matt kirkland > designer for hire

Going Social: Faculty, Administrators and Departments Try New Ways to Reach Out to Students

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:37:41 -0800

Going Social: Faculty, Administrators and Departments Try New Ways to Reach Out to Students:

I’m bookmarking this only to highlight the quality of this sentence: “Pasquale Verdicchio looks every bit the literary scholar — probing eyes gleam through reading glasses, a salt-and-pepper beard…

It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:51:29 -0800

It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future:

Oh goodness. I’m totally making my next client presentation look like this.

The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:29:35 -0800

The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later:

NYT uses a nice interactive slider feature to compare the Berlin wall 20 years ago and today.

Claudio Baladron & Diego Grass designed a new chapel for 100 people in the remote countryside of Southern Chile.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:40:51 -0800

Claudio Baladron & Diego Grass designed a new chapel for 100 people in the remote countryside of Southern Chile.:

Chad and Steven - let’s keep this in mind if we ever need a new location for Harbor Uptown, OK?

I cannot get over how awesome, awesome, awesome this is. ...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:57:46 -0800

I cannot get over how awesome, awesome, awesome this is. Here’s the designer’s website with some process photos.

Papercrafted Head on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:53:05 -0800

Papercrafted Head on Flickr - Photo Sharing!:

Oh goodness. If I’m ever invited to a Halloween party again, I’m totally making something like this.

Yep. Obama Weather forecast.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:13:27 -0800

Yep. Obama Weather forecast.

Nathan's hollywood work just keeps rolling out: here's the extended cut of his Toyota commercial.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:52:52 -0800

Nathan's hollywood work just keeps rolling out: here's the extended cut of his Toyota commercial.:

And he pops up in the other characters videos, too!

Published! Just got my copy of Strange Maps: an Atlas of...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:05:00 -0800

Published! Just got my copy of Strange Maps: an Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities - which features Ex Unum, Pluribus. You know EUP, right? The grassroots movement dedicated to breaking the US into smaller, more functional nations? Sure you do. Anyway, pretty exciting to see the book form.

October 30, 2009: Milton takes a stab at book hoarders

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:56:38 -0800

October 30, 2009: Milton takes a stab at book hoarders:

“However, many books,
Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior,
(And what he brings what needs he elsewhere…

We’re slowly rolling out a new marketing site for City...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:56:00 -0700

We’re slowly rolling out a new marketing site for City Gates, the content management system for great church websites. Pretty exciting around the office, really.

Chris Jordan's photo series of dead albatross chicks

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:31:45 -0700

Chris Jordan's photo series of dead albatross chicks:

What fills the bellies of albatross chicks in the middle of the ocean? Plastic. And then they starve to death.

Sir Ernest Shackleton left behind two cases of Scotch whisky after a failed expedition to the South Pole

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:13:59 -0700

Sir Ernest Shackleton left behind two cases of Scotch whisky after a failed expedition to the South Pole:

OK, I love a good Scotch as much as the next guy (maybe more), but methinks that maybe trying to carry TWO CASES OF WHISKY is indicative of larger problems packing for your expedition.

So, yeah. Kelly just happens to be a hairstylist at...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:33:01 -0700

So, yeah. Kelly just happens to be a hairstylist at Erika’s old salon… and is on the new season of Survivor. Man, colleagues on reality TV, coworkers in commercials - stuff like that just happens when you live this close to LA.

Warning: this video is from Survivor, so it’s um, boring.

October 22, 2009: Chesterton on business books

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:14:39 -0700

October 22, 2009: Chesterton on business books:

“On every book stall, in every magazine, you may find works telling people how to succeed. They are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in…

Here’s an in-progress look at the gorgeous finch piece...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:40:44 -0700

Here’s an in-progress look at the gorgeous finch piece that the Lewises commissioned for Felix! The illustrator is Lauren Nassef, whom I’d never heard of but really like.

I don’t want to be the kind of guy who has three dozen...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:47:31 -0700

I don’t want to be the kind of guy who has three dozen pairs of shoes. But I might be turning into that kind of guy. Is it OK for me to love these?

Maps of the Weird : The Book Bench

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:09:45 -0700

Maps of the Weird : The Book Bench:

The New Yorker takes note of the upcoming ‘Strange Maps’ book, which may or may not include Ex Unum, Pluribus! among its cartographic wonders.

Tara Donovan - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:36:59 -0700

Tara Donovan - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego:

Yesssss! I love Donovan’s work, but I’ve never seen it in real life. It’s about time we had a decent exhibit come to MOCASD.

happy tape — japanese masking tape, now in the U.S.

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:30:10 -0700

happy tape — japanese masking tape, now in the U.S.:

Hey, everybody. Don’t let Erika know about this, OK? Cool.