Happy Holidays!

All the Colors of the [Jello]

If you're looking for color inspiration, go no further than the holiday dessert table. I wonder what the rest of this dinner looked like...

Thanks, Bruno, for the jello mold tip!

Twelve Days of Design Christmas

By Carolyn Edgecomb

The holiday season crept up on us, so we'll make the eight days of design Hanukkah for next year. Here's the countdown to Christmas for the designer in all of us. Go to the next page to see our top picks!

12 Moleskin Notebooks
Perfect for your designer friends' scribbles and schemes. If you feel like going the extra mile, there are plenty of Etsy sellers who screen-print colorful designs on the cover.

Quest for Quantification Webinar

Rob's hosting a webinar for the HBA this Tuesday, December 20th. Interested? Register here!

Under the Headset: Holiday Edition

Favorite Songs:
Nat King Cole- The Christmas Song
Home Alone Soundtrack- Somewhere in My Memory
Dolly Parton- Hard Candy Christmas
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong- Baby, It's Cold Outside
José Feliciano- Feliz Navidad
George Winston- Carol of the Bells

Never to Be Heard Again:
Lady Gaga- Christmas Tree
Run DMC- Christmas
All Holiday Music (a general request)
Don Garder- All I Want for Christmas
Elmo- Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
Traditional- The 12 Days of Christmas
Z100- The 12 Shopping Days of Christmas
David Seville & the Chipmunks- The Chipmunk Song

Modern Renaissance Man: Ice Cube Visits the Eames House

By Lauren Wong

Famed hip hop artist Ice Cube takes an architectural tour of Los Angeles and wanders through the iconic Eames house in this 2-minute video for Pacific Standard Time, an exhibit collection from the Getty Museum in Southern California. As he praises the vision of the Charles and Ray Eames, Ice Cube shows how closely design, architecture and music are intertwined. It might surprise viewers to find out that he studied architectural drafting, but there are many aspects of Ice Cube's personality that aren't public knowledge. To define a multifaceted man with one word is like describing an apple as a red object; neither are accurate representations. Today's society is not one-dimensional, and neither is Ice Cube.

Mess Branding

by Rich Rickaby

Many brands have become a mess. Without identifying any, let’s assume that some brands have multiple logo variations, extend themselves too fast to remain controlled, use mixed messages and lack clarity of vision. How does a brand reclaim itself? First, have everyone refer to the brand standard manual and get your communications in line. Voila! You’re on your way.