January 2010
3 posts
De-optimizing
viafrank:
If the 20th century was about optimizing everything, I bet the 21st is about de-optimizing certain things. By de-optimizing, I mean making decisions about what is important, what is useful, and what is a distraction. Then, making the distractions less accessible, harder to get to, and more difficult to embrace. Think of it as a digital Walden. You optimize the important stuff, and...
September 2009
8 posts
Lifestyle/Life Style/Life-style
Ekmark, Ullrich, & Dollars is pleased to debut a new work: a diet built specifically around the two major nutritional groups: Trader Joe’s Peanut-Butter-Filled Pretzels and Stimulants.
Here’s the low down:
Go to your local coffee house and stock up on beans of your choosing. Next, swing my a nearby college campus and stock up on Adderall. Finally, run over to Trader Joe’s...
Bicycle Racks
I’m interested in pursuing a rogue / guerilla project of installing bicycle racks in Williamsburg. One or many functional installations. Found-objects, heavy planters, and street sign posts immediately come to mind, but these are obvious. Any ideas?
August 2009
6 posts
PS
I’m not an admin.
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Next Steps
I have a couple ideas for things to post here, I just need to export some jpegs and, in one case, make a quick lil sketch up model and post em up.
I was thinking we could just go back and ‘clean up’ errant blog posts (like this one) and gross formatting when we decide we’re ready to show this to someone other than eachother.
Can’t decide if reblogs are a good idea for EU$...
A Law Firm to Bend the Firm Laws of Design
And other palindromes.
Ekmark Ullrich & Dollars is a semi-fictitious design firm that creates products that should not ever be made, but have intellectual or entertainment value as blog posts.
The Practice of Travis Ekmark and Ted Ullrich
Union negotiation, purchasing, government liaison, server architecture, mergers and acquisition, salary arbitration, international law. Also designed objects and non-objects. Sometimes we tweet.