Author Archives: Kim

Let them eat (and design) cake!”

This month’s theme of food and design worked out per­fectly, because I’ve been talk­ing non-stop about my new obses­sion: TLC’s Cake Boss. Like many of its other cake show brethren, Cake Boss goes behind the scenes of a well-known bak­ery to show the may­hem of the baked goods busi­ness. In this instance, its Carlo’s Bakery in […]

Design+Travel Posters = Warm Fuzzies

It may be easy to gather from my pre­vi­ous post that I’m a bit of a poster fanatic. In fact, I’m run­ning out of wall space. While pok­ing around the inter­net try­ing to find inspi­ra­tion for this post, I took a break to see what fun new things were in The Heads of State web­store, and saw these.
In their […]

Sweet Maps

This blog post goes out to all of my fel­low his­tory buffs.
I love fun ways of dis­play­ing data and infor­ma­tion, and while research­ing this month’s blog topic, Information Graphics, I found a trea­sure trove of cool visual time­line maps on History Shots.
Each map dis­plays its data in a way that is aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing and frankly, […]

Subway Art

We New Yorkers spend quite a bit of time under­ground rid­ing the sub­way. In fact, I wrote the begin­ning of this blog post on my phone while rid­ing the R train.
More often than not, we are rush­ing around, try­ing to get from here to there, and in the mean­time we miss a cool fea­ture of our city’s sub­way system: […]

Charles Addams’ New York

If you’re a fan of Battery Park, I’ve got bad news: Charles Addams has released a lot of mon­sters in that neigh­bor­hood. And they’re eat­ing every­body.
April Fool’s. That’s just from an illus­tra­tion that I saw in a creepy man­sion. The true story is as fol­lows…
A few weeks ago I ven­tured out into a thun­der­storm to visit the Charles Addams exhibit at […]