Kelly Smith | Made in Seattle

French photographer Laurent Nivalle took some amazing photos of the 2010 LeMans Classic auto race that took place this past July. The consistent look and feel across all these photos is remarkable. 8,000 classic cars and more than 100,000 enthusiasts descended upon Le Mans to witness more than 400 competing cars, all of which had participated in the 24 Hours of Le Mans between 1923 & 1979. They were divided, according to their age, into 6 grids, to take part in the race.

View all of Laurent’s LeMans Classic Photographs here.

We spend a lot of time thinking about design and print over at Inkd. As such, I was thrilled to have discovered what appears to be an incredible little letterpress print vendor in Seattle called Evolution Press. Their website and the imagery suggest they care. I’m going to get all of our Inkd business cards done through this local print vendor. Will let you know how it goes.

The Museum Collection

The Permanent Collection

Galleries, Exhibitions and Shows

If you love wine and you live in the USA then you know about Walla Walla. It is the premier wine growing region in the Northwest and the second largest producing region of fine wines outside of Napa Valley. It also happens to be a very cool little town with an old Western history.

Just found these today – Helveticons are extremely cool. Should you need icons for wire-framing, presentations, Web applications, buttons, promotional material, or something to put above your desk – Helveticons got you covered. Seven file formats of which six are in scalable vector format. The set contains a lot of different file format, such as .gs for Omnigraffle icons, and .chs for Photoshop shapes. All in all, this is a nice set of graphic design resources. Even if you dont actually use the icons, sometimes its great to have inspiration for common icons.

We are flattered that Marcelo Calbucci has invited us here at Curious Office to speak at the Seattle StartupDay 2009 hosted by Seattle 2.0. StartupDay is the conference for pre-entrepreneurs interested in founding or joining a tech startup. Meet one-on-one with advisors. Learn how to pick the right idea, build your team, fund the business, build your product, bring it to market and make a profit. Learn what’s important for creating a tech business from scratch.

Didn’t know that Inkd was developed by Curious Office and some other cool projects? Check out our website and learn why Curious Office incubates startups!

Over at our print design marketplace, Inkd, we’ve compiled a blog post containing the top 15 graphic design magazines. Most also have free trials and discounts for designers belonging to organizations or for students, and all of these magazines have resource rich companion websites.Some magazines are highly focused on graphic design, some are great for general inspiration. Many have at least annual calls for design and competition. This is a really great list. Particularly for those of you who design brochures, newsletters and other print material.

I have the honor of being a panelist/judge for the upcoming Seattle 2.0 Awards event on May 7!

The Seattle 2.0 Awards recognizes the amazing accomplishments of the best of over 300 Seattle area technology startups (despite the challenging economy), and the exceptional people who are behind their heroic efforts. They will single out the very best of the best, as judged by the people who knows best: their peers in the startup community. Maybe even Inkd will win something! Attend the awards ceremony on May 7 if you can make it to Seattle!

Here are the categories!

Best Startup
Best Boot-strapped Startup
Best Startup CEO
Best Startup Technologist
Best Venture Capitalist
Best Angel Investor
Best Startup Product Designer
Best Service Provider to Startups
Best Blog from/about Startup
Best Social Event for Startups

Our latest project from Curious Office and Second Avenue Partners launches today! Thanks to everyone on the Inkd team for their hard work over the last several months!

Here’s a nice write-up from TechCrunch.