RT @cacophonyart Wow, I can’t believe this find. All back issues of Dwell from Oct 00-Nov 08 that you can read online. http://tiny.cc/cdMmL (via @saymayday)

Also, look at our kid DJ Greyboy on the cover of the July/August 2007 issue: (while you’re at it, you can read the whole damn thing)

So the Andy Awards are doing something interesting this year–instead of Co-Jury Chairmen Ty Montague (JWT) and Michael Lebovitz (Big Spaceship) picking the same ol’ back-slapping, glad-handing usual suspects that judge every advertising awards show from here to the south of France, they opened up jury selection to popular vote via a website, electhejury.com.

The nominees are not limited to the who’s who of advertising, but also to various influencers in popular, art, and digital culture, including Banksy, Shepard Fairey, David Byrne, Takashi Murakami, the dude that started YTMND.com, and more. They are all vying for 25 spots on the jury and are all “encouraged” to campaign for votes. (A somewhat hilarious, though somewhat Inside Baseball campaign video from cp+b’s Andrew Keller has already surfaced on youtube, for example), and there are downloadable (and customizable) posters to post around your place of employment (see “vote smoovebert graphic) Oh, what’s that you say? Your favorites not on the list? Feel free to nominate them. Even if it is only a dj/bmxer/epicurean/art director/gadabout. *ahem*

Did you know??! Did you know that I spend most a lot of time not as a dj and bmx/snowboard gadabout, but as a *gasp* designer/art director?  I spend a lot of time thinking about not only *groan* storytelling and branding and communication but also usability and human factors and whatnot.

I saw Objectified this weekend, Gary Hustwit’s paean to the heroes of industrial design, and one of the bits that I found interesting was Jonathan Ive,  SVP of Industrial Design at Apple talking about how as a designer, you spend a lot of time obsessing about why things are the way they are, sort of looking at objects (or anything) and thinking about all the decisions that had to be made to make that object the way it is–this automagically explained all the chatter in my head when I look at or experience something that is good, bad, or mediocre. How the hell did ths come to be like this? If it’s good, how did the stars align so that something so perfect came to being? If it’s bad, what kind of fucking band of moronic syphylitic monkeys came together and thought it would be a good idea to bring this to market/existence/my doorstep? Hearing ol’ Jonny talk about design and the nature of designers in that way made me feel like I wasn’t alone. Anyway, go see the movie, it’s good.

Anyway… plucky designer Dustin Curtis appreantly is affected in the same way by things things and had such a terrible experience with American Airlines and aa.com that he came up with a diatribe in the form of an open letter to the airline, along with a suggestion or three on how to fix things.

Dear American Airlines | Dustin Curtis.

via @seth_weisfeld

I like Big Macs and I cannot lie. Ran across this website in an email chain–they plan on doing “extreme makeovers on actual fast food items purchased at popular fast food restaurants”, then photographing them and posting them. Interesting concept, we’ll see how they execute as they seem to only have one entry posted at the mo’.

If you ask me, a Big Mac is real pretty in its natural state.

Fancy Fast Food.

Peter Rojas posted this via twitter, and well, it’s brilliant.

Rhizome | Kanye Vision Bookmarklet (2009) – Evan Roth and Tobias Leingruber.

“One day my Fairy Godmother will come and rescue me from this horrible place. And she’ll be like, ‘You are going to this awesome totally fuckin’ VIP party tonight.’ And she’ll wave her wand and turn my bike into a huge pumpkin. And then I’ll make a salvia bong out of that pumpkin. And then my evil stepbrothers will walk in and be like, ‘You idiot. Now you don’t even have a bike.’ And I’ll be like, ‘Yeah, whatever. You’re just jealous because I have a magic pumpkin bong and crystal Vans.’ And then I’ll go to that party, and I’ll meet Prince Cobrasnake. And he’ll take, like, a million pictures of me licking Steve Aoki’s face.”

You and I both know how much I hate hipsters. You and I both know how much I love to make fun of hipsters. Therefore, you must know how much I love this site:

Look at this fucking hipster.

via nymag

Aside from that, check out their work here. Also, shout out to Kox.

fubiz has some photos by photographer (looks czech) Dan Vojtech as well as a link to his site. Lots of good action shots with a heavy studio photographer bent.

via fubiz