N O U N : A design blog by Oliver Oike

With a new school year hiding on the other side of this long weekend, and the official beginning of “clients start calling” season, I offer a last hurrah, a doozy from 1978: “September,” by Earth, Wind & Fire.
Do you remember the 21st night of September?
Love was changing the minds of pretenders
While chasing the clouds [...]

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This new sculpture by Gordon Reeve was just installed. Lucky for me, it’s directly across the street from my office, in Assiniboine Park. So I dodged the morning rush hour yesterday and captured a few shots.
I famously (not) dropped out of Gordon’s sculpture class way back when I attended the University of Manitoba. It had [...]

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Music makes me happy. All the time, every day. Lately I’ve been listening to some new and old:

Steinski “What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective”
Metacritic Score: 90 | Standout Track: “Lesson 2 (The James Brown Mix”

Sonic Youth “Dirty”
Standout Track: “Sugar Cane”

Underworld “Oblivion with Bells”
Metacritic Score: 64 | Standout Track: “Crocodile”

The Decemberists [...]

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