Fine Art, Handmade Gifts & Unusual Objects
MICA’s Art Market is here! The MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) Art Market is a venue for the sale of original artwork and handcrafted pieces created by more then 250 students, faculty, staff and alumni. The event, which lasts for four days, is a perfect opportunity for holiday shoppers and helps to provide funding [...]
Nonsek Machine
Like cool t-shirts? Nonsek Machine is a fun and interactive way to create your own custom one-of-a-kind t-shirts based on art from popular artists and designers, such as Jesse Ledoux, Aesthetic Apparatus, Art Chantry, and more. Load an artist’s channel, select your shirt color, and then create your own re-mixes of their illustrations! This is [...]
Engrave Your Book
We recently discovered a really cool website called Engrave Your Book. Engrave Your Book curates an artist series of engraved leather covers for Moleskine® notebooks, and you can even get custom covers engraved for yourself or your company! There are some really cool designs available for purchase, including the one above by Option-G. Take a [...]
Compostmodern # 4
Last Thursday was the final night of four compostmodern meet-ups through the Baltimore AIGA. The final video for discussion was of Nathan Shedroff who addressed a few key strategies for becoming a more sustainable designer. Here is a brief sum up of some of the biggest points to consider for your next design project: 1. [...]
Re-covered Classics
With the invention of devices like Amazon’s Kindle and even the increasing popularity of audio books, publishers are struggling to keep traditional book publishing and production from going extinct. A new publishing house, White’s Books, has a novel idea of how to keep the printed word around for a long time. With the idea that [...]
Robochairs
Our new intern, Kaley Hymiller started at Orange Element today. She is tops in my book already because she sent me a sweet link to blog about. As you know from reading my earlier post about Kaley, she’s way into industrial design. That’s why she loved this Gizmodo story about RFID-driven library chairs. It doesn’t [...]
Will Body Shops Be Extinct Someday?
Check out this new concept from BMW. It was truly an exercise in thinking outside the box and using design to solve a problem. I’m not sure if it will ever make sense to produce, but it is pretty stunning and innovative. Read more here at Wired: http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/06/bmw-builds-a-ca.html Garret Ohm http://www.orange-element.com
Meet Kaley
We are all very excited to announce that Kaley Hymiller, a senior at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), has accepted a full-time intern position here at Orange Element. Kaley is a super-talented Industrial Design major there, which was really interesting to us as a graphic design and marketing communications firm. As you [...]
Design Process
As the marketing director for design and communications firm that does work all over the country, I work to extend our brand to clients and prospects every day. In doing so, I see part of my job as making these clients and prospects understand that great creative work isn’t the result of pushing a few [...]
Elephant Dung
Yesterday, in true EJ fashion, she sent an email to the entire Orange Element staff that asked simply “Who left the elephant poo on my desk? Cool!” For a while I was really confused. Why would elephant poo be on her desk, much less in our office? And why would she think that was cool? [...]
When Product & Design Meet
I recently met a golf course architect named Terry LaGree from a company called Barbaron out of Florida. Terry is a great architect, who also happens to be responsible for golf course renovations at The Golf Club at South River. One of his newest ventures is what really caught my attention. Terry is a partner [...]
Vote In Our Sweet Poll!
As you can see at the bottom of the navigation at right we now have the ability to add a poll to our sweet blog. This week’s poll touches on something that I think about quite a lot. At Orange Element, we’ve always had this dream of developing our own custom designed product line. But [...]
