Hasta La Ideas

Visiting Petit Collage and Lorena Siminovich was a highlight for Finley since I bought him “I like vegetables”—a nice board book with touchy-feeling textures. Finley’s baby book library is full of Lorena’s artwork! “In My Den” has been well-loved and well-travelled and though it is patched together now with packing tape, it has come with Finley on his travels to be a friendly reminder of home.

San Francisco Renegade was great! When I get a chance I’ll post all about it and the fabulous vendors. But first, we are looking for one or two more helpers in Los Angeles since one of our helpers had to cancel.

UPPERCASE booth attendant

• Show up at the event an hour prior to opening to help us set up the booth.
• Greet attendees, answer questions about UPPERCASE products, handle and record transactions using tools and instruction supplied by UPPERCASE.
• We will be on-site at all times to help.

An honorarium will be provided.

Additional Perks:
Swag from UPPERCASE
One-year subscription or renewal
Post event dinner

Event dates, hours & location:
LA: July 16-17: 10am to 8pm, Los Angeles State Historic Park

For more information about the fairs visit the Renegade Craft Fair website.

To apply, please email glen@uppercasemagazine.com with a description about yourself (ie craft fair or retail experience and/or resume and pertinent urls). Thank you!!!

It’s kind of hard to believe that the Bicycle Film Festival has been around for over a decade now, parallel to the explosion of the contemporary cycling vogue. In fact, founding director Brendt Barbur expressed mixed feelings about the increased profile of the event, which started as a DIY pet project back in 2001, though he’s always happy to see more riders on the streets.

via Blue Lug, who were in town from Tokyo before heading up to Geekhouse HQ to get fitted

Anyway, the series of screenings and events added a bit of structure to my weekend, and between the “flagship” program, which included the world premiere of “Racing Towards Red Hook,” and the street fest, I think it went pretty well.

via John Watson / Prolly Is Not Probably

In addition to catching up with Thomas from Horse Cycles and Jeff from Continuum (not to be confused with the design consultancy), I also had the pleasure of meeting Matt Finkle of “I Love My Bike,” one of Marty’s picks for our summer gift guide (the book, not the person)… just a few of the many friendly faces on the urban bike event circuit.

Still, it is a film festival after all, and one of the film highlights turned out to be particularly relevant: “D’Acciaio” (“Of Steel”) spoke to the notion of craftsmanship as a cultural value. The short documentary about the highly quotable Italian framebuilder Dario Pegoretti is viewable in full online; watch it after the jump:

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Design fans, philatelists, and design-loving philatelists, take note! Today the United States Postal Service issued its highly anticipated new “Pioneers of Industrial Design” stamps (now on sale at post offices nationwide) and celebrated with a dedication ceremony at—where else?—the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Available in a sheet of 12, the Forever stamps honor some of the nation’s most important and influential industrial designers. The designing dozen consists of Norman Bel Geddes, Dave Chapman, Donald Deskey, Walter Dorwin Teague, Henry Dreyfuss, Frederick Hurten Rhead, Raymond Loewy, Peter Müller-Munk, Eliot Noyes, Gilbert Rohde, Greta von Nessen, and Russel Wright. Each stamp features the name of a designer along with a zippy photograph of one of his or her iconic streamlined creations.

“Encompassing everything from furniture and electric kitchen appliances to corporate office buildings and passenger trains, the work of these designers defined the look of modern America, and in doing, revolutionized the way we live and work,” said Dean Granholm, the Postal Service’s vice president of delivery and post office operations, at today’s ceremony, which was attended by the likes of Cooper-Hewitt director Bill Moggridge, designer Jessica Helfand, design champion Sylvia Harris, and art director Derry Noyes (daughter of Eliot, remembered here for his IBM Selectric), who worked with designer Margaret Bauer on the look of the stamps. Released just in time for affixing to any last-minute Independence Day cards, the stamps are arrayed in four rows of three, and the selvage (the part of the sheet that’s left after you’ve used all of the stamps) offers the opportunity to grab some scissors and create a breezy bonus sticker, as it features a photograph (at left) of the “Airflow” fan designed by Robert Heller around 1937. Who says stamps aren’t cool?

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