JOYENGINE: cause sharing is cool

The 2nd Annual East Colfax Block Party is gonna be slammin’!!!

IMPORTANT NOTE: We’re assuming the totally frikin’ awesome poster/flyer design is by Mr. Wills aka Big Dubs aka my hero.

…and Thielke is up next!!!

Denver by Design is a series of events and exhibitions taking place in the Mod Livin’ showroom during the month of August. The most exciting will be the DENVER BY DESIGN competition, a juried contest to select the best modern design object, art or furniture created by a Colorado designer. Our goals are two-fold; to bring attention to up and coming talent and to focus on the influence of modern design in our community.

The deadline is July 10th, 2009. In August, a winning design will be selected by the judges for a $1000 prize. Sorry for posting this up so late… but we’ve still got a few days to make magic happen right?!

More details can be found HERE.

The below Installation by Wiesbaden, Germany’s Via Grafik was for the street art festival, NAMES in Prague. A most excellent combination of color, scale and composition.   There’s more pics here.

We just dropped all of Josh’s imagery for Sprout on davidbsmithgallery.com.  Cruise it for a look.  It’s all quite brilliant work.  To see Mr. Keyes’ works in person you’ll have to swing by DBS on Saturday May, 30th.  And, doh!!! Prints will be dropping here real soon!

Josh Keyes - Burst I, Acrylic on panel, 30" x 80", 2009

Burst I (detail)

tres birds workshop and cypher13 have teamed up in effort to design an electronic waste logo and recycling bin for NYC…  Valiant Technology presents, Design the 4th Bin.  Check it out.  Here’s a little inspirational leave behind assembled by Mr. Moore after last weeks ideation sess… rrrad.

Josh Keyes will be returning to our neck of the woods for Sprout, his upcoming solo exhibition at Denver’s David B. Smith Gallery.  The exhibition opens on May 30th.  Preview pics comin’ soon…

Budapest, Hungary’s Official Classic have dropped a preview of their contribution to HYPEFORTYPE, Thinkdust’s new online digital type foundry that’s launching any minute now…  It’s gonna be really, really fresh and chock full of hot type.  We’re excited.  You should be too.  Here’s some samples of what’s to come… Limited edition creations from the likes of Si Scott, Alex Trochut, HelloHikimori, Luke Lukas, and Jon Burgerman are expected.

This Sunday, May 24th, The 400, PBR, and Redbull will be hosting the Sunday Swap and it sounds like it’s gonna be stacked.  Sneakers, Art, Apparel, Vinyl, and more with select retailers and private parties in attendance selling their goods swap meet style at 1539 Platte St.  And yo, it’s cash only, old skool - simple. So, swing by The 400 and spend your Sunday with a great crew. Shop, drink, and enter to win fresh prizes.

Beyond the Page opened about a week ago at Gallery 1988, San Francisco. It featured a solid mix of artists and illustrators, all reimagining their favorite children’s books. Our own Shannon Bonatakis was a participant, taking on childhood staples Goodnight Moon, and Where the Wild Things Are. Her homage to Maurice Sendak is still available amazingly. I’m hoping it will adorn my wall one day, but I wouldn’t hold it against you if you can’t live without it either.

Here are some highlights from the show. Enjoy!

The world wide web is the 21st century’s wild west.  No matter what you’re level of web-based participation, be it blogging, tweeting, digging, commenting, facebooking… hmmm, or just reading blogs or tweets, diggs, comments, or your “wall” you’re aware of the crazy rate and wild manner in which the web is growing.  But, while the “web” is going gangbusters, it’s the “social-web” really driving all this growth.  And, being the web geeks that my partners and I are (I began my professional foray in .com-land back in ‘98) we’ve had the good fortune to contribute to certain leading-edge technologies and work alongside some of the industries leading minds.  As of late that leading-edge technology and those leading minds have been over at OneRiot, a San Francisco startup hubbing development out of our beautiful Boulder, CO backyard.

So, while you may be thinking, or maybe, I’m just thinking you may be thinking… this blog is supposed to be about the Colorado creative community, and art, and design, “So…, what’s this jackass doing ranting about OneRiot, a realtime social search engine?” I’m doing just that - ranting about a realtime social search engine, with some really forward-thinking technology, a clean, simple and intuitive design (that we’ve spent a great deal of time contributing to) and what I believe to be positive, new and unique ramifications pertainting to how information is found, shared, and organized on the the social web.  And, with “finding” and “sharing” being the founding premises of joyengine.com, well, do the math.

So, whether you jive with my thinking or not, take OneRiot’s latest release for a test drive and see what it turns up.  Maybe it’s for you, maybe it’s not, but either way, the social web is here for a bit and it’s shaping our world, so get used to it - I’ve had to.

And, If you’re interested you can go here or here to see what some of the big tech dawgs are saying about OneRiot.

Denver Graphic Designer Andrew Hoffman contradicts his digital day dreams via works in oil on canvas for his first ever solo show, Oxymoron, tonight at the Shoppe.  East Colfax is the spot tonight, so check it out people.