Figuring out where to order lunch from is always the hardest part. We’ll try to get some help from this mobile app – Alfred.
Looks like the outlook is good for Thai food (via Lifehacker).
The Mode fridge has been known to look a bit like this, usually lots of Thai leftovers. Check out artist mark Menjivar’s series of portraits – You Are What You Eat (via theKitchn)
Go meet Kyle and check out the truck this weekend at the Renegade Craft Fair here in Chicago.
Keep on trucking’ !
photo: Derek Fagerstrom
Another “project” we love. Check out more on photographer Lyle Owerko’s book.
From cupcakes to sausage, Chicago has exploded with food trucks and we love it. These rolling restaurants have made an influence with the help of social media. (We suggest foodtruckschicago.com which follows the trucks’ activity via twitter) But restaurants aren’t the only ones catching on to the trend, Nike and Gap have jumped on the food truck craze as well. Check out the ‘tube clips below (via adverblog).
Catch @picodegapchi while it’s still here for the summer
Gotta watch as 250 synced camera flashes provide the background for this music video.
Hot digity dog we ‘like’ this poster. Click on the image above to see the full poster by designer Betty Turbo (via gapersblock).
A little ARRA work around the corner on Wells St.
Of course we had to post this, and besides, who doesn’t love a sound board. (via Make)
Posted without comment in honor of President’s Day
by Put This On via Chicagoist
Its always a challenge to keep the keys clean during long sessions and working meals.
Need some tips ? Check out: The Best Foods (and Strategies) for Eating at Your Computer via Lifehacker
We certainly agree with Keyboard Friendly Foods first suggestion.
Set the TiVo. Andrew Zimmerman hits Chicago with a stop (among many others) at one of our previously mentioned favorites – the Vienna Beef hot dog factory.
Here’s the show times on Travel Channel over the next week :
Here was the view from the studio.
We love free stuff. And this week at Toys ‘R’ Us, score a free Mario shirt with the purchase of a Nintendo Wii system. Choose from the original white console, or the new black, then decide between 8 different designs for your free shirt, it’s sure to add an extra element of fun to your game playing!
Offer ends 05/29/2010. Visit The Bargainist for more.
We had a great time last week at the AICE Awards Show. It was great to see everyone and say hi to some of our favorite faces.
See the complete list of winners at the AICE website.
Check out more photos from the event, held at the Field Museum, here!
This is a must have for the next late night here at Mode. (via Slashfood) Photo: Laughing Squid, Flickr
Happy to see that our favorite band is on the Lollapalooza line-up this year. With a bullet Ike, with a bullet !
Well hello to you too Joe Pierre. No baloney. The latest YouTube favorite here at Mode. (via RetroThing)
Something for the shop. via Make
Two of our favorites come together.
Our last look at the CTA’s Holiday Train from the studio will be tomorrow @ 4:37 PM as it heads south and @ 4:56 as it returns north on the Purple Line. We’ll try to have the camera ready to capture some images this time.
Haven’t gotten the opportunity to try this one out yet. Check it out via Make.
Thanks to Red Car for hosting a classy Mad Men themed party. We loved the fake cigarettes, vintage ads, and spicy manhattans. Don Draper would be proud.
Check it out this NY Times article featuring a University of California, San Diego report that Americans consume 34GB a day each.
We love a good system whether it’s visual, organizational, or whatever. Check out one that’s always a favorite around this time of year: the Kids Halloween Candy Code. An adaptation of the old Hobo code of symbols. When Trick-or-Treating we’re always happy with Kit Kats.
Had time to get out for lunch on Friday which marked the first time back to the recently re-opened Club Lago. Six months ago the chimney of the adjacent building collapsed and Lago’s kitchen was destroyed, as well as a handful of vehicles in the nearby parking lot (many of which are still there for some reason.) Ordered the usual; meat ball sandwich, no cheese, hot giardiniera on the side, w/ fries and a cup of minestrone soup.
It was good to see the the Nardini brothers again, the food was great and the only noticable change to the place was a fresh coat of paint. A must visit if you are in the neighborhood.
There are always a stream of technological updates and advances with anything we do. This week is no exception as Chipotle announces the release of their iPhone ordering app. Who needs Mac OS 10.7 “Cougar,” Adobe CS 5 or FinalCut Pro 8 when we’ve got the Chipotle iPhone App. As mentioned before, Mode loves Chipotle, so let’s get a lunch order going.
* On a sad note the iPhone app will greatly diminish the use of one, if not the most, innovative piece of paperwork we’ve ever seen – the Chipotle Order Form. Flawless. (except where do you put chips & guac ?)
We’re going to have to check this one out for sure. (via Toolmonger)
Seems as though there’s confusion as to when National Cupcake Day is. No worries – any excuse to eat cupcakes is good by us. We’re always adding a chocolate Goddess Cupcake to our lunch order from The Goddess and Grocer.
We first went down this rabbit hole today when we saw this tribute on Google Reader from one of our favorite feeds – Cake Wrecks. As usual there are some “fugly” cakes (The “No Intelligent Life Found” cake is a classsic wreck).
We’ve got another production coming up, so we’ve commissioned the shop to build us some set pieces once again.
Here we’re breaking up some oversized 4×8 sheets of 3/4″ MDF.
Of course the power is on so eye protection is required.
The Corn Pops set (check out the audience details) was the last thing we commissioned, if you don’t count almost all the props from the Planters shoot.
The best gyros (not to mention hot sauce) in the neighborhood definitely belongs to Steve’s Place. If you can’t tell from the photo, the hot sauce is sooo good on just about anything that they serve in a basket. Check out this recent NY Times article on the old gyro’s that includes this movie “The Making of a Gyro Cone”. We may have to make a trip sometime in the near future to yet another processed meat factory.
Saw this the other night during the All-Star Game’s Home Run Derby. Check out how the ESPN Ball Tracker works. Baseball meets Doppler radar, meets superimposed jfx. (via popsci.com)
If you didn’t know already, Mode loves Chipotle. We’ll be researching our entry to this contest for sure. Mmmmm.
Somehow I missed this until I got an email last night. The Beastie Boys have remastered Paul’s Boutique and have an accompanying website. This site is a must to check out. After you play “Got more ? than ?” don’t miss one of my favorite Beastie videos “Shadrach (Mosh Version)” in the video player window.
“Hoops and Graces is an indoor parlor game that was popular during the antebellum period, but it can be played outdoors as well. The name comes from the hoops used in play, and the graceful movements that are necessary for a successful game.”
The “tilt-shift”—it’s on the verge (if not over it already) of becoming an over-used technique. Screw it. This piece from Sydney-based photographer Keith Loutit is awesome.
Thanks to Marcus Trimble over at Super Colossal.
Even though our recent design explorations have lead us down a mostly “digital” path (Processing, Flash-based interfaces, some web design stuff), there’s a soft spot in our collective hearts for good old-fashioned craft. So allow us to present this stunner from the Office of Charles and Ray Eames as part of a new occasional series we’ll call “Classic Design Industrials”.
Hat-tip to Aaron Draplin of the DDC.
121508 > Chicago :: 6.00am > Washington, DC :: 12.50pm > Chicago :: 8.50pm
“Daytripper” :: Curtis Knight, vocals : Jimi Hendrix, guitar
Hat tip to Andrew Dryer, the original “Painter of Light.”
One of my favorite pieces of broadcast design, straight outta memories from Channel 9 in Windsor.
The Caucasian can never get too much press.
“Never work alone. It’s essential to be in some sort of collaboration or partnership with someone. Cultivating a creative environment is essential.”
This is taken from the very beginning of an interview with designer Carin Goldberg. The whole thing is good.
Taken from “Success Secrets of the Graphic Design Superstars” via Design Observer.
In case you missed it, there’s some slot-car action going on in the new Motion Theory spot for Honda. Check out the spot about 3/4 the way through.
Any time someone drives to work, there’s a good chance that, for lunch, we will wind up at the Vienna Beef Factory Cafe. As they state on their website “You won’t find a fresher dog”. It’s true.
Today: 2 Dogs-2 Buns, Cheese Fry and a Red Cream Soda.
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If you’re from Moscow, can provide evidence of Russian citizenship or can send us a drawing of a Rodchenko poster we’ll send you a Mode Project t-shirt made in the U S and A.
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Glasnost!
Sometimes there’s that phrase or term that just spreads through the studio. Recently its been one from financial consultant Oscar Rogers. Check it out on hulu (jump to 5:00) then FIX IT!!!
There are a lot of internal projects in incubation here at the corner of Franklin and Huron. One of our favorite fuzzy-headed little chicks is “Artifact”, an experimental 3d narrative about the Farnsworth House.
A huge part of this project is research. A lot has been written about the house–and much continues to be written due to the recent flooding of the Fox River. One of more interesting takes on this can be found over at Strange Harvest, a blog by Sam Jacobs.
The house exists as a juxtaposition: the raised platform of temperature controlled air and sanitation held between two slabs of whiteness against a backdrop of nature. The house is on the cusp of invisibility and impossibility.
To scale baked replica concept to be pitched to next client. Hat tip to KF.
Tom Kundig might be one of the most conceptual architects of our time. A principal of the Seattle-based firm Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, his honors include a 2008 National Design Award in Architecture Design from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt; a 2007 Academy Award in Architecture from The American Academy of Arts and Letters; selection as a finalist for the 2005 National Design Award for Architecture; a MacDowell Colony Fellowship; and selection as an Emerging Architect by the Architectural League of New York. In 2006, Princeton Architectural Press released Tom Kundig: Houses. Kundig’s undergraduate and graduate architecture degrees are from the University of Washington. He’s a badass in our book.
Check out the original touch screen at about 2:20. Priceless. And the eagle at the end ain’t too shabby either. Thanks to Mike Davis over at So Much Pileup.
Click on the image to see the bucket in motion.
Checking the blogs last night I came across yet another adaptation of the Obama logo ( via Slashfood ). Most interesting is that this marks the second donut & bacon entry here at the Mode Project Blog ( here’s the first ). Somethings up, now I’m going to have to try this combination next. I’ll let you know how it is.
Got a new book in the mail yesterday: Ed Ruscha’s “Leave Any Information at the Signal.” He’s an artist based in LA…done a ton of work. The book is a compilation of his writing. I’m not so much drawn to the book’s over-arching statements about Art (which every interviewer seems to belabor) but rather Ed’s particular interests––the everyday, mundane, pedestrian stuff. Like this nugget, a statement from What Artists Like about the Art They Like When They Don’t Know Why. “When I was a baby to art I was disarmed by Arthur Dove’s 1925 painting Goin’ Fishin’.(First Image) His unorthodox materials–the use of collage–drove home some point I never expected. So did Alvin Lustig’s book-cover illustrations for New Directions Press(Second Image) back in the 50s. I had a terrific initial response but I didn’t try to ponder it.”
A lesson to you scofflaws: this is where you end up when you forget your wallet and then allegedly run a stop sign. *Note to officer on phone: hope you got a sweet piece at the gun auction.
Good for a change.
www.projectmlab.com
Or read something, anything. Of particular interest right now would be this. Not only because it’s a great, topical piece of political journalism but also due to the tragic fact that Mr. Foster Wallace killed himself last Friday evening and his astonishing work should be remembered.
That’s right. Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheddar Cheeseburgers.
There’s construction happening on Franklin. As one familiar with quikrete and rebar, was duly impressed by the barricade that went up.
