His statement:

Christopher Gideon is a freelance graphic designer and emerging artist with an extensive background in architecture. He incorporates this experience, allowing it to inform the present as well as help to coax ideas into fruition. His compositions are primarily concept-driven, but must also fulfill specific Vitruvian-esque conditions in order to achieve a certain geometrical eurhythmy. His body of work is an ongoing collection of exorcisms, casting out the fears, symbols, ideologies, and false identities that have been imprinted on him throughout his life, often expressed in imagery that is as much satirical as it is socially relevant.

Chris is showing at ArtPrize this year and has more work on his site. Great stuff!

Matthew Inman, the Seattle-based illustrator behind the always funny The Oatmeal has got a great new series about the good ("awesome") and the bad ("horrible") of working at home. I've excerpted two panels here; visit the original to see them all.

The Awesome

The Horrible

See the whole teaser on book's site, which is quite nice and minimal.

Over the coming week, we'll interrupt our normal DLB programming to bring you a special set of feature posts celebrating one of our favorite designers, Milton Glaser. We recently had a chance to speak with Glaser about our favorite topic, design ethics, and in celebration of the "To Inform and Delight" DVD launch, we will share some highlights of our conversation over the next week. We also have a few copies of the documentary and a few signed posters to give away - Nick will have details for you on Friday.

Even if you don't know who Milton Glaser is, it only takes a few minutes of watching the documentary to realize you're already quite familiar with his designs. Through casual conversations with Glaser himself and dozens of his closest friends and collaborators, the film gives an intimate look into the thoughts and processes of someone whose work - if not his name - is so ubiquitous and so influential. A constant theme is the importance of teaching; no doubt Glaser sees the film itself (as its title suggests) as part of his teaching project. We hope our conversations add something to that - stay tuned.

The video uses the same style as Story of Stuff (simple black-and-white animation) to discuss environmental and health issues stemming from the use of toxins and chemicals in cosmetics. Describing these complex issues in such a simple, widely-understandable way is not easy, but they do an excellent job. Watch.

Btw, I love the depiction of Proctor & Gamble around 3:30.

Imagine my dismay when I went to write this post and found the BlogLESS beards tag empty. Gladly, no one will suffer that from here on.

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