Soulellis Studio: March 2009 Archives

Twenty-five dead people on Twitter.

I've been on Twitter for almost two years but really didn't start using it seriously until a few months ago. Now I love it, and it's become a brilliant way to reach out to the design community, among others.

But I'm really hooked on the historical tweets. Poke around and you'll find a whole bunch of dead people on Twitter, like Susan Sontag, George Washington and Sigmund Freud. It's fascinating to digest the life's work of a great thinker in 140 character chunks. Some are like performances — others are really trying to converse in the Twitterverse, "in the voice of" or otherwise. Gandhi just uses the platform to spew quotes. Most fascinating is Charles Darwin, who is tweeting and blogging in real time on board the HMS Beagle (via his 1839 "Voyage of the Beagle" diary).

So here is a list of twenty-five dead people on Twitter. Peruse and enjoy.

Ernest Hemingway
Edgar Allan Poe
William Shakespeare
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jean Baudrillard
Marshall McLuhan
Susan Sontag
Sigmund Freud
Confucius
Andy Warhol
John Locke
Friedrich Neitzsche
Carl Jung
J.W. von Goethe
Karl Heinrich Marx
Gandhi
Charles Darwin
Walt Whitman
George Washington
William S. Burroughs
Julia Child
Buddha
Albert Einstein
Thomas Jefferson
Jacques Lacan

Tags links Twitter | Posted on March 1, 2009 5:22 PM | Permalink

TEDx

In the spirit of "ideas worth sharing," TED will introduce a new program that allows anyone in the world to host their own TED event. It hasn't even fully launched but events are already occurring in Taipei, Tokyo, Melbourne, Austin and USC. Currently working on the new identity (shown) and the guidelines that will go out globally. It's great fun and it looks like it's leading to a much larger branding system for all of TED (TED Global, TED India, etc). More coming soon!

Tags identity TED work | Posted on March 17, 2009 3:13 PM | Permalink

We love MAS

Lots of new work for The Municipal Art Society of New York. It's been about nine months since we launched the new identity, and we've been busy revamping their membership materials, forms, publications and a totally new bi-monthly calendar that will debut in April.

We really love working with MAS, because they get it. They understand good design (without being fussy) and they know the importance of communicating a mission with clarity. And they've got patience: it takes time to work with a new identity and let it grow into a full system. I feel like we're just about there.

Tags MAS print work | Posted on March 17, 2009 4:41 PM | Permalink

100 years ago

It's been a busy winter. Results are coming in the form of boxes filled with newly printed stuff landing at our door (from Rochester, in this case).

Look familiar? If you know the Cornell University campus, you'll recognize the Foundry building on our cover of the spring 2009 issue of the AAP newsletter. Workers are laying down the stone paving for University Avenue — in 1909. Turn the page, and we mirrored that view with an identical one, showing OMA's rendering of Milstein Hall one hundred years later. It's almost the same perspective — a fortuitous pairing that lends the controversial site a larger historical context.

Tags Cornell University print work | Posted on March 23, 2009 3:25 PM | Permalink

Speak Up

Hey, we were featured on Speak Up yesterday. Speak Up is a fantastic graphic design blog/community founded by Armin Vit — what an honor to appear here as one of his bookmark picks for American design, alongside some truly great work.

Check out the other featured designers:

Helen Yentus
TNOP
Rumors
Arlo (@arlo_design)
End Communications
Jessica Hische

Tags links news | Posted on March 27, 2009 10:36 AM | Permalink