JOYENGINE: cause sharing is cool

Today was the day where Watson and Crick announced that they had determined the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes.

Indeed, design is inherent in all things…

This Saturday is shaping up to be one for the books. Tons of goodness happening around town, so get out early and start making rounds. Personally I’m super stoked on the line-up that we’ve put together along the sunny and vibrant corridor of East Colfax. Scot Lefavor shows us all how to improve our lives ten fold, in his solo show Products For A Better Living at The Fabric Lab. Snowblinded (Anthony Cozzi) will be burning retnas & birthing pure light, with his first solo show Snow & Light at The Shoppe. And last but not least Plastic Chapel channels the power of time and space in the second opening of the Square Footage show.

7PM – 11PM : The Shoppe 3101 E. Colfax : The Fabric Lab 3105 E. Colfax : Plastic Chapel 3109 E. Colfax

Sevnthsin just posted the mix tape promo project online for everyone to check out. It was used to grab the attention of some people of importance and share a nostalgic message. For more info on the project, check here.

For the next three months, Vice is giving you the chance to write your very own mini version of the magazine. You come up with your own DOs and DON’Ts, you write your own features and columns, you smush the whole thing together under a theme of your choosing.

The issues you create will be judged according to excellence, with the least terrible winning a grand prize of $1,000 or an internship at the magazine. Runners up will get something slightly less cool than the lucky bastard that wins.

Go here to sign up or to check out more info. The whole deal is called The ____ Issue… you come up with your own title for the issue and put it in the _____.

Updates coming soon!  More pics on flickr!!!

We can teach you, but we’d have to charge. Milkshakes for all!

News from Tokyo of a couple no-logo McDonald’s opening up early this month. No clowns, no golden arches, no…anything, just a black storefront with red trim and a burger in the window. The menu’s exactly two items long: quarter-pounder and double quarter-pounder. Check the new website here.

The 100% Design Tokyo show wrapped up last week. There were many interesting companies and designers that gathered to show off innovative design. Looks like an event to mark down on your calendar for things to do next year.

View flickr photos

I had the great opportunity a few days ago of making the acquaintance of a cool designer/illustrator from the UK by the name of Greg Abbott. Greg’s work is fabulous!!!! It is clean, structured, maintained, and most of all witty. For a young designer/illustrator (I will not post his age, for fear of belittling even myself) he has alot of talent. Check out his work, it is fresh……. not fresh like my breath in the morning, but fresh like in something to admire and look forward to seeing more of.

Greg is working on a site (aren’t we all) but for now you can check out some of his work at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamgregabbott and http://emptees.com/people/3086-greg-abbott

FLAKE.tv is a small collection of videos broadcasting some of the hottest stores, fashions, etc in the world. Definitely check out the flick of Colette, they are reopening later this month so it’ll be interesting to see how they step their game up. FLAKE.tv also has plans to include videos of creatives in all fields in the future, which is definitely something to look forward to. Anyway, peep the videos, get jealous and then realize that you own/do most of these things anyway.

My friend Mike Moore heads up tres birds workshop, a Boulder based architecture and design firm.  Mike and his team are perpetually pushing the boundaries of design both conceptually and structurally (guess that’s why we haven’t found time to hang recently…).  Few US-based boutique firms exisit within any creative field that are as committed, conscious, seasoned and forward-thinking as tres birds.  Earning every right to work with clients like Burton (designing Jon Damiano’s first of its kind retail showroom in Denver leading to the eventual design of Burton’s flagship stores in Osaka, Los Angeles, Irvine, Oakland Chicago, and Vail) and CP+B (designing and building out some of the best features in their Boulder location) certainly wasn’t easy, but Mike and his crew made it happen – the way it should happen – through belief, committment, raw talent, some serious skills, and a little help from their friends.

Mike and his radical thinking are major sources of inspiration to the three of us at our little creative firm.  But, at days end… It’s the small things, like receiving videos like the one below (tres birds shot the below video while working on the Freehill studio and garage) that reaffirm that inspirational pole position and load it up with some bonus credibility.

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