The gelato-crazed, design-fazed Gelatobaby lends a hand (or her feet?) to GOOD magazine’s car-free, alternative transportation celebrationMoving Beyond Cars. Taking place at downtown’s Jewel Box where the exhibition LA Beyond Cars: A Global Perspective on Rail and Space is currently held, the event is aimed at helping Angelinos become less auto-dependent while taking steps toward using the city’s ever expanding public modes of transportation.
So! Borrow a bike! Try taking the bus for the first time! Race a friend on horseback from across town! Just get to the event in a way that shows LA is moving beyond cars. Besides the fun of everyone reporting how they got there, we’ll also have a few special activities. We’ll have James Rojas leading his interactive city planning workshops (which I’ve written about for GOOD before), and the folks from CicLAvia will be on-hand to tell us about their plan to create car-free streets one day this fall (10/10/10!). Plus! Prizes will be awarded to whoever arrives in the most unique, “beyond car” way.
All information here, and you can RSVP and share the information over at Facebook. Hope to see you there!”
Now our favorite Silver Lake based Beautiful Losers graphic designer who looks exactly like Paul Rudd has teamed up with Poolga to create (free!) digital wallpapers for your favorite Apple and Palm Pre devices.
“A few months ago I was invited by my friend JC to create a few wallpapers for Poolga, a site dedicated to providing quality original artwork for iPads and iPhones.
It became the perfect opportunity to point out the similarities between all the boards (planks, slates etc.) in my life. Head over to Poolga for the free download and never forget to be thankful for the board under your feet (or fingers).”
Drove back late last night from an amazing San Francisco food-fueled (Molinari’s, Pizzeria Delfina) shoe and shirt-hunting (Upper Playground, Shoebiz) art-viewing and buying (Coverage on Le Merde at Super 7 coming soon!) weekend getaway with friends (old, new and bunny-centric) in my former SF neighborhoods only to come back completely drained late last night to my trusty Los Feliz hood. Yet still, the price of a good time in SF is always worth the trip up north.
About the four different covers (above) from Keith:
“For the art in the magazine, we selected many different visual creators to show us their unique perspective on what a neighborhood is. Valeriya Volkova (Brooklyn, NY), Lorin Brown (Los Angeles, CA), Miss Lotion(Copenhagen) and Public School (Austin, TX) all created covers for GOOD’s first multiple-cover issue. You can learn a bit more about the covers here. And they are all available as prints from Society6.“
And a bit of the Scharwath golden touch thrown in for good measure (pun intended).
Beautiful Losers graphic/poster designer and my good buddy Keith Scharwath is now also a good art director as he guest art directs the upcoming Neighborhoods issue of GOOD magazine. In his new do-gooder role he’s looking for a few good contributors and that’s where you good creative types come in. Get in while the gettings good!
From Keith’s Carwash (obvs cover deadline has passed but content submissions ongoing through Feb 15!):
“Are you an artist or a photographer? We’ve opened up the issue to the greater creative web community through Society6 for visual artists, and Pictory for photographers. What this means in a nutshell is if you are interested in having your art in (or on the cover) of the magazine, you can participate on these sites and your art may be chosen.
The Society6 deadline is end of day tomorrow – Feb. 9th. Click here for more information about participating on Society6.
The Pictory deadline is Feb. 15th. Click here for more info about submitting a photo to Pictory.”
Yes, you read that right, free money! Courtesy of my bearded graphic designer buddy Keith Scharwath in commemoration of the grand opening of his blog Carwash, Keith will be giving away 100 free Gocco prints on dollar bills with a special message printed on each hand numbered bill. In addition to designing the beautiful poster for Beautiful Losers (which is always up on the left side of this site), Keith has worked on a wide variety of design projects ranging from album covers; logos corporate and non; good work for GOOD; and various Nike projects amongst many others. Please help welcome Keith’s new blog, Carwash, to the interwebs by clicking over for some visual stimulation, inspiration and a“free print (or a free dollar)”while supplies last!
With their fresh locally grown produce, independent vendors and hours or operation that usually directly coincide with your workday, farmers’ markets have been a Los Angeles staple for 30 years now. This Thursday’s celebration of the LA institutions will be held at the first farmers’ market, the Gardena market which opened back on June 23, 1979. On hand will be Mayor Villaraigosa to start the day’s festivities, as well as our friends at GOOD (focusing on design solutions for local food) and Fresh Pressed (handing out free vegetable dyed produce bags from ECOBAGS and the crafty hands of Gelatobaby’s Alissa Walker), a salsa Contest, free birthday carrot cake and food samplings galore. A worthy celebration to be happy for, but sadly the farmers’ market schedule holds true as the party only lasts from 10am-2pm in Little Tokyo.
This Thursday get good eats with GOOD Magazine as they team up with Trekking L.A. at the Mercado La Paloma to sample some of the best street foods Los Angeles has to offer featuring vendors from South East Mexico, Thailand and Peru. In addition to music from Veracruz Mexico, you can also participate in a street art installation and workshop. Details and RSVP here.
“GOOD Los Angeles is proud to partner with UCLA and LA Commons to launch their 2009 Trekking LA season.
Join us this Thursday evening from 6-9 p.m. at the Mercado La Paloma– a converted sweatshop turned community center– as we sample some of the best street food in the city. Plus, live street music from Veracruz Mexico.
Los Angeles not only hosts game one of the Lakers championship run Thursday night, but also a couple of art related events for the non-sports inclined.
Musician (BARR), writer (RVCA’s ANP Quartely), photocopier, the multi-talented Brendan Fowler releases his appropriately titled book ISBN-10: 0-9820559-3-5 in which he chronicles his past year in “object-making” with a camera and a photocopier. Brendan will be on hand to sign copies of the limited edition book at downtown’s Ooga Boogastore. Memorize the title and get 10% off the book that night!
Ever since GOOD Magazine opened up the doors to their GOOD Space on Melrose for their GOOD.IS/DECEMBER series this month, they’ve been good enough to offer free events open to the public as well as free wi-fi for anyone wanting to stop by. They’ve hosted D.I.Y. workshops, town hall meetings on sustainability, and even film screenings. This Thursday they continue to bring the goods as gelato baby Alissa Walker and Good’s Casey Kaplow host artist Geoff McFetridge and others as they engage in a discussion on how good design can affect our LA community. Make sure to RSVP!
From GOOD:
“Designers love to claim that good design can solve any problem. Join the brightest minds from the vast and varied Los Angeles design world as they sketch out better solutions to some of LA’s most pressing issues.”
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