:: Beautiful Green House Photo Exhibit ::

What a fantastic way to make a photo exhibit, love the way art and nature truly combines.

Photo exhibit for Steven Beckly, at Saunders Greenhouse in Ithaca, NY

:: Growing Jewelry By HAF ::

:: Apartment Space Transformers! ::

:: Why pay for an iPad stand? ::

…if you can get one for free?

However, I think the best iPad stand is…

All you need is a cat!! yay!!!

:: Beautiful Disposable Tableware ::

Beautiful disposable tableware by WASARA. WASARA is also a fully “green” product. Made from tree-free renewable materials (sugar cane fiber, bamboo, and reed pulp), and fully biodegradable and compostable, WASARA is as good to the earth as it is to your culinary creations.

:: eeko studio in CO+HOOTS ::

You know you’re busy when you haven’t seen new words in this blog for almost a month.

Hooray for being busy! And for earning money! And for beer!

Not all of the above are related.

So you should know by now that eeko studio has found a space of its own other than in your heart. For the last month and a half, we’ve been working downtown in Phoenix’s lone creative coworking space, CO+HOOTS.

CO+HOOTS, of course, is the brainchild of eeko studio’s very own creator, Jenny Poon.

If you didn’t know those two facts we just mentioned, you obviously only look at the pretty pictures, here, here AND here.

What else is new with eeko studio? Well, we’ve hired a part-time employee (whom many of you may remember but that’s for another day, another post), we’ve worked on several Web sites, logos, and may even art direct a magazine or two.

Oh, and geekodeen has gotten even more handsome. If you can believe that.

:: The Case Against Design Contests ::

“It is time to design the reward structure for the design profession so that the designs that advance the field, that make a real difference in the world of products, services, and all the other problem areas in which modern designers work receive recognition.” — Don Norman at Core77

Translation: We need to design better design contests. Maybe we should hold a design contest for that.

read entirety on GOOD

:: ‘Per’ and ‘chit,’ the latest convo with mom ::

MUNDANE MONDAY HAS BECOME MOMMA (POONDINGO) MONDAY!
GOOD LUCK TRANSLATING!

ma: i got you some thing

me: is it your photo for your site?

ma: no a presant
i like it but i don’t no u will like it or not
prasent?

me: what is it?
im sure ill like it

ma: u want i sent it for u

me: what is it

ma: a red per…. don’t no how to type\

Ed. note: What could it be eeko studio blog readers (bleaders?)
What do you think?
THE NEXT DAY …

ma: hi, jennyy

me: hi ma!
what is red pear
you never answered yesterday
what is my present?

ma: purt
bag
small
red
go out party at night
quil
i think you love it
i thought you go out at night or little chit in the day time is ok too
chich?
chik?
mean morden look

ma: i go now, i can’t wait too long ,m bye.
love u

:: New Project: AlexMeraz.com launches ::

I get a call from Kim Meraz a few months ago about building a site for her husband Alex, who happened to be in the Twilight series. (Insert pause for teenage girl squeel).

So we hit up the Paradise Bakery and talk it over. I find out Alex is not only an actor. He is an an insanely talented artist and dancer. We weren’t building just a site for his acting career, but a site to show off his amazing talent as an artist.

This has been one of the most freeing projects eeko studio has taken on in a long time. Kim, Alex and I, sat and talked about how the site would unfold and how to implement his artwork into a truly creative experience. Each page carefully planned. Each movement in tune with the style of his work. We dig in and talk about him personally and how his art is a reflection of his passions. About his personality and how his life has changed since they had their son. About mixed martial arts, California, dancing and how he started drawing because of a Snoopy sketch he made when he was young.

So dig in, wander around and see the original artwork of Alex Meraz and see him as he is, an artist. Skilled in several disciplines.

Site and cards by eeko studio, printed on 100% recycled, powered through wind

:: pollution and polar bears. falling. from. the. sky. ::

On a much more graphic level than our last polar bear post, and on a totally disturbing level. Here is a video on pollution, which involves polar bears. WARNING: GRAPHIC. Not sure if I agree with the way this is presented, but definitely is horribly memorable.