Outliers

For anyone that doesn't read Malcolm Gladwell's books, I highly recommend them.  I started reading his latest book, Outliers, last night, and I find his books fascinating.  This particular book is talking about how it is not only innate skill, but the advantage of birth date, time, place, etc that makes successful people rise to the top.  For example, the first section talks about how almost all the major Canadian hockey players were born in the first months of the year...because the cutoff is in Jan, and therefore these boys will be bigger and more mature, and will be seen as more skilled therefore getting the advantage of extra practice and encouragement, thereby becoming more successful...  What advantages do you have that have made you who you are?

Daniel Bowman

One of my favorite Southern designers/artists is Daniel Bowman from Wilmington.  I think his prints are really simple, yet detailed.  He truly has an eye for shape and color.

See his work here:  One Twice

This is the one I have a small print of I believe:

Electric Mini Cooper

I saw a bit on the Today Show about the new all electric Mini Cooper.  The car itself is cool but what got me was a short clip on the car in London.  They showed charging stations (called something like Juice Stations) on the side of the road where you park, so you can charge up your little electric car.  I thought that was an interesting idea for the future of the auto industry.  Instead of gas stations and metered parking, now we'd have charging stations...  It would take quite a while for the car to be functional in the US, because everyone would have to install them. But it is definitely an interesting solution...

Virgin Megastore Times Square

So I found out today that they are closing the Virgin Megastore in Times Square.  It is truly the end of something.  The Virgin Megastore is like a fixture in Times Square, and I can not even imagine the area without it.  Tons of artists have launched CD's there.  It also makes one question if the end of the CD is near.  I am a sucker for package design, but will all those who exclusively design covers be out of a job in the near future due to digital music downloads?  It would be a terrible shame.  

Anyways, read the closing article here:  Virgin Megastore