Nathan Sawaya is a LEGO artist. He abandoned a career as an attorney in 2004 to take on LEGO sculpting fulltime. Read his recent CNN Interview. Here's an excerpt:

CNN: How difficult was it to make the decision to switch from full-time attorney to fulltime LEGO artist?

SAWAYA: It wasn't very tough. I worked with great people at the law firm, but my passion was always for my art. As more and more people were commissioning pieces and collecting my artwork, it became clear to me that I should focus on my art full time.

New York corporate attorneys are known for working the long hours. I find myself working long hours now as well, but I'm doing something I love. ... The worst day in the art studio is still better than the best day in the law firm.

Check out more of his work at http://www.brickartist.com

A couple of months ago I went to visit some buddies in Italy and ran around taking photos in all the random settings. One of them being the office that's painted bright ass colors. ale2000 made me stand against *one of the many* pink walls in the office and fired off some shots.  And the last one was me fooling around with him.

As soon as I figure out how to get some photos off my phone, I'll start doing the daily photo...

Check out something cool from artist Miranda July --> http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

It's a web site for her new book, . It's so simple and so effective.

Sigh. It's completely analog and done with a great sense of humour. She wrote all the copy of the site on the top of her refrigerator and stove, including drawing "buttons" on them for links.  She's fantastic at illustrating really interesting or difficult concepts with very simple constructions. Looky below:

Miranda July's the one who made the film "Me and You and Everyone We Know". One of the best scenes is the shoes scene where her feet play the proverbial anxious couple. It's great. Watch it below:

John Stossel does a short report on the three common design mistakes Americans make. Graphic designers everywhere rejoiced at the sight of it. Hilarity ensued. Especially when talking about the grossness of the Comic Sans font. Bleah!

Well kids, until I figure out how to get download pictures and movies from my phone to post about the annual Design Blogfest '07, let's talk a bit about colour and how lovely  and uplifting it is. 

One of my favourite design tools and playgrounds is the lovely Colour Lovers web site { http://www.colourlovers.com }. Colour Lovers lets you browse billions of colors that are standalone or collected together in palettes created by users.

Can you imagine how exciting this is?! You have an infinite gamut of colours to play with having to pay for a Pantone book (yet anyway). This second part is more so important for web designers than print designers, obviously, but everyone still benefits. I personally love Pantone books and would kill to get my hands on some. Maybe my Dada friend$ account will cough up enough cash for me to pay for one. Pantone books range from $200 a singular set to about $1000 for a super set/collection. In the meantime, sites such as Colour Lovers can fill the gap for you.

Check out the lovely colour goodness below which is a group of color palettes on the Colour Lovers main page:

So what other fun stuff can you do over there?

+ Create your own palettes from a whole color smorgasbord.

+ You can select colors from photos. Colour Lovers goes even one better by helping you find a photo on iStockphoto.com with a particular colour in it. Again, this is incredibly useful for designers and creative types of all industries.























+ Hexadecimal value for each color so you can apply straight to your design in Photoshop, Illustrator, or even while coding HTML.

+ Rate colors, add comments, add individual colors or palettes to your collection for later use.

+ Make computer wallpaper from a specific color or palette



Whomever doesn't find this useful and somewhat sexually arousing shouldn't be allowed to own a computer. Seriously. I usually play around with palettes about once a week to get creative juices going on design projects. It can be an extremely useful catalyst if you're in a design rut. So go have try and dabble a while. It's free and you don't have to register to browse anything.  Have fun!

The objective of Creative Dose is to chronicle all the interesting happenings, products, sites, exhibitions and whatnot going on in the art and design worlds. Some of fields covered could/would be

+ art & photography
+ web & print design
+ product design
+ posters
+ creative inspiration
+ colour/color
+ design blogs
+ interior/home furnishings (I love patterns)
+ whatever else that fits and strikes my fancy.

Somewhere along the line I'm going to implement a daily photo blog or assignment. I'd love it if others played along