Do we need micromanagement?

First, A semi-personal anecdote:
So, I have this “friend” who was in between design jobs at the craziest time of the year, also known as the holiday season. Design firms don’t normally hire, so my friend settled on being the assistant to the head designer at a boutique agency. Seemed pretty simple, plus maybe she would [...]

Hats off to Chuck Anderson

Chuck Anderson is Amazing. Thats all I should have to say. Since not everyone knows his work I wanted to show it here

You can see the rest of his work here

Keep up

I haven’t written in a few days, which is bad. I know. I don’t think I even mentioned what inspired me to make the two typography posters, late at night - with only the glare of my computer monitor. It was Gary Huswit’s feature length film Helvetica yeah, thats right the movie was made to [...]

New letter

This is the first time I’ve done a new letter since I’ve had the blog. Last night I (finally) finished the I.
I’ve gotten some good responses on my Flickr page including one guy who asked what the “shiny green thing was”. In other words he didn’t realize it was an alphabet series. Oh well. [...]

What is typography?

After watching the Helvetica movie, for the 2nd time I was inspired to ask “What is typography”. I Googled typography, and what a surprise when the Wikipedia article was the first response. I made this to go along with the definition

New Work

Typographical typographic fun.

Fun with photobooth and shop

Yeah I know…it looks like get no work done during the day///but//

The top 6 design books I couldn’t live without (and it was hard to choose)

So, as I mentioned before, I wanted to do a post of my favorite design books. This proved to be a bigger challenge than I thought. So - without further ado :

1.) Graphic Designer’s Guide to Pricing, Estimating & Budgeting
by Theo Stephan Williams
I went out and bought this book a few years [...]

Freelancers are warned of it

All the articles in the world couldn’t prepare me for meeting the client / boss who wouldn’t pay.
I’m not going to elaborate since this is a public blog. But just know this can happen to anyone. A boss that seems really nice…

Ok, this is (probably) it w/the styling

An artist never makes up their mind

I think this will be it. I went with the auora borealus theme, to pay homage to my former website. This should stick. Changes just for the better.