Welcome back to AIB!

This is a bit of a homecoming for me.

I'd strayed away from this blog to explore new blog opportunities and choices out there, I'd started a wonderful new blog over on Posterous, but they've since closed up shop. Oops! I currently have a very stuffy "work" blog on Tumblr, http://jeffandrewsdesign.tumblr.com/, but because it's something that clients or potential clients have access to, I find it hard to feel comfortable there. Like anyone else, I tend to feel a bit more comfortable being myself, letting loose a bit and posting about stuff that generally interests me, not just strictly design or business related.

I've explored other blog sites and formats, but inevitably, I found my way back to here, where it all began. AIB has a new look, transitory I'm sure as it really wasn't my idea to change the old one, but blogger insisted I update, so here we are.

I'm going to provide an update to my last blog post here from 2009, "My Brush with a Super Hero." I did indeed receive the awesome photo from Doug over at the Burt Ward Live site, sadly tho it appears that the site is now offline. Burt if you're out there and happen to read this, please bring the site back for the legions of your fans who are still hoping for a glimpse behind the mask.

Here is the photo, it is exactly like the one that was lost. Burt was even cool enough to sign it exactly like he did back in the 70's for me. it now hangs in my office where I admire it every day.

Thank you Burt, and thank you Doug. You've made me a very happy Bat-Fan.

My Brush with a Super Hero.

A while back I posted some photos on Facebook from a childhood visit with Burt Ward, Robin from the 60's Batman TV show. He'd come to town to make an appearance and sign autographs. I'd shared that my autographed photo I'd gotten that day had...... mysteriously disappeared. My sister and brother both still had theirs, but mine was gone.




After I posted that, I decided to see if I could find the photo online to replace it and came across Burt Ward's official website. They had photos available, but not the one I'd been looking for. So, I wrote the administrator of the site, Doug, and explained my situation. I even sent him the photos as proof. He wrote me back and offered to exchange a new autographed photo, exactly like one I'd lost, for my story and pictures which now appear on the site. Haven't received the new photo yet, but Doug assures me it's on it's way. Too cool!

Check it out!

Maschinen Leuchten

Maschinen Leuchten is the whimsical and inspirational lighting series designed by the german artist Frank Buchwald. Frank is a designer and manufacturer of lights, furniture and objects.

"The individual models were not designed spontaneously in a moment of inspiration. It was rather a long groping for a hard to comprehend meaningful form. ... It took a long time until the moment was reached in which I could say that the designs were moving in the right direction. And it was long path until first prototypes were ready about which I could say: yes, now it is right. – It is a sublime moment when you realize: I have arrived and am no longer off target...

I have the feeling that the machine lights, the way they have now been made, come very close to what they portray. They have reached a level of completeness and perfection with which I would now like to present them to the public...."

Excerpts from a conversation with the philosopher Gerhard Schwarz, Berlin, in February 2006