Archive for October, 2007
DoubleButter is Better
30 Oct 2007This is the best story I’ve heard in a long time. Apparently sometime today a couple of entrepreneurial local furniture designers delivered and installed some nicely designed benches to both the Libeskind addition to the Denver Art Museum and the brand new David Adjaye Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. They apparently did a meticulous job [...]
Chase DeForest at Ironton Studios
30 Oct 2007I’m looking forward to the show that opens at Ironton on Friday November 2nd for a number of reasons. First, the work is constructed with terrific craftsmanship and attention to detail. Second, it shows that boundaries between art and craft continue to break down (and therefore supports the value of the local and the artisinal). [...]
Retreat (animation)
In: Art and Culture
30 Oct 2007Hadley and I are working on some stop motion animation projects, and we’ve just finished an initial prototype, which we’re calling “Retreat”. You can see a compressed version on hadley’s blog (the direct link to the page is here). There’s no linear narrative, it’s more of an exploration of psychological space. Mostly we’re having fun [...]
Saving Riverside Cemetery
29 Oct 2007I was quoted in the Denver Post this morning regarding my interest in Riverside Cemetery, along with my friend Jan Allan and Father Joe Hirsch of Transfiguration Cathedral. The article, entitled “Group hopes to bring new life to cemetery” was written by Tom McGhee, and I’m really grateful to him for all he did to [...]
Denver Culture in the news
26 Oct 2007Gene Sloan wrote and article that was posted in USA Today today about the burgeoning cultural scene in Denver. It’s not a fantastically in depth article, but it does show off a couple of Denver’s lesser known treasures, the Dikeou Collection and the Kirkland Museum. The Dikeou has a fabulous collection of contemporary work ranging [...]
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Opening
25 Oct 2007The newest addition to Denver’s cultural landscape is opening with a series of events this week; the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCAD) building is the first designed by David Adjaye to be built in the United States, and it is a jewel, and serves as a fascinating counterpoint to the Libeskind addition to the [...]
Losing Control
In: Design
23 Oct 2007Khoi Vinh made a presentation called “Control” at the AIGA Next conference here in Denver; he was kind enough to put the slides up on Slideshare. The presentation is worth viewing for a couple of reasons. First, Khoi builds a logical argument and presents it in a way that is understandable in the form of [...]
Eat food, not too much, mostly plants
In: Environment
16 Oct 2007I just read an interesting conversation between Tom Philpott (of Maverick Farms) and Michael Pollan on Grist. Pollan is best known as the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemna, and he’s been working on a new book called “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” which is due out in January. According to Pollan, the basic [...]
Building a better remote
In: Design
8 Oct 2007There are few components of modern life more confusing than the television remote control. For our home TV, we have three remotes, each of which is required to do some arcane bit of trickery (cable, tv, dvd), and none of which are in the least intuitive. In a hotel room this weekend, I pushed the [...]
About
Hugh Graham does design strategy, research, and storytelling for corporations, non-profits, and community organizations.
Listening...
- Anna: This story was used in my English 111 (college) course. This should show how wise of an individual y [...]
- Larry: I found one of these today in Sumterville, Florida. This one is in good condition and in the shape o [...]
- Patricia: went grave reading tonight in a catholic cemetery in Austin, Texas and found many headstones (most o [...]
- 21 June 2011 – Gravestone Symbolism « Wells Family Genealogy: [...] ” Dum Tacet Clamat” “Though silent, he speaks” In cemeteries throughout the w [...]
- Thesaurus: This visual map is amazing. I'm looking on it near 20 minutes and it's still amazing for me! [...]
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