Last night I went to the unveiling of Neenah Paper’s new line of Eames paper, inspired by the work of Charles and Ray Eames. I’ll be writing a longer post about the event, but this morning I spent some time playing with my Giant House Of Cards, which was in the goodie bag at the [...]
I’m having one of those incredibly long and boring afternoons where I start losing my mind. For example, I just realized that without even really thinking about it too directly, I was hefting several tombstones on display in my office, testing each one for weight. Tombstones are what we call those useless lucite/plastic awards that [...]
The Friends of the High Line have released the preliminary design concepts for the High Line, the old elevated railway track in Manhattan’s West Side. Despite my support for preservation of the High Line and my unwavering jealousy of the people who have the balls to climb up there (which is technically illegal), I must [...]
I’ve spent the last couple of days (and will continue today) interviewing photographers for a large scale project that I’m working on. Although this isn’t my first high budget photoshoot, it’s the first one that I’m really concerned about the result, because I’m art directing the entire project. In addition, I’ve never had to hire [...]
There are just some certain things that shouldn’t change. Tomato soup needs to come in a can. Potato chips need to come in a bag (or perhaps a cardboard bucket). Juicy Fruit gum needs to come in a long skinny pack for twenty five cents. Chocolate needs to come wrapped in foil. The way that [...]
Since I’ve been working with CSS and web standards, I’ve designed with the broad strokes theory of design first, then figure out how to make it work. That theory has always produced good results – until now I’ve never come across something that “couldn’t be done”. Like I said, until now. I’m working on coding [...]
Cardinal Bob regrets staying out for that extra mass last night rather than going home to do his laundry…
Jonathan Gayman is a St. Louis photographer who specializes in corporate, commercial and food photography. Exhibit5a was Jonathan's first blogging adventure but is largely dormant at this stage. For more recent postings check out Jonathan's new St. Louis food blog called Shoot To Cook