“Design is at a turning point. Our infatuation with — 3and the backlash against — technology is over.” When people think of graphic design, they immediately think about computers but that’s not where graphic design began
Read more...Design Books that I like to read, Vol. II
With lots of “do’s” and “don’ts” from an industry insider willing to be open about the mistakes he’s made (so you don’t have to), this book is perfect for a junior (or senior) designer needing to know how to present themselves
Read more...Design Books that I like to read.
It’s no secret that I don’t like to read fiction. If I’m going to sit down and read something that’s more than 100 pages, I want to learn something new or discover a different way of doing things that relate to my craft.
Read more...Design Blogs
As a graphic designer, I do a lot of blog reading. I subscribe to a little over 20 blogs and check them on a daily basis. This is my list of top 7 blogs that I read. I hope you find them as inspiring as I do.
Read more...My Dog Max
Today is my wife’s birthday. Her name is Elly, and we’ve been married for seven months now. Lately, we’ve been talking about getting a dog. “Think of it as a prerequisite to having children,” she says
Read more...Spec work rears its ugly head
Today I read a post from one of my former professors at the design school I attended that talks about a site called Crowdspring.com. “Basically people post graphic design projects and a bunch of so-called ‘designers’ (read: people with no training who
Read more...A New Venture
Not too long ago I found a site that does "one-off" screen-printing on American Apparel t-shirts. Traditionally, screen-printing involves "burning" graphic designs into silk screens that are then laid on top of a t-shirt (or whatever f
Read more...be a typographist in your spare time
For this blog post, I decided to start a series focusing on typography. Everyday designers use an element of design that may be taken for granted by most people; an element that I personally find most beautiful. This morning I received an e-mail
Read more...Creekstone Model Home Opening
Remember when I posted a couple blogs about brand/identity development? Creekstone was the client that I used as an example and on October 23, 2008, all of that stuff that I talked about came to fruition when we had the Creekstone model home opening/Ed
Read more...be yourself
I know it’s been a while since my last post, but I have an excuse: I just got married. Which brings me to my blog entry topic for this month…self-branding. (If you’ve b
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