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Design Books that I like to read, Vol. III

posted by Micah - September 25th, 2009, 9:49 pm

“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

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Design Books that I like to read, Vol. II

posted by Micah - July 31st, 2009, 5:20 pm

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

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Design Books that I like to read.

posted by Micah - July 10th, 2009, 4:40 pm

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.

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Design Blogs

posted by Micah - June 1st, 2009, 1:25 pm

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.

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My Dog Max

posted by Micah - April 10th, 2009, 3:25 pm

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

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Spec work rears its ugly head

posted by Micah - February 24th, 2009, 3:03 pm

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

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A New Venture

posted by Micah - January 23rd, 2009, 3:36 pm

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

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be a typographist in your spare time

posted by Micah - November 24th, 2008, 7:43 pm

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

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Creekstone Model Home Opening

posted by Micah - October 23rd, 2008, 12:27 pm

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

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be yourself

posted by Micah - October 3rd, 2008, 10:19 am

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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