Arngee

Chinese cousin

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:19:00 +0000

Maybe a distant third or so, but a cousin nonetheless!

Ni Hao!

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:29:00 +0000

WOW! Yes! Arngee went to China with me in May, and here he is at, or rather, on the Great Wall!

It does seem to look a little Humpty Dumpty like!

KCAD Career Day '08

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:45:00 +0000

Here are just some of the students Arngee saw this year.

Top Row: Naomi Magallan, Rex Stillwell and Andrew Hardy
Second Row: Angela Crouse, Brandon Satterlee and jennifer Maine
Third Row: Nolan Abney, Erica O'Neil and Shauna Pierson
Bottom: Tian Tower

Strange how well known Arngee has become at KCAD!

Mr. Las Vegas?

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:02:00 +0000

Well, kind of?

While in Grand Rapids, Arngee had an encounter of a double kind!

He met Wayne Newton! Seriously! He teaches at Kendall College of Art and Design.

KATG

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:44:00 +0000

That stands for Keith And The Girl.

Keith And The Girl (KATG) seems to be quite the popular and growing in popularity podcast out of New York. Alison is quite the fan. She knows all the characters and stories and follows the show daily, although a day behind. While recently in New York, they, KATG, were having a DVD release party for their fourth DVD called "All Over The Place." We were told going to a New York Podcast DVD release party was a very New York thing to do. So we did!

It was in a very New York place too, the East Village! Of course Arngee was in tow. It was a great fun evening. Met many people and some even recognized and embraced Arngee being there too.

I wish I could tell you all the people in these photos. The best I can do is top row left to right: Keith and the Girl (Chemda); Spooky; Jameira and The Girl (perhaps a spin off?). Bottom row: Unknown, The Girl, Keith, Brother Love and an unknown female; Brother Love's gal (perhaps Sister Love) and Patrice; lastly Matthew Bray (an SU alum who knows Saxon!)

And we even won a free DVD of their show, for being the person that traveled the furthest to be at the party, and the Aquaman dvd! Suck on that!

Who dat be with Arngee now?

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:03:00 +0000

I know it has been a while, and Arngee has been lying low. But this past weekend he was out on the town in the Big Apple.

Phylicia Rashad, not Claire Huxtable or Mrs. Cosby, is currently starring on Broadway in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof with Terrence Howard, Annika Noni Rose and James Earl Jones and directed by her sister Debbie Allen. She graciously took a stage exit visit to stop by and see Arngee.

Where's Arngee?

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:49:00 +0000

Two Rivers, WI at the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum

Happy Halloween!

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:30:00 +0000

A natural in pumpkin!

Grand Rapids, IL

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:18:00 +0000

Grand Rapids invaded Illinois when Kendall College of Art and Design came down Chicago way for some studio visits and rambling through downtown!

Highlights included tours of Grip Design, Perkins + Will and Eva Maddox, the MCA, and Columbia College Chicago. But there was no greater highlight than seeing the little orange intrepid one. . .Arngee!

TDA = Total Dedication to Arngee

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:28:00 +0000

TDA started from scratch 18 years ago as a design firm working with small companies they believed in. Their common-sense approach has allowed them to become a successful creative branding shop, which specializes in nothing and tries to be good at everything—from design to advertising and everything in between.

Tom Doyle, the "T" and "D" in TDA, noticed a rather close connection in the color of Arngee and the orange, or rather, coral of Crocs.

Vermilion

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:20:00 +0000

Vermilion is about as Boulder as it comes: they're big into natural products, nonprofits, educational and environmental projects. Clients include Twenty Ninth Street retail center, IZZE beverages, and the University of Colorado. Their work spans the gamut from identity to packaging to web design. The sixteen person firm occupies a striking two-story wide-open studio.

After meeting Arngee, Bob Morehouse, creative director/owner, considered changing the name of the firm to Orange!

Wells Fargo Theatre

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:59:00 +0000

The Wells Fargo Theatre at the Denver Conference Center was homebase for all the general sessions of the AIGA conference. As you can see, Arngee was all up in it, attentively watching speakers as diverse as Janine Benyus, Kurt Anderson, Denver Art Museum Architect Daniel Libeskind, Katherine and Michael mcCoy, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, Paul Bunditz, Illustrator Christopher Niemann, Momus, Maira Kalman, Khoi Vin, Alex Steffan, and Blaise Aguire y Arcas. He also witnessed Debbie Millman hosting 20/20 and the crowning of the Command X winner, although they were all winners!

Denver - AIGA National Design Conference

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:03:00 +0000

WOW! So many people know Arngee. Little introduction has to be given these days.

Here Arngee is with Marian Bantjes, who was with someone who immediately recognized Arngee and explained, "That is the mascot form Syracuse!" I did not have to say anything more.

Marian Bantjes, a self-described graphic artist, was a book typesetter for 10 years and a designer for nine, but since 2003 she has pursued her artistic and typographic obsessions. Complex, structured, sometimes funny and always obsessive, her illustrations have appeared in magazines such as Eye, STEP, Wallpaper, WIRED, Print and Communication Arts. Although based on a small island near Vancouver, Canada, she stays connected with an impressive array of collaborators and clients, including Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut, Saks Fifth Avenue and Young & Rubicam. Since 2004 Bantjes has also been a contributor to the design blog Speak Up, where her posts range from quirky musings to profane rants. She hopes to be living proof of what happens when you work for love, not money.

Birds of a feather #2

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:53:00 +0000

Is this Paris or Cleveland? I.M Pei designed both the Louvre and the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. I think you can see the similarities!

Chicago had their cows, and other states had their icons as public sculpture, Cleveland has larger than life guitars. And of course there was an orange Fender that Arngee just could not resist! The bus in the background was Johnny Cash's tour bus on view at the museum.

Fallingwater

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:38:00 +0000

Arngee loves nothing more than being alongside a legend. Here he is visiting Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural masterpiece, Fallingwater. Designed and built for Edgar Kaufmann and his family, of Kaufmann's Department stores in PA.

My Bolgna has a first name. . .

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:19:00 +0000

It's M-A-T-E-O!

Mateo Bologna, founder of the innovative type design and restaurant design studio Mucca Design in New York. He greeted Arngee as only a true Italian could.

But as quickly as he adored Arngee he quickly turned against the orange when he was getting too much attention!

Olympic Design

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:34:00 +0000

Elise Woodward, Designer at Iconologic in Atlanta where "Risk more. Presume intelligence. Inspire emotion. Sell the truth" is their mantra.

I am not quite sure who was more impressed with each other, Elise with Arngee or myself with Elise. Elise is the designer responsible for the amazing, AMAZING Torino Olympic design.

Elise had a stack of papers on a file cabinet, that ended up being some of the thumbnails for the Torino games. They were works of art. I would frame them if I could! Just check them out!

Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:36:00 +0000

Arngee can!

At Metaleap in Atlanta, Arngee met with prinicpal and Jose Reyes. They are also partners and the designers of Paste Magazine, known for their free music cd's in every issue!

Atlanta Printmakers Studio

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:31:00 +0000

Stephanie Smith, President, of the Atlanta Printmakers Studio was all smiles when Arngee arrived for his visit!

Just imagine multiples of Arngee!

Arngee Unbound!

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:46:00 +0000

We can all see from the writing on the wall what the people at Undboundary are passionate about. And I guess it is obvious where my passion lies!

Courtney Frohne, Relationship Development Manager at Unboundary, could hardly believe who she had sitting right there in her hand while visiting Unboundary in Atlanta.

Chip off the old block?!

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:19:00 +0000

Arngee had quite the time at the HOW Conference in Georgia. After all, I would say the orange and peach are cousins.

Chip Kidd, book cover designer extraordinaire, had one of the best presentations, but why wouldn't he. There were many other highlights too. I was surprised when he knew exactly who Arngee was. When asked he said he went to Penn State and saw much of Arngee in his college days.

I handed him our little orange fellow and Chip popped him in his mouth! Shockingly, Arngee looks like a strange orange ball gag! Um. . .okay!

Kindred in Grand Rapids

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:56:00 +0000

Need I say more?

Accidental Tourist, meet Accidental President

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:19:00 +0000

Arngee made the rounds in Grand rapids, as he does when in a new city. Here he is on the big sign of the Gerald R Ford Museum on Pearl Street.

Kendall College of Art and Design

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:40:00 +0000

L to R: Richard Zeid, Craig Welsh, Angie Dow with Arngee, Dave Grager, and Mark Rosenthal

Career Day at Kendall in Grand Rapids, MI was more than a career day for the students! It was a mini reunion of the ISDP Class of '04. It would not have been a real reunion if Arngee wasn't there too.

Arngee…now in chocolate!

noreply@blogger.com (rzdesign) — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:24:00 +0000

As if being citrusy good wasn't enough, now Arngee went to the sweet side! Check out the camera! Wouldn't want to miss a photo op!

You can be an M&M too!

Be an M&M!