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“The Forest “KING” realms over all forest and woodland gods.  His responsibilities include recruitment, management, God-resources and payroll.  The Forest “KING” wears a crown of golden paper, although he has no official royal status.  He’s cool with that.  The Forest “KING” likes clean water, sunlight and Jazz music.  He hates buildings and taxes.”                                              Mysterious [...]

Read & Destroy is the online portfolio of London-based designer Dominic Burt. With over a decade worth of experience working on web and interactive projects, Burt is a consummate creator of usable and accessible websites. In addition to websites, Burt is also an accomplished mobile and graphic designer, and illustrator.

For your listening/reading pleasure, a story for the ages… Various tales of lore recount a story where founders John C. Williams and Peter Demens flipped a coin to see who would have the honor of naming their newly-founded city.  Peter Demens, a native of St. Petersburg, Russia won the coin toss and honored his birthplace with a new city [...]

Christian Ward is a freelance illustrator living and working in London. Ward’s work is frenetic and colorful. His unique graphic style draws from art noveau, 1960s fanatasy, manga, and graffiti.

San Francisco has long been regarded a city of high design.  Its balance of Victorian and modern architecture punctuated by international landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge has resulted in a romantic, almost surreal visage of the West Coast city.  In reality, the city was forged by gritty pioneers of the California Gold Rush, [...]

UXUS Design is a design consultancy that offers artistic solutions for commercial needs. UXUS has completed work for a significant list of international clients in the fields of retail, brand/identity and communication, architecture and interiors, and hospitality.

Today’s feature strays a bit from our daily grind in that the featured company is DISTRIBUTOR of fine design rather than the brainchild.  Founded in 2000 by Steve Spett and Ron Bart and headquartered in New York City, Resource Furniture stocks and distributes high-design European furniture not typically available in American markets.  Essentially, Resource is acting [...]

Around the globe, people know Chicago by it’s nickname, The Windy City. Many people think this nickname is related to the city’s weather. That’s not entirely true. Chicago certainly has its fair share of blustery weather, but the nickname primarily stems from the boastful claims of Chicago’s 19th century businessmen and politicians. In their eyes, [...]

For those of our readers that don’t have the time or mettle to conduct countless random internet searches, this may come as a bit of a surprise: August 13th is a particularly notable day in history, marking the anniversary of one of the most impressive feats of engineering and design innovation in European (specifically, German) history.  On this day [...]

emphas!s has a tiny website, but their work is often large is size and significant in its importance. Emphasis is a multi-disciplinary design firm founded in 1996 by designers Andrew Simons and Helene Benedetti. The firm specializes in environmental graphic design and print communication. Emphasis makes purposeful and engaging design that helps people navigate the world around them.