Website we’re kicking around the office these days: hillholiday.com. Simple focus on the work, blog upfront. Adding to the RSS presently.

One of the many many things that is cool about being a writer who works with designers is seeing the interaction that often happens between text and design. I’ve always been interested in the visual quality of words, how linguistic and visual languages inform and sculpt each other, and how the brain responds to both.
Additionally, [...]

I attended the Anish Kapoor opening last night at the ICA which I have to recommend highly. Kapoor is an Indian-born British installation artist whose work stretches the spacial and perceptive boundaries. I was smiling the whole time.

I always wonder, however, how one sets up a show such as this. So many of Kapoor’s pieces [...]

Paola Antonelli, design curator at MOMA, gave a great talk about design’s history and purpose that is free viewing on Ted.com. I think both Antonelli and Ted.com are amazing intellectual resources, so here, everyone enjoy.

Also, if you’re feeling supergeeky like me, check out this recent discussion she had with mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in Seed Magazine. [...]

Two websites (only two?!) have caught my eye this week.
The first is for Elbow, one of my favorite bands. I spend a fair amount of my life examining music marketing and I know for a fact that most bands Elbow’s size have much more starkly designed sites…if you’re lucky enough to get a site at [...]