Author Archives: Cricket

Education works.

Posted by Cricket | Published: Jul 05
Here’s this amazing trailer for an upcoming documentary entitled Waiting for Superman. The animated infographic was produced by Jorge R. Canedo Estrada of Buck. It’s incredible on two counts…creative storytelling and compelling content about the importance of improving education in our country. The content is phenomenal and one of the reasons I think it is so [...]
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Design: the bridge between technology and human experience.

Posted by Cricket | Published: May 10
Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator at New York’s Museum of Modern Art spoke April 26th at Madison’s Museum of Contemporary Art to close out the Humanities without Borders Series put on by UW-Madison’s Center for Humanities. “Designers take the revolutionary and bring it home”,  she said. And she’s right. Designers are the folks who take new technological advances [...]
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Creativity and Neverland

Posted by Cricket | Published: Mar 31
Through the power of imagination we allow ourselves to suspend disbelief and give ourselves the power to dream that almost anything is possible. This was so wonderfully illustrated in Finding Neverland: the story of J.M Barrie, author of Peter Pan. If we’re to believe the movie, Barrie’s success of Peter and Wendy on opening night [...]
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shades of green

Posted by Cricket | Published: Jan 03
It’s a bit challenging to be in the business of making things and to also be a conservationist. There’s an inherent conflict between making and saving. I’ve got more education in environmental studies than I do as a graphic designer and I still care deeply about making a difference. Our firm has adopted and [...]
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Hatch+Hamilton=Love

Posted by Cricket | Published: Dec 19
Hamilton Wood Type Museum located in Two Rivers, Wisconsin where the Twin Rivers empty into Lake Michigan. The Museum is located in the old mill building right on the river where Hamilton Wood Type became one of the largest producers of wood type back in the heyday of newspapers as the only media [...]
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Taken by Design

Posted by Cricket | Published: Nov 27
So I bought this really cute bike basket for my burrito bike, a Schwinn Continental. The basket is cut white plastic with flowers. It’s cuter than cute actually. The basket comes off the bike to double as a shopping bag too.  It made me smile the moment I saw it. I’d fallen in love [...]
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