Posts Tagged ‘green’
Drink Responsibly on Earth Day – Sustainable Craft Breweries
April 22, 2013
From Inhabitat – Here’s a list of America’s favorite sustainable craft breweries. We enjoy Sierra Nevada, Harpoon IPA, and Boulevard. Have you tried these or the others on the list? I’m going to check out Fairway to see if they carry these other brews. Kudos to these small craft breweries. They are fine examples of [...]
2013 | Events, Gastronauting, Happy Hour | Tags: adventures, ale, beer, cocktails, drinks, environment, green, Happy HourComments (0)
A Beau-Arts Masterpiece for the 21st Century
August 27, 2012
When Union Station was designed by Daniel Burnham in 1907, the country was experiencing unprecedented growth in train travel. The elegant Beaux-Arts station quickly gained status as one of the busiest, most important rail stations in the world. After its busiest years during World War II, Union Station fell victim to the passage of time [...]
2012 | Architecture, From the Road, Inspiration | Tags: adventures, Architecture, elegant, environment, green, Modernism, researchComments (0)
The Black Eggs Project
August 10, 2012
Nature + Technology + Art = Amazing levitating Buddha I am in awe of all the wonderfulness in the world. From Inhabitant: Situated in a 6,000-square-foot pond at Eindhoven’s University of Technology, Vermeulen’s eggs generate solar power that is converted into a magnetic field. The magnetic field makes a Buddha figure, which is encased in a [...]
2012 | Architecture, Industrial Design, Inspiration | Tags: adventures, Architecture, elegant, environment, green, happiness, Inspiration, researchComments (0)
Kitchen Design is always Set Design, but this one, or these, especially…
April 17, 2012
Well, of course, every kitchen is a set, and every kitchen requires great lighting, ideally real and artificial. In this case, just artificial. Like most all of our projects, we can’t discuss the client or the use until long after the work has been built, filmed, edited, and aired. At least for film and television. [...]
2012 | Television, The Work, VectorWorks | Tags: Architecture, design, green, Happy Hour, KLAD, lighting, Lighting Design, Modernism, scenic design, set design, sets, VectorWorksComments (0)
Vectorworks Creative Minds Monthly Design Competition
March 28, 2012
Nemetschek Vectorworks has announced their Creative Minds competition that challenges designers, including and especially set designers and lighting designers, to explore multiple options for documenting and presenting your response to a design concept. Each month’s concept can be answered with ANY kind of design response – architectural design, product design, landscape design, entertainment design, or [...]
2012 | Architecture, Theatre of Games, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: Architecture, art, design, environment, green, KLAD, lighting, Modernism, scenic design, set design, VectorWorksComments (0)
Art Director’s Notebook: Playful Lighting
February 17, 2012
They are all over ebay, at flea markets and garage sales – toys! Sometimes dented, chipped, die cast metal cars missing wheels or windshields, robots that no longer wind up, action figures that lost a scuffle or two. What happens to these cast aside remnants of childhood? Do they somehow make their way to the [...]
2012 | Inspiration | Tags: art, design, green, Inspiration, lighting, redComments (0)
Indoor Gardening
July 29, 2011
Even though it is 110 in the Shade here right now. And, it seems, generally across the dust bowl of middle America. It is time to begin to think about how much we use fresh herbs preparing winter meals. We really don’t have a lot of dry herbs, they’re just not the same. Of course, [...]
2011 | Gastronauting, Happy Hour, Industrial Design, Restaurant Design | Tags: Architecture, cocktails, design, drinks, environment, green, ModernismComments (0)
Set Design Notebook: Hues, Tones, & Textures
June 30, 2011
A contemporary wall treatment created by artfully combining a furniture maker’s wood scraps. By Anne-Sophie Poirier for the Slowpoke Cafe, Melbourne Australia. I think this wall treatment would work beautifully in a day spa or a as a fireplace wall. More photos of this wall and other elements of the cafe at Dezeen Tweet
2011 | Architecture, Design Basics, Industrial Design, Inspiration, Restaurant Design | Tags: Architecture, art, design, green, Inspiration, ModernismComments (0)
Bicycles and trains, oh my…
March 24, 2011
COBE Architects (careful theirs is a nasty flash-based website design) recently won an architectural competition with a sexy and bike-friendly new design for the redesign of Copenhagen’s Norreport train station. Slightly retro in style, the architects’ vision of the new station is composed of a series of curved, floating roofs set on dynamic glass pavilions. [...]
2011 | From the Road | Tags: Architecture, design, environment, green, set designComments (0)
When is a ruin not a ruin?
March 21, 2011
Green is good. In fact, green may be the new black, but this green looks old. Populous announced this week that its master plan for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China has taken first place in a competition to design the development, including public buildings, schools, exhibition centers, Olympic venues and athlete accommodations. [...]
2011 | Architecture, Design Basics | Tags: environment, green, lighting, Modernism, set design, Television, VectorWorksComments (0)
From The Art Director’s File: Cool Set Dressing
January 6, 2011
I’m always on the look out for set dressing that will, someday, speak to a character or scene. I have files full of all kinds of dressing – furniture, rugs, pillows, drapes, knick-knacks, books, statues, trophies, sports equipment, kitchen and dining, etc. As soon as I saw this clock, it went right into my file. [...]
2011 | Inspiration, Television, The Work | Tags: art, color, design, green, Inspiration, research, set designComments (0)
Preservation and Adaptive Reuse by Design
December 1, 2010
If you’re a fan of the Kevin Lee Allen Design page on Facebook – and we hope you are – you may have seen a link I posted to a weburbanist post on abandoned skyscrapers. That link inspired me to discuss adaptive reuse and historic preservation, as some of these structures are listed on the [...]
2010 | Architecture, Industrial Design, Inspiration, Uncategorized | Tags: Architecture, art, design, environment, green, ModernismComments (1)
Fascinating Re-Design and Re-Purposing
July 20, 2010
Interesting post at Inhabitant today about a German company re-fitting cigarette machines to dispense books. For less than the cost of a package of smokes. Pretty good deal and interesting change in cultural iconography. Apparently, cigarette machines have great mechanics. Never thought about it or considered the idea, however they must have needed to take [...]
2010 | Industrial Design, Inspiration | Tags: Architecture, design, green, set design, Television, TheatreComments (0)
Can KLAD use Inflatable Icebergs in Set Design?
July 12, 2010
Woods Bagot, a worldwide architectural firm has designed an interesting solution to the recession stalled, partially finished construction projects that dot the Manhattan landscape. This caught my eye with its potential for set design and events. The firm is shopping to developers temporary inflatable buildings which may help developers collect rent from these sites, and [...]
2010 | Architecture, Industrial Design, Inspiration, Uncategorized | Tags: Architecture, art, color, design, environment, green, Inspiration, set designComments (0)
Tree House or House Trees?
June 9, 2010
I’ve always been fascinated by tree houses and have been wanting to do a treehouse design post since I saw this. Unfortunately, My friend Eve Politanoff beat me to it. Twice. I think all of the obvious comments about fantasy and folly are well expressed by the various images seen through the links. I’ve also [...]
2010 | Architecture, Inspiration | Tags: Architecture, design, green, Modernism, set design, TheatreComments (1)
Gehry and Ike?!?
March 26, 2010
I wonder if they used Vectorworks? I know that Frank Gehry’s firm has a proprietary CAD application that they use to develope his trademark sail like metal shapes. For about 10 years, Gehry has been working with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. The first cool thing about this concept is the expansion of the [...]
2010 | Architecture | Tags: Architecture, design, drawing, environment, green, set designComments (0)
Natural Disaster at KLAD World HQ
March 14, 2010
Time to make Lemonade. We went to bed last night shortly after an unidentified thump in the midst of a hurricanesque Nor’Easter. This morning we awoke to find one of our major oak trees more horizontal than vertical. Actually, totally horizontal, just pushed over by the wind. Amazingly, aside from the loss of the tree [...]
2010 | Inspiration, now blooming, The Studio | Tags: Architecture, design, environment, green, set designComments (1)
Moss!
March 10, 2010
It is springtime and a young man’s fancy turns, of course, to lawn care! Well, not so much, me not so much anyway. In springtime, I start to think about how to eliminate lawn care. I frankly hate our lawn and hate the 60 or so Briggs & Stratton engines that swarm over the yard [...]
2010 | Inspiration, now blooming | Tags: Architecture, design, environment, green, Modernism, VectorWorksComments (1)
4 Ski Slopes
February 25, 2010
It’s double sided, remember? You did read yesterday’s post? If not, scroll down. Tweet
2010 | The Work | Tags: design, designer, environment, green, signageComments (0)
7 working, 2 watching
February 24, 2010
We have been working with the Valley Animal Hospital on a new branding and identity initiative for some time. Recently we installed some real and very tangible results of our joint efforts–New Signage. If you click on the link, there should also be a new website which we have Art Directed. If the website does [...]
2010 | The Work | Tags: Architecture, color, colour, design, drawing, environment, green, Modernism, VectorWorksComments (2)
3 Great Metal Fabrics
February 16, 2010
Forget Texas, they do things bigger in Dubai! I saw what they call ‘The Creek’ in Dubai when I was there consulting with Al Arabiya, it reminded me of a sizable river feeding into an ocean, well the Gulf of Arabia. I saw this post about the Kirkless Hotel in Dubai today. They have quite the [...]
2010 | Architecture, From the Road, Inspiration | Tags: Architecture, design, elegant, environment, exhibit design, green, lighting, Lighting Design, Modernism, research, set designComments (0)
15 reasons to love or hate Dwell Magazine
January 27, 2010
We’ve loved and/or hated Dwell since it first began publishing. This Tumblr makes fun of some of the things we hate. Like any publication, Dwell has evolved. The magazine first began published on rough paper a few times a year. It was truly innovative and had a world wide focus. We’ve given copies to local [...]
2010 | Architecture, Inspiration | Tags: design, drawing, environment, green, Inspiration, KLAD, lighting, ModernismComments (0)
This might help in Haiti
January 13, 2010
Design is all about looking at things from all angles and developing solutions to problems. Sometimes that problem is as simple as ‘make this pretty.’ Other times the problem is more complex; like we need shelter for millions of people, stat! One component in OUR arsenal is the research we discuss all the time. One [...]
2010 | Architecture, Industrial Design | Tags: design, designer, green, research, set designComments (0)
Engawa what?
December 1, 2009
As set designers, we constantly research many different things. We have a need and a passion for keeping up with trends and ideas. When working on a musuem exhibit, we need to the learn the story so that we can retell and explain. When designing news sets for television, we need to be familiar with [...]
2009 | Architecture | Tags: ale, design, designer, green, KLAD, learn, n, research, set design, sets, TelevisionComments (0)
Design Basics: The Color Wheel
November 16, 2009
In my initial post on color: Why Are You Afraid of Color? I touched on how I began to learn about color. Since we’re all faced with color choices almost everyday, I thought it might be helpful for those of us who are not professionally trained, to look at, and build on the basics, so [...]
2009 | Art for Art's Sake, Inspiration, Teaching, The Studio | Tags: art, art class, basics, beige, color, color wheel, colour, design, emotion, green, KLAD, learn, n, orange, paint, primary, redComments (0)
Why are you afraid of color?
November 9, 2009
Why is everything beige? Homes, cars, clothes, office spaces, all various shades of beige. I hear people say “I like neutral colors.” I usually think they mean “I like beige.” When we moved into our house the interior was, I thought, all one shade of beige. Every wall in every room was the same color. [...]
2009 | Art for Art's Sake, Inspiration, The Studio | Tags: art, beige, color, design, emotion, green, happiness, KLAD, learn, n, paint, pens, swatch, wallsComments (2)
Sunday Supper
November 1, 2009
Today’s sort of a pseudo work day, so in between filing, organizing, errand running and homework, I’m braising short ribs. Short ribs are full of flavor and with this recipe very very easy to prepare. Cut a few things, brown a few things, put it all together in a slow oven for three hours, and [...]
2009 | Gastronauting, Uncategorized | Tags: art, color, green, KLAD, Modernism, n, redComments (2)
I came, I saw, I ate
October 29, 2009
THE DUCK. Sometimes, even though my name’s on this blog, I miss a post or two. As I cruised though the blog today, I saw Kev’s post on the Long Island Duck and it got me thinking about gumbo. Of course. Cool roadside architecture always gets me thinking about food, come to think of it, [...]
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: Architecture, art, drawing, green, humour, KLAD, Modernism, n, redComments (0)
Happy Hour Friday: Grill, Baby, Grill!
September 18, 2009
We’ve been crazy busy here at KLAD HQ, and I haven’t been contributing to the blog lately. My bad. I popped in to see what was going on, and I see that one of our resident evil geniuses has hijacked the blog and is having a VectorFest. Don’t get me wrong, I love Vectorworks and [...]
2009 | Gastronauting, Happy Hour | Tags: art, drawing, Friday, green, Happy Hour, KLAD, Modernism, n, pens, red, VectorWorksComments (1)
Suffer the Modernists
May 7, 2009
Dateline: Greenwich Village Daily Photo. We’ve long loved, and now mourn, the Catholic Center at NYU. This little modernist/early brutalist chapel has been on Washington Square for as long as I remember. Now it has been torn down by NYU for, apparently, another tower over the small park. Recently preservationists fought NYU over the destruction [...]
2009 | Theatre | Tags: drawing, green, KLAD, Modernism, nComments (1)
Daily Inspiration
April 23, 2009
We look for inspiration every day. For a long time this was simply through The New York Times daily delivery, we added other newspapers, but have gone completely online. Yes, The Times site is still one source, but now we have access to many news sources and really targeted information through a slew of other blogs. Many [...]
2009 | Inspiration | Tags: design, designer, drawing, elegant, green, Inspiration, KLAD, lighting, Lighting Design, Modernism, n, red, signs, Television, TVComments (0)
Other views of the P&G Bar and Grill
April 22, 2009
Greenwich Village Daily Photo posted sad news and images of the P&G Bar and Grill. Our original post is here. Tweet
2009 | Gastronauting | Tags: drawing, green, KLAD, Modernism, nComments (0)
Orchids Orchids Orchids
April 9, 2009
A few years ago, on a whim, I bought this moth orchid. I’ve always loved orchids, and I thought, why not? This plant, less than half the size it is now, was sitting on a rack in a warehouse store, a little beaten up, flowers drooping. It was reduced, and reduced, and reduced – ignored. [...]
