Category Archives: Behavior

Many Are Called, Few Are Chosen

At Behavior, we tend to have this same discussion over and over again every few months: “We need some good designers. How come there are so few good designers out there?” It drives me bats. There were record numbers of design graduates at the end of the last decade, and in theory when the Internet bubble burst, they all flooded the job market, looking for work. Though we have a small stable of talented, dependable visual designers, we’ve found it difficult to expand their numbers.

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Ism Schism

Commodification of Buddhism“Commodification of Buddhism“ is a group exhibition featuring, among others, my fellow Behavior partner Mimi Young and some guy named Nam June Paik. It opens tomorrow (with a reception this evening) at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and is sponsored in part by The Buddhism Project.

“Taking a fresh approach, Commodification of Buddhism will explore the growing phenomenon of the appropriation of Buddhist symbols and their widespread circulation in the commercial domain…The pervasive spread of Buddhist iconography in the commercial domain indicates the extent to which such images have become detached from their original significance.”

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Declare the Pennies on Your Eyes

The number one lesson I’ve learned since we started Behavior is that taxes rule every consideration, task and goal. Taxes consume more time and energy than I could have possibly have imagined, and right now I am immersed in getting a year’s worth of billings and expenses in good order for the tax man. No one at design school ever told me it’d be this complicated.

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Talk to Me

021002_ada1852.gifMy Behavior-compatriot Chris Fahey is responsible for Ada1852, a chat bot driven by a singular kind of artificial intelligence. The New York Times wrote: “Like a human museum guide, Ada1852 occasionally departs from the scripted commentary to make oddly personal remarks. During a recent chat session, the virtual character was asked about a site and replied, ‘Perhaps I am slipping into madness.’” It’s a fascinating piece of online art commissioned by Rhizome.org.

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Gain

GainHere it is, Behavior’s latest site launch: Gain, the all-new online magazine from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Gain started life in the dot-com boom as a journal focusing on the practice of experience design, but in this new incarnation it’s all about the increasingly crucial relationship between the business and design worlds. We’ve been working on relaunching this magazine for a while, and we’re pretty proud of it. Enjoy!

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Launchables

LaunchStay tuned until tomorrow for a new Web site launch by Behavior. This is what’s been occupying much of my time — trying to pull together the dozens of tiny parts that go into a launch, and keeping track of all of them while also trying to get some design done. Not to mention sleep and play. At any rate, it’s going to be pretty fun and I’m proud and excited. More tomorrow.

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