Design

  • One Pot Contest: The Feast of the Beast

    One Pot, brainchild of local culturemaker Michael Hebb, has teamed up with Architecture for Humanity to take “Surf and Turf” to a whole new level. To garner inspiration for an upcoming fundraising dinner in San Francisco, the team is...

  • Thank you for making me look more talented, Internet

    Color wheel from 1895 Color Scheme Designer 3 is my new favorite design toy. This website is a basic color wheel that creates complimentary, analogous and other color schemes. Additionally, it provides sample webpages using your set color...

  • Probably the Best Cautionary Tale in Creative Collaboration Ever

    A friend just sent me a link to this hilarious post on Jezebel.com about an e-mail exchange between a designer and a clueless employee, who asks him to design a lost cat poster. It's a great lesson in appreciating the disconnect that often...

  • Tom and Lance, Tacoma's Ambiguous Art Heroes to Speak in Seattle

    Next week the Seattle Graphic Artists Guild will host a lunch featuring the Tacoma duo, Beautiful Angle. BA is the project of writer Tom Llewellyn and designer Lance Kagey, who collaborate on artful posters, which they "illegally" hang up...

  • City Arts Loves Letterpress: Griffith's Bookmarks

    When our photographer Andrew Waits arrived at Griffith William's East Point West Press to shoot our feature story, he was met with a surprise. Griffith had readied the press for a limited run of custom City Arts bookmarks. After printing...

  • Catch This: Shoe Lust at Bellevue Arts Museum

    Today in local art... Beth Levine — the inventor of the mule, the Coty Award-winning designer who shod Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Sinatra and the woman who Manolo Blahnik said was to shoes "what Eames is to furniture" — is graced with the...

  • The pirate vanishes. RIP Alexander McQueen.

    Why Alexander McQueen won't die anytime soon I don't buy designer wear, but when a covetous moviegoer at the Guild 45th stole my Alexander McQueen red skull scarf in the dark, I instantly spent hundreds on a blue replacement (fluttering...

  • More from our Style Scholar

    Marie-Caroline Moir offers more cheap and accessible ways to achieve the "Zelda Fitzgerald look," which she used as her theme on page 24 of City Arts Seattle this month. Fringed necklace (hand-painted) from Two String Jane on etsy, $25....

  • Hyperlocal creativity & recycling with style

    Despite appearances, this is not an attempt to highlight the fact that it was recently my birthday. Instead, I want to spotlight the creative brillance of Robin Kessler, a fellow Encore Media Group staffer who is an integral part of the City...

  • Behind the scenes (if magazines had DVD commentary, this would be it.)

    A Natural Selection New creative director André Mora offers a window into the visual evolution of City Arts. I like science, especially evolutionary theory. So let's talk about variation and mutation for a second. When organisms reproduce,...
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