Matt W. Moore knows the remedy to day job doldrums. An ex-agency man turned big-time web designer, Matt has never renounced his personal creative pursuits for his job – a sacrifice that today’s creative types find themselves depressingly prone to.

From his early days in advertising to his current responsibilities (keeping the Burton website sparkly fresh), Matt has been filling his downtime with personal side projects that feed his soul as much as his bank account. His versatile career experiences — as gallery artist, pre-press designer, editorial illustrator, art director, and curator, to name a few — have given him the experience he needs for side projects like Wallspankers, a sticky extension of Matt’s graffiti past, and the B/W Bangers, Matt’s very own saving grace.

So what is the remedy? It’s one part introspection; one part creativity; one part confidence –- and a little dose of self–publishing.

Joshspear.com: For a period you lived the increasingly common double life of an ad man by day/artist by night. What finally inspired you to start MWM Graphics?

Matt W. Moore: I actually started MWM Graphics while I was in college. I would side hustle logos, concert posters, editorial illustrations, anything that I thought would be exciting and help me grow as a designer. I caught an awesome break during my last year of school and started to work at an agency in Portland, Maine called The VIA Group. I later moved into an Art Director position there and worked on some fun accounts, all the while doing personal work and freelance in my free time. Now I work as a web designer at Burton Snowboards, and stay busy with all sorts of personal projects. The “double life” has been my style all along. I hope to one day break away and devote all of my time and energy towards my studio and making art. READ MORE…

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Sick of your butt getting wet at the park after those pesky springtime sunshowers? No more, thanks to the Rolling Bench from Sungwoo Park, which features a hand-crank to ensure your rear gets a clean, dry piece of real estate to park itself upon. Sweet action.

Yanko Design via CH

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Many museums serve to cover the evolution of a particular subject over a prolonged period of time. The TAG Heuer 360 Museum is unique in that it is a museum of time. The new institution, located on the ground floor of the TAG Heuer company headquarters in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, houses a rare collection of precision timepieces created by the world renowned watchmakers over the brand’s 150 year history. The design of the exhibition was itself modeled to reflect “the intriguingly inaccessible space between the dial and crystal glass, where the hands of time are turned by an inexplicable force from within. This spatial layer, steeped in both mystery and science, is architecturally articulated by the 3 major elements that together define the museum.” The museum’s design, produced courtesy of “ducks Sceno”, and with the help of CARBONDALE and TAG Heur, presents visitors with an ultra-artistic panoramic view that certainly makes for jaw dropping scenery.

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We covered Flight404 several months ago and even then we were blown away by the work Robert Hodgin was doing with Processing. Nearly ten months later, we’re still in awe of his stunning visuals, but this time around we’re crushing on his latest animation creations, Magnetic Ink and Solar. Also created using Process video, Hodgin’s breathtakingly transformative works of computer generated art show a chaotic hairball masterwork in black, white and grey and an otherworldly, colorful source of life and light, respectively. The animations are made even more stunning by the musical accompaniment in the form of music from The Flashbulb.

Via CrackUnit

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Telling time is hard. First, you have to remember that the little hand points to the hour; then you have to remember that the big hand tells you what minute it is. It gets even harder when you realize that a great deal of clocks don’t even list every minute, so sometimes the big hand hovers between two numbers and you’re left to guess the exact time. Oh the humanity! Now, before you get yourself in a tizzy over just what time it is, we think you should take a look at the TikTak from Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe. The dutch designers have created a visually arresting clock that leaves no minute to the imagination, as all sixty numbers are arranged in interleaved layers. Resembling something you might find floating in space, each powder coated metal minute arm of this nearly twenty four-inch timepiece is colored a varying degree of gray to display depth. After all, you wouldn’t want to confuse your twenty-third minute with your twenty-fourth minute.

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