Architectural Digest once said that the styles of objects that will work with any decor are Art Nouveau and Art Deco. Interiors themed to classic, modern, antique or in between....an Art Nouveau or Art Deco sculpture, painting, bottle, piece of crystal, poster or piece of furniture always wor...
As you know by now, we love brilliant design. And Laura Lee Clark is brilliant! I mean, LOOK at these pictures of rooms she's created! They are stunning. But what's interesting is they are also timeless. How does she manage to make her work so current and yet so class...
Heather Wiese Alexander, a successful graphic designer and art director, is the founder and owner of Nest Dallas at 4524 McKinney Avenue and Bell'Invito at 1403 Dragon Street in Dallas, Texas. To simply say that she's a design taste maker extraordinaire would be an understatement on steroids....
If The Old State's Travis McElroy or Gabe Macias found themselves sinking in a sea of mediocrity or boredom at a party, they'd make a beeline for Jan Shower's social life raft. I mean, I aspire for these guys to talk about me behind my back the way they talk about Jan Showers. Quite sim...
At The Old State, we love design, we love architecture, we love to see things which were created from passion and through the sheer force of the imagination. You know that feeling you get when you see something and you immediately get the sense that some brilliant human being, or many of th...
Allan Knight and Associates is a trade showroom based in Dallas and, quite frankly, it's a showstopper. Wow, wow, and wow. Within these walls the creative process and magnificent design are bursting at the seams. At The Old State, we appreciate fine design, innovative thinking, th...
If you haven't guessed already, these videos won't really entertain you unless you know fonts. I'm serious! They are parodies about fonts. I showed them to Curt (art director), Gabe (senior designer) and Yen (developer) today and not once did Yen cackle, in fact, he walked away. Sorry Yen, maybe th...
erhaps one of the most challenging aspects of design is typography. It takes a special touch to get all those little letters to look right together. One of the best at doing so is Jessica Hische. She has the uncanny ability to take letterforms, twist them to her will and command them to do her bi...
A while back, I wrote about Saul Bass, one of my all-time favorite designers and a real inspiration to me. I'd like to continue on that path and write about another of my design heroes: Milton Glaser.
The scope and diversity of this man's work astounds me. He's done everything from poster ...
I am a sucker for a good screen print. Over the years, I've acquired a pretty extensive collection of gig posters from some of my favorite designers out there. I was even lucky enough to have one of these extremely talented individuals (Dirk Fowler of F2 Design) as a teacher in college.
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couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing the Shepard Fairey exhibit at the ICA in Boston...a fantastic experience. The ICA is housed in an absolutely beautiful building on the Boston waterfront. They have a great permanent collection, but the reason I was there was to see Fairey's exhibit....