February 2012
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A New Product for Urban Envrionmental Graphics
Signage in urban environments definitely takes a beating—its affected by everything from weather damage to pedestrian interaction—and upkeep can be costly. That’s why we were intrigued when we learned about Système Huntingdon, Inc’s Alto product line.
This system of sub-surface graphics offers an interesting solution to the exterior signage problem. Système Huntingdon’s unique digital transfer...
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Pacific Avenue Wayfinding
We’re currently working with AHBL, a design and engineering firm, to create a wayfinding program for the City of Tacoma’s Pacific Avenue. This streetscape improvement plan will create a pedestrian-friendly environment for people to engage with the city and its unique history.
The new signage we’re designing is modern, clean, and structural, referencing the industrial character of the city. Image...
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Seattle Design Event TONIGHT
What are YOU doing tonight? If you’re in downtown Seattle, stop by ZGF Architects for a visually stunning presentation from Voices of the Earth. Led by photographer Robin Acker Bush, this company uses nature photographs—mostly underwater settings and stone formations—in environmental graphic design. According to Bush, these images, which show small organisms in large scale, seek to “connect us...
January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Weekly Roundup
Typographic buildings, inverted skyscrapers, and a few other fascinating finds for you this week.
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Scared of heights? An apartment in the Earthscraper may be just for you. (Unless you’re afraid of dark,...
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As we move into November, we’re being inspired by illustrated food rules, urban environments, and more.
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In his latest film, Gary Hustwit documents how ordinary citizens can impact their urban environment.
These vintage-inspired designs for classic...
October 2011
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Happy Halloween weekend! Designing haunted houses, creating your own monsters (yep, there’s an app for that), and the perfect motorcycle to complete your Tron costume.
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You only have a few more days before Halloween to create your own Daily...
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South Puget Sound Community College
When South Puget Sound Community College decided to consolidate its student services into a newly remodeled building called 22 College Center, it wanted an interior environmental graphics program that would clearly identify departments, reflecting the school’s identity and the special qualities of its location.
SPSCC sits on 101 wooded acres in Olympia, Washington. The College Center is located...
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A cool panoramic camera, amazing beatboxing videos, and the other great things that’ve kept us busy this week.
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The CBS eye turns 60.
A great way to get total panoramic photos — just toss your camera in the air.
Eve...
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Typography games, Ai Weiwei’s latest gig, and other finds keeping us occupied this week.
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Ai Weiwei served as art director for the cover story of the latest issue of W…via Skype.
File under: Awesome (Also under: Way Harder than You Expect): Cheese...
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This week we’re celebrating Steve Jobs’ impact on design, turning eyesores into artwork, and savoring some tasty typography.
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Typography and cookies. Could there be a better combination?
Uniting people around the world...
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Crowdsourcing public art, building ginormous Lego structures, digitally reconstructing dreams, and our other fascinating finds this week.
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Learn the ropes of working at Disney in 1943.
Got an extra 400,000 Legos lying around? Try building a...
September 2011
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Today we’re learning about Banksy-style marketing, honoring baseball greats, and how just about anything can have a QR code.
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Take a break and go on a quick interactive adventure. (via Quipsologies)
Immortalizing...
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Share your Story
If you’ve been in downtown Seattle over the past few days, you’ve probably noticed some large, colorful pylons around town. These 25 markers—a trail from Pioneer Square to the Seattle Center—are part of the Seattle Design Festival’s Design Marks event.
The event’s goal is to tell the stories of the city’s landmarks. Studio SC’s marker, located on Jackson Street and 3rd Avenue South, celebrates...
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This week, we’re checking out Park(ing) Day, a grassroots plan to bring light to a small village, and a logotype lesson from Doyald Young.
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What a fascinating and simple way to let some light in.
Charles Schulz reminds us that...
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AIGA Design Marks: Tag Your Destination
The inaugural Seattle Design Festival starts this week! As part of the festival, AIGA Seattle is sponsoring Design Marks—a trail of location markers at important Seattle landmarks—and we’re one of 25 local design firms involved in the event.
Each firm selected a landmark in downtown Seattle that has influenced the city’s culture—SC chose the historic King Street Station, which is right outside...
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This week, we’re loving Marty McFly’s Nikes, Hell’s rebranding efforts, and college football fashion.
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Planning a vacation? This destination’s “simply heavenly”.
Great Scott! Nike has re-created Marty ...
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UW Alumni Commons
The University of Washington’s new Alumni Commons building will be dedicated on Friday, as the UW celebrates its 150th year.
The environmental graphics program we designed for the building showcases “Husky Pride,” tracing the university’s legacy with an eye on its future. The Commons celebrates everyone and everything that makes the University great—students, professors, alumni, parents, and...
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This week we’ve been brushing up on our fashion history, sustainable farming, and troops’ “home-cooked” meals from around the world.
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We’ve been trying to figure out which part of this cool new...
August 2011
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We’re going to help you head into the weekend grooving to Miles Davis, tagging walls (totally legally, we swear!), and studying up on Steve Jobs’ impressive list of patents.
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Diet Coke gets a temporary facelift....
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This week we’ve been enjoying the sunshine with a side of punk rock graphics, cool Nike+ visualizations, and a creative design solution for diabetics.
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It’s (really big) outdoor art season.
An awesome visualization of runners’...
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Hanford Reach Interpretive Center
The land around the Hanford Reach has been through a lot. From the Ice Age to the Manhattan Project to today, this section of the Columbia River Plateau in Richland, Washington, has seen an immense amount of change. Yet, the rocks beneath the surface and the Columbia River have remained constant.
The Hanford Reach Interpretive Center details this history. The building, designed by Jones &...
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This week, we’ve been visualizing the Tour de France, checking out Wieden + Kennedy’s cool office space, and designing our perfect minimalistic vacation homes in the woods.
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Interesting...
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The Museum of Flight Space Gallery
When The Museum of Flight’s new Space Gallery opens at the end of the month, it will house a retired space shuttle trainer—the only one of its kind in the world.
Studio SC created an environmental graphics program for this new building, a 15,500-square-foot-building, located across the road from the Museum’s main building. SRG Partnership designed the gallery, which was built by Sellen...
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It’s finally feeling summery in Seattle, and we’ve been thinking about traveling the world (perhaps in a Velomobile), the power of typography, and how cool it is that the band CAKE used their own clothing to turn one of their songs into a book.
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July 2011
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We’ve spent this sunny week brushing up on our Heavy Metals, checking out Ferrari designs, and tweeting doodles.
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How would you redesign the Ferrari?
Noma Bar’s minimalist negative space...
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This week we discovered place-making at a bus stop, turning data into art, and the fanciest backyard playhouses around.
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Making a bus stop into a pleasant place to pass some time instead of a place people...
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SC in the DJC: Southern Ute Cultural Center &...
Studio SC’s work at the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum was featured in the Seattle DJC today.
The southwest Colorado facility was created to help preserve and share the culture, language, and history of the Southern Ute tribe, and we infused these aspects into our environmental graphics and wayfinding program. Jones & Jones Architects designed the building, which opened in...
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This week we looked back at the architecture of the Harry Potter films, were mesmerized by the crazy-cool process of 3-D printing, and found some amusing temporary tattoos for designers.
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The evolving architecture...
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This week we’ve explored the psychology behind naming paint colors, the meaning of “timelessness,” and the art of geolocating.
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Target brings wood-type to the masses. (via...
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Heading into the long weekend, we’re getting a glimpse of the weird world of circus art, enjoying celebrities’ personal letterheads, and learning about creating campaign logos. Happy 4th of July!
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June 2011
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This week we learned how to print synthetic money, how horrific most detergents are on clothes, and the history of the Oreo.
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Rob Zombie shows us the horrors of harsh detergents.
Canada rolls out poylmer...
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This week we met people who turn their cars into works of art, learned why so many wine labels feature “Animals Doing Things,” and brushed up our logo history.
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Go ahead, judge those bottles of wine by their...
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Scientific Artistry at UW
At left: The graphic pattern we designed for the University of Washington’s Molecular Engineering Building; Right: The nanophotonic image from which the pattern was derived.
We’re designing a graphic concept for the University of Washington’s Molecular Engineering Building: a 5-color triangular pattern derived from nanophotonic imaging.
(Only have a nano-sized knowledge about molecular...
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This week we’ve been introduced to Apple’s new Headquarters, Nordstrom’s classy wayfinding icons, and the tastiest placeholder text generator ever.
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The iSpaceship has landed.
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On this sunny afternoon, we’re marveling at crazy-looking pillows for on-the-go napping, U2’s 360 Tour, the redesigned dietary guidelines, and more.
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U2’s in Seattle this weekend, with their 120...
May 2011
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This week, we’ve experienced healing through fine art, retro packaging design, and the dangers of too much historical preservation.
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Apparently, Monet paintings can cure hay fever and Georges Seurat is the patron...
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Visualizing mash-ups, business cards for kids’ imagined careers, the overlap between comedy and design, and the other neat things we’ve stumbled upon this week.
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These rim-mounted bike lights...
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From street-art-infused music videos to clever marketing campaigns, and the other news items we’ve followed this week.
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Death Cab for Cutie and Shepard Fairey collaborated on a great music video that looks at...
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Nanoscience for Designers
We’re currently delving into the complex world of nanoscience as we work to create an identity and wayfinding signage program for the University of Washington’s Molecular Engineering Building. Our graphics will help tell the story of the work that’s done at the MEB, which includes research into areas of nanotechnology such as solar energy, clean fuel production, and more. Don’t know much about...
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Wondering if you’re following sushi-etiquette, curious about Ai Weiwei’s new installation, or trying to get your kids interested in math and science? We’ve got you covered.
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Dos and Don’t of...
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Felton moves to Facebook
Last week, Nicholas Felton and Ryan Case, the guys behind Daytum, announced that they were joining the Facebook team. Daytum, the personal data tracking website, will continue to operate. As big fans of Felton’s annual reports, we can’t wait to see what he does at Facebook.
If one thing has become clear in the age of social networking, it’s that people love to share the miniscule details of their...
April 2011
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Movie tie-in book covers that break the mold, parkour classes, off-beat industrial design, and the other news we’ve been enjoying this week.
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Dominic Wilcox’s industrial designs may not be all...