Time to Build.

For all of the talk of recession these days, corporations and businesses are making money, and many of them are sitting on huge piles of cash. It can’t help but conjur up images of Scrooge McDuck, swan diving into a giant swimming pool of gold. Despite all of that, unemployment is becoming a chronic plague in the USA, one felt in nearly every corner of the country. It really doesn’t need to be this way.  There are huge tasks that we... Read More

Information

I do a fair bit of design work for a living, ranging from web design to identity/logo design to photo manipulation. One growing and fun category in the design world is infographics. Having evolved from simple graphs and charts, designers are rapidly realizing that we live in a visual society, and breaking information down (especially complex, intricate information) is especially important. GOOD Magazine has put a lot of emphasis on infographics,... Read More

Abstract Friday 3

DNA is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms.  Read More

Paul Rand Retrospective

Imaginary Forces beautifully and artistically pays tribute to one of Graphic Design’s most cherished figures, Paul Rand. Rand was a powerhouse in the world of design, creating iconic identities for IBM, UPS, ABC, Yale University, among many, many others. The video uses interview footage with Rand, and shows great deft at animating his work to life. He has been posthumously inducted into The One Club Hall of Fame. This is a fitting look at this... Read More

Cereal Box Art: Hipster Vintage

If I know anything about hipsters, it’s that they love vintage triangles.  Say what? I happen to know a lot of hip, young, design-y types, and the work I see coming from them is geometric, pattern-based, and desaturated, usually with a lot of scenic outdoor photography.   There is a lot of cool looking stuff, don’t get me wrong.  But it can be so derivative as to become pastiche and meaningless.  It is sometimes as if a ‘style’... Read More

GM is Not Made up of All Old White Men, Afterall.

After GM and Chrysler filed for bankruptcy last year, it was hard for a car geek like myself to give them much respect.  Visions of executive boardrooms with bloated, out-of-touch white men running the show,  filled my head. Late model American cars like the Sebring and Impala epitomize the worst thinking in automotive design today. And don’t even get me started on the PT Cruiser…… I figured the Volt was the one product at either... Read More

Web Traffic

In the scheme of things, I am still learning a lot when it comes to web development. I enjoy the designing aspects, I’m becoming a more confident builder, and I’m picking up on things like SEO (search engine optimization) and other related skills, tools, tricks and trades that give websites a boost. It was vindicating, however, to see the Analytics that Google provided me on a website I recently redesigned and launched.   Comical, actually. ... Read More

Excellence in Design

War, a strong Australian design firm shows real grit on their branding/packaging for CTA, a company that makes heavy duty building materials. the designs for packages are clean, bright, eye-catching and very functional.  They have a strong presence, and I could see them quickly becoming the go-to product at the work site.  Read More

Website Overhaul

Hey there, so, as a designer, I toil and labor on my portfolio work, always finding things to change, improve, tweak. This weekend I overhauled much of my website, adding some new content and a better experience for viewing my work. It’s still a work in progress, but check it out if you’d like.  There is much more to update, new videos and projects to share, so stay tuned for that too.  And thanks!  Read More

Impactist: An Inspiration

When traipsing from blog to blog, article to article on the internet, I often come across designs or films or videos that make me pause and think “damn, that’s amazing. I should be doing stuff like that.” And when I happened across Impactist yesterday, I got a double whammy. Not only is their work fluid and gorgeous and dynamic, but it’s poignant and poetic at the same time. And to top it all off, they’re a married couple... Read More