Emilo Chapela Perez does BMW

Emilio Chapela Perez takes the colors and distribution of those colors from corporate logos and makes some awesome graphic pieces from them. This guy is very thoughtful. Hard for an artist to convince me to click on every single link of their site but this one is the goods.

I also enjoyed his Traces work, crumple up paper and then trace the creases. Really simple but I’ve never seen it before.

Traces by Emilio Chapela Perez

The group I work with is a technology incubator group within a larger company. We are tasked with making new products with revenue roadmaps but we  also consider ourselves as a testbed for new technology that can be spun off and used by other divisions.

When it came time to decide our hosting model for our shiny new business information platform EC2 was just really hitting a tipping point in terms of reliability. In this case tipping point means there was about a year of data showing the service works as advertised and there was a shortage of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt hanging over the thing. Our project was complicated but finite with a modern API design so it was a good demo for this. I did some testing and talked with smarter-than-me peers and decided it was stable enough to run with. We examined it from a business perspective and came up with hedge logic that “if for some reason we don’t think it will work then we just move it on to local unix boxes – nothing lost”.

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The inclusion of 15.5 gallon beer kegs into our brewing setup has jacked up through-put but made managing 80lbs of boiling liquid into an obvious problem, even for a flame-resistant ubermensch such as myself. Here’s a map I made to figure out how much silicone hose and how many valves and quick release fittings I’ve got to get from McMaster Carr.  After talking it over with The Collective and making very sophisticated cost/benefit analysis we’ve determined that we will rely on siphons and back muscles to move product.

Click to see the apparatus