Kelly Smith | Made in Seattle

Kelly Smith of Curious Office on the internet, design and photography.

Category: art

Huge list of museums, art galleries, exhibitions and art shows

The Museum Collection

The Met’s Timeline of Art History †
National Gallery of Art †
Rijksmuseum †
Russian Museums List †
Museum of Design Zurich †
Smithsonian Art Museum Weblog †
Museum of the History of Science at Oxford †
Virtual Museum of Canada †
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum †
SFMOMA †
American Package Museum
The Bauhaus Archive
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Musée d’Orsay
The Museum of [...]

Amazing photography by Elias Tahan

Not a bad shot in here. Great work.

The art of French Pharmaceutical Advertising

I recently picked up a copy of Baseline magazine (an international typography magazine) and saw these great images. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, remedies for various real and imagined physical and psychological maladies were routinely hawked using miracle claims. By the early twenties though, the big drug companies started waging [...]

Bartolomé Graziana

Check out Bartolomé Graziana presented in a blog format. There’s some lovely posters on there, including this one above.

Vanishing America

For my birthday I was given a great book called Vanishing America. (Thanks Karl and Tara Stillner!) The book is all about imagery, signage and architecture from America’s yesteryear. Thanks to a really cool plugin called Poladroid, I was able to take some pictures of a few pages of the book and make them look [...]

Old Seattle motels

There are several “vintage” motels along Highway 99 in Seattle. I decided to pull over and take a few pictures but there are dozens more and I’ll try to take more over the coming year. I like old motels. Photographing them. Not staying in them.

Great design for a great message

Nice job red cross:

Serious coffee art

I was working at El Diablo coffee in my beloved Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle and couldn’t help but notice how seriously they take that devil/diablo stuff. Pretty cool. Serious coffee art.

Georgetown is growing up!

I was getting a coffee in the Seattle warehouse suburb of Georgetown today. Saw that a new Via Tribunali pizza joint is opening down here. And, some fancy new apartments going up. I suspect people who bought property 5 years ago in this old warehouse district are going to be very happy [...]

CafePress has acquired Imagekind!

It was in July 2006 when we launched Imagekind to the world for the first time. Here we are two years later and we are pleased to announce that the leading print-on-demand company has purchased the company. CafePress is a Sequoia backed company that needs no introduction. In our first meeting with [...]