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 war with the phonies and the result was greater governmental scrutiny. Even so, I love the magical nature of these ad campaigns.
Other Albums
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 like old Polaroid images.
Birthday in Walla Walla
Mark Popich and I both turn 40 this year and we were lucky to join a big group of friends for a weekend of festivities in Walla Walla.
Introducing Pressplane
Pressplane is the latest company to be hatched by us here at Curious Office. Our $1.7 million Series A financing was led by Second Avenue Partners but we have a roster of other great investors to: Mika Salmi (MTV President / AtomFilms founder) Rich Barton (Expedia / Zillow) Erik Blachford (former Expedia CEO) Andy Liu (BuddyTV) Alex Algard (Founder, Whitepages) Geoff Entress (Madrona) Andy Sack Adrian Hanauer (MLS Soccer, Curious Office co-founder) Unfortunately, I can't say exactly what we are working on but I can say it is another "buy and sell marketplace" like our last company (Imagekind) but more around designers and creative content serving businesses. We're obviously not competing with our new Imagekind owners (CafePress) but we are able to take what we learned from Imagekind and apply much of it to this new initiative. Mika Salmi at MTV joins Mike Slade from Second Avenue on our board and we can be found diligently working away in these offices on 911 Western which we share with Wishpot.com Come by and say hi sometime!
Seattle motels
July 4, 2008
Spyker C8 Laviolette and more
Art Is Digital
Abstract vectors
Seabrook Washington
My first painting
Dinner at the house in March
Polaroid
Weekend in Las Vegas
Imagekind
New Mac!
Old family photos
Advice Tees
2008 Friends from Monaco and New York
European stamps
2007 Holiday Group Pics
2007 Holiday Party
Brian McGarvey's 40th Birthday Bash
First Snow in Seattle
Evening with friends
Rainbow Series
2007 November Dinner with Friends
Tom and Jessica's Engagement Party
Caribbean cruise
2007: European Trip: Munich
Paintings
BMW M5 Touring
2007: Europe Trip: Rome
2007 Europe Trip: Hvar Croatia
2007: Europe Trip: Dubrovnik Croatia
2007: South Africa
2007: Europe Trip: Switzerland
2007: European Trip: Munich
2007 July Lake Washington boat cruise
2007: Bikini Martini Party
2007 Pacific Northwest Historics Vintages Races
Multiplicity
Chernobyl Series
2007 Mobile Centric Party
2007 Santa Monica
2007 Tiki Toms
2007 Around Seattle
2007 Easter Brunch
2007 Art
2006 Hawaii
2006 Jessica Jensen Birthday
2006 New York
2006 Our new car
2006 Walla Walla
2006 McGarvey Wedding Party
2006 Fremont Nights