by Susan McIntosh, Gaia Graphics and Associates UPDATE: Please join Sammy Steelhead and friends on a beautiful Saturday in September this year to clean up our creeks and beaches! You can go to SLO County Creek & Coastal Cleanup Day for the most updated information. See you there! UPDATE: In my original Creek Day post, […]
By Lindsey Collinsworth Down the winding Bob Jones Bike Path in San Luis Obispo, past the Water Treatment Plant you will now find the City of San Luis Obispo’s newly constructed wetland. Thousands of native plants were put in the ground this spring with the goal of using stormwater runoff to create a wetland habitat […]
but with global reach By Terre Dunivant Captains David Robinson and Mark Kocina of SeaLife Conservation sailed the coast of California in late 2009, stopping in Morro Bay and other coastal cities to educate residents, City staff and Councils about plastic and ocean pollution. The evidence is shocking. People are taking action. Damaris Hansen and […]
Janine Benyus is a science author who is full of great ideas. One of her passions is to promote the ingenuity and function in our products based on the performance of the nature around us. This process, called biomimicry, is one that aims to examine the systems and elements at work in nature in order […]
Richard Shilling is an artist who specializes in Land Art, a form of art which derives its design and inspiration from the natural materials in and around the site. Focusing primarily on sculptures, whose existence are often temporary, allowing for the natural elements to reclaim what he has created, Richard’s pieces are made and then […]
Following the font conference, the typefaces involved met in an abandoned warehouse to “settle the score” and stage a typeface fight. The leaders of the two gangs, Arial and Helvetica, attempt to win the fight to become the ultimate default. Unfortunately, no one asked Comic Sans to join their gangs, forcing him to miss the […]
During a conference of fonts held at an undisclosed location, the family of popular typefaces gathered to determine if the typeface Zap Dingbats should be offered membership into their elite club. Their meeting was interrupted by Ransom, who was holding Courier and Curlz MT hostage with the hopes of getting placement in loads of programs […]
Every morning when I wake up, one of my favorite parts of getting out of bed is knowing that I can have a cup of coffee to start my day off right, as well as jump start the neurons in my brain. But morning after morning, cup after cup, it’s hard not to wonder what better use […]
Choosing to use recycled paper products is a relatively simple way to reduce our impact on our waning tree population, and the people at PaperStone Products have some of the most eco-friendly materials on the market. Using recycled paper as the main content in their hard surfaces in buildings has allowed them to become certified […]
Appealing ideas are often simple. Netherlands-based design company SPRANQ decided to see how much of a letter could be removed while maintaining readability. After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. At this size it looks like rhinestones on mary janes, but used at a regular text […]