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Winter Intern ‘08: Caroline Zajaczkowski

Skaggs — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:12:53 +0000

SKAGGS are proud to introduce our newest intern. La bienvenue, Caroline! Fluent in German, French, Polish and English, she’s lived in cities all over the world and New York is next on her list. Caroline brings with her a Parisienne’s eye for style, fashion and chic design. She tells us she’s had a “crush” on [...]

Pentagram’s Vibe

Sam — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:56:44 +0000

Pentagram redesigning one of the most iconic hip hop magazines to date…Who’d have thunk it!? It’s not often you see really well designed Hip Hop publications . So when I found out that Pentagram have redesigned Vibe (hip-hop’s premier magazine) for their 15 anniversary, I was pleasantly surprised and even more impressed having seen the [...]

Beijing 2008: Design + the Global Response

Elspeth — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:43:24 +0000

Fubiz tuned me on to these beguiling images by Parisian illustrator Jules Julien [note–not work safe]. Does this work imply that within a consumerist culture, we are soon defined by the products we consume? Or that globalization leads to the loss of cultural identity? It’s interesting to consider just how many brand services and products each [...]

Color Palette of a Nation

Elspeth — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:46:41 +0000

Way back in the summer of 2001, I visited my good friends Ping, Li and Mengye in Kunming, capital of China’s Yunnan Province. In July of that year I was in Beijing, where there was widespread excitement about the Olympic bid. When it was announced that Beijing had been chosen, the city erupted into parties, [...]

Chipotle Grilled Chicken

Joe — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:28:19 +0000

If, like us, you’re addicted to Hell’s Kitchen, Iron Chef, Top Chef, and you watch the Food Network religiously (we understand), then we’ve got a treat in store: a grilled chicken recipe by SKAGGS’ very own Joe Guzman. We’ve had so many requests for this during cookout season that we decided it deserves its very own [...]

Language lesson…

Jeni — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:15:33 +0000

Working with TOTO has not just been an education in Japanese bathroom equipment, but also a linguistic lesson in American English… a tap is a faucet, baths are tubs and sinks are lavatories. Also rocket is arugula, the hash key is the pound key, blades get dull not blunt, wellies are galoshes and try asking [...]

Googly-graffiti…

Jeni — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:26:31 +0000

Googly-eyes spotted around on my travels around New York. Guerilla art, graffiti, whatever you wish to call it, the Googly-eye cru’s campaign is inoffensive and always makes me smile. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skaggsdesign.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F07%2F17%2Fgoogly-graffiti%25e2%2580%25a6%2F'; addthis_title = 'Googly-graffiti%E2%80%A6'; addthis_pub = '';

I Just Work Here

Jonina — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:40:02 +0000

And me too, and me too… that’s the attitude and service we received from FedEx Kinkos’s while hiring them for a paid “test run” of poster for our client. Meanwhile, they’ve potentially lost a 1/2 million dollar job due to lack of managing their custumer service and quality control. I recently read that “Kinkos’s wasn’t doing [...]

Intern and the City…

Jeni — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:10:22 +0000

Welcome to the ramblings from an Intern and the City. My name is Jeni, I’m from from Scotland and I am priviledged to join the wonderful Skaggs team in New York for an internship. Over the new few weeks I shall share my diary of events and thoughts as an Intern, but also as a [...]

Vanity Beauty Lounge — Pure Indulgence

Skaggs — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:15:09 +0000

With the “Three ‘S’s” in mind (Style, Sophistication and Seduction) SKAGGS created a complete one-of-a-kind brand identity and attitude for Vanity Beauty Lounge in San Francisco, and brought that certain va-va-voom to the subsequent collateral and retail interior. “For the logo, we started off by taking a serif typeface–Bodoni–then we refined the letters to reflect the [...]