssahn for the photo above. This is from a series of people covering one eye. Why??? Please tell me.

We went to see Christoph Niemann today at Creative Morning‘s in DUMBO today! He was wonderful! Very endearing and clever. He had several humorous charts for us to follow along with as he explained his creative process. I didn’t transcribe most of them but the gist is that this man has a lot of anxiety. His way of handling it is by going straight towards the problem and attacking it! The more you confront problems, the better equipped you’ll be when faced with future problems. (more…)

Here is a pop song for everyone

+++(◕ ◡ ◕ ) Matt’s Song Pick ( ✖_✖)+++
Ok I have to start of this week’s song pick with a warning. I might be sending you into a downward youtube spiral. There is a whole world not known well by the majority of the west and it’s very easy to get entranced by their slick, shiny, high energy, catchy music videos. I’m talking of course of Korean Pop. Now I don’t know much about k-pop but I do know from experience, that if you’re not careful, you’ll find yourself constantly humming annoying riffs and attempting to learn the choreography.

If you want to warm up I suggest watching these first:
Girl’s Generation – Gee
Super Junior – Sorry Sorry

If you want to dive on it:
Big Bang & 2ne1 – Lollipop

What is this? What are these outfits? Is this the 80′s? Is this the early 2000′s? What is with that one girl’s hair? When they sing the word “lollipop”, are they falling asleep? OH NO Korean rap! Is that a backstreet boy in the orange vest? Also I really want that blue Team Rocket cape. Overall, WOW.

Lets spend .44 cents on each other

It’s nice that we can all keep in touch with each other via twitter and facebook via a quick “hello” an “informal a how are you doing?” or a “look at the awesome shit we’ve been up to” message… These methods of communication are great for making the most focused use of your activity online, creating networks, connecting people and ideas, boring friends and family with 1 too many photos of your  kid,  or just distracting us from what we really should be doing all day…

But what about something deeper, more tactile? Something delivered right to your door? Unexpected? Unwrappable? Littered with typos and poor illustrations?

Hello future, meet written correspondence!
We are now accepting written correspondence, and will respond to any that we receive. You are worth .44 cents to us. You really are!

Write to us:
OrangeYouGlad / 423 Smith Street Brooklyn NY 11231

Please be warned:
1. Some of us can’t spell (especially without spell check)
2. We are no good at making small talk – so lets get right to it
3. We have a roll of stickers and We are not afraid to use them
4. We are not going to spend more than 5 minutes composing a response but that is 5 minutes that are all about YOU.

A sampling of what you may receive…


p.s: I also dearly admire the blog “letters of note” and can’t imagine what the world will be like without these real, tactile, communications. They are up for a webby btw. You should go and vote for them and then send us a note about it. :)

We’re up for a webby!

Exciting news today brought to you by our lovely client Reading is Fundamental. Turns out the site we designed for them (and they lovingly built) www.rif.org is up for a webby in the education category! A WEBBY! That’s pretty neat.

What’s also cool is that you could help us win a people’s choice award with a lil ‘ol vote
Click the webby logo/image above, login through facebook and vote for us, or whoever you think should win (a.k.a. – us).

A little look at the work we did for RIF, including interface design and custom illustrations of the book-bird, book-bus, book-buildings etc. Also – shout out to Jason, Leon, and U2i for helping us out with the project.

Friends, it’s time for some music

+++(◕ ◡ ◕ ) Matt’s Song Pick ( ✖_✖)+++
I want to try out a summery song in hopes that we get some warmer weather. Here’s Kurt Vile’s Freeway!
Kurt Vile – Freeway Sorry this is all I can muster. For some reason WordPress does not want to allow me to post video or audio. Only links