http://brettruiz.com/blog Design, Photography, Thoughts Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:47:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I thought it might be fun to design logos for some of the local businesses on my block in Bushwick, Brooklyn. I live next to the corner of Flushing and Knickerbocker avenues which are filled with many colorful venues. Bushwick car service got me to work when I was running ... http://brettruiz.com/blog/?p=559 Some of the names floating around in the metal music scene are pretty ridiculous. Some of the longest ones evoke lyrical and poetic imagery themselves, before the music is even heard. That was the inspiration for this series of posters. At least once a week this summer I will be ... http://brettruiz.com/blog/?p=541 http://brettruiz.com/blog/?p=534 The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo. A day in the life of New York City, in miniature. Original Music: composed by Human, co-written by Rosi Golan and Alex Wong. Please view in HD and full screen for best effect. For a description of the shoot, camera, lenses and workflow, please see here: ... http://brettruiz.com/blog/?p=526 So it seems that information design has become quite the hot topic on Reddit in the last couple of weeks. With that in mind I post this poster I designed when I was a youngin' back in the day of like 2007 or something. haha. All of the data on ... http://brettruiz.com/blog/?p=521 From the wikipedia entry: The story opens with an unnamed grandmother complaining to her son, Bailey, and his family that she would rather go to Tennessee for vacation than Florida, the family's planned destination. After the family resolves to go to Florida regardless of her protests, she spites them by rising ... http://brettruiz.com/blog/?p=512 http://brettruiz.com/blog/?p=507 I'll be overhauling my blog over the next week or two. I'd like my entire site to be driven by wordpress at some point so things could be a little funky looking if you visit here and I'm testing new code. Cheers! http://brettruiz.com/blog/?p=494 From the wikipedia article http://brettruiz.com/blog/?p=490 http://brettruiz.com/blog/?p=485